My daughters new job and the baby has arrived
@shaggin (71664)
United States
July 31, 2021 5:20pm CST
I took my daughter to her job interview Thursday morning. She was supposed to meet the owner at 10am but he was late.
My daughter was asked by the assistance manager who she is related to due to it being a small town. My daughter told her who I was and the girl told her to go out and get me and have me come in and visit.
The girl was a grade below me in school and very sweet. So I went in and visited with her for a bit then she told us to go ahead out and have a seat and she’d let us know when the boss arrived.
He never came so the girl called my daughter in and interviewed her herself and hired her. My daughter is elated. She plans to work one day during the week and both Saturday and Sunday. It’s about a 25 minute drive one way is the only thing that stinks about it but she really wants a job and no where in town hired her. There loss!
Friday after dinner I vacuumed the living room carpet and shampooed it. I wanted to get it clean for the baby as that’s where I’ll have to be changing her.
This morning I woke up at 4am having contractions. They were about 15 minutes apart. I debated on what to do. With her being breech I decided to go and get checked out. I was correct on it being labor.
Ella was born at 10:46 am via c-section. She weighs 7 lbs 5 oz. Nursing isn’t going well. She’s not taking the whole thing in her mouth so she’s sucking and not getting milk. I have to pump it then give it to her with a syringe.
I thought it was neat I went into labor on my due date. Unfortunately we missed a graduation party and my husbands family reunion.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
12 Aug 21
@CarolDM I’m not sure if cleft palate can cause her to have a weakened immune system but I hope not. I know online it said they can get ear infections easily from it. I had them so chronically as a kid I have bad hearing from it. My two oldest children have never had one thankfully.
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! Congratulations - Ella is so beautiful 
!
. And she probably grew a lot since I am week late in responding here! Hope you are all doing well!!
@snowy22315 (169940)
• United States
31 Jul 21
Very nice! I assume you are in the hospital now. How are you feeling?
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
22 Aug 21
@snowy22315 I was in the hospital for 3 days. I was glad to be able to go home. I was in so much pain on day 2 that was the worst day of healing.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
22 Aug 21
@snowy22315 I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t sleep away from home so I just hate it.
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@snowy22315 (169940)
• United States
22 Aug 21
@shaggin I had a really hard labor. I would have stayed in the hospital a week if they would have let me. Kaiser was determined to kick me out as quickly as possible.They told me the next day I could go home if I wanted to. I almost laughed
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
1 Aug 21
Nice to know Ella arrived on the specified date. She is beautiful. Congratulations.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
20 Aug 21
@allknowing I wasn’t expecting her to arrive on her due date. I thought I’d go a week overdue.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
20 Aug 21
@shaggin They say when one is pregnant she is expecting and in your case that is what it is.
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@Vikingswest1 (6305)
• United States
31 Jul 21
How beautiful and precious.
That photo made me melt.
It's been so long since I've held a baby.
So sweet. Congratulations to you and to your daughter on the new job.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
11 Aug 21
@Vikingswest1 my niece who is 5 was the last newborn I held before this.
With corona in the house my daughter has to take some time off from work but she gets to go back tomorrow.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
16 Aug 21
@JudyEv very. She can’t go the bathroom if she has formula so she hasn’t gone in 3 days now. She was screaming so bad for so long last night and nothing would comfort her so my husband had to go sleep on the couch so he could get some sleep for work. My daughter held her this morning while I pumped one side but that was as long as Ella would allow someone else to hold her.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
1 Aug 21
Congratulations all around.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
20 Aug 21
@BarbaraPrz thank you gosh it’s taking me so long to respond to all my notifications.
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@kaylachan (57636)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Aug 21
Congrats on the birth. Glad you went into labor on your due date. Missing out sucks, but for good reason.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
21 Aug 21
@kaylachan it’s good we didnt go as my stepson did and caught Covid there. If I went in labor with Covid I can’t imagine how bad things would have been. Thankfully I didn’t catch Covid from him but my son did. Everyone is healthy now.
