FINALLY!

HE'S HERE!!!!

MALOSI TRE PETERS

6 lbs 9 oz

19.5 inches

Let's start from January 31st at 4:50 am. That is when I had my first contraction. It felt like period cramps, wasn't worried. It started coming every 15 mins, then 10 mins, then around 7am it started coming ever 5 mins. I had a doctor's appointment at 9:45am that morning and thought we would just wait until then to see the doctor and see if I should go in to the hospital. At 8 the contractions started getting pretty intense to where I'd have to do the hee-hee-who breathings! During birthing classes me and Mos cracked up during the breathing exercises, but it actually helped a lot! By 8:30am I told my dad, let's go!! It's time to go to the hospital. So we got to the hospital and my contractions started getting really strong. The nurse had me dress into a hospital gown and then the doctor came to check me and I was already 9 cm dilated! They quickly started prepping the delivery room for me and moved me there and got all my IV's hooked up. I originally planned to give birth naturally so it was no problem that since I was 9 cm it was too late to get anything for pain. The only problem was that I was Group B Strep positive, meaning I had bacteria in the birth canal so I was suppose to get an IV hooked up to treat that, but it was too late. An hour after arriving at the hospital, my contractions were killing me! I did cry during 2 of the contractions while pulling Mosi's hair and doing the breathing. Then I was ready to push. 10 mins later..........

The most beautiful blessing entered the world! He weighed in 6lbs 9 oz, which was a surprise since I had gained so much weight, we all thought he'd be a big boy, at least 8 or 9 lbs. But thank you baby for making it easy on me, and shame on me for making it harder to get my old body back!! hahaha 

We moved to our post-birth room and the sleepless nights began! Luckily, no one else was sharing a room with us so Mos got to spend the night and use the other bed in the room. The next day we were expecting to take the little guy home, but he kept throwing up everything he was eating and the doctor wanted to monitor him for one more day. So another night in the hospital it was. The next day we thought for sure we'd be leaving with him, but nope. His test results came back and he had a slightly high level of bacteria in his blood(most likely due to my Group B Strep being untreated before delivery) and the doctor thought he looked a bit jaundice. So I was discharged and baby had to stay in the nursery. 

 We went home without our baby boy, but got some rest finally. We went back the next morning and stayed with him in the nursery. His bilirubin level(jaundice) was high so he had to stay another night. We went home once again, babyless, and returned the next day to news again that he needed to stay one more night just to make sure his bilirubin level was down. We came early the next morning to find the doctor doing his discharge papers.... He was comin home that day!! 

OKA!!! No sleeeeeeeeeeep for us the 2 weeks!! Up every 2-3 hours.... but he is such a blessing :)

He sleeps through the night now for about 6 hours now which is awesome! And he is the biggest fatso ever!!! He weighed 8 lbs at his 2 week check up! Our fatso Losi boy :) We love him more than words describe and he already brings so much joy to our lives!! So enjoy some pics on here, cuz I don't wanna be 2millz and post up every single picture I take of him on FB!! ehhhhhhh!!!

right after he came out!!

daddy!!!!

they put IVs in his arm to give him his antibiotics every 4 hours
he's such a strong boy

 slept for dayzzzzz.. had to constantly try to keep him awake to eat

first pics being home

his shoe socks a tad too big for him... mos says they look like emo boots on him -__-

he's so long, he's gonna be tall

at his doctors appointment

getting chunkier every day
eat so'o

 he doesn't like anything covering his arms
and
he kicks his blankets right off

WE LOVE YOU BAYBEHHHH!!!!!!!!!
:)




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Acceptance

HE'S ALMOST HERE!!!!! 

Some ladies in the ward are throwing me a baby shower but not til the 25th of February! Late, I know. But thanks to my mommy we got all the things baby will really need until then. I've already packed my hospital bag and the diaper bag. Last week the doctor said I was 38 weeks, 3 cm dilated and if I didn't go into labor that week, then he should the next. So this week it is.... We decided to stick with the original name, Malosi Tre Peters. So we're anxiously waiting for him to come. It's been a long almost 39 weeks... and this pregnancy has definitely taken a toll on my body. I thought I had a lot to complain about before, but now I wish I would have taken better care of my body since the beginning. Yes, I've gained some stretch marks, okay maybe a lot. Mos gets mad when I complain about it, he says it all worth it cause of baby... I've got the best husband ever..... I should have been lotioning regularly since the beginning but I didn't think anything of it. My belly started getting big real fast. It probably didn't help that I've been craving lots and lots of sweets, and since Mos says he can't say no to me, I get what I want lol He always tells me no at first that baby has had enough sweets but then he always caves in when I give him the sad face. So the average woman gains 25-35 lbs during a pregnancy, I've gained.... dun dun dun..... 40 lbs! SHAME! hahahahaha I gained most of it around Thanksgiving... But now I just need to accept that my body will never be the same. All my clothes back in Hawaii probably won't fit and keeping it as motivation just won't work, I already know it won't lol So through the 5 stages of grief I go!

1. Denial - Check!

2. Anger- Check!

3. Bargaining- Check!

4. Depression- Check!

5. Acceptance- working on it!!!!

So until the next time I blog, wish me luck!!!! I'm going to try my hardest giving birth naturally without any medication or an epidural. We'll see how I do with that... hoping for the best. Pain and me don't get along too well.

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good story!

