Life after pregnancy! (:

                                               (Thank you Grandma Tracy for all the awesome pictures!)



                 Well hello world! I am of course back to the blogging business! i would like you all to meet our beautiful baby boy Tristan Brady Mulliner! We all finally got to see and meet the little baby that was growing inside my belly! He is the most perfect baby! He loves to snuggle up to everyone! He sleeps soooo much! and he has the cutest cry i have ever heard! He is already a week old! Time has just been flying by ever since he was born. Days just seem like they are getting shorter and shorter! i am so looking forward to watching him grow, although i dont think i will let him get any bigger! i want him to stay a little baby forever! ;] 

  Since i never got a chance to actually take my 37 week baby bump picture i do have a few i could use for my 37 week picture.. 

             Forgive me they aren't the best looking pictures of me but heyy, its something ;] i look so peaceful during labor right?!? That was my official last picture being pregnant! 

              Here is my story of how we ended up in the hospital, the day our baby was born. On August 17, 2012. I was sleeping and had been feeling these weird pains, but thought nothing of them and just kept going back to sleep. Until about 1:30a.m i finally got up  with severe pains. I wasn't sure if they were contractions or not.. (i'm a first time mom how am i supposed to know what they feel like!?) I had to get up and start walking around, there was no way that i would be able to just lay there while feeling these pains. I woke up Christian a few minutes later and told him that i was having pains, but wasn't sure if they were contractions. We started timing my contractions, and they were coming about every 7 minutes or so. So we called our mid-wife and another lady told Chris that i was in active labor if they were coming every 7 minutes. They were getting worse and worse but i still wasn't convinced that i was in labor. So we waited it out, until about 3:30a.m. I finally decided to go to the hospital, but i just kept thinking i hope this is real or else they are going to send me home. So we checked into the hospital they told me to get into a gown and we waited. While waiting i kept on getting the pains again, they seemed to be coming every 3 minutes. When the nurse finally came in i was dilated to a 2. Still 80 percent effaced. So the nurse told me that we would wait about 2 hours to see if i changed at all. So i decided to get up and start walking around to see if i would start dilating more. Chris and me walked in a square what seemed like a hundred times. Finally i just went back down to the room they had us in and i layed there. In horrible horrible pain. Two hours passed and when they came in to check me i was only dilated to a 2 and a half, 80 percent effaced. I was in shock, for as much pain as i was in i couldn't believe i wasn't dilated more. The nurse told us that since i wasn't dilating much than they were probably going to send us home..something i didn't want to happen. I was frustrated, so the nurse came back and said she was going to call our mid-wife and ask her if they should just send me home with some medicine. When she left the room to go call, it literally took TWO HOURS to call our damn mid-wife, I was so irritated at that point because nothing was helping these pains and they were taking their sweet time to let us know what was going to happen. I was doing everything i could to control the pain i was in, when finally a new nurse came in she told me she was going to check me to see if i had changed and if i didn't i would be going home. So she checked me, and i was dilated to a three! I was so happy i had changed in dilation. So the nurse said she was going to have to go check and see what they wanted to do now that i had changed. An hour later Chris went out to use the restroom and on the way back into our little room thingy, the nurse caught him and said that they were going to keep me for labor! When Chris came in to tell me the news i was sooooo excited! Minus all the pain i had been feeling. I still just couldn't believe i was in labor. Once they had moved us into labor and  delivery the contractions were non stop. By that time i was dilated to a five and 90 percent effaced. The pain was starting to get unbearable. I had told myself that i wasn't going to have an epidural, I honestly just don't agree with it, i believe that our bodies were made to give birth without any medicine..(Just my personal opinion.) Anyways the pain was just getting way to bad and i couldn't get myself to calm down and just let my body do what it was supposed too. I was so upset with myself when i finally broke down and got the medicine. Chris the whole time was saying just to get it because he couldn't watch me be that much pain. I knocked out once i got the epidural. (Hint the picture up top) When i woke up i was dilated to a 6 and i seemed to be at a 6 for awhile. But once we finally seen our mid-wife a few hours later i was relieved! She checked me and said "whoa" me and Chris just stared at her like what.. She said i was dilated to a 9 and a half 100 percent effaced! By this time there was not an ounce of epidural left in me. I was feeling everything, although i was in severe pain, i was actually glad i could feel everything in a way since i didn't want the medicine. Once it was time to push i was about to die. LOL but hey it was all worth it in the end! Because i got to finally meet our son! 

