2nd day of Rosh Hashana

The Tuesday b4 Rosh Hashana (september 15th) was my due date. That day we went to the hospital for a check up. The little one was still upside down and not all the way there yet. We agreed to come back a week later and see what we would do. One thing was for sure they didn't want to let me walk the whole 42 weeks.
During the first day of Rosh Hashana we went to shul. We agreed that during Mussaf I would go home if I couldn't take it anymore. During mussaf I felt okay so we agreed that we would stay. At the end of dawening my back started to hurt but I thought it was because of all the standing so I decided to sit down and stay seated. After shul we went home and had lunch, the pain wasn't going away. Because my back was hurting so much, we decided to put a hot water bottle against my back to easen the pain. That didn't help and after an hour of sleep I woke up again and continued saying tehilim. Last year I tried saying the whole tehilim over the course of 2 days and now I wanted to see if I could do it in 1. Around 6.15 pm I finished, I was so proud of myself. My mom offered to help and we walked to her place just to tell her that I finsihed. I told her that my back was hurting and that it wouldn't go away. Around 7.15 pm we decided to walk back and go up the 76 steps to our apt. Around 8 pm my tummy started to hurt too and I thought that this might be the start for the delivery. Daniel went to shul around 8.30 and I started to get stuff ready for dinner. After he came back from shul we had dinner, it was kinda of short bc the pain in my back was so much. I decided to step under the shower to relieve my body from the pain. Around 9.30 pm I stepped under and around 10.00 pm we called the hospital bc the pain was so bad. They told me to keep it up for another 30 minutes and then call back. After 5 minutes Daniel called back, I couldn't take it anymore. We were allowed to come and around 10.45 pm we were in the hospital. After the put us on the ctg they checked how far we were, I had 9.5 cm. The ctg was okay but around 11.30 pm it showed that the little one was having a lot of stress. They decided to do a c-section instead. The whole staff was paiged/peeped and I was on the OR within 10 minutes. They gave me an epidural (it is hard to sit still when you have contraction) and around 00.11 on September 20th Elishewa Miriam Lea was born.
She didn't have enough oxygen and had a rough start.














Daniel in surgery cloth Time Elishewa was born


Above our new doc and

the day b4 Rosh Hashana

This is me at 40.5 weeks, the day before Rosh Hashana.

My pics of the last 2 weeks (still carying while writing this)

Me at 39.5 weeks

Me at 38,5 weeks

In case the little one doesn't come today or tomorrow there will be a pic of me of 40.5 weeks. A day b4 Rosh Hashana starts.

Wishing you all a Shana Tova Oemetoeka! Ketiwa wechatima tova!

Update in 5769, just before the new Year starts

This is Okki's room. hopefully soon we can talk about somebody else then Okki but for now, we stay with Okki.
Erez came over the hung up the luxaflex but when it was finally up, it broke. I had to go back to the Praxis to get a new one. I was happy that they make a big fuz about it.
The curtains I did myself, took me a long time but I do feel good.

On the left door there will be a poster with boker tov and a sun. Unfortunately i didn't get it back yet when the photo was taken.

Loving the room

This is the Baby room. My mom painted the clouds on the ceiling. Daniel and Chowav painted the room. Hopefully Erez will help us soon the put something in front of the window.
When the room changes we will put new pictures up









This is me last Friday afternoon. we are 37.5 week in our pregnancy.
Next monday we have to go to the hospital again for a check up. I really hoped something changed in the position of the little one but I don't know. According so some people my belly looks different but at this point I don't have any idea anymore.

New pics of the pregnancy

our carriage

36.5 week

further in the pregnancy

35.5. weeks

34.5 weeks

33.5 weeks

new pic

32.5 weeks

31.5 weeks

30.5 weels

28,5 weeks

It's been awhile

Dear All,

it's been awhile since we last posted but we are doing fine.

The baby is kicking like crazy and sometimes I have the idea that I have a whole soccer team inside. A few weeks ago I wasn't feeling too well in the evenings and on Monday night I even threw up. We decided it would be best to call the midwife to discuss it with her. At the end she wanted me to come over and everything was fine. During our last check up, she tried to get the heart beat from Okki. Everytime she found it and was counting it, Okki started to kick and she had to start all over again. Already teasing, you can't start early enough.

Last week, we went shopping for stuff but unfortunately didn't find anything. Today we went shopping again and actually succeeded. We also figured out what the colour is going to be for the baby room, it is going to be really light green. The ceiling stays white and mom will paint clouds about the bed. We all grew up here, with clouds above the bed so I want that for the little one too.

Hopefully in a few weeks we will post pictures of the baby room.

This picture is me on June 26th, just b4 shabbat started, we were around 28 weeks then

Love to all!

2 days before....

Another 2 days and then we will be flying to the States!!!! We are so looking forward to it and just can't wait. Tonight we want to finish packing bc tomorrow night we are going to Mom to show her the 'pretecho' (fun echo).
Mom and Dad don't see too much of the pregnancy and Okki (our little one) growing right now. That is why we decided to make an echo and get pictures for them. Tomorrow morning we will be having the echo and hopefully Okki will do its best to be on perfect behaviour for the camera.
Thursday morning Mom will bring us to Schiphol airport and hopefully around 1.30 p.m. we will be landing in Philladelphia, USA.
We hope that everyone is doing fine and hope to see you all!!!
Love, the Hammers

Last part of the Keukenhof on April 12th, 2009

The Cola mail men

At the Wigwam (sorry, don't know how you say it in English)
Amazing

Relaxing after a long walk

can't get enough of it

Brooklyn and the Hammer

Typical Dutch
Nice

Nice a Dutch farmer

Us at the Keukenhof
Wow, All those flowers

In Holland but Loving NY

New York rules!

Chol Hamoed Pesach 2009 in Holland

On the first day of Eastern, 2nd day of Chol hamoed we went to the Keukenhof. It was beautiful!

Oy... but good news

After having promised to do better next time, we failed once more.
We are sorry for not updating the blog more often but we waited for a good day to update.

We have good news, we are pregnant!!!! We, and our families and friends, are very excited!!!! G-d answered our prayers and with His help we will have a healthy child in 6 months. We are due before Rosh Hashanna (Jewish New Year) but we'll know when the time is right. Unfortunately I haven't been feeling to good for a while, very tired and nauseous but hopefully this will be over soon.

Right now we are very busy with cleaning for pesach, tomorrow another busy day.

Hope to hear from you!!!