LRBlog, woot!! I can't think of a better way to start up my blog again, (so so excited btw), than with a post showing off the reason I've been off work the last couple weeks. =) For months & months I've looked for the perfect blog host, done numerous free trials, cussed & thrown things like a child lol & nothing really fit. Maybe it was the baby in my belly sucking up my brain juice (see below) or the fact my brain juice is more like Sunny D...not real Juicy (help me Biggie smalls!) But, last week I sat down to finally pick a site & get up & running when I remembered my old blog site & waaaalaa!! I left here because I wanted a fancy space(s) to divvy up my ramblings...a section for photography, of course, & for funnies, & inappropriate funnies & our crazy food & drink concoctions...long of the short...I WAS BEING TOO COMPLICATED...lol there I said it. So, it's not perfect & neither are we; but, for now it's the hub for all things PAYNE! And with that long-winded, shut yo mouth already intro....WELCOME!
Scarlett Jameson Payne
4.8.2015
Some know my birth story most don't but without getting too carried away I'll go over the basics. It started with my son, Sawyer Dean, & a stubborn woman ---NO WAY -- & her "birth plan" (like that actually exists) to have a non-medicated, natural labor. At 41 weeks pregnant, only dilated to a 1.75 maybe lol the 25 hour process had this stubborn woman in an oxygen mask having full on labor contractions back-to-back without meds. I finally, FINALLY - DEAR JESUS - took an epidural to see if it would calm me down & help the process. It did not. And one unplanned, emergency c-section later..my beautiful baby boy was born<3
This brings us to Scar's birth story, which in retrospect, wasn't all that bad. I will say having a planned c-section is one of the scariest things I have EVER done. My spinal block or whatever the hell it's called wasn't working the way it was suppose to? My hyperactive, ADD, OCD self probably needed a horses dose lol. I do not know. But, the process that should take 5mins to numb my lower half -- Ya know, the part the docs would soon be slicing into like a friggin slasher movie--(ok, just my memories lol)-- Took 15 to 20 to what seemed like HOURS lol to numb. Again, my "birth plan" was to have a gentle cesarian. To hold my baby girl back to the room, skin to skin & have the closest thing to a natural labor experience a gal with child-bearing hips but not child-bearing parts could have. But, with the numbing issues my whole body to my lips went numb =/ So, that didn't quite happen. BUT, what did happen was still magical & thanks to the PC medical doctors & my favorite of all time most awesome nurse, Kathey Farmer, my experience was well...pretty amazing<3 My incredible sister took pics like a damned professional. =) My mom was the rock & the comfort I always need. My mother-in-law took care of Sawyer & was just wonderful. And last but certainly not least, my husband wowed me. Truly wowed me & made me fall in love with him all over again. And now I not only have wonderful memories & images that make my heart melt but I also have the most perfect thing in the world, our little girl.
4.8.2015
Some know my birth story most don't but without getting too carried away I'll go over the basics. It started with my son, Sawyer Dean, & a stubborn woman ---NO WAY -- & her "birth plan" (like that actually exists) to have a non-medicated, natural labor. At 41 weeks pregnant, only dilated to a 1.75 maybe lol the 25 hour process had this stubborn woman in an oxygen mask having full on labor contractions back-to-back without meds. I finally, FINALLY - DEAR JESUS - took an epidural to see if it would calm me down & help the process. It did not. And one unplanned, emergency c-section later..my beautiful baby boy was born<3
This brings us to Scar's birth story, which in retrospect, wasn't all that bad. I will say having a planned c-section is one of the scariest things I have EVER done. My spinal block or whatever the hell it's called wasn't working the way it was suppose to? My hyperactive, ADD, OCD self probably needed a horses dose lol. I do not know. But, the process that should take 5mins to numb my lower half -- Ya know, the part the docs would soon be slicing into like a friggin slasher movie--(ok, just my memories lol)-- Took 15 to 20 to what seemed like HOURS lol to numb. Again, my "birth plan" was to have a gentle cesarian. To hold my baby girl back to the room, skin to skin & have the closest thing to a natural labor experience a gal with child-bearing hips but not child-bearing parts could have. But, with the numbing issues my whole body to my lips went numb =/ So, that didn't quite happen. BUT, what did happen was still magical & thanks to the PC medical doctors & my favorite of all time most awesome nurse, Kathey Farmer, my experience was well...pretty amazing<3 My incredible sister took pics like a damned professional. =) My mom was the rock & the comfort I always need. My mother-in-law took care of Sawyer & was just wonderful. And last but certainly not least, my husband wowed me. Truly wowed me & made me fall in love with him all over again. And now I not only have wonderful memories & images that make my heart melt but I also have the most perfect thing in the world, our little girl.
Side note : for all pregnant Momma's that can relate, don't be scared to ask for what you want even when it's not exactly what you hoped. The gentle cesarian approach is truly special & PC Med went above & beyond to try & help me experience that, I'm really grateful <3
And then our little miss was two weeks old & Momma got behind the camera for her first day back to "work".