                   Life after baby has been born is wonferful! He is so perfect! Being a mom is the best thing in the world. That's all i care to be is a great mom to my wonderful boy! 
                  After i gave birth and had to get up and walk around, let me tell you.. seeing my belly without a baby in it is the weirdest feeling in the whole world. i miss having my son in my stomach more than anything. Which may be weird to some people because everyone is always so anxious to get their babies out and be able to snuggle them all up! I am glad he is here but i could have waited until 42 weeks and i would have been completely happy!:] Its been weird this last week with my "new" body. I was so used to having a big ol' belly, and constant rib pain ;] that i forgot what it was like to have a "normal" size belly again, and to be able to sit down for awhile without my rib hurting. It is also weird with eating because i have been so used to eating everything all day long lol and now im not so hungry, sounds weird but when you are used to something for so long it seems weird to have it all go back to the way it was. :P So to all the women that are pregnant now, enjoy every second of it because believe it or not you will miss it so much! 

Here are some pictures of our little munchkin within this past week <3

                                     ( His coming home outfit)

                                     ("Glowbaby" He had to be under a UV blanket for his jaundice)

                                             ( Our little caterpillar)

                                                     ( Angry faces while sleeping (;)

                                             ( LOL Sleeping with his mouth open.. like always :D)

                                           ( He loves all his aunties)




                I will be blogging more about our family life, just not every week like i have been while i have been pregnant. so if you would still like to read my blogs keep an eye out for newest posts!

36 Weeks= 9 Months!

                     Baby this week is the weight of a crenshaw melon! Our baby is shedding most if the downy hair that covered its little body (:. Our Mid-wife has done an educated guess that the baby is about 7 pounds already! She also made and educated guess that we have a long baby! (again educated guess, doesn't mean its accurate.)

                      OMG. I am 36 weeks everybody!! As of today i have 23 days to go!!  Ooooo time is creeping on up to us! So excited to meet our little munchkin ;D. This week has been one heck of a week! Where should i even start.. hmm. how about the doctors appointment, yes? Okay.
                      So Tuesday we had our 36 week check up. They do the usual thing they always do. Take your weight.. -__- Which as of right now i am 170. I about died when i seen that number! But heeeeyyy im pregnant im allowed to be that weight! Might i add that they have to take a urine sample every time you go in there, and from all the times i have been in there now.. i have become a pro at peeing in a cup. LOL. My blood pressure and everything is good.. YES. Everything is looking good. My mid-wife checked me to see if i am dilating, its an uncomfortable procedure, let me tell you. Anyways good news! I am dilated to a... ONE. :D Yes i know a one isn't very much but hey it's something especially since i thought i wasn't going to be dilated at all. Also my cervix is 50% Softened. My mid-wife was surprised that it was softening, she said that usually first time mom's cervix's don't start softening for a while. So that was good news (: And again baby's head is fersure down! Also she did an educated guess on how long our baby might be based on what she can feel on the outside. She said the head is way down and the bum is up by my chest meaning somewhere in my back and ribs are the baby's legs and feet (:. I now have a check up every week.. can't believe how fast time is flying! This week i have been craving...icecream, If you haven't seen my facebook posts :P. Also i want to warn all the women who are pregnant and read my blog.. If you don't think that you need maternity clothes or you think that you are good without them.. let me tell you now that during your last month you WILL need them. I have grown so much i can't barely fit into anything -__- all my pants are so freaking tight! It hurts my belly to wear any of them.. i think i will be sticking to sweats and big shirts until i give birth. So excuse me if i don't look all that great sometimes :P I only have a few more weeks to enjoy being a whale.. so i will ;).

