Liliana's Blessing

January 4, 2009
Liliana's blessing was absolutely beautiful. Bryan did a wonderful job everything he said was perfect-enough to make a mother cry.




































We had soup & salad lunch afterward with beautiful desserts to end the beautiful day-thanks Carolina!

Ketchup-well, sort of

FINALLY both babies are napping and I have a chance to sit at the recently fixed computer (thanks bud) and blog .
OH GOODIE!


Today I am taking care of both babies! Bugsy had a tumor removed yesterday and is not allowed to walk up the stairs. Anyone who has met my dog knows this will be a long recovery...as Bugsy believes he is human. He loves to sit on the couch and chairs (he is very active) Boy do I have my work cut out for me. I have to lift him from floor-to-couch then couch-to-floor, back and forth all the while attending to Liliana.








So what have I been up to . . . . . .

Learning how to make sushi with my cousins. . .

Its true beauty & cooking skill, things we all
have in common.

Loving Liliana

Aunt Carolyn and Uncle Clyde treated us to a day at
the Festival Of Trees. We wandered around for 3 hours and still didn't get the chance to see everything!!



Loving Liliana

Spending Thanksgiving with family.
Babies in Mobys'

How wonderful the past 2 months have been. Filled with family and friends, I have to say the time off I have had has not been wasted. I will really miss this when I go back to work :(

Home Sweet Home

Liliana's Room

SUPER THANKS SARAH for the Moby Wrap without which I wouldn't have updated this page for who knows how long.

Love

Now we are home and after the first few sleepless nights, all is well. Liliana only wakes up around 4 am and other than that sleeps thru the night-How lucky are we!

Baby's Birth Day

I awoke Saturday morning not feeling quite like myself. After debating for an hour if I should call out sick or not I decided to call out sick and stay home. All day I just lounged and felt tightening in my stomach, was this it? Never having experienced labor before I wasn't sure, until about 6 o'clock that night. I started to feel contractions about every 5 minutes I called the Labor and Delivery to ask if we should come in. They told me to come in just to get checked out. Once in the hospital and changed into the lovely gown they supply I was standing waiting for the nurse to come back and asked Orlando to go ask her if I could pee first. As he began to walk out the door I feel water running down my leg! "My water just broke, my water just broke Go tell her my water broke! At least I'm pretty sure I didn't just pee on myself". Orlando goes to find the nurse who comes into test the fluid and she proceeds to tell us she didn't get a strong read that it was amniotic fluid. Upon further investigation, It IS amniotic and she says "Looks like you'll be staying here, your having a baby"

Talk about music to our ears the most amazing event in our lives was about to take place! Orlando and I hug and get ready to make the move to our Delivery room!! We then call the 2 grandmas and tell them we are having a baby and to come to the hospital.

Outside as we are breathing thru contractions and anticipating the baby it is snowing outside, the first snow this fall. I keep looking outside and trying to think peaceful thoughts thru surges, the snow helps. After 13 hours of labor and dilated to a 7 for 2 hours, I truly feel I can't go on. The nurse tells me they will want to start pictosin to increase the contractions and I can't imagine the feeling of pictosin induced contractions, when they seem just bad enough alone. I caved in and asked for the epidural---My birth plan for a totally natural birth down the drain! I know that I wasn't following my ideal plan but don't feel bad about the decision. Once my doctor got to the room to check me she said the baby was "sunny side up" so that was probably the reason I was not continuing to dilate, she turned the baby around-thank goodness for the epidural, don't wanna know what that would have felt like. At this point we called Orlando's sisters and Erika to come to the hospital to witness the birth.

One hour later, the baby is on its way, I was dilated to a 10. But, yes but, the baby wasn't dropping so we increased pictosin and waited 2hours, not much change. Once we rotated the position I was in we were ready to push within the hour.




We were moments away from meeting our baby. After pushing for 1/2 hour the baby arrived.




"Its a girl!" Dad cried, and there she was on my tummy, not in, on. How amazing. Of coarse we cried and smiled and laughed. Just writing this makes me tear up, how luck to have brought this beauty into the world!

Liliana Beth Zizumbo

Born October 12, 2008 3:33pm

7lbs., 18.5 inches

32 WEEKS

Kicking

punching

Hiccups. . .maybe

Limbs in ribs

baby rolling

How beautiful and amazing to be in touch with this little life all the time. I am so excited to meet this little one, but am enjoying every move the baby makes. I promise to savor every moment that I have with this baby, each day. Time goes fast I don't want to rush it by thinking "I can't wait until. . ."

After 32 weeks of preegnancy the only thing I continue to have in cupboards at all times is Cheerio's. Not Honey Nut or anything fancy like that! Just plain old original Cheerio's.

"What's in a name!that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;"

It is wonderful to have a husband that makes me feel like a modern day Juliet. Roses, dinner for 2, and my favorite dessert! What a wonderful suprise at the end of a long day.

SANDDUNES

FIN DE SEMANA DE MUCHACHOS EN LAS DUNAS. NO HAY NADA MEJOR ACAMPANDO CON SU PRIMO Y HERMANO EN LAS

DUNAS. ¡¿MONTAMOS A CABALLO toda la noche y TEMPR

ANO MORNNG a AVIOD el CALOR, QUIÉN DICE QUE USTED TIENE QUE DORMIR POR VIAJES QUE ACAMPAN?!