Well, we're here...at my due date. The baby still is not. This week I got the necessary paperwork that needed to be filled out before the baby comes (that I didn't know about) completed, which made me feel super stressed, followed by extremely relieved. Chris is done with school for Christmas Break...I still have Monday and Tuesday if I don't have this baby before then. My mom is coming in tonight after she celebrates Christmas with her sisters. I am very excited about that. :) My sister and her family is coming Sunday night, but won't get here until really late. The midwife wants me to get an ultrasound next week to make sure that everything is ok to let him/her stay in there until the 42 week mark. So my appointment for the ultrasound is Monday and I have another doctor's appointment on Thursday. Baby is sounding good and still moving like crazy, which is great. Maybe the baby is just waiting for everyone to be here. Who knows?
As for how I'm feeling...still pretty good. I was really sore earlier this week and my feet were KILLING me yesterday when I got home from work. Other than that, I have been feeling pretty good. I was complimented yesterday by some co-workers that I am the most even-keeled expecting person they've ever known. That made me happy. I don't want everyone to remember this as horrible. I want the pregnancy and this baby to be seen for the miracle that they are. I want all glory to be given to God for everything working so perfectly in order to bless us with this little one, as I am still in awe of how everything has to fit together in just the right way in order for pregnancy to even occur. My mind continues to go back to Rob Bell's book: "I can't believe I get to live this life." This is the motto of my life. I am so fortunate and so blessed and wouldn't want it any other way. Well, here we go. Into week 40 of the pregnancy. May this baby join us in God's perfect timing...and may I be ok with that, no matter when it is. :) Love to all, can't wait to share pictures and the experience of having a baby soon!
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
One Week!
I can't believe I'm due one week from today. That's crazy. My school had a baby shower for me (and the other 3 girls who are pregnant) yesterday, which was awesome. We got some great stuff off our registry and are so fortunate to have such wonderful coworkers. They also did a shower and Chris' school last Thursday (I can't remember if I already mentioned that) and we got a lot of great stuff then too! We are so blessed, it's amazing.
As for how I feel...I still feel pretty good. I'm trying not to complain too much. :) The baby has dropped quite a bit, so I'm using the bathroom a lot more. It makes it harder to sit up and is starting to get a little bit harder to walk too. However, I am SO thankful that I am working. It keeps me busy and moving around a lot, which is good. My most recent doctor's appointment went well too. They said I'm measuring perfectly. Baby sounded good and has been extremely active, which is always reassuring. "Now we wait," she said. We will see when this little baby decides to come meet us! 1-3 weeks left! My sister and her family come out in just over a week, along with my mom..which will be fun! Here we go!
As for how I feel...I still feel pretty good. I'm trying not to complain too much. :) The baby has dropped quite a bit, so I'm using the bathroom a lot more. It makes it harder to sit up and is starting to get a little bit harder to walk too. However, I am SO thankful that I am working. It keeps me busy and moving around a lot, which is good. My most recent doctor's appointment went well too. They said I'm measuring perfectly. Baby sounded good and has been extremely active, which is always reassuring. "Now we wait," she said. We will see when this little baby decides to come meet us! 1-3 weeks left! My sister and her family come out in just over a week, along with my mom..which will be fun! Here we go!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Hospital Trip
This past week was crazy. Overall, for being 38 weeks pregnant, I feel pretty good. I feel almost normal, in fact. There are just a few things that remind me how pregnant I am. For example, when I caught a glimpse of my huge stomach walking by the mirror yesterday. I can't believe how big it is. Or, when I do things like I normally do, but then (for some reason) am incredibly sore. Weird. :)
Well, we got a trial run on Wednesday night. I went to school and felt a little weird all day, like kinda sick for some reason. I didn't know what was up, but got through school just fine. Then, I went to my (now weekly) doctor's appointment and was going to have my routine check-up. While I was waiting, I asked Chris to pick up dinner because I was hungry and wanted to eat immediately when I got home. :) His phone was dying but he told me he would grab dinner and see me at home soon...I figured I'd be there in no more than an hour. When the midwife came in, we talked and she listened to the baby and started to get concerned. She said that after the baby's heart rate accelerated (after moving around) it dropped way down (decelerated) and she was a little worried, so she wanted me to be hooked up to the continuous monitor for a little while. So the nurses came in and attached a contraction (which I'm not having yet) and heart rate monitor. They did see some dips, which was still not comforting. She said to be safe, she wanted me to go to the hospital where they could continuously monitor it for an hour. She said the cord could be around the baby's neck, or it could just be squished behind the baby, the baby could be grabbing it, or sucking on it. The hope was that by the time I got to the hospital, the baby would let go of it or move and all would be gin line for me to go home.
