CURTAINS!

I did it! After many hours searching for the right fabric I finally found some...I think!

The fabric is slowly growing on me!

It is definitely not what I expected to get when I was thinking curtain fabric but I think it will really tie my "vintage" room together perfectly!

Don't look to closely at the sewing job though...I am still a beginner!

Next up...PILLOWS! Then I think I will hang up the sewing machine for a while!

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BABY BUMPS AND UPDATES!

It has been quite a few months at the Sabin home...with family visits, bull sales and dirt bikes we have had our hands full!

In February the Sabin's came for Valentines weekend, it was so much fun! We love when Vicki, Craig and all the brothers and sisters come...they didn't all come this time but it was still a blast!

We played games and went shopping and cooked some awesome food! We get to see them again at the end of March for our cousin Austins wedding! We can't wait.

Jeff has been super busy with re-vamping his dirt bike for the summer...he really wanted to buy a new one but with a baby on the way he decided to remodel the one he already has! It turned out great and he can't wait to ride it all summer long!
Last weekend Jeff and I stayed at Idaho Falls with my parents for my dads annual Bull Sale! We all got together the night before the sale to watch the BYU basketball game! Liza, Jason and Hazel decided to randomly drive up from Vegas for the sale...it was great to see them and Hazel loved the game too!

My moms birthday is on March 24th but we gave her are gift last weekend while Liza and Jason were up! They ordered a life size sticker picture of my brother Caleb that is on a mission! She loved it! Happy birthday MOM!

My friend Jessica is also prego! We have been friends since elementary school and we are so excited for each other...she is having a baby boy. We are trying to show off our bumps to each other but I don't think it worked!:)

Get ready for the BABY BUMP PICTURES!!!

WEEK 15!

WEEK 18!

WEEK 20!

These pictures just don't do my belly justice!! It is getting bigger and bigger every single day!

This Pregnancy journey has been so different than what I thought it would be! I am so grateful for this wonderful joy in my life! It has been much harder than I expected...I try so hard to put a front up and have people think I am just this tough cookie who can handle anything but to be honest pregnancy has really humbled me...I never expected that to happen but it did. I have truly been humbled by this beautiful baby inside of me. The first 17 wks of pregnancy were such a hard struggle for me...don't get me wrong they were wonderful as well and I wouldn't exchange pregnancy for anything but I never expected it to change my life the way it did...I couldn't have prepared myself for the struggle I would face for those 17 wks and I think that is why it was more difficult than I imagined it would be. Getting IV therapy and not being able to walk from the bedroom to the bathroom was a feeling I had never had before. Sure I had been sick and in pain many times in my life but nothing like this...it was such a eye opening experience! If I have to feel like this with all my pregnancies then bring it on because everything I went through was all worth it when I felt our beautiful baby girl kick for the first time at 15 wks!

I will forever see my mother and every mother in a different light. I always knew my mother to be my hero and a wonderful person but for her to give her body over to pregnancy for 8 babies...I can't even imagine!
I was sitting with my sister talking the other day and I said, "Liza I would exchange being nauseated and throwing up for 15 extra pounds during pregnancy because there really isn't anything worse then being so sick." She just smiled at me and said..."Maybe the Lord gave you that struggle for a reason...maybe he was trying to humble you."

I have been thinking about that conversation every since she and I talked...she is so right! I am 1000 times more grateful for my healthy fit body then I was before! I know the Lord only gives us trials in hope that we will learn from them.

I have truly learned from that trial in my life and I hope that I will always remember what it felt like to be so sick so I can cherish what it feels like to feel so good!

I am 20 wks today and feeling better and better everyday...it is still a struggle working at night but I am finding joy in the journey everyday. It has been such a blessing to have such a wonderful job...sure its crazy and hectic and sometimes I don't even have time to pee! But I wouldn't change any second of it! Being able to share my journey with the wonderful, beautiful nurses and staff that I work with...and the fantastic patients makes all of it worth it!