                      Today i got an awesome surprise! I was at work, and after lunch i was walking back on the floor and was talking to my manager she had told me i needed to go get some papers printed off and that she would grab them for me, but she wanted me to come with her.. so i start walking down the hall, and she walks into a completely different room with out any comnputers so i was just assuming that i follow her in there. As i walk in i see my co-workers and everyone yelled surprise. I was in shock! They had all gotten together to throw me a little baby shower at work! I seen flowers, a table cloth that said 'Tosha" on it, and a huge chocolate cake :D. there was also a vace with gift cards in it, a card with money in it, and a bag of baby stuff. I couldn't believe it. I honestly had no idea. I didn't think that they were going to do anything for me, let alone expect them to do anything. Lets just say i have some pretty awesome co-workers and managers! Thank you all so much for everything you guys gave me! It was over the top and very very nice!
                               ( i didnt get a picture of the room, but i did get a picture of the stuff they gave me)

Well that is all for this week!
Until next week!

35 weeks!

                 This week baby weighs the same as a Honeydew melon! This week it is just packing on the pounds. And that will be its main focus for the rest of the time in there ;D


                  This week i have been feeling good! Not to mention this is my last week being 8 months.. well last day being 8 months! ;) Starting yesterday i started getting some cramping, but nothing crazy. I have also been getting cramps today and the baby hasn't been moving as much as it usually does.. but hey! no body jump to conclusions just yet! (: My cravings this week are..drumstick icecream! Omg.. i could eat about 20 boxes and still want more :P I have also been wanting Sconecutter. If anybody is familiar with that place.. than you know why i am craving it! D: Its a pretty random craving.. seeing as i haven't ate it in years! I know of one that is close to my dad's house in Salt lake. So i texted him and told him that he needed to ship me some err else >;D But of course the food would be rotten by then -__-.  Other than the weird cramping and cravings everything has been going pretty awesome. (: I have been getting a lot of comments from people while im at work feeling bad for me for working and always being on my feet, i think that has become me new pet peeve. lol i hate when people feel "bad" for me just because im working and pregnant.I enjoy working, it keeps me busy and my feet are usually fine. (: Just thought i would vent about that since its really starting to bug me lol or when people say oh you must be due soon! Next time i'm going to tell someone actually im only 5 months along.. bahahaha. (: Well i better go check on my dinner before its burned. :P I have a doctors appointment on Tuesday and that is when she is going to check to see if i am diolating! So next week we will know more about whats going on with our baby! :D So until next time! Btw i am 36 weeks tomorrow... OMG ;D

until next week!


                                           


                       

34 Weeeks!

                       This week baby could be up to 20 inches long and weigh about 5 pounds! Also this week baby's fingernails are so long it goes past it's tiny little fingers! Also this week baby's heartbeat was 130.
Good news! Baby is head down!(:

                   This week is week 34! well only for a few more hours. Tomorrow i will be 35 weeks! This week there has been so much going on that i haven't had the chance to update this sooner. We had a doctors appointment this week and everything is going good! She measured me, and pushed on my belly again to see if our baby is head down. It didnt hurt as bad as last time! But she did say that baby is head down!(: only 36 more days to go! Its coming up so fast! This week i have been pretty good. Besides today. it has just been one of those days. My rib has been killing me today! Yes baby is in there and im not complaining but its just been so hard today to work because of this pain. I can't take a deep breath without it hurting, bending over was like the worst thing on the planet. Especially when people have no respect for pregnant women and decided to throw everything all over the floor -__- Blah. So glad that today is over with so i can start fresh tomorrow! (: Hopefully with this pain gone.. but if not then i will just deal with it with a smile on my face!(: So everyone has been asking and saying 'oh i bet you are so ready for the baby to come out'. And my honest answer is no. lol Not that im scared of labor and delivery or anything like that. But i have just enjoyed having my baby living in my belly. I love watching it move around and kick me and feel its hiccups and everything that comes with being pregnant. I will be ready when the time comes, but until then i will enjoy having my baby in there, even though i'm always looking like a sweaty hot mess :P. I have started to get more and more uncomfortable and its hard to sit up right or to drive sitting with my back straight. This is just what happens the last few weeks of pregnancy i guess ;] This week i also washed all the baby clothes and got mostly everything set up! I will post pictures on here next week! of the crib and everything else(:
Well that is all for this week i am going to go lay down and make myself as comfortable as i can(:
until next week!

