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SKYLER MAXIM HAMMOND

Skyler was born on Sat. Feb 27 @ 8:30 pm. Weight 6 pounds 7 ounces. Height 19 inches!!!!!!

Saturday morning my water broke at 6:00 am. I had a epidural at 10:00 am and by 5:00 I was dialated 10. I pushed for 3 hours and not much was happening. At 8:00 they decided to use the vacuum. Skyler was sunny-side up and the cord was wrapped around his neck. Finally at 8:30 he got here and we couldnt be happier. He is an amazing little guy for being 3 1/2 weeks earlier. Max did an awesome job coaching me. He is such a "hands on" amazing dad. I couldn't do it without him. I am a little sore but I can't complain. It really is life changing. I was lucky enough to have my dad, mom, sister, and niece come down. They have been such a great help. Now we are just getting used to not getting much sleep and learning to understand his needs. Thanks everyone for your support.

36 weeks and Chubby!!!

36 WEEKS!!!

I had my 36 week check up today. Time is flying fast and I am getting very nervous but very excited at the same time. I have started to go to the doc every week and she is doing exams to see if I am getting any closer. Well as of today I am almost a 1. YEAH I guess that means I am progressing. A 1 probably isnt anything to be too excited about but it made my day. Since I havent been working, I have been putting our new apartment together. My favorite part is doing the babies room. When I am actually finished with it, I will post some pics. This little guy is so spoiled. I cant believe all the stuff he already has. If he was born tomorrow we would have everything. Thanks to all our friends and family for everything. I have been going back and forth on putting pictures of my prego body up. I take one then look at it and think " wow my camra doesnt add 10lbs, it adds 20lbs" But most everyone says you will want to go back and look at them one day. So for now, I will post a few. The pics will be a great motivation to loose the baby weight.
Max is doing good! I think he gets nervous from time to time and hates when I watch a BABY STORY on TLC with him in the room. I have to admit, some of the stuff on that show freaks me out too. I have been reminding him to take his phone with him to work and actually answer it now that it is getting closer. Today he walked out the door and forgot it. I dont know what I was thinking but I wrapped myself in a blanket ( being naked underneath ) and chased him to his car. I probably scared the hell out of the neighbors. Good thing it was still dark at 6 am. Not to mention him laughing his butt off. What can I say pregnancy has made me crazy.... Bunk is doing good too. He loves the new place and is adjusting well. Hopefully he is this good when the baby comes.

IT'S BEEN AWHILE

I haven't wrote in a while. We have been pretty busy lately. For Christmas we went home for 2 weeks. It was awesome. I love being home that long. I had 3 baby showers while we were there. I got the flu and couldnt make it to the Hammond/Miller shower. Max was good enough to go in my place. I can't believe all the fun things we got. Our car was packed on our way home from all the Christmas presents and baby stuff. As soon as we got back from Utah, I got anxious to move into something bigger before our little man comes. We havent had any luck getting into a house so I looked for bigger apartments. I found a 3 bedroom 2 bath and we love it. So much more room!!! My mom and aunt flew down to help me with the cleaning, packing, and putting things back together. I dont know what I would have done without them. They saved me and made the move so much easier. I loved having them down and miss them already.
We bought our baby furniture the other day. We are almost set with everything we need. ( I am sure little things will come up as he gets here) I still call him "HE" or "THE BABY" because we havent came up with a name yet, but we are working on it. I had my 33 week appointment last week. Everything is looking good. Baby is in position! I was going to post some pics until my mom took one of me a few days ago. I looked at it and wanted to cry. I didnt know my face was starting to get chubby. sorry no pics. Even my feet and hands are starting to swell. I hope these next 6 or 7 weeks go by fast!

25 weeks.

More than half way done! its flying by and I am starting to get nervous. Not so much about taking care of a newborn baby but the whole labor and delivery. Thinking about it really freaks me out. I had a Doctor's appointment on thursday. My weight and baby's heartbeat are good. I am measuring right on 25 weeks. The only bad news I got (which was a few days before the appointment) was my blood test for gestational diabetes came back high. But only 1 out of the 4 test. From what the doc said I dont have it but my chances are pretty high. She wants me to go see a endocrinologist. Hopefully everything turns out okay because I hate stressing over things. Work is already driving me nuts. I wanted to stay working till Feb but I dont know if I can last that long. It makes me sad because I used to love my job.
We are going home for xmas on sat the 19th for 2 weeks. I cant wait to see everyone for longer than 5 minutes. It is hard when we make a 3 or 4 day trip. We never have time to do anything. This last week has been pretty stressful between work, the blood test, and Bunk. Poor little Bunk always has the most random things go wrong with him. We had a pretty traumatic experience at the vet last tuesday. I am so glad that it is over. I need to thank my mom for passing on the gag reflex to me. The vet looked at me like I was so crazy and needed to control myself.
Anyway, we still havent decided on a boy name but I figure we have plenty of time. Max and I will lay in bed at night and randomly spit out names but nothing is sticking. So any ideas let us know.

22 Weeks and sick

Time is really flying by. I cant believe I am more than half way through this pregnancy. I came down with a really bad chest and head cold last week and was pretty nervous it was the swine flu. I had all the symptons but a fever, which I was thankful I didn't have. 7 days later and I am still going to bat with this sickness. It sucks when you are pregnant and cant take much of anything to help with feeling like crap. I am praying Max doesnt get it. He has been lucky so far. Max has been so good to take care of me between cleaning the house, doing dishes, laundry, walking bunk and breakfast in bed. What a great guy.
I had a dr. appointment on thursday. I was worried that my little guy might be in some stress from everything my body was going through but the dr. said everything was good. Still measuring good, weight good, heartbeat good. I was excited to get the swine flu shot but they had ran out the day before ( just my luck) After calling local hospitals, health departments, no one had it. Then I rememeber I recieved an email a few weeks ago from a lady that said the naval hospital was giving the shot to pregnant women. I raced over there and couldnt wait.
Besides being sick this week has been exciting so far. My friend Shanna had a little boy last night. It was pretty hard on her and they ended up doing an emergency c-section. I cant wait to meet her new little guy next week. Also I got my wonderful husband Flyers tickets. They play LA this wednesday and we are pretty excited to go see them. Hopefully we will get some good pics!!