OT: Update on me/Thanks Angie!

WOW! What an annoying thing (that rash - not the baby!)! I'm glad you are on the mend though. Don't ya just love C-sections! ;-) Sort of hard to get around, but hey - whatever it takes right?

I can definitely relate to that stir-crazy mode. I was out 7 days after cause i couldn't stand being inside.

Yep - I'm back and everythign is fine. Miss the kids terribly, but I'm just trying not to think of that! ;-) I have new pictures to load to my webshots account. I'll be doing that later today! I'll post when i get them up.

Renee >Thank you Angie, for posting that I had posted more pictures of Matthew on

Get to feeling better...

I hope your rash gets better soon! I have had hives before and I know how they are, but I only had them on my arm. I can't imagine your whole body! Im so glad that Matthew is ok and doing good. Karlie

Oh Dawn, Howawful to have such a miserable rash/hives/itchinig thing now ! This time of the year always causes my allergies to flare up and that triggers my asthma . So I know how miserable that can be. How cool that Mike could be there to help you. Hope everything clears up soon. I am still fighting my flu.... today is the first day I have been out of bed all day. Going to hit the sack soon and hope I don't cough myself awake! Hugs,

Sabrina :-)

I'm glad to see you are back.

You are very welcome about the post/pixs. I just kept checking your site, just in case. I figured you'd be too busy w/the baby. Squeezing time enough to post the pixs must have been an odyssey by itself. =)

Matthew is precious. You must be very proud. How does it feel to be a new mom? Do you feel different? We haven't even started to think about having babies, so I can't really relate much. It must be really special having your first baby.

The closest I can get is when I moved in w/a relative to take care of her daughter/my cousin. I was there since the day she came from the hospital. Her mom was so tired and hurting from the C/S that she slept thru the nite. But I watched Lala (my cousin) all nite long. She was doing that heavy breathing that newborns do. (Why do they do that? It's so annoying. It scared me.) Then she would stop moving. I would freak out and touch her to see if she was ok. Then she'd go bk to heavy breathing and me bk to staring. We did this number the whole nite =) I was a mess the next day, but Lala & I took naps alll day long. lol

I really hope you get better soon. Take care and LOTS of pixs.

AngieAngie Fabulous in TX

Scrap First. Sleep Later.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Gentz" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.scrapbooks Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 8:12 AM Subject: OT: Update on me/Thanks Angie!

oh my Dawn! Glad you are feeling better! That rash sounds horrible!!!!

Ick, Dawn, sorry to hear about your rash! Hope the steroids work. So glad you're enjoying your new role as Mommy.

Angie, sounds like you played a very important role in your cousin's life there in the beginning!! I'm sure her mom appreciated the rest. I think newborns breathe like that because they've never breathed air before, so it takes some practice. :)

Caitl>I'm glad to see you are back.

Eek! I keep forgetting to respond to this post! So Sorry! I wanted to give you a good answer...

It feels amazing to be a new mom. :) I'm surprised at how calm and serene I feel, even when he's screaming and I'm not quite sure why, lol. I hope that stays with me as he gets older!! My dh and I waited until we got our lives "in order" so to speak - we wanted to do everything the right way - finish school, get married, get good jobs, buy a house... we knew we'd never save enough money to have kids, like a lot of people say they want to do, but once we got settled into our house, we decided it was about time to start trying. We've been married for 8 years, so needless to say, the family had been on us for a long time to get going!!

The entire pregnancy was quite an experience, but nothing compared to being able to hold my little man in my arms. I can stare at him for hours (well, I could if life didn't interfere!! LOL).

That heavy breathing thing is the worst!! We actually asked the pediatrician about it - she said that basically, at first babies feel everything with their entire bodies, so everything they do shows all over. They have very little control over their breathing and they also breathe at a much faster rate, so sometimes they even stop to catch up! (she said adults actually do the same thing, but we just don't notice it!) Talk about freaky! I stare a lot at Matthew too - sometimes I touch him and then he jumps a mile and I feel bad (but it's funny too!).

Thanks for the well-wishes. I am feeling a million times better - those steroids really did the trick. My dh goes back to work tomorrow, so Matthew and I will be going it alone for the first time...I'm actually not worried, which I think is a good sign! I will post more pics as I take em! I might even get some pages done soon too!

Oh I remember staring at the babies when they were sleeping. I had heard once that someone thought babies were boring. My mother and I thought how sad for that person. One evening I had called my mom in to watch my son sleep in a new position and we were standing there very quietly ahhhing and giggling for a few minutes admiring my sleeping baby when I looked over at my mom and whispered, "Are you bored yet?" Thinking someone would probably think watching a sleeping baby would be pretty boring. We giggled some more.

My kids are 9 and 12 now and every now and then my mom will call and ask, "Are you bored yet?" We have a good laugh, because we still aren't bored.

Lynne

My daughter is 9 and I can still sit and watch her sleep :-)

Azzy

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