I am truly grateful for the struggles and the wonderful moments I have had during this pregnancy! This little girl has been such a blessing in Jeff and mines life! I wouldn't change anything that I have gone through...because it truly has made me a better person!

Just a side note: I can already tell this little girl is going to be a handful! She is so active! She kicks, bumps and hits me all day and all night long! It really is the best feeling in the world!

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MY FIRST BABY BLANKET!

I have been wanting to do a baby blanket ever since I found out I was pregnant...especially with my issues with Porters that you all are very aware of! They have the largest selection of Minky

fabric around. It only took me a week to get into Porters and pick out some great fabrics for my baby girl!

I finished it in ONE day because I was so obsessed with getting it done. It is a little out of control and screams 'HI I LIVE IN REXBURG'...but it's cute.

The colors look a little washed out because of the flash on our camera but you get the idea!

I told you its a little out of control...

WATCH OUT!

I had quite a bit of fabric left since the random fabric lady wouldn't let me have anything less than a half a yard because of the sale so I decided to add some flowers to the front.

The back fabric is beautiful...it is a light green with a paisley pattern embossed on it. I love it!
It's a diagonal pattern so its kinda hard to follow but I promise there is a scheme to it all!
I had so much fun making this...I can't wait to wrap my little girl in it soon...or in 4 months!:)

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IT'S A...

GIRL!!!

Everything looks perfect and she is growing great! I am 18 wks and 3 day...almost 5 months! I will blog about how pregnancy has been going along with some prego pics soon!:) Pin It Now!

MIRACLES!

These last few months have left me to ponder many different things about life. I have only been a Labor and Delivery nurse for about a year and 4 months now but every time I go to work I see myself amazed with the miracles I see every single shift.

No matter how busy or crazy it is up there on floor 3 it is never to busy to cherish the small miracles you see there every single day. Indeed we really do see the miracle of life every day but that miracle almost takes second row to the other amazing miracles we get to witness only every once in a while. But for some reason these simple miracles have come into my life more than once during these last couple months.

It was about 3 o clock in the morning when my charge nurse and I were working on a fairly slow night. We had 2 patients in labor and one girl coming up because her water had broke. It was her 4Th baby so we started to get stuff ready even before she got up there! Once she got there it wasn't long until she started to feel more pressure. We were glad she was already feeling some extra pressure because we could tell her baby wasn't tolerating labor very well. The doctor was already at the hospital because we had just delivered another gal so he went in the patients room to check things out. We soon found out that the patient was already complete and ready to push. We all went in there and I prepared to be the baby nurse. The babe had the cord wrapped around her neck...one in four babies will be delivered with a cord wrapped around there neck (called a nuchal cord) so the nurses and doctors know how to handle those situations but this nuchal cord was different! We all noticed right below the babes chin there was some sort of knot or bundle in the cord. Once the doctor removed the cord from the babies head we got a better look at it and a knot was exactly what it was. In fact in was 2 knots twisted and knotted together to make 3 knots! This babe had 3 true knots in her cord.

For those reading this and not understanding what a knot is let me explain. A knot in the cord is exactly that...A KNOT. It happens when the baby does flips and flops and knots the cord up. It is almost like someone putting a cord clamp on a cord while still in the uterus. It literally cuts off all circulation. Unless the knot isn't very tight. Sadly most of the time we see knots in the cord the outcome is very bad for the baby. And if we see two or even three knots we rarely see the babies live through those knots.

So back to the story. After the doctor pulled the nuchal cord off the neck and we saw the three true knot we all silently gasped. I grabbed the baby immediately and right after I grabbed her she started yelling out a healthy vibrant sounding cry. You could tell the babe was small and tired but she was alive. The doctor simply kept shaking his head and repeating "what a miracle". Was it ever! We told the parents to take a picture of the cord and we explained to them what a true miracle it was that there baby was alive. Which may have not been the case if that pt hadn't come in that night. It truly was a miracle that made me stop and thank the Lord for having his hand in all things. I know that babe is suppose to be on this earth and she has a miracle to prove it!

