McLernon Family Blog

Finn's 1st Father's Day  in the tunnel at the park can you find the baby? I got a new baby carrier.  I do like the Moby, but it is too hot and it takes a lot of organization to put on. You can't see Finn in this pic, but if I take the hood off the carrier, you can see he really is in there. Finn is still quite the sleeper.  Books say that babies his age sleep about 18 hours a day, but I think he might sleep more than that.    He does usually get lively around 8 pm and then stay up until almost 10.  Then he is cranky and needs to be walked to sleep, but afterwards he is usually out until 2:30 or 3 am. Little Finn outgrew his NB clothes and is already wearing size 1 diapers.  He doesn't got back to the doc until July 15, but I will try to weight him this week.  He was almost 10 pounds on June 4, so I guess he is more than 11 pounds already. His little legs are getting a little chunkier. They still look l...

Here we are about 13 days into Finn's life and things are pretty normal.  Finn is an easy baby, at least compared to the other newborn we had :)  He sleeps for long periods of time and he eats well too.  He definitely does not eat like his sister did, but he still eats well.   Yesterday his belly button stump finally fell off and he was able to get a real bath. Then again, he got another bath this morning because he big time spit up/throw up last night and he needed to be cleaned up.  As with newborns, he does not love the bath. Grandma Jill and Grandpa Glenn left on May 31st, and Grandma Janet and Grandpa Bob arrived June 1.  Rosaleen is having a blast with her grandparents and generally running wild (well a little bit).  She is a great sister and is still a big help to mommy.  I am so proud of her. Rosa loves to hold Finn in the morning Overall, I am a little surprised how much Finn is not like his sister.  He doesn't lo...

Finnley Benjamin McLernon, May 19, 2013, 11:43 PM Aunt Heather, Rosa and Finn  Baby Finn is here!!! We are so happy to have him.  He was born May19, 2013 at 11:43 at Kaiser Zion Hospital.  He was about 20.5 inches (one nurse said 21) and 7 pounds, 15 oz.  Ben and I check into the hospital at about 4 pm.  When I was triaged I was only 1 cm and my contractions varied from 4 minutes apart to 7 minutes apart.  The midwife at first was going to send me home (which is only a few minutes away), BUT Finnley had a couple heart rate dips while we were there, and she was concerned his placenta might not be holding up.  So, we were admitted--lucky us, because by the time I was admitted and rechecked I was 3.5 cm.  Sadly my labor room was freezing and at 5 cm I was chattering and really hurting with back labor. At this point I got an epidural which I was later sorry for and thankful for at the same time.   The big story, besides Finnley Benja...

Well, I think we are having a baby today.  I mean, I really thought we were because at about 3 or 3:30  am I started having contractions every 20 minutes, then 15.  At about 6 or 6:30 I texted my mom to come to Cali because today is the day (the contractions were not super strong, but they were strong enough and they lasted about 45-50 seconds).  At 7 am the contractions were about 14 minutes apart, and I decided to get out of bed.  And so I did. I was up for about 40 minutes and not a single contraction.  I laid down again and I had a contraction.  I have been up for about 20 minutes since then, and not a single contraction. Hmmm.  I still think today is the day because I am having other signs of labor (think mucus plug), but it seems if I am up, the contractions go away.  This kinda happened with Rosaleen too.  With Rosa, my water broke and it took about 6 hours for contractions to start.   As long as I laid down, they...

37.5 weeks Last blog I left you in suspense………..but as anyone reading this probably already knows, we are having a BOY!!!!! Yea! We are so excited to add a little brother to the family.   Things are really going to change around here.   I mean REALLY change.   Blue blankets, toy trucks, wow. Truly, we could not be happier to be having a baby boy.   Ben has started painting the room, surfing type theme, and we have quite a collection of boy clothes started.   Grandma Janet came to the rescue by making several new blankets for baby brother. Now if we could just get a name.   Hmmmm. Finnian, Rian, Benjamin, Adam……….. It is hard. Video totally unrelated to post, but super duper cute-- Rosaleen and Cousin Camdyn being princesses. I am 37 and half weeks and feeling great.   I still am having regular Braxton hicks, which sometimes can be annoying, but nothing serious.   I had a midwife appointment yesterday.   She didn’t measure my bell...

Well, here we are week 34---still.  I am feeling very much 39 weeks pregnant rather than 34 (I have never actually been 39 weeks pregnant, as Rosa came at 38.5 weeks).  I am still sleeping fine (propped up due to heart burn), and I can get around fairly well as long as 1) I don't have to walk up hill or 2) get very far from the restroom.  However, I am having a lot of braxton hick (these started weeks ago) and this baby is a pusher.  He loves to just push on me.  It is tiresome and it does wear me out by the end of the day. Lots of things to update the Blog about: 1) I have some pictures to post from a visit by some friends from Cave Creek--that now live in Portland 2) We went to Az and Grammy through us a great, great baby shower 3) We have a baby gender update 1) In March a childhood friend of mine, Aurelia came over (with dinner) for a visit.  We had a great time catching up, but of course we could have used about 7 more hours...

33.5 weeks (April 11, 2013) Yep--- I gave up the work shoes.......... tennis shoes for me! Compared to with Rosaleen at 33 weeks: Well lets see, With Rosaleen I have way better hair and wore more make-up--- and was looking generally more rested and younger.   Well that is nice.  Maybe I was slightly bigger with Rosa at this point. Hmm.  Maybe I should grow my hair out.