September
1981
4
- W.S.C. Sheet?
5
- Bill's wedding (Webster?)
9
- Joanna's shower (Stephen Tonks' first wife)
9
- Sommer's birthday
9 Club
11
- Terri's birthday
11
- Doctor's appt. Dr. Godfrey
15
- Tonya's birthday
17
- Doctor's appt.
18
- Dr.'s appt.
19
- Stephen Tonks' wedding
21
- Perm
22
- Relief Society
28
- Zac was born!!!!!!
September
2, 1981
I
guess pretty soon we'll be getting a new baby!
Just 3 more weeks I hope. I'll
probably go into October (YUK) Amanda is
getting more grown up everyday. She can
say a bunch of words, mostly names. We
went on vacation to Salina ,
Utah
September
3, 1981
Well,
I'm finally cleaned up from camping, and last night and today, I straightened
out a few drawers and got Amanda's pants all hemmed. Roger hates to be back to work, and I hate
seeing him miserable, but hopefully he'll get a night job pretty soon. I made myself an appointment for a permanent
on the 21st. Maybe I'll go early now
(HA-HA)
Looslis
are leaving today for Yellowstone . They'll be
gone a week and a half. (WHEW!) Sure hope
we can get into my Aunt Vera's house pretty soon, but I'm not holding my
breath. (I think by this time, Looslis were wearing on my nerves)
September
8, 1981
Well,
only 12 more days until my due date. I
wonder when we'll have this baby. I keep
saying and telling everyone I'll go over and be 2 weeks late. But I can't help but keep hoping it's
any day! Today I went downstairs and
cleaned everything and picked out what the baby will be brought home in. We're still just kinda waiting to see if
we'll be moving. We need to get a bed
for Amanda and a set of dresser drawers for the baby's clothes. I got my old horse "King" from
mom's today. Amanda just loves to rock
on it. The past couple of days I've been
really miserable. Sunday morning I woke up at 3:00 a.m. with pains in my
stomach. They weren't contractions, just
a steady pain. Also, very bad
cramps. They lasted all day, and I
wondered if this was really it. I even
called the Delivery Room nurse, and she told me I could take paregoric to stop
the pain. Monday morning the pain finally stopped, but gas pains
bothered me all day. Finally last night
I managed to fall asleep on the couch and only woke once to go to the
bathroom. I've felt beautiful
today!! I still have to watch what I
eat, because heartburn and gas pains make me miserable. Roger should be home in the next little
while. I'll go get ready for him.
September
10, 1981
Today
is the pits. Amanda still has a little
runny nose, and she's as onry as a bear!
First of all, she wakes up at 7:00 a.m. ready and raring to go. Since I couldn't go to sleep until after
midnight, and was up with her for about an hour and a half at 2:30 a.m.,
needless to say I wasn't too happy at 7:00 a.m.
She wouldn't even take an hour hap this afternoon, so I put her down
again right now. I went down and saw
Deanne and Malan Johnson's little boy Coby today. He is about 3 weeks old. Mandy didn't seem too interested in him at
all, but boy she kept messing with his bottles and things. It seems the only place I can relax and be at
ease with her is here at my own home.
Everywhere else I'm so busy running after her it's a joke. I'm beat!
So now I'll lay down and sleep and then I won't be able to tonight. Life is a bowl of cherries, and I'M THE
PITS!!!!
September
11, 1981
I
feel allot better today. My house is
clean, dishes done and Amanda in bed.
In about 2 1/2 hours me, Tonya, and Erika will be leaving for Ogden
September
13, 1981
Roger
just left for work. I'll be so glad if
he can get on nights, because then we'll have Sundays together. Well, Dr. Godfrey didn't tell me much that I
didn't already know. Except that my
cervix still has some thinning out to do.
I guess chances are about 50/50 which way we'll have this baby. I really do hope to have it normal, but if I
don't, at least I'll know that I tried and it won't always be in the back of my
mind wondering whether I could have had it vaginally. Also, now I'm not really concerned when I
have it. I guess it won't be this week,
and possibly not even the next week. But
I guess that the longer I wait, the easier the labor will be and the thinner
the cervix, so maybe my chances of
having it normally will be increased.
Well, Tonya just called, and I've got to get ready to go over to mom's
and eat.
September
16, 1981
Kelee
Peterson had her baby taken by cesarean section this morning at 6:00 a.m. Thank goodness everything was okay. Her last two babies died at birth, but this
ones alright. (They named him Ladd,
and he and Zac were pretty good friends in Elementary school) Barbara
Anderson also had her baby yesterday on Tonya's birthday. (They named him
Mark) There's me, Chris Carrigan, Kathy Rees, Lisa Preece, to go yet. I bet Chris is next, then me hopefully.(Chris
had a girl, named Amber, Kathy had a boy named Garrett, and Lisa had a boy
named ?)
Today
I got more accomplished from 5:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. than I did all the rest of
the day. I scrubbed the bathroom and
it's clean enough to eat in now. I cut
some throw rugs to put around that stinking toilet. I hope Looslis don't care, because there is a
bunch of nails in their floor. I've just
fixed Roger tacos for supper, and he isn't home yet. Also, tonight he found out that he got the
night job, HURRAH!! He won't go on the
shift for about a month. Amanda still
has a bit of a cold. I hope she gets
over it before the baby comes.
September
27, 1981
Well,
tomorrow is the big day!! At 12:00 noon
they are gonna take the baby Cesarean.
My cervix just won't thin out one bit, so I guess it's C-sections from
now on. I'm really not too disappointed,
just as long as the baby is okay. Having
this baby has sure produced different feelings than my other two. I'm more concerned about Amanda's reaction
than anything else. I guess I'll have to
to write more in the morning, right now I'm too restless.
September
28, 1981 - Zac was born.
September
29, 1981
Surprise,
Surprise, a big 8 pound 4 ounce baby boy BLONDE!!! This morphine has sure put me outta this...
later.... (Zac was born on September 28th at 3:00 p.m. approx.)
September
30, 1981
Today
we decided on a name for our son.
Zachary Roger Rich. Roger really
loves the name, and I'm getting used to it.
I'm just afraid of the reaction of everyone else. (Kelly had a dog he
called Zac, and Grandma Tonks wouldn't call Zac by his name for quite
awhile. She would call him "Little
Roger") We'll call him Zac for short.
Rog came in today and held him for the first time. He even got him quieted down and to sleep
when I couldn't . He's such a good baby.
So far it seems his temperament is just between Ambure and Amanda's. I was so nervous with Ambure,
it seemed she was always onry and crying.
Amanda was always so quiet and
never even heard her cry in the hospital. Zac is right in between. He has cried loudly
when he's been hungry, but he quiets right down when he's full. Zac has blonde hair all over his head. His
face and shoulders are also quite hairy.
He is 21 1/2 inches long. Longer than either of our girls. Amanda is getting along well at home, but
Roger says she misses me. I miss her
too. Mom's tending her today, and
tomorrow, Linda's gonna have her all day and bring her up for afternoon
visiting hours. Chris Carrigan is in
labor today and she's waiting to have her baby.
I just called, and found out she
had a baby girl.
