Baby Story

I use facebook so much nowadays I forgot to post on here that we had our baby!!
Alia Maxine Andersen
Born March 21st 2011
6lbs 14oz 19.5 inches

Alia is pronounced Ah-lee-ah just in case you were confused.

Well up until the last few weeks of my pregnancy it was pretty uneventful. I got a little morning sickness and was pretty tired.. gained a lot of weight! but at 34 weeks my blood pressure all of the sudden skyrocketed! They ran all sorts of tests on me and put me on bedrest which was one of the hardest things that I have ever gone through! My amazing in-laws took the boys for the first week which was such a blessing but it was really hard to be away from them. Then the next week my neighbors and friends took my boys everyday when they got home from school until Casey got home from work at night.. It was really hard to sit at home and do nothing when I felt great! I will tell you what though my house sure stays clean when the little boys are gone!! Well the bedrest wasn't working, my blood pressure just kept getting worse and at 36 weeks my doctor here in Delta decided that I needed to go up "north" to have her because I needed to have her early and they aren't equipped to do it here. So we went back up to my doctor that delivered Tysen and Logan up at Logan Regional, and she decided that she would induce me at 37 weeks. So on Monday morning we headed up to the hospital at 5 am, they had to give me 4 hours of antibiotics before I could deliver her because I was strep b positive. Then at about 1030am my doctor came in and broke my water, at that point I was dilated to a 6. I thought it was going to for sure take all day because I came in dilated to a 4. Well 2 hours later at 1230 I started to get sick, which was miserable but after dry heaving for a couple of minutes I ended up being dilated to a 10, so at that point we just hung out and waited for the doctor to come in and catch her..(my doctor was at parent teacher conferences) haha well anyway, Alia had a hard time breathing so they took her to the NICU for about 5 hours to watch her and make sure that she was ok. We left the hospital the next day as soon as we could, mostly because I couldn't wait to get home and also our boys couldn't come into the hospital at all because of the flu season, any children under the age of 14 weren't allowed to come into the hospital at all. She will be 4 weeks tomorrow I can't believe how fast the last 4 weeks have gone. She has been so much fun! She loves to cuddle and be held.. and at least right now she hardly ever cries, but she makes little grunting noises all day and night. She looks just like Logan, except I think she is going to have blue eyes. She has the cutest little dimples just like both of my boys. The boys adore her, and Tysen asked if he could have an older sister too.. Sorry buddy!