Skylar is so in love with Cambrie it is so cute to watch! He was so baby hungry! I had family and friends mention how cute he was when I was pregnant. He brought home cute little things for the baby all the time and he was always talking about her. I let him name her because I pretty much named the other girls. His mom really really wanted us to name her Skylie. She wanted us to name Bailey and Kinley Skylie as well. She thought Sky needed to be in her name somehow since our girls look so much like Skylar. Skylar has always loved Cambrie that was always a choice with Bailey and Kinley. So we went with Cambrie Sky (This way Carol gets Sky in the name like she wanted.) Cambrie looks the most like Skylar anyway so it’s a good middle name for her. Some people think going from two kids to three is the hardest.. Not in my situation, it has been such an easy transition. My girls are also older 7 and almost 4 so they are a lot of help, not a lot of work. I love the spacing I was worried because my girls are spaced out more then the average family but it works well for us. Our home is not a stressful one, its not chaotic, or wild. We enjoy spending time with the family, we joke and play around. Its really nice. On that note if I can talk Skylar into one more child I will have it close to Cambrie. I do want to try close spacing I know that they are better little play mates the closer they are in age. I would have had my kids closer but it just wasn’t in the plans for us, and that’s ok it worked out great.

Cambrie's first weeks home

          When I was nursing her at the hospital I noticed my nipple was odd shaped when she was done. I mentioned this to the nurse who didn’t act interested. Cambrie seemed to like nursing and seemed happy and content afterward so I let it go. After a few days I was in so much pain every time I fed her. My nipples were shredded and hurt so bad. I remember having pain with Bailey and Kinley and I remember it lasted a few weeks so I would just grit my teeth and get through it. At Cambrie’s two week check she weighed 6lbs 10 oz (not up to birth weight) and she was jaundice. Her Dr told me I could wait a few days and check her weight again or I could go ahead and supplement. I decided to supplement because I had a breast surgery after Kinley and I wasn’t sure if I was making enough milk… I started pumping and my milk supply was way down! I picked up so fenugreek to help boost my supply and started pumping 10times every 24hours. By 4days my milk was back up. I spent hours and hours researching breastfeeding problems and determined Cambrie had a shallow latch. This made milk transfer hard so she wasn’t getting much, making my supply go down. By the time I got it back up again she was used to the bottle so she then developed a lazy suck! Everything was going wrong! The one thing I had in my favor was she didn’t mind sitting at the breast for 45mins and practicing and then getting a bottle afterward. Today is day 4 of exclusively nursing not bottle! I’m so proud of myself I was determined to breastfeed. The bad thing now is she nurses with a nipple shield. I don’t mind its way easier to clean then bottles would be. Darcy used one for five months with June and reading about them they don’t affect your supply or anything. Cambrie still has a shallow latch so it’s the only way I can think to still breast feed because I wont exclusively pump that was to stressful and time consuming!

Cambrie Sky Baum

    

Cambrie Sky Baum was born 11-11-11 at 4:50pm. She weighed 7lbs and she was 19inches long. The morning of 11-11 I got a call from the hospital at 8:30, they told me to check in for my induction at 9:30. Skylar and I loaded the kids up and headed for AF. We dropped them off at my moms and went to the hospital. They had me undress and get on the bed so fast. We were only there 15mins and I was already getting my IV. The baby had a really fast heart rate 170’s. They want the baby to stay around 130. They didn’t want to start me on pitocin till her heart rate was down. So we sat around and waited. My Dr Kari Lawrence (the best OBGYN ever) came in and broke my water around 11:30 and started me on pitocin. At that point the baby’s heart rate had been normal for about 30-45mins. The nurse asked me if I wanted my epidural. Wow things have changed since I had Bailey 7years ago… They didn’t let me get my epidural with her till I was dilated further and closer to delivery. They also didn’t let me eat or drink anything! This time around I could drink, eat popsicles, any clear liquids.. amazing! I wasn’t in pain and didn’t need the epidural yet but she told me that the nurse anesthetist had to go do a c-section so I either got it now or waited until he was done.. I opted to go ahead and have it. By then my contractions were regular and every time I had one I needed to pee. It was annoying so I really just wanted the catheter. Everything was smooth sailing from there. At 3:30 I was dilated to a 4 and by 4:15 I felt like I needed to push.. They checked me out and I was fully dilated and ready to go. I called my mom to come over and we waited for the Dr to get there. I pushed for about 10mins or so and then she was here! She came out so blue it was scary, I kept asking if she was ok because she wasn’t crying.. They kept reassuring me she was fine and breathing. They suctioned her out and then she cried for a split second. Dr Lawrence showed me her cord.. She had a true knot, It was crazy, Im glad she was ok. My mother in law mentioned that Cambrie looked so content like she was just so happy to be here. After having Cambrie for a month now I agree, Cambrie never cries only to take a bath and that’s because she is so little she gets cold. I keep waiting for the purple crying to start which usually starts at two weeks. Cambrie has yet to hit that stage. Maybe we got a happy baby this time?