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My attempts at keeping my website updated have been pitiful. I apologize to my readers. Being a parent could not be described to anyone who has never done it. I am so all consumed with this little girl who changes so much on a daily basis. My days are over before they begin. By the time I feed her and change her a million times, squeeze in some food, a few minutes for Trevor, and myself and some exercise my day is over!
For now I will include Savannah's updates and my weight loss updates in the same place. In the future I want to get a site up and running for Savannah.
Savannah is doing really well. She is smiling now and has started to talk! In the last few weeks she has changed so much. It is an amazing feeling now that she responds to me and understands me. When you are pregnant you just assume that you will "know" your baby and their personality, but you don't. It is like getting to know a new friend. Savannah is daddy's little girl. She absolutely adores Trevor. When she is near him she will gently rub his arm with her wee hands or wiggle herself right up to him! It is so cute!
As for my weight I am back on track. I went back to weight watchers on October 31st. I weighed in at 178 pounds! Ouch this is 5 pound more than I was after I had Savannah. My weight was spiraling out of control and I needed to stop it! Losing weight is harder than I remember! I forgot how much dedication and strength it takes. The next time I weighed in I was 174lbs! I lost 4 pounds in the first week. But when I returned a week later my weight was the same and I worked very hard and did not eat any flex points. I was very discouraged but realized that I must go back to the gym. Walking 45 minutes a day will not do it for me. I must go to the gym and sweat. So on November 23 went back to the gym. I have enough of my membership left to get me through until December 31st and then I will have to see how we are financially. This week I lost 2 more pounds and I ate all my flex points! I am back into my groove. Don't get me wrong I am struggling, but I want to get back to were I was before I got pregnant and then get to go once and for all!
I will update all my charts soon with my weight loss and my exercise. I am just so busy with my wee girl. Right now I need to focus on her and our relationship. But I promise to get back to my site soon. In December I might be returning to work for half a day a week. I may go in a few hours early each week and work on my site while Savannah is at home with my mom (Nanny). I need to reorganize my site back to weight loss and make my pregnancy site a separate page and make a site for my wee girl. Due to the fact that I write all my own code, this will take some time, so please hang in there with me!
Take care,
Wendy
I am so sorry it took me this long to update my site! I have been so busy as a new mother and as most of you know I do my own site and write my own code, so a simple update takes a lot of time! Being a mother is very time consuming. I will never ever judge a parent ever again!
Anyhoo, as most of you know my beautiful baby girl Savannah Marie was born on September 3rd at 5:17 pm after 23.5 hours of labor! I would do it again in a minute! She is an amazing person and I have spent the last 7.5 weeks getting to know her and figure out how to be a mom. I could not describe labor and parenthood to anyone who has never experienced it. It is very hard, yet so amazing.
I will type out the hole story of the labor when I have much more time! One funny note... I was emailing Paulene to tell her nothing has changed when my water broke!!!
My eating and exercising has been crap! When I gave birth I was pretty damn close to being 200 pounds! I weighed myself three weeks ago and I was 173 pounds which is down 27 pounds but my attempts at getting back into eating good and working out have been pitiful. I was supposed to go back to weight watchers in October. Next Tuesday is the last weigh in in October and I am going back!! I was going to go back this week but I weighed myself Monday morning and I was up to 176 or something like that. I was so upset I jumped off the scale and erased the number out of my memory! Getting back on track is going to be much harder than I thought. I am not sure if I thought I would just do what I did before but what ever I thought is not going to happen! There is no way I can work out at the gym for 2 hours a day. First of all, I don't have the time to even get to the gym and I can'y afford the $500 a year cost now that I am off on maternity! I have a few months left of my membership. But I am so busy taking care of Savannah and keeping up on my sleep that it is just not possible. Plus I am so out of shape now! It is crazy how fast the human body gets out of shape when you take some time off of working out! I have been trying to get out for a walk 4 times a week with the baby. That is all I can manage for now. As for eating, it is crap and I am working on it, but we will be back on track by Tuesday! I have good intentions…..
As for my daily life… babies are very time consuming. I spend a lot of my time getting caught up on missed sleep and running around frantically cleaning and showering while she sleeps! Sometimes I usually manage to squeeze in a few meals and a walk and our day is over again! Although I am very proud that the last 2 Wednesday we made it to a play group in the morning! We never get anywhere before 1:00!!!
A lot has happened over the last few months. October 14th my sister Erin gave birth to a baby boy named Myles after 46.5 hours of labor! He was 8 pounds even (just like Savannah!). Congratulations Erin and Jay!!
Anyhoo, Savannah is doing wonderful. She weighed 10 pounds 7 ounces today and has frown an inch. Yesterday she had her first smile and I swear she is starting to talk!
My 30th birthday is on Friday, so my mom is going to babysit and Trevor and I are going out for dinner and shopping!! Gosh I am getting old!! I wanted to have kids before I was 30, looks like I made it just on time!!
Oh yes, I wanted to say hi to Tina at www.tinasjourney.blogspot.com. Thanks for caring and hanging in there while I get my new life sorted out! I didn't think anyone actually read my journal! I tried to email you but it bounced back, I have tried again.
I will try and update more frequently once I get back on track.
Take care,
Wendy
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