The day is finally here

The morning of Aug 24th 2009 Little Alexis Marie decided to kick her way out into the world. My water Broke at 8:00 am. I quickly call Vern at work and told him the news. At first he didn't believe me, it took three times of telling him did he realize i was telling the truth.

It took him a half hour to get home. In the mean time I was in our bathroom sitting on the toilet letting all the amniotic fluid drain out. About ten minuets after my water had broke I started having very hard and painful contractions. I knew then that this was it, she was coming three in a half weeks early and there was nothing i could do about it.

Summer and Debbie helped me get things ready so that when Vern got home we would be able to leave right away.

The active labor contractions were tearfully painful. They kept getting worse with each one. We arrived at the hospital around 9:30am. After about 30 min of labor I was dilated to a 4 and 100% effaced. I was Prepped for an epidural and feeling no pain within 15 min.

Vern, His mom Debbie, his sister Summer, my mother, father, and sister were all in the room to watch the birth. Carissa video taped the whole thing and everyone else took pictures and enjoyed the very emotional and exciting event.

At 12:48 pm Alexis Marie Coggle was born and 5 lbs 8.5 ounces and 18 1/2 inches long. She has My big blue eyes, nose, ears, and feet. She has Vern's lips, chin and torso.

She is the most beautiful and precious thing i have ever seen. I am so deeply and madly in love with her. Vern can't stop holding and kissing her. Who by the way had his mommy instincts kick in. He gave her her first bath without any hesitation and just got in there and got her all cleaned up. He's a pro. at changing her diaper. I didn't change one till late Monday night and it was only wet.

Vern and I are the happiest parents in the world and hope to share Alexis with everyone in a few weeks. Until then here are some pictures.

Worst Day of my Life

Two weeks ago we had a new roommate move in. She has a 9 month old pit bull and shes very cute, sweet and hyper. We sent Trey to out friends house to be babysat sill we are able to move out.

The Dogs name is Kya and she has trouble with going in the house. Me and Vern have been helping Tiffany (our roommate) with training her. Well on Wednesday the 17Th around nine at night I took Kya out for a walk to let her go potty. After she went she started getting very hyper and jumping around. Little did I know her collar was loose and she slipped right out. She began running back and forth on the grass in front of out complex. I had a horrible feeling she was going to run out into the street. So as i tried to get her to listen to me I was also watching for cars in the road. Well little Kya was having so much fun running away from me and jumping around in the dirty puddle next door I was getting very angry. Still trying to get her to listen and watch for cars at the same time she notices a man standing across the street. Yup you guessed it, she bolted into the street just as a little white car was driving by. I scream her name, but it was too late!!! She got hit. The driver was able to slow down just enough not to run her over. I scream and instinct takes over and I run to her aide. bad idea. She is so traumatized and in so much pain she's angry and bites down on my lest wrist. With pit bulls they have a locking jaw. I was not getting free till she let go. I did how ever try to pry her off using my right hand. Vern was just walking out of the house and heard Kya get hit and me scream. He came running yelling Kya's name. once she heard his voice she realized what she was doing and released my arm. She went into shock and layed limp on the street. I was going into shock myself. I was pouring blood from my arm. I felt sick and light headed. Vern grabbed Kya and started heading to the house. I followed. The driver was hysterical. He kept asking if we were OK and what he could do to help. We just ignored him and went into the house. Vern called the nearest Vet and I tried not to pass out. Tiffany tried to stay calm so she could help me. Two min later we were on our way to the vet. We dropped Kya and Tiffany off and headed to the hospital. This whole time the baby hadn't moved on bit. I was freaking out. We checked in and were put in a room in about 45 min.

Kya was not doing well. She had broke her front right leg and was having a very difficult time breathing. Tiffany didn't have the money to get Kya the help she needed so she decided to put her down. once she was gone Kya let out a lot of blood from her lungs. This indicated that she had severe lung damage and wouldn't have made it anyway.

At the hospital m wounds were taken care of. But i was in so much trauma I went into Premature labor. This was not fun and scared me and Vern. 7 hours later the contractions stopped, I was all doped up and we were headed home.

So when I say worst night of my life i meant it!!!!

Baby Update

I had another appointment last week. Alex is growing up to speed. Her brain is fully developed and continues to learn. Dr. Ponder is very confident that Alex will come full term and very healthy.

Alex grows bigger every day. She is such a wiggle worm but she's very stubborn like her father. She never moves when people want her too. She does however tell Vern good night by kicking his hand when he tells her night and that he loves her. She's gonna be a daddy's girl I think.

I'm 27 weeks right now and time just doesn't seam to be going by fast enough. My sister had her baby girl on fathers day and I'm super jealous. Time needs to speed up so I can hold my baby girl.

I have two baby showers dates already set. Aug 1st and Aug 29Th. I'm hoping to have my friends shower on Sept 5Th if Leslie can do it.

Keep you updated.

Cardiologist appointment

I finally had my appointment with the cardiologist. It was not a very fun visit. First they had to take an ultrasound of my heart. I had to lay in two positions, on my back and on my left side. Laying on my left side they have a part of the bed where it opens to get access to the left side of my chest. now being five months pregnant it was not very fun trying to hold up my torso while they did this. During this I was wearing an EKG monitor. I had tons of little probes all over my upper chest. The next test was the fun one... NOT. I had to walk on a treadmill. They needed to record my heart at 180 beats per min. It took about 20 min for my heart to get there. i was practically running at this point on a climb. It was horrible i felt sick and light headed. the sIecond hit 180 I had to get off. they told me to quickly lay back down on my left side so they could look at my heart again. It was not fun at all. I started getting hot flashes and a headache. After all this the doctor looked at my results and determined that I had no palpation's, no extra heart beats and no rhythmic problems. He concluded that I just have an excessively high heart rate due to all the changes my body is going through with the pregnancy. He told me to keep things slow, rest a lot and drink a lot.

