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Pamela has done it again.
She’s organized another fantastic cyber baby shower — this time for Classy Mommy. Some of you may remember the huge bash she orchestrated to celebrate the arrival of Janice’s baby Olivia and my baby Sophia.
So this time the party is at Classy Mommy’s place.
There are over 60 prizes donated by 45 companies! Click here to see all the prizes available to win.
They have four shower game questions for us… and I have to say I certainly won’t be winning any of these.
GAME # 1
If you want your 1st pick of the prizes – let us know in your comment or blog party post how long the labor and delivery of your 1st baby took! The quickest labor and delivery will win!
Classy Mommy’s first delivery was 4 hours from the time her water broke until the birth. Well, mine was 4 days from the time my water broke until Julia finally appeared.
Yes, 4 days with my water broken… crazy isn’t it? The hospital was too busy to induce me so I spent four days driving back and forth and waiting for hours and hours in the hospital waiting room. On the fourth day I paced the hospital hallways from 11:00 AM until 11:00 PM when I finally was given a room and Oxytocin.
Those induced contractions were no fun and so I sought epidural relief almost immediately. The epidural spared me much of the pain and I (sort of) slept through the night as the Oxytocin did it’s work and brought me to full dilation. Then at about 7:00 AM and a few shockingly painful pushes and Julia joined the world.
My second, Sophia, who arrived 4 weeks ago had a very different delivery. Sophia came fast and with an unbelievable amount of pain. My epidural with Sophia didn’t have time to work and I thought I would die from the pain. But it was over fast!
Game # 2
If you want the 2nd pick of the prizes – Show us a picture of your Belly Bump –the “Best” Bump will win! You’ll be posting this on your blog!
So here we are – 37 weeks pregnant. (Janice is on the right.)
It’s funny because when we first posted this picture, we thought my baby was bigger than Janice’s. The ultrasounds were reporting that Sophia was going to be significantly bigger than Olivia and we thought I’d deliver before Janice.
But Olivia arrived exactly two weeks before Sophia and they were almost the same size. Olivia was 6 lbs 14 ounces and Sophia weighed 6 lbs 11.5 ounces.
Game # 3
If you want the 3rd pick of the prizes, Submit a photo of your Babies Nursery. The “Best” Nursery Photo will win. You’ll be posting this on your blog too!
I unfortunately do not have any photos of our nurseries and Janice is away with our digital camera. (We share a camera.)
The best part about both of our nurseries are the walls. We both have adorable hand painted murals that a friend of ours painted for Jackson and Julia. The only trouble with Janice’s nursery is that the mural was done for Jackson and it is of Winnie the Pooh and his friends playing hockey. So it’s more of a boy’s design than a girl’s.
Game #4
If you want the 4th pick of the prizes, The Biggest Baby will win! This can be a comment with stats or a photo on your blog along with Stats.
Again we’re not breaking any records over here. Janice’s boy Jackson was 7 lbs 11 ounces (I think) and my girl Julia was 6 lbs 8 ounces. And as I already mentioned Olivia and Sophia were 6 lbs 14 ounces and 6 lbs 11.5 ounces.
But Jackson sure could win an award for being the tallest 5 year old. He was an average size when he left the womb but he started some serious growing as soon as he started to suckle. He’s always been off the charts with height and he currently is taller than most 7 year olds.
Now go take a look at all the amazing stuff that Classy Mommy received at her shower and then start dreaming about all those prizes.
The Mommy Blogger says
I am pregnant and these are great ideas for a baby shower!!!
barb gilchrist says
my boy was 9 lbs 1 oz and 21.5 inches long. he’s still in the 90th percentile for wight and over the 100th percentil for height at 2!
Rebecca Robertson says
for my little one (first and only so far), I got pitocin at about 4pm on Friday and I started pushing at 5:55am Saturday morning and he was delivered at 6:31am Saturday morning, granted I did have to stop pushing and wait for about 15 minutes for the doctor to get there!!!
As for the pics of the nursery and the bump, we never took a completed nursery pic and I never really had a bump, mean, I didn’t really show until the end and then I looked about 4 months pregnant!!!
Janine says
Well, let’s see– my first was out in 5hrs. crazy… I know my midwives weren’t expecting that. Yay for me!
I posted a couple bump pics (my favorite) on my blog.
http://mommaj9.blogspot.com/
I’m looking for a nursery pic…
And I know she wasn’t the biggest– lucky 7s! 7lb 7oz
Great contest! 🙂
Le Anne says
I am glad that I can enter at least one part of this contest since I do not have a blog.
My child was induced and my labor (from induction to delivery was 18 hours and I pushed her out in 5 minutes. Yes I said 5 MINUTES…I did not like to push. Let me just say that you don’t want to push your baby out that fast, it caused her to have some fluid left in her lungs.
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Kathy Benuck says
I had what is called a precipitous delivery with my first child. The time from my first labor pain to the actual delivery was 33 minutes.Thank goodness that my neighbor was at home and knew what to do! Did I mention that the worst blizzard in years was taking place at the time???
SARAH ELLIS says
Well I am going to enter to play Games 2 and 3. I have posted my best baby bump photo and my best nursery photo.
I hope you enjoy, you can view it here…
http://thepitterpatterboutique.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-best-baby-bump-photo-and-nursery.html
Thanks for the chance to win!
Erna says
It’s too bad #1 wasn’t about the quickest labour of all one’s children . . . my first was 14 hours but my second was 5 minutes. :0) That’s okay though! I’ll go and check out the prizes but I’m not too worried about winning. :0)
Natalie says
Too bad you’re asking for first baby. She was 11 1/2 hours, I won’t be winning anything for that. Baby #2 came about 20 minutes after my water broke. I was in the middle of an induction. From the time they gave me the pit until she was here was just over an hour.
I hated having my pic taken both times I was pregnant, so I never got a good pic. 🙁 I regret that now.
We’ve never been able to afford to do a cute nursery, so no pics there either. But I hope now that my husband is out of college and has a good job that they can have a cute room as little kiddos…I wasn’t looking for sympathy, when I re-read what I wrote I felt like I sounded like I was complaining. I really wasn’t.
I had a big baby…but I don’t think she was big enough to win. Baby #2 was 9 pounds 1/2 ounce. Quite a big shock, baby #1 was only 7 pounds 3 ounces.
Fun contest though.
Bailey's Leaf says
In and out with baby in hand in an hour. How did I do it so fast? WE ADOPTED! She was only 6 lb 11 oz 19″ long, so she was a bit of a peanut, and you’d be glad to know that my size 6’s fit well when I walked into the hospital and equally as well when I left!
Pamela Kramer says
You ladies just glow! It’s amazing how pretty you both look. Thanks for playing along. I hope we get to see a nursery picture it sounds really neat.