33 weeeks!

                   This week baby is the size of a pineapple! Our baby approximately weighs 4 pounds, and over 17 inches long. Our baby's skeleton is hardening but will still stay soft enough to overlap eachother so it will be easier to be delivered! (: 

                This is week 33 people! I have been feeling great! Except the past couple days my body has been swelling, which hasn't happened since i was visiting Nevada, at least not my feet. I have been craving anything chocolate.. all the time! Which is horrible since it gives me ridiculous acid reflex.! :/ I have been feeling our baby 'roll' around in there literally! It rarely kicks little kicks anymore its always rolling, making huge moves in there! :P As i am getting closer to my due date i am starting to worry about every pain i get or if anything is a little off. New worries come along when your about to have a baby let me tell you! ;] We also set up our crib this week! Now its all becoming so real! :p
                  Well as everyone knows Christian and i got married this week <3. Weddings to some people are about how much money you spent on your dress, or how many people came, or what location you picked. All that 'regular' wedding stuff wasn't the way i had ever planned my wedding being. Our wedding was perfect in my eyes, yeah we didn't have the bright and shining sun in our faces, wedding bells, flying doves, yet none of that would have ever mattered, all that mattered at the moment was Christian. He is honestly my best friend. I'm so grateful for him, he is the man that i am supposed to be with until the end of time. He has so much patience and shows me the good in everything. He always knows how to put a smile on my face, and has been there for me from the beginning. Everyone says that when you 'find' the person your supposed to be with, you'll know, I can now tell you, i believe that.  We have been married for 4 four days and even though it felt like we were married before.. the feeling of actually being married to this amazing man is the best feeling in the whole world. <3 (I know this is all mushhy mushhyy stuff, but its all so true.;]) 

         I want to also say thank you to my new in-laws for making me feel so comfortable and part of your family! You guys rock! (:
          Also thank you mother for EVERYTHING you did for our wedding! We are so grateful! (: 
And to my WHOLE family now thank you all for sharing this precious moment with us! I love you all! 
         And to my new mother in law thank you for these awesome pictures! i know you are disappointed with them, but i honestly love them! You are such a great photographer! 


Well until next weeek!
(:

-Tosha Mulliner


(bahah so weird, but so awesome!)

32 weeks= 8 Months! :D

                      This week baby is the size of a Jicama! Tipping the scales at almost 4 pounds! Holyyyy cowww! (I remember when baby didn't even weigh a pound!). This week baby is practicing some more kicking around, inhaling, exhaling. Stuff like that (: Our baby's heartbeat this week was spiked up a little bit it was 159. Also another awesome fact this week is that our baby's skin is no longer see through! :D Our baby now has fat filling in his/her body so no more see through skin :D