SO...

just one of the amazing things I get to experience while being pregnant is HEARTBURN -___-

after everything I eat, mostly spicy foods or anything acidic, my throat feels like it is on fiyahhh! And being my lazy self I try not to lay down immediately after eating, but its soooo hard... I've also been having a lot of pressure on my hoochie-hoo(oh puh-lease, I'm jus being real and telling what's going on) so maybe baby has dropped a little bit? It's also really hard to sleep at night, I'm so uncomfortable that I wake up every half hour and have to reposition myself. My hips hurt when I lay on my sides for too long and I get alot of Braxton Hicks contractions when I lay on my back(pretty much false contractions that feel like my stomach is tightening, doesn't hurt but it gets uncomfortable). I miss sleeping on my stomach!

on another note.... Mos only has 4 more days of work! Although it would be nice if he could work a little bit longer for that extra money, I'm more than happy that I won't have to try falling asleep on a cold bed by myself or crash on the living room couch with the TV on waiting for him to get home at 6 in the morning :) Plus, it's almost like my body knows when he's gone and then decides to make me feel sick.. and I hate being sick when Mos isn't around to make me feel better.

So I know I mentioned that we were already set on the name [Malosi Tre Peters] for baby, but Mos is starting to be hesitant about it. His sister Tuli pointed out that a baby back in Laie was jus named Trey.. so the nickname baby Tre is kinda out. Then Mos told me of all the Malosi's he knows.. so now we're rethinking the name. I personally still like the name, I no care if his name is common back in Hawaii, cause there's only gonna be ONE Malosi Tre Peters and he gon be mo bettah than any of the other Malosi's. Plus we're not about to spend the rest of our lives in Laie, we wanna end up in Oregon possibly or maybe Alaska, but Mos really likes Oregon and from what he tells me it sounds like a nice place and I'm sure there aren't many Malosi's there.. but we'll see!!! So I guess Mos wants to think of a unique name. I kinda wanted our first kid to have a Samoan first name and then plan for unique names for the future kiddos but I guess we'll jus have to see how it goes... no matter what baby is named, we will love him all the same!!!!!!

Some possible names:

Samuelu Xavier Peters?

Emosi Malik Peters?

Rez Emosi Peters?

(i jus thought of that one ^, ima have to pass it by Mos when he gets home from work)

Oh! We booked our flights to Hawaii last week after Mos got his paycheck. $235 each for our tickets. We'll be flying Alaska Airlines to Maui and then a smaller plane form Maui to Oahu. So we're gonna shoot for taking one baggage each then paying extra for the car seat booster and possibly the playpen, unless we get that shipped before we leave. So that's 4 baggages altogether that we would have to pay $20 each. ughh. Then we have to take the stroller and car seat to the gate but they'll jus put that under. I already know this trip is gonna be a pain. Hopefully baby will make things easier and jus sleeeeeep the whole time lol poor thing. 

And Olivia was just here in Fresno this past week. She and her parents stopped by on their way home from their trip to Utah. She always talked about wanting to come visit us but she lives 3 hours away so it wasn't that easy. But she made it! And she wanted to take pics of my pregnancy.

yeah, so my face has blown up a bit...so what if I've gained a little bit more than I should? don't judge me! bahahahaha i keep telling Mos I'm gonna workout and eat right and what not after baby..........................good story! We'll jus have to wait and see ;)

Thanks Olivia for the pics!!!

 

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:)

So Far...

So I'm gonna try blogging and see if I can keep up with it. I've decided I need something else to do besides watch TV and camp on Facebook all day whenever I'm not napping. I've been one lazy pregnant lady. 

So since Mos and I got married this past August we've been living with my parents in Fresno, CA for the duration of my pregnancy. Things happened so fast, but we're here and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm definitely learning that marriage isn't easy. Yeah, there's gonna be arguments and times where I just wanna scream til I pass out, but it's all worth it to be married to the love of my life. Sure, it would have been nice had we waited to do "certain" things, but there's no going back and changing anything and we are making the best of what has happened. I'm definitely happy and grateful that Mos supported me in my decision to come home for a while. I feel better being around my family, especially my mom, during this first pregnancy. First 3 months totally sucked! Constant nausea and vomiting was not the business AT ALL!!! I'm definitely glad Mos decided to come with me to this prison hole of a city. Fresno sucks. Nothing to do unless you got that kupe to spend. But I guess it's like that anywhere.. just sucks to not have any of our friends around. Took a good 3 months before Mos was able to hear back from any jobs. But thanks to the Man Upstairs he was blessed with a job at Target. It's only seasonal so he could be let go any time after Christmas but its ok... because 2 weeks pay at Target equals a months pay at PCC!! Frek that $7.25/hour pay... So Mos is working over night shifts in the backroom and I am so grateful for the hours he puts in to make that $$$ so we can save for baby as well as buy our plane tickets back to Hawaii around the end of March. So yes, we are planning on going back to Hawaii end of March and hopefully I'll be able to get back into school and take some online classes(if it's not too much to handle) while Mos works(hopefully somewhere other than PCC).

I'm currently 33 weeks and expecting a BOY :) just what we wanted. Before we even knew we were expecting we had talked about names we liked and were set on naming our first boy "Malosi Tre Peters" so there it is!! 

I feel like I'm writing a novel but that's what's up with us so far.. 

Me and Mos

Malosi Tre Peters

 20 weeks

31 weeks

I be blowing up -__- but he's worth it <3

LOVE my husband and LOVE my bebehhh!!!

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so far...