She is HERE!! Baby G2 is here and we were totally shocked and not surprised at all. LOL. BUT we are SO so in love!
The whole pregnancy I thought I was going to have a boy. A lot of things about the pregnancy was different. Baby number two felt bigger, stronger and more active for one. Then the final week before she arrived Matthew and I agreed that we both felt certain it was a girl. We don’t know why, but we did! Then the night before her birth I had a dream about her. I had a little girl and even the little card on her bed in my dream had her actual name on it. I woke up and thought, “Yup. We are having a girl.”
Hatsy June Gardner.
- 03-28-18
- Born at 10:50
- Weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces
- 2o inches long
- Came by C-section at 40 weeks and 6 days.
- Absolutely perfect.
I will get the name out of the way, because it is everyones very first question. Hatsy – just like it looks ( hat-see) June. It is an old german name that is really really uncommon, basically everywhere. lol. When I was about 30 weeks along we decided we really needed to start thinking about names. I had been over all the baby names and read hundreds of names off to Matthew. It was all the same things. We had a couple names we sort of liked, but we didn’t like how they went with Eloise. Matthew found some random name website and he started rattling off names one night. He said Hatsy and we both just kind of stopped and thought about it. We both realized we both kind of liked it. We decided to sleep/think on it a day or two and then come back and talk about it. After a day or two we circled back and both still really liked the name. The more we both thought about it, the more we both really liked it and it felt right. We chatted about it a few more times but agreed there was nothing we liked more than Hatsy. It stuck and that was that.
I know I had previously blogged about my hope for a VBAC but ultimately that didn’t work for us. I had come to peace with the fact that there was a good chance that a c-section was what was going to happen. When the day came I was fully ready to just be with my babe.
She has been such a great, sweet and sleepy babe. It has been such a blessing. Especially with a firecracker of a toddler running around.
Speaking of Eloise, the big sister. She is doing really well with the new addition. We were a little worried at the hospital. She was totally afraid of the baby (and me) and would barely even look at her. She spent a long time away from Matthew and I, but she did really well at her cousins. Since we have been home she has changed her tune a bit. Each day she has opened up a little more and more. She has started trying to “help” with the baby which is totally sweet. She likes to give her toys and try to share her snacks with her. When Hatsy was crying and I started patting her bum, Eloise climbed up and started patting her back with me. She even laid down a blanket in the swing when she knew Matthew was about to put Hatsy down in it. So sweet.
We both struggled those first few days with me not being able to help her like we wanted to. She is so used to me rocking her, getting her up in the morning, and other things that she’s gotten upset a few times that I can’t pick her up and Dad has to put her down. Hearing her cry and reach for me breaks my heart, but I know ultimately if I take it easy at the beginning I will heal faster and we will be back to “normal” sooner.
It’s definitely a learning process going from one to two, but we are embracing it and having two little girls has totally changed our world. I can’t wait to see whats coming!!!
*Matthew took all of these photos, I am a bit sad he isn’t in any himself, but I was a unable at the moment to take any. I still cherish these photos. Matthew did a great job!
