Let real life begin

Zoe is now over a month old...6 weeks old in fact. We have had a great 6 weeks. We have had visits from my Mom, Dad, Taylor, Lexi Halli, Roxanne, Ken, Matt, and even a dinner visit from John, Mar & family. We feel so blessed to have such supportive family who have stayed and helped us during this transition. I could not have done it without you guys. We had Zoe's blessing this weekend. I love having family here. It was a beautiful sunny weekend. Zoe looked like such an angel. The last of our company left this morning and we are officially on our own. 

A few things about Zoe:

-She is such a sweet easygoing baby. 

-She is a cuddle bug. She loves to be held. Her favorite thing is falling asleep on someone's chest. 

-She doesn't sleep much during the day (unless being held) but she is an amazing sleeper at night so I don't complain one bit. She actually slept for 7 hours last night ! Her longest stretch yet. Granted she stayed up until midnight but when I woke up about 630 am I couldn't believe it. 

-She started smiling about a week ago. Every day she smiles more and more and we can't get enough of her smile

- She is a strong little girl and loves to hold up her head and see what is going on all the time

-She is a good eater. I can't believe how much she eats sometimes, especially in the evening

We love our Zoe girl. Can't wait to see her little personality grow and especially to see her and Maza interact more and more. 

Zoe Bradshaw's birth

So I know I am a little behind but we finally put all the pictures on our computer so I am motivated to update our blog. So let me back up to March...

Two days before my due date (3-15) I had a doctors appointment. As he checked me he said I was ready to go anytime and he would induce me tomorrow if I wanted. (So tempting) I decided to give her a few more days and to hopefully make it until my mom came. I was thinking Wednesday would be perfect. My mom would fly in Monday night. We would have Tuesday to go shopping, show her the ropes, enjoy the day together then have the baby the next day. So Zoe was perfectly fine hanging out and never tried to come on her own so we went in for my induction Wednesday morning (3-18-15) 

Short and sweet labor story: 

We checked into the hospital at 7 am. They broke my water. We walked. They started some pitocin. Nothing. Lunchtime they upped my pitocin. Starting to feel contractions. Watched some house hunters.  Contractions getting painful. Ready for epidural. Takes about half hour for anesthesiologist to come. By that point really really ready for epidural. Get epidural.  Feeling awesome. Can feel contractions but no pain. Yahoo. My nurse tells me I can maybe take a nap and she will come check on me. I am feeling lots of pressure so she asks if she can check me. I am dilated to a ten and ready to go not 5 minutes after I got my epidural. My nurse tells me to forget the nap we are going to have a baby. Doctor comes in. Push for 5 minutes. Baby Zoe makes her debut. A perfectly healthy baby girl. 7 pounds 8 oz. born at 3 pm. 

Mom and Maza come and visit. I loved seeing Maza meet Zoe. She was so sweet with her. I feel so blessed and so in love with my little family.