Another miracle I experienced a little while ago was right when I walked into work. We had just gotten report and I had assessed my pt. I once again noticed that this babe was not tolerating labor very well. I called and discussed things with the doctor and we decided to do a

c-section. I prepared the patient and went back there with her to the OR suite. When it came time for the doctor to grab the baby the doctor yelled out, "There are a few nuchal cords." I looked up, watched and counted with the doctor as he unwrapped the babe from not one or two or even three nuchal cords...but a nuchal cord times 4!! This little babe had the cord wrapped around his neck 4 times! I know I haven't been working labor for very long but once again I have never seen that before! And once again a miracle was seen right before my eyes as the baby started pinking up and screaming even before we handed her over to NICU! It is truly a blessing to me to be a able to witness such miracles in my daily life.

A few nights ago I had an experience happen to me that I will truly never forget.

As a L and D nurse I have been trained to do CPR on little babies after delivery or anytime for that matter. As a nurse I am trained to do CPR on all sizes and shapes of people but before a few nights ago I had never given CPR to anyone older than a few hours. That all changed when I was working the other night.

I was sitting down doing some charting when on the overhead pager I heard "code blue ER, code blue ER". I work in a fairly small hospital so when we have codes a nurse from some of the units in the hospital go down and help. I got up from my chair and started running down to the ER where not 10 seconds later i found myself doing chest compressions. As I rhythmically pound my hands up and down on this patients chest many things go through my mind. What happened?...How old are you?...Do you have a family?I couldn't help but think these things as I look over to the patients face and see her glazed eyes looking straight up at me. After looking in her eyes I looked back at her chest and started pounding harder thinking...your to young...you don't deserve this. Everything seemed silent around me, even though I knew there were 8 to 10 people talking and yelling out orders. All I could focus on was my hands making her blood pump in and out of her heart, hoping that it will start doing it for itself like it has all these years. I came out of my blur when the doctor yelled "Lets check for a pulse". I stopped compressions and moved my gloved hands to her ice cold wrist where I tried to focus on finding a pulse. I tried to focus on my 4 left fingers and not on my sweating, adrenaline filled body. I don't know how long I had done compressions for it didn't even feel like 10 seconds but I was tired. (I guess I can blame that on pregnancy) I started to feel a pound...pound....pound...pound under my fingers but then I doubted myself...the doctor was feeling for a pulse to and he hadn't said anything yet...was I feeling my own pulse through the tips of my fingers? The words "I found a pulse" slowly found its way outside of my mouth and after me two other voices confirmed my findings. I stepped back and took a deep breath. She was alive for now. I had done what I went down there to do. My first chest compressions done on an adult had been successful. Only then I had realized that the pt had vomited on my hair and arms. I slowly took my gloves off my hands and wash my arms thoroughly. I went back up to my unit, washed my hair, changed my scrubs and went back to work. I went and checked on my 4 breathing patients. One needed pain medication and the other needed vitals done. Simple requests compared to needing IV access or someone or thing to breath for her. After doing what I needed to with my patients I sat down and couldn't help but wonder what would be the utimate outcome for the patient downstairs...sure we got her back but how 'living' was she really?...All I could do was go into the bathroom kneel down on the cold floor and pray to thank Heavenly Father for helping me remember what I needed to do to help this person and a small sentence of hope that I will understand that whatever happens to the patient will be His will.

It is a miracle to me that some air and simple hands can bring a person back to life. It is a miracle that a team of mothers, fathers, daughters and sons can work together to save a persons life. It is a miracle to me that the Lord allows us to be instruments for Him to help his children live another day. I am grateful for my job and for every breath that I am able to take.

The story goes much deeper and further as some of you may know but what I have come to understand is it doesn't matter if you're thanked, thought of or even appreciated. Sure it's nice. But all that matters is that your doing all you can to help someone in need. You might not think you were appreciated then but someday, somehow the Lord will show you His appreciation...

...and that in itself is a miracle!

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