My dear precious, baby Sala, how I love you and cannot stop starring at
you and smiling! You are so perfect, so beautiful so precious!
I
want to call you precious but Poppa says no sniff sniff!!! I am going
to record your earthly birthing story down while I have some free time.
Your Aunties have taken the other 5 girls so we can have a few days
with just you, well little Gracey is here sleeping with us, she is
ADORABLE, you will love her to bits!!!! She spends by far the most time
with me and is the best sister ever, abit spazzy BUT oh so cute!!!
It was such a hard decision to have the faith to get pregnant again
since Momma gets sooooooooo sick, and I hope truly that I don't have to
go thru that experience again but it is in the Lord's hands, just
thinking about it makes me never want to do it again BUT BUT BUT the end
results are so wonderful and exciting so who knows!!!! Anyways, i was
super sick with you for several months, sometimes I just couldn't
handle the nausea and would feel so helpless and cry, your Poppa was
AMAZING, when you grow up make sure you marry a man who will always be
there for you during the hard times not just the easy times. We were
living in town at 425 5th Street in Cardston. After a month of utter
sickness and despair he moved our whole family out to "the land" and
your sisters were in heaven, they roamed the land with the Proffitt's
and Pederson's and had the summer of their live. Ellice spent most her
time at home but the other girls were always playing and exploring the
world outside. Grace would constantly be bringing me in rocks and
things she had found outside, all the girls were kind and gentle with me
and helpful! I lay in bed all summer slowly counting the hours,
minutes and seconds hoping that I would survive! Meanwhile you were
calmly being formed and developed in my sick stomach and the miracle of
life was strong in you.
After awhile I got feeling a little better and would venture out of my
bedroom, I was still really sick but slowly life started to return to
me. I was able to continue on with being a mother and home-schooling
which was wonderful. Then during my pregnancy I felt SO SO good, I was
back to being a full-time Momma and you were starting to push out my
tummy, in fact I gained over 40 pounds with you!!!!!!! Near the end I
was so huge I had a hard time getting around and would spend my days on
the couch or bed, you were adorable. Esther was the most excited to
touch my tummy and feel you move, Grace would talk to you and sometimes
kiss you thru my tummy....all the girls were so excited for you to be
born!
On Sat. Jan 26th all thru the night I had false labor, your Poppa stayed
awake with me, it was very painful but I felt the Spirit and knew
Heavenly Father was there and that something special was near. I felt
so at peace with having a home birth but Sannie was cautious and wanted
to have it in the hospital just in case....then on Sunday I stayed home
and slept and tried to recover from Sat. night and only had small
contractions.
We thought you were coming later. I pleaded with Heavenly Father to
either stop the false labor or have you come but I still did not know
you were coming. You did come early (according to the ultra sound she
was supposed to
come Feb12-24) but Eve thinks she came on time, we were so unprepared
and still are!!!! Having it at home with a midwife that is a dear
friend I think made it come early. You and me
did get a priesthood blessing which I believe helped out. you were so
blue they had to work a lot with you to get you cleared up from all the
mucus in you! I had little
contractions all thru the night then around 6:30am I couldn't stand it
and went and cleaned the House ????? and would burst out in pain every
few minutes, (who would have thought cleaning would occupy me enough to
handle the pain!) then around 7am I woke Sannie up and told him he had
to run me a bath we both thought it was false labor as I didn't think I
was due for awhile then it got to painful (you know!!!!) and he called
Eve to check me out, what a difference when she showed up, she talked me
and soothed me thru the contractions and said, "Shay this doesn't have
to take long, just relax and feel the contractions!" YAH RIGHT! But I
did as she said and tried to just relax, that made all the difference,
when I was contracting by myself I fought then tensed all up felt like I
was dieing when Eve came I was on my bed lights off and after 5 or six
contractions my body just felt like pushing, two pushes and she was
out!!! I did tear 3rd degree again and fainted and had to have the
ambulance come as a pre-caution, but there really wasn't an emergency
it was just cuz I lost a lot of blood...the funny thing was I was laying
on the bathroom floor after I fainted and the ambulance men came into
the bathroom, I had a shirt on and undies (hope this doesn't offend) on I
was like, "Sunny come rub my legs" Then I heard this, "ohhhh" the
amubulance guy name was Sunny he was like, "oh what do I do I don't even
know this lady!" Then my Sunny came over and rubbed them, NEWAYS,
Naomi Becky Eve Sannie and the other midwife spend hours with me, Dust
and Lindy came to visit me and they made me food, delicious food again!
People looked after our kids and brought 3 meals! Baby is PRECIOUS,
maybe that is what we will name her and she is the largest Sala yet 8'3
ounces! As of right now I have 30 pounds to lose to be back at my
pre-pregnancy weight! How fun eh! It was so beautiful to look outside
my window and see the sun come up and have a new little baby, she
seriously is ADORABLE and such a BLESSING (there's three names we might
name her!) love ya hope you have a great day!
-- oh, I can' stop smiling at her she is so so so beautiful, you have
that look that Mom had when she was little, Ellice and Grace both had
that look, you make the funniest faces!!!
Today you opened your
eyes for a second and gave me the tinest littlest smile, it was
adorable!!! Your sisters are over at their aunties and they keep
sneaking over here with your cousins so they can hold you and see you!
YOU ARE SO PRECIOUS!!! I usually get a spiritual impression after the
baby is born that fills me with love for my baby, the spiritual
impression came to me yesterday for you, it just bonds me to you for
eternity and makes it so I can't stop being in awe of you and filled
with love, oh, what to name you, you are going to be such a blessing to
our family! I love you so so so much1!!!!!!