Its a GIRL!!!!!!!

Piper Ann Seaton was born on July 10 at 6:40pm (27hours of labor!!!!). We are so so so in love!!!!

more details to come....

40 weeks & 5 days....

ok...so now to this morning... I woke up at 2:30am to a contraction...FINALLY!! I stayed up for 30 minutes or so to see if another one came...but nothing. I then woke up at 6am to another contraction...i went to the potty and as i was walking back to bed i felt wet "down there" i felt my shorts and they were wet! So i turned the light on and realized there was a softball size wet spot on my shorts...had my water broken??? I started to get all excited and i showed the spot to jake(poor guy;). We did not want to alarm anyone, so we woke up and got dressed. I peeked my head into our guest bedroom/nursery and told my mom that jake and I were "going out to breakfast before he has to be at work". We really wanted to see if maybe contractions would start or we would get more of a sign that my water actually broke, before we said anything. We went to breakfast and then went to walk (yes...again). I was not having any contractions...but I was still leaking small amounts of fluid. So after walking about 20 minutes we decided to call my midwives nurse. I told her that i was 90% sure my water had broken but i was not having contractions and asked her what to do...she suggested to go to triage...just to be safe and find out exactly what is happening. WHOA boy is this it!!!??? So we come home, my mom is in the shower, and we inform her of what we are doing...she is so excited she starts hollering in the shower :) So right at about 9 am we head to the hospital!!! I have one more contraction while filling out my paperwork at triage. Once we get in there, i put on the lovely gown and pee in the cup for them. The nurse hooked me up on the belly monitors and we wait for Ann (my midwife). When Ann checks me she gently gives me the news that the bag of waters are still in tacked and that i probably just peed a little in my sleep :( She also informed us that i am a full 3 cementers, 90% effaced, and the head is at 0 station. So pretty much no progress since Monday. We called our family to tell them that it was a false alarm, and for my family...it was probably best that they headed home and waited until i was actually in active labor :) Jake was really bummed...i mean really bummed, much more then me...don't get me wrong, i am so ready to meet this person too...but i trust my body and i trust this baby, that when every thing is all ready and lined up that its going to happen :) So thats the latest...no contractions since, family has gone home, jake is back to work and we are just going back to life as before these 2 days of a false alarm :)

40 weeks & 4 days...

Well lets pick up at Tuesday morning (where i left off at the last post)... I had no contractions though the night but was still not able to sleep well, so i called dad(who had made it into town at 1am) at 6:30am and told him that he needed to take me to breakfast ;). Daddy took me to Mimis and i had a yummy muffin. After breakfast we came back to my house...i went the the potty...and realized that i had just lost my mucus plug(lovely, right?)!!!!!!!! Mom, me and dad went to northpark mall to walk and see if contractions would start. the 3 of us (jake went to work) walked for an hour...and not one contraction. We come back home and i took a nice long nap. THEN...we heard that my brother was heading here from Texas!! I was so excited that my whole family was going to be together (NEVER HAPPENS)...that i practically forgot the reason why we were all together....and at this point i didn't even care if baby was ready or not....i was having a blast with my family! We went to Jonnies for lunch and saw our friend Bill, who has been begging us to come swim in his pool, so we asked him if we could bring a crew over (my family and jakes family) that night to swim...He LOVED that idea! Mom and i ran a couple of errands, then we came home for another nap for this pregnant lady ;) When Jake got home from work at 5pm the 2 of us went to walk for another hour at the mall...still not one contraction. AT this point (5pm) it had been right at 24 hours after my membranes had been stripped. Which...if it works like its soposto, i should have at least started some regular contractions by now. So in the back of my head i knew it(labor) wasn't going to be happening, and was starting to feel the pressure with my whole family in town, basically twiddling their thumbs (although i never told them to come to town) just waiting for me to have this baby. Jake and I came home (matt was here from texas by now!) and made stir fry for everyone then we got on our swim suits and headed to Bill's house. We had a bit of an impromptu party...between jakes whole family and my whole family we had a blast swimming and chatting and just catching up with each other and day dreaming about this little one...plus the water felt AMAZING on these fat(swollen) piggies of mine ;) After swimming...of course you need ice cream...so we all loaded up and headed to Freddies Frozen Custard...we sat outside on a lovely summer night eating ice cream and chatting till close to 10pm...it was wonderful!! still no contractions...

come on baby!....

well....last night after getting home from our appointment, we double checked to make sure our "hospital bag" was officially packed, changed into comfy clothes and headed to dinner. I didn't want anything to heavy, so i had some yummy soup at Macaroni Grill. While at dinner we decided to go to a movie (to kill time...during this "wait")....yes...a REAL movie, not a dollar movie! Can you believe it! anyway, it was 2 hours until the movie started so we walked and walked and walked at Quail Springs mall...Contractions started as soon as we started walking. I practically had back to back contractions during our walk for a good 2 hours. They were very close together(around 2ish minutes)...but not very intense at all. As soon as we sat down, and got comfy in the movie theater...they pretty much completely stopped. We went to see "year one"...on a side note, i thought it was a waste of money. Anyway, we walked for a while after too and i had about 3 contractions in 1 hour. So we headed home and was in bed by midnight. My mom and my dad both decided to head to OKC late last night, with them being up to 4 hours away I'm glad they did! I was awake by 4am, so i only got about 4 hours of sleep...but I'm actually not surprised at that...i hope to get a nap in today ;)

40 weeks...3 days...Progress???

YESSSS!! We just got back from my midwife appointment...here are the stats...

2-3 centimeters
60% effaced
+1 station

after seeing that baby has started plenty of progress on its own Ann, Jake and I decided that we should go ahead and strip my membranes....soooooooooooooo BABYS COMING!!!!! keep up with baby seatons twitter for more updates....Jake and I are going to go to Northpark mall to walk for like the next 6 hours ;)

up and coming....

when jake and i wanted to find a photographer for baby S...we heard about our new friend Randy through Ali & Zach! Randy is an amazing up and coming photographer...he practically just started, although it looks as though he was born to do photos!!!! In the post below is a small preview of the awesomeness that he did for our "belly photos"...for more go check out his BLOG. And of course you have got to go to his rockin' website and Book him RIGHT NOW...before he becomes to famous for us OKC folks ;) If you mention that you heard of him from my blog...he will give you a sweet deal of 10% off!!!!!!!

ripe....happy...and in love....