On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
I can't believe it's already been 2 months since we moved! I finally got *most* pictures organized on my computer, at least the ones that are moving-related...😅 We've moved so many times before we got to Colorado so this move to Oregon wasn't that scary to us. Plus! W's job relo package is super generous as the new company includes all airfare, packing & shipping, and a stipend for anything that we could encounter with. The professional packers (yes, the pro packers!) came over to pack everything for us on March 11th. Two nice ladies came with loads of boxes, bubble wraps and everything that's needed for packing. They were super fast at sorting things and marked each box accordingly. And most importantly, they packed our 3 bed-2.5bath-two stories-3 car garage-plus a basement house worth of crap in under 4 hours!! I'm talking about from plates/bowls from the kitchen cabinets to cleaning supplies under the bathroom sink to canned food/drie...