           This is week 32 everyone! I am officailly 8 months pregnant! I can't believe it! Only 51 days to go! This week i have been...HOT! I swear i get random break outs of dying and start sweating like no other -__-. Oregon doesn't have like horrible heat like Nevada did, but its still heat not to mention i'm carrying a baby so that makes me feel even hotter! Its making me miserable! I woke up today from my nap literally dripping sweat! I've never wanted it to be winter so bad in my life :P I'm also very hormonal this week. Especially right now, but its because i am hot, my rib is bothering me, and my hands are so swollen today. I swear the baby has been loving that spot all day today. It just feels like an annoying little pain that won't go away, but its not like a hard sharp pain or anything like that. (: I could go on an on about everything that is wrong right now, but id rather not.. i'm sure that's not why people read this blog :P. This week i have just been craving KFC like some chicken. mashed potatoes, and hot sauce omg yum! ;] This week i can see the change in my face.. anyone else see it?! i also need to start wearing strechieeee pants! My jeans beside 2 pair are just too tight! 
             So this week we went to the doctor for my 32 week check up. I had to see a different midwife this time instead of the one i have been seeing for the past 2 weeks.. I don't necessarily "click" with her has i do the other mid-wife anyways she came in asked me how i was feeling and i told her about the pains that i had been experiencing a few weeks ago. She told me if i start feeling that pain again to call them and do everything i was doing last time. She also told me that if i was to start feeling those pains at 34 weeks and they weren't going away or if i started going into labor, they wouldn't stop my labor. In my mind i'm thinking 34 weeks.. uhh isn't that a little to soon?!? I guess i should have asked why they won't stop it but im pregnant my memory and train of thought is out the window :P So she went to listen for the baby's heartbeat (last time she tried to listen to our baby's heartbeat it moved away from her and wouldn't let her find him/her.) So she went to find the heartbeat and couldn't find anything and asked if i could feel where the baby was hiding so i pointed to the left side of my belly and she found it for a second and our baby moved away from her not to mention our baby kicked the heartbeat thingy lol. Everytime she would find our baby's heartbeat it would move away from her and kick her. It was the cutest thing ever.. Maybe our baby doesn't really "click:" with her either, or our baby just likes to play games with her :P. I also asked her while i was laying down if there was a way to feel my belly and see if she could feel if the baby's head was down. I read about it so i wanted to see if she could tell. Well that was a stupid question to ask.. She had to push really hard on my belly D: GAHHH  it hurt! She said that it was hard to tell because my belly was really hard.. like it always is lol. But she said she felt something hard in my pelvis... but wasn't sure if it was the head? So i don't really know what that means.. lol I hope our baby is head down, it has been like the whole time i've been pregnant so we'll see! She said she would check again once i am 36 weeks! So ill keep everyone updated. (:
              Some more news this week is that i am getting married on SUNDAY! (: Yes, this Sunday! We are getting married in Cannon Beach.. literally on the beach (:. A lot of people didn't realize or didn't know we were getting married so "soon" but this has been our set date since we got engaged, we just haven't really shared it with anyone. We are just have a small intimate wedding. So if you are confused why you didn't get an invitation, its because we didn't send any out :P I will no longer be Tosha Nester.. how weird?! :P I get to see my family though! My family will be flying up Saturday! Can't wait to see how my nephew likes Oregon! (: Maybe i can get them to move down here (; (kidding mom) 

Well i thought i would leave you with some old wives tells about baby gender.. because i thought they were funny. But i do know most of these that don't agree with people that have had a baby. :p

•   If your baby is low and all out in front, then you are having a boy. If you carry your baby higher and you got wider with the pregnancy, then you are having a girl.
• Hang your wedding band on a string of your hair, or on a string. Have someone stand over you and hold the ring directly over your belly. If the ring moves in a circle you are having a girl and if the ring sways back and forth you are having a boy.
• The rate of the baby's heartbeat is also another popular baby gender predictor. This is one of the myths about baby gender prediction that often provides to be true. If the baby's heart rate is faster than 140 beats per minute, then you are sure to have a girl. If the average heart rate is below 140 beats per minute, it is said to be a boy.
• If you have morning sickness that seems to last all day long and last for longer than your first trimester, then you are having a girl.
• Some of the gender predictors have to deal with the way that the woman looks during pregnancy. Some supposed indicators of a girl are: round face, acne breakouts, the woman looks worse pregnant than she did when not pregnant, and her chest grows dramatically. Some supposed indicators that the baby will be a boy are: hair grows faster on the legs, her nose widens, feet are colder during pregnancy, and you have not had a dramatic growth spurt in the chest area.
• if you can't get enough chocolate, you could be having a girl. Does the idea of drinking straight lemon juice sound delicious to you? Then those sour cravings are a result of the little boy inside of you.
• If your husband puts on weight, then your having a boy. 

