The adventures of Brent & Tricia

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Fist Pump Baby!

One shoulder swaddle..

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Haggis, a school trip and New Friends

Yesterday morning we all walked new daddy Brent to school. Here he is with Ruby in the stroller in front of the famous entrance way to the Glasgow School of Art.

On Friday we said goodbye to my mom... she stayed with us an extra week after my dad returned to Boston and helped with lots of chair rocking and soothing Ruby.

Before my mom left, we finally tried haggis, neeps and tatties (which I think is potatoes and sweet potatoes?) at a restaurant around the corner from our flat... not bad!

and I leave you, partially sleep deprived, with a photo of my lovely GROWING baby (at just about 10 pounds now! - in only 16 days! I had her in little pants today for 3-6 month olds! and she has already outgrown the outfit she wore home from the hospital) with her new friends Lion and Bunny. :-) xo

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Birthday Party for 4

Happy 1 week Birthday Ruby!
I thought it only appropriate to celebrate my baby's 1 week old birthday. It only happens once, right? Well, maybe it was an excuse to eat cupcakes but, we did celebrate.
:-)
(Ok.. Ok.. I know we BOTH look sleep deprived in this photo.. it's a learning curve for the both of us).

On a warm happy note, it is springtime in Glasgow this week! Wonderful for long walks. Here's a photo of the spring flowers popping up in the park by our flat.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

1st Day Out!

Ready to stroll!

Ruby had her midwife checkup today and I am happy to say she has gained weight! On her 3 day old checkup, I was told she only lost 1% of her birthweight (most babies lose up to 10% which is perfectly normal). She is feeding really well. We are a good team. At her one week checkup, she has actually gained quite a bit of weight. My wonderful baby!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Hello world, my name is...

Ruby MacKenzie Ridge
(Ruby for 'R' for Rhoda - Tricia's Grandmother - that, and we adore the name)

Born: Glasgow Scotland
8 lbs 14 oz

Saturday February 19th, 3:05am

Brand New.. a few moments old.

The new family! Just a 'little' exhausted from 36 hours of labour. Needless to say, I cannot even recall taking this photo.

Introducing... Grandma Jane..

and Grandpa Dave...

Baby's first bath! She did wonderful!

Hi Ruby!

Sleepy... it was rough ride..

Headed home! Thank you for the outfit Great Grandma and Great Aunt Peggy! - and blanket Grandma Jane.

Finally we are home... ready for the new adventure! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Tricia & Brent

Ok... I'm ready now..

So there is a BIG reason why I have not updated the blog.. or anything recently...

The reason is.. our baby arrived 12 days late.

I have heard of lateness however, this was simply unreal. Groundhog day was every day. She simply did not want to 'drop' down.. and BELIEVE me, I tried EVERYTHING! Therefore, I had a date to get induced 10 days after my due date on February 17th at 2pm - we went to Southern General Hospital - about a 15 minute drive from our apartment. New and renovated, the hospital is excellent. The staff were wonderful, attentive and caring. I cannot say enough about my experience - well, maybe the length of it was just a bit.... LONG.. however, worth the wait.

Here I am on the 'birthing ball' in the hospital after taking my first round of medication... feeling peachy, trying to move things along.. however, the moved.. VERY slowly... at one point I firmly believed nothing was going to happen.

Glamour Shot of me in the hospital TV room before Mom and Dad came by for a visit (Mad Men was even on the TV). I think a bit after this photo I started to have contractions.. there was a bath across the hall so I simply took a bath and walked around quite a lot because I wanted to get GOING! This evening, I actually had an entire room of 3 beds to myself therefore, Brent stayed with me for the entire evening (which was against the rules but they allowed it) and was wonderful!

After a morphine induced sleep on Friday night, I was given more drugs to get things going on Friday morning... FINALLY! on Friday at around 3pm, I had the approval to go downstairs to the Labour Ward. Here is an outside shot. We were in one of the rooms on the bottom floor and stayed there from 3pm Friday to 3am Saturday. On the plus side, the room was brand new and even had an ipod dock to play some music we brought with us. The midwifes (nurses) were AMAZING! We had one with us from 7:30pm until the baby came at 3am. She took no breaks, was helpful, attentive, friendly and SOOO wonderful with us.