"Whats in a name" and Merry Christmas!!!

I forgot in the last blog to talk about her name. Many people have asked us about Trinity Carolina's name and inspiration etc.. behind it. First off we have very different tastes in names which we knew before we became pregnant. A few years ago while at a church function we met a visitor with a 10 year old daughter named Trinity. I immediately loved the name and told Jason that we should name our daughter that, if he liked it. Such a common name for me and with good memories as I went to Trinity school and Trinity Church in Alabama. Once we became pregnant and found out it was a girl we both agreed on Trinity. We also had been thinking of special middle names. We decided that she is a special little girl and wanted her middle name to honor a very special man. Grandpa Gates first name is Carroll and he is a wonderful man who has touched our lives. Her middle name is a rendition of his name. Carolina will always have a piece of her Great Grandpa touching her life and we pray she has his kind heart!!!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve. We went to our neighbors family dinner with seafood and fun. We came home and had a wonderful night because Trinity put herself on a nice sleep schedule that allowed us to get sleep in 3 hour increments!! We woke up very refreshed and enjoyed opening our stockings. Next Jason made eggs benedict for our brunch (my favorite).. he did it very well... complete with an olive and paprika on top (the way it was made for me growing up). Trinity went down for a nap and we opened up wonderful Christmas presents from family and friends and feel very blessed!!! We ended the night with a walk around the block, watching the sunset in 75 degree weather.

Welcome Trinity

On Monday 12/13/2010 the Doctor advised us that he would induce us the afternoon of the 14th. Very excited about meeting our new bundle we spent the next hours doing things to prepare. We went into the hospital around 1pm and I was immediately put on pitocin to induce contractions. The Dr. came in at 5pm and saw that I was reading a magazine and had not gotten an epidural he stated "well that is not real labor if she is reading a magazine we need to up that pitocin." Shortly after I indeed asked for my epidural. God bless the inventor of that whole procedure. I slept for about 2 hours as did Jason.
No reason to traumatize anyone... 19 hours later with 3 straight hours of pushing the Dr. came in and stated well... what do you think about getting her out in one contraction... "YES PLEASE!!" Two contractions later she was here. On 12/15/2010, at 8:58am, Trinity Carolina blessed us with her presence at 9lbs 2oz and 20 inches long.

They could not regulate my blood pressure after birth so we were not released the next day. We were ready to leave on Friday but Trinity looked a bit jaundice so she got the blue light special. On Saturday we were told both her and I met the requirements and could now go home. Saturday night we got home around 7pm and feel blessed.

We had wonderful Doctors and nurses and are grateful for all the prayers through this journey. We know that you will continue to pray for our family and Trinity. We will keep this blog going as our journey continues.. so keep looking back for updates and pictures.

Operation "get baby out" is under way

Sorry for sideways pictures... I rotated them and I can't rotate them back. I'm not using my computer for this so I'm a bit special. Please turn head to view them. hahahaha

We had a fun weekend. On Friday night we got our real Christmas tree for the living room (a noble fur). We had fun decorating it and listening to Christmas music. Now we have two trees to enjoy. The little fake one is dedicated to the baby this year. It has all bright colored fun ornaments on it and all the "baby first christmas ornaments" people have given us and we bought one.

On Saturday it was Jasons work Christmas party at the bowling lane (a.k.a mission bowl baby out). It was a lot of fun with good food/people and bowling (however baby was not bowled out so unsuccessful).

Sunday we spent around the house and decided to walk around the desert museum (a.k.a walk baby out... also unsuccessful). We ended Sunday with some spicy mexican food (yes yes.. mission ..burn baby out with spicy food.. and I do not recommend that.. if the baby is stubborn only you will pay for this one).

Monday we had our Dr. appointment. I didn't do much all day before that and yet my feet still were swollen enough that the Dr. realized its uncomfortable to walk around with feet two times the appropriate size. So we had some fun tests run which were cool b/c we could hear the baby heartbeat the whole hour. Tests all came back just fine. The baby is doing great and I am fine as well!!! So to alleviate the swelling... I will be hanging out at home... a.k.a mission bedrest so my feet aren't so swollen when I go into labor I can't walk to the car... :) :) haha-- I suppose this will be good sleeping and reading time for me!!

Anyway.. all is well and according to what the Dr. says... everything progressing and baby should come by Christmas (if she is left to do her thing) If Dr. intervenes she will be here by her due date!!! Either way we are eager and excited.