31 Weeks!

                            This week baby is the size of.. well... it didn't really compare it to one thing.. It compared the size of our baby with multiple things. like the size of a few well four navel oranges. Or a few bunches of asparagus lol. Our baby weighs about 3 pounds give or take. Also our baby's brain developing more and more, our baby can use all five senses! Our baby will also be sleeping a lot more..which i am starting to learn our little baby's sleeping habits (:


               Well here i am looking like a...cow. lol i hate this picture, but its the only i could use. My eyes don't even look open! But thats enough about complaining about the picture. :P Well this week is almost up for me! and then Saturday i will be 32 weeks. This week has been like the rest, but i have just been getting more uncomfortable. Sitting or standing doesn't matter which, seems to bother me just as much as the other. Laying down seems to be the only way for me to get comfortable, but not for that long :P. this week i still am craving chicken..everything chicken.('; SO in my last blog post i said i was nervous to be 30 weeks just because this is like the last ten weeks i have until our baby is here! Well.. i had an incident happen which makes me even more nervous about these last weeks! I started getting really bad pains in the lower part of my belly, while i was working. They were starting to be so strong that i had to lean against something or sit down. It was obvious to some of my co-workers that i had been feeling some pain, so i was advised to go call my mid-wife and ask her if everything was okay. I feel like i call about everything i feel because i don't know if it is something i should be feeling or not and i wasn'r sure if it was braxton hick contractions or what. Anyway i called and left a message waiting for them to call me back, and at my lunch hour i finally got a call. I was telling them about the pains that i had been feeling and that i had been drinking lots of water and that no matter what i did if i walked around, sat down, laid down, nothing seemed to make the pain stop. The nurse didn't seem to be able to tell me what exactly was going on, so that made me nervous. She told me she would call me back in about 20 minutes to let me know what the doctor had said. So i clock back on to work, waiting for the nurse to call me back. She called me back and told me that i needed to go home. She said that the way i had described everything sounded like i was having small contractions.. not braxton hick contractions. So i ended up going home and laying around the rest of the day, and the pains went away. Talk about freak out! lol it made me so nervous to feel those pains, just because i know that this baby needs to stay in there for a couple more weeks! (: Anyway that was my scary experience. 
                  There was also some other stuff that i had been going through with my health. A few weeks ago i was scheduled to take the gestational diabetes test like everyone has to when there pregnant. Well when i got the results back.. they weren't good. My glucose levels were a little over the normal. So for the past few weeks I've been pretty upset about maybe having gestational diabetes. They told me that i needed to call this number and take a 3 hour gestational diabetes test to make sure the first test was accurate. So two weeks ago i went in to take the 3 hour test but ended up getting really sick from the drink they make you drink, so i couldn't finish the test. Well this last Tuesday i went in to re take the test again. Longest 3 hours of my life let me tell you! I got poked six times to take blood, two of those six times they couldn't get a good vein to give them any blood -__-. So i sat there for 3 hours waiting, starving, and feeling crappier than ever. I just kept thinking that if i have gestational diabetes, I'm going to be so upset. I know having it isn't the end of the world, but just the thought bothered me because i have done some changing in my life style so i don't harm my baby and to have gestational diabetes.. would just suck. Well once the test was all over she said i would be getting the results soon, and not to worry. Well today i got an e-mail about my results... I DO NOT HAVE GESTATIONAL DIABETES! :DDD 
I could just jump for joy! lol I'm so relieved i don't have it. Its like the best news ever! (:

Well that is all for this week. i hope everyone had an awesome fourth of July! 
Until next week!