@shaggin (71664)
• United States
20 Aug 21
@marlina thank you. She just fell asleep for then night and spit up everywhere so now she wants her binky and to be held so I’m on the couch with her for awhile while my husband sleeps. Hoping to get to bed soon but while I wait I’ll knock off some notifications I’m very far behind on here.
My daughter is enjoying working there very much I’m very happy for her.
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@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
1 Aug 21
Congratulations! She's beautiful!
Congratulations to your daughter for getting the job, too.
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@RasmaSandra (73408)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 Jul 21
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, Lovely baby girl and I love the name Ella, All the very best wishes for a wonderful life to Ella,
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
28 Aug 21
@noni1959 my daughter loves her job. She worked last night after school for the first time. She had to get up at 6am for school then work from 5-10 so she was very tired last night.
I am healing well after the c-section. The baby I think has colic. She’s tough. Luckily at night she sleeps well to make up for the crying all day long and having to hold her constantly. It’s hard to get anything done.
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@JimBo452020 (42629)
• United Kingdom
31 Jul 21
What a lovely photo.
Baby Ella is beautiful.
Congratulations.
Nursing will get better.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
23 Aug 21
@JimBo452020 thank you! It didn’t get better unfortunately. She has cleft palate so she can’t nurse from me I have to pump and give it to her in a special bottle.
@shaggin (71664)
• United States
30 Aug 21
@LadyDuck really I hadn’t heard that about soy? She would scream in pain for hours after having even the tiniest bit of regular formula. She isn’t doing that with soy thankfully. My stepson had to have soy and two of nieces on my husbands side as well. My sister in law is lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance runs on my side as well. I couldn’t drink milk until I got pregnant with my first child, my sister and her oldest daughter are lactose intolerant as well.
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
30 Aug 21
@shaggin It is very possible that she has an allergy to regular formula. I remember that I had the same problem when I was only a few weeks old. I believe that your little girl is lactose intolerant, ask to your doctor what to give her to avoid deficiencies.
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@Marilynda1225 (79708)
• United States
16 Aug 21
Congratulations on the arrival of Ella. She looks so cute and sweet.
Sounds like you have a lot of good news these day.
I'm sure your daughter is thrilled to have gotten the job and hope she likes it.
Best to you and your family!!
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@Marilynda1225 (79708)
• United States
16 Aug 21
@shaggin sounds like a good experience for your daughter especially that she likes the job. Maybe one day she'll be a chef.
You must be exhausted and I hope little Ella can relieve her constipation. She must be so uncomfortable
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
11 Aug 21
She's a cutie and congratulations on the safe delivery. Congrats to to your daughter for the new job.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
15 Aug 21
@Marshamusselman thank you! With her being breech I had to have a c-section so I got my tubes tied too. Boy was that all painful.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
21 Aug 21
@MarshaMusselman I had fifth degree tears with my oldest daughter, it tore into my bladder and tore into my rectal muscles as well an breaking my tailbone. I’d still rather go through all that again then a c-section and tubal.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Aug 21
@shaggin natural births can be painful too. My natural was worse for recuperation time than the c section was.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
16 Aug 21
@DianneN thank you. The third day before we left the hospital we chose her middle name : Elaina. His grandmothers name was Elaine but I didn’t like that enough so I wanted Elaina. Earlier that day he suggested Rose and I said he could decide. He wound up choosing Elaina.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
18 Oct 21
@Courtlynn thank you! You can tell your playing catch up on here like I did a few weeks back. Im sure from now being on I lost a bunch of notifications though so I have to go to my last posts and what comments I missed.
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
18 Oct 21
@Courtlynn same. I spend more of my free time on Facebook. Not really free time really as if I’m on here or Facebook I’m sitting feeding the baby and typing with my free hand.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
18 Oct 21
@shaggin yes i am lol. But im hardly ever on so had too.
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