more Stahle...

 I'm posting pics I took from before the storm hit.  I apparently spoke too soon about having a good recovery, because on general conf Sunday I got super sick and wondered if I might have mastitis or a clogged duct.  Well I'm still not sure but I had a fever, chills, aches, and was in a lot of pain.  I think its a tender mercy that my friend Shannon had some amoxicillan from her mastitis and Michael could run over and get me started on some that night.  2nd tender mercy was that Michael had the next day off.   By Tuesday I was feeling way better and then another storm hit.  This storm is called stage 2 cervical prolapse.  Basically your pelvic floor muscles are like a little hammock holding your cervix, uterus and bladder, and over time, especially with multiples births, that muscle which is as thin as tissue paper, gets weakened.  I was having some symptoms of this so I called my midwife and she said I would need to stay horizontal for 3 days and to call a physical therapist who specializes in this.  The next day I went in and she showed me some exercises.  I do those once a day and lay on my wedge pillow 3 times a day for 15 minutes. It gets my hips up above my shoulders so gravity can help pull those organs where they need to be.  Having my midwife tell me to stay horizontal for 3 days was the worst thing to hear, since I have 4 kids to take care of and I was already a couple weeks post partum and thought I should be 100%.  I needed to be 100% to take care of my family.  My ward has been wonderful and they lined out babysitters for that entire week to take Janelle and the other 2 after school so I could try to stay flat.  I also had friends taking the kids to school and back.
I feel like things have improved even though I won't know for sure until I have an exam which I'm anxious for so I can know for sure whats going on.  They can't do it sooner than 6 weeks post partum because I need to make sure I'm 100% healed up down before they go looking around.
Sweet baby Stahle is everything and more we could ever want.  She is perfect and we adore her.  As do the rest of our kids.  They always want to hold her.  I take lots of pics of Janelle holding her first thing in the morning.
Last week I dropped and picked kids up from school.  I'm not supposed to lift anything heavier than Stahle so I can't carry her carseat which is kind of a pain.  I just carry her out to the car and back each time.
Michael has been a huge help like always.  He's basically been cooking all the meals, getting kids ready for school each morning, putting kids to bed and helping with other household things.  I've never been so excited to be able to do house work, because we've gotten behind.
Dad came and helped me clean last week.  He vacuumed my stairs, dusted, washed my kitchen walls and did anything else he could.  That same day my RS pres Sue Jorgensen came and brought lunch to me and ate with me.  So sweet.

 Aunt Jill and aunt Kasi came to see baby .  We were so happy they came.  And they brought some sweet gifts for Stahle and her siblings.

1st bath! :)