Skye Rebekah Starits

We had another baby!  I thought I might be done having babies after Kayleigh because she was soo hard on me.  However when Kayleigh was 3 1/2 years old I started thinking that I wanted another, one more.  Maybe another boy to make an even two boys and two girls.  I started remembering that I really did always want four kids. So I told Tommy and it didn't really take much convincing...he was on board for having another one too.  So the next thing I know I am pregnant!  I got pregnant in February and was super excited and feeling great.  Pregnancy symptoms slowly crept up on me....but then by the end I was so miserable, fat, and done.  Just like I always am when I am pregnant.  I absolutely LOVE feeling a baby grow and move within me.  I recognize that it is truly a miracle to grow a baby in your body.  It truly is an amazing thing.  However, I hate being pregnant.  I love the baby....I don't necessarily love the process and how tired and miserable I feel.  I gained tons of weight and like 15 pounds of water weight too...I was sooo swollen by the end of this pregnancy!!  In April I started bleeding quite a bit and ended up going to the hospital fearful of another miscarriage.  I was devastated.  After a day at the hospital it was discovered that I had a subchorionic hemorrhage.  It could increase my chance for a miscarriage, but she was alive and well and still moving and beautiful on the ultrasound at the ER.  And luckily she ended up being just fine and growing perfectly.  My due date was November 4th....but I was blessed to deliver our baby girl earlier than my due date which made me very happy.  Although, my lack of patience in pregnancy and even delivery let me know....this would be, without any doubt, my last baby. :)  Skye Rebekah Starits joined our family on October 23rd at 6:02 AM.  She was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long.  My water broke Sunday evening and since she was my 4th child and I had already been having contractions....and since the doctor had literally felt her head at my appointment earlier that week...I was positive she would just come so fast and in no time.  Wondering if I would even make it to the hospital on time.  Not the case!  My water broke...but I ended up needing to have Petocin and...from water breaking to having her it was a long 14 hours or so.  And most of those ours were in the middle of the night.  Talk about starting off tired and then heading into a newborn exhausted.  That is one thing I definitely feel more this time around...I am soo tired getting up with a newborn.  I think it is because I have three other kids and two of them have school so I have to get up early each morning to make their lunches and help them get ready.  I was definitely super exhausted at first and felt like it was taking forever for me to feel normal.  One thing that was funny about her delivery was that I was feeling large, fat, and unattractive and every nurse that was working was young, thin, and beautiful.  I was also the oldest woman having a baby that night.  The only one in my thirties.  Guess it was a clue that it was definitely going to be my last. haha Well now at seven weeks I do feel more normal, but I am definitely tired!  Luckily Skye does not cry all night like Kayleigh but she still gets up plenty to eat or because she needs to burp, etc.  She also takes forever to finally fall asleep at night.  Her fussy, cluster feeding time lasts anywhere from  8:00 PM-1:00 AM every single night.  So that is exhausting.  So now I just resolve to being tired, catching sleep when I can, and hopefully work on losing all my extra baby weight now. :)
Tom and my mom were there for her birth and when they handed her to me I was full of emotion.  So much relief at her being here and joy at seeing her perfect, beautiful face.  I instantly fell in love and have just been falling more in love with her ever since.
Her name is a little different.  Skye is not a super popular name, but Tom and I both just really ended up loving it.  Then we always do a family name for a middle name.  My grandpa Medina's mom was named Rebecca.  So we spelled it the biblical way but she is named after my great Grandma Rebecca Medina.
She spent her first month mostly sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.  Waking to eat, get changed, and cry.  She was not a great "latcher" and she was definitely very difficult to get started on the nursing front.  Which was weird for me because she has been my worst breast-feeder at the beginning and I thought I would have no problems being a pro at four kids now. Yeah right! Just shows you never know what to expect and you are never a pro. haha
The kids and Tom love her so much.  We all take turns being in her face and loving on her.  She is still a temperamental newborn so she doesn't always appreciate her siblings right now.  But I look forward to her being more fun for them too.  They can't wait to hold and play with her...and her actually enjoying it for longer than a few seconds.  Around 6 weeks she definitely started smiling more and being more alert when she is awake.  Right from the beginning she has had very good neck and arm strength.  She is a pretty easy baby.  Seems to have a touch of reflux and gas that upsets her here and there, but mostly she is pretty easy.  And I am so thankful for that! I know that emotionally and physically I could not handle another baby that cried 24/7 like Kayleigh did!   Heavenly Father most have known I could not have handled it either. :)
Skye was blessed this past Sunday.  My brother Jeffrey, Chelsie and their sweet, cute son Leo were visiting so we wanted to bless her while they were here.  It ended up being Stake Conference so we got special permission to bless her at my mom's after Sunday dinner.  Tommy gave her an absolutely beautiful blessing.  Some things that I remembered was that she was going to be kind.  That she would be a light to others around her.  That she would marry in the temple. And so many other great things.  It was perfect.  She was quiet and happy during the blessing, but as soon as it was over she started crying. ;)  Some cute things about Skye is that she completely loves little butterfly kisses on her cheek.  She also love to have her diaper off to just air out and lay with a happy look on her face.  She has the brightest smile and has tried to baby talk a few times and her voice is precious.  She is an expert rooter and really roots when she is hungry...she even latched on to my lip once when she was hungry.  So an expert rooter, but still not an expert latcher.  But she is getting there.   I am so joyful and feel so blessed to be given another daughter.  I know with out a doubt she is my last baby.  Our family is complete.  We didn't end up with the perfectly even 2 boys and 2 girls.  We ended up with the perfect family for us.  One handsome son and three beautiful daughters.  We truly have been blessed.  Noah originally wanted a brother, but was surprisingly just fine when he found out it was a girl.  I said that now he would always be my one and only special boy.  Maybe that helped!  And Makenna wanted a boy, but I think mostly because she wanted Noah to have a brother and "someone to play with."  But they were all very happy she was a girl.  Words cannot express my gratitude for the four sweet babies I have been given on this Earth.  I love them each so very much.  I know that I am not a perfect mom and sometimes they literally make me pull my hair out, but they are truly my life.  I am so thankful I can stay home with them as they grow each year.  My cup truly runneth over.
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