The conclusion is I might have to quit my job. I need to do a lot of things at work that require a lot of my energy. The past month i haven't been able to do so. I feel I'm letting down my boss by not doing my job at the full extent that I need to. So I go and have a meeting with him tomorrow to figure out what we can do.

The upside of all of this mess is that my heart is just fine and I need not to worry. Yeah!!

High heart rate!

So I've had a high heart rate all day. I know your heart rate rises in your second trimester but 120 and 140 is a little high, actually its scary high.

I called my Cardiologist today to let him know but since i haven't actually been seen by him there's not much he can do. So they put me on the cancellation list for the week.

I'm really worried about it so I'm going in to see Dr. Ponder tomorrow morning to see if she has anything to add to it. I still have my Event Monitor on so I've been recording my heart all day and sending them in. I should know i a day or two if the readings have anything serious on them.

I just get to play the waiting game now... not fun. :(

Other then all my heart problems the baby seams to be doing good. She moves all the time so I'm not too concerned about it but I'll have to see what Dr. Ponder thinks tomorrow.

It's a Girl!!

Yesterday at 2:30 pm the ultrasound specialist declared our baby a girl. Alexis Marie Coggle (Alex for short) has finally made her identity public. She moved so much during the visit we were there for an hour. We got tons of pictures and a video of the whole thing!!!

I'm so excited!!

Everyone who could be there was there. My sister, mother, mother in law and sister in law Summer. Oh and Vern too. LOL. Everyone is just thrilled to finally know who will be joining the family in get this 3 1/2 months!!! Its amazing to know that I'm half way done.


I can't wait to meet my baby girl!

After the appointments we went out to eat then shopping. I got a new bra for my ever growing body! I've gained 13 pounds already and the Dr says there is more to come!!!! My belly button is almost popped out. It looks so funny. We also bout some cute girl clothes and the cutest shoes!!! Oh there so cute!!

Did I mention I'm super excited!!!!

Well more to come as the days go by!

Suprise doctor visit

So for the past few weeks I've been having some dizzy spells that get pretty bad. I feel nauseous, sweaty, weak, and dizzy. It gets so bad that I can't focus and need to sit down. Like I need to faint or something.

My doctor thought I might just be dropping my blood pressure and to rest a lot and have plenty of snack breaks. Well I'm still having these little episodes. So my doctor told me that she wants to see how my heart is acting during these episodes. She recommended I wear an EKG Event Monitor for two weeks!!! Yikes. Very uncomfortable. What it does is record my heart while I have these episodes. I just push the record button and it makes a funny sound for one min. When the memory is all full I transmit it through the telephone. Its very strange how it all works. So hopefully we'll find out why I do these crazy things.

Vern Is pretty concerned about the whole thing but the doctor insured us that the baby will be completely fine. That it shouldn't affect him/her. I believe that my body is having a hard time dealing with all these changes and extra hormones going on.

Baby Pain

The baby seams to be growing so fast. These past few days have been very painful. A lot of cramps and other problems i wont go into detail about.

Last night the baby got real excited when vern was playing with my belly. He couldn't feel all the movements but i could. Its such an amazing feeling. The baby really loves his/her daddy.

Another appointment

I had another appointment last Wednesday. All my tests came back good and the baby's heartbeat is about 154 per min. Its amazing to hear baby Alex's heart knowing that he/she is growing inside me. The baby is such a wiggle worm. It took the doctor three times before she could hold down the heartbeat. At night baby Alex likes to sit on my right side and wiggle around. Its such a strange feeling. Almost like having butterflys. I'm 15 weeks along now, Just into my second trimester. The baby is about 4 inches long and somewhere between 3-6 ounces

Out next appointment is April 29th. We get to find out the sex of our little Alex. Our parents are most excited to start shopping. We still are hoping for a boy but everyone keeps telling us its a girl. We have our crib, dresser, stroller and car seat picked out. We should be picking everything up except the crib sometime this week. We have no room at our house so Debbbie, Vern's mom is going to store it for us.

I'm Pregnant!!!

So on January 19th (Vern's Birthday) we find out that I'm Pregnant. We are so excited to become parents. I can't help but smile at the thought of being a mommy. Ive waited so long.... well two years to be exact.

Our parents couldn't be happier. Debbie, Vern's mom is just ecstatic. She cried when we told her. This is going to be her first grand baby. As for my parents the are way excited as well. This will be #3 grand baby.

My sister happens to be pregnant right now as well. She is 7 weeks and 3 days ahead of me. Her and Chris are having a girl. So Preston gets to be a big brother. He is so cute about the whole thing. He'll go up to Carissa and lift her shirt and say "My baby sister" Give her a kiss and run off screaming... 2 year olds can be cute sometimes!! LOL!

Our due date is September 19th. A wonderful day it will be. Our friends Ben and Leslie are getting Married that day and both me and Vern are in there line. So lets hope I'm a week early.

I had my first appointment four weeks ago and everything is perfect. The baby is just the right size for being 10 weeks. Still can't tell the sex yet but we hope its a boy!!! We want the whole older brother going on.

I had another appointment two weeks ago to do some more tests. They measured my fluid around the baby and that is just where is should be. I have another appointment in 5 days.

I'll be 14 weeks tomorrow and I've already gained 10 pounds. You can see my bump but most people can't see all my weight gain. I sure can I went from a size three to a size 7. I know I shouldn't be depressed about it but I am. I'm just glad its the baby and not something else! :)

Well I'll sure to keep things updated on how the baby is doing. I'll also post some pictures.