Life around our tiny Texas home has certainly increased in excitement. Our 3rd child "EK" arrived, March 13, 2014, with great flair and exuberance. Let's just say she was in quite a bit of a hurry, and was born AT HOME. Nope, not what you're thinking, it was NOT a planned home birth. My husband delivered her. Yep, you read that correct, my husband, not a doctor, "caught her". An emergency delivery at home, that SHOULD have been a closely monitored VBAC in a hospital. I will spare you the long details... essentially I had an extremely intense and painful rapid "active labor", we couldn't make it to the hospital. I wouldn't say I "got off easy" with an intensely rapid labor, this was FAR from that. My doctor later said, "IF, you would have tried to get to a hospital you would have had her either while driving, or on the side of the road - I'm SO happy y'all didn't", as he chuckles. We were extraordinarily blessed with a natural birth, a healthy baby, and a healthy Mommy. I'd been preparing and praying for a VBAC for months, and we even trained with a Doula. Everything happened so quickly the day shes was born, that the Doula didn't even have time to get to us. As my 3rd birth, this all came as quite a shock to us. Let's just say EVERY child and birth is SO different. Don't ever rely on previous birth experiences. We named her Ellison Kay, after her Great great Grandmother "Ellie", and also after her Grandmother "Kay". We call her Ellison. "Ellis" or "Ellie" are suitable nicknames we think. She is quite the little drama queen. She's settled in nicely to our family and big siblings are elated to have her around. As summer is in full swing, I am trying my best to juggle life with 3 kids and still keep my Etsy shop going. It's all starting to fall into place, but the housework.... err, not so much. But it's one day at a time. Soon the big kids will be back in school, and I can tackle all those organization tasks that have been looming.
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