So, I went to the hospital. I called Chris (but his phone had died), called my mom (no answer), and finally got a hold of my sister. I asked her to keep calling Chris until he turned his phone on and tell him what was going on. I went to the hospital and triage was full, but when they heard why I was there...they bumped me up and put me in a different room to be monitored. Listening to the baby's heartbeat was comforting, and I felt better when Chris showed up after my sister filled him in. The nurse seemed very optimistic about the whole thing, but after a while said that I had to stay overnight. (This made no sense at all, because I thought everything was fine and I was going home.) They wanted me to be monitored all night and get an ultrasound the next day to make sure the cord wasn't being blocked. The nurse made a comment about when the last time I ate was...which was when lunch was over at 12:15. It was now like 6 and she was talking about how that's so long. Yah, but my appointment was at 3:30, which I thought would be over quickly and I could eat at like 4:30. Needless to say, I was REALLY hungry by this point.
Well, I stayed all night. I finally got dinner at like 8. They gave me an IV (which I HATE), hooked me up to the continuous monitor for baby's heart rate, and was hooked up for them to read contractions(which I still wasn't having). My baby, who is super active at night, made all the nurses either laugh or get really irritated because he/she would move every time they tried to get the heart rate. Literally, some of the nurses were working on it for 20-30 minutes at a time because right when they would get a good read, the baby would move. One nurse said, "You know this baby is laughing at my right now." Needless to say, I didn't get more than like 2-3 hours of sleep that night. They had to keep coming in and moving things around to pick up the heart rate again. Chris was wonderful. He went out to take care of Paris, got stuff for us, and stayed with me at the hospital. I can't imagine trying to get up and unplug everything by myself so that I could go to the bathroom (which was a lot because of the IV and water I was drinking).We both missed school on Thursday (which was the first time I have ever been gone without having Sub plans) but the people I work with are awesome and took care of it. The next day, I ended up getting the ultrasound and the baby looked good. The cord was not around the baby's neck or anything, which means we didn't have to get an emergency C-Section. The baby has chubby little cheeks and a little bit of hair too! :)
So apparently, what ended up being said was that the baby has a low baseline heart rate. So, normally a baby's heart rate is 140-160, our baby's is like 120. When it gets excited or moves around, it jumps way up (to like 160-200) and then drops back to normal (120), but that huge drop is what had them worried. They didn't originally see that 120 is normal for my baby. So anyway, they ended up saying that it is just a very happy baby. This concerns me a little bit because I could see Paris the same way. She is so relaxed, but then gets SO excited that she pees everywhere. I hope our baby isn't an excitable pee-er too. We JUST got a handle on that. :)
So that's that. It was scary for a while, but we are so thankful for all the thoughts and prayers and for everything being ok. A baby is such a little miracle. There are so many things that have to work out just right in order to have a baby and we have been appreciative and in awe of this the entire time.
Like I said, good trial run for many reasons. 1. Chris will not let his phone die anymore so he knows what's going on. 2. My mom will answer her phone and have her bag packed in case it's the real thing. 3. We will have the hospital bag ready to go. 4. We wrote the neighbor's phone numbers down so they can help us with the dog. 5. Every day I leave work, I will be ready to not be back.
Now, back to waiting. I just have to count the baby's kicks 3x a day to make sure that baby is still moving and active. So, 38 weeks and 1 day. 1 week and 6 days until my due date. So excited to meet this little one. <3
Well, we got a trial run on Wednesday night. I went to school and felt a little weird all day, like kinda sick for some reason. I didn't know what was up, but got through school just fine. Then, I went to my (now weekly) doctor's appointment and was going to have my routine check-up. While I was waiting, I asked Chris to pick up dinner because I was hungry and wanted to eat immediately when I got home. :) His phone was dying but he told me he would grab dinner and see me at home soon...I figured I'd be there in no more than an hour. When the midwife came in, we talked and she listened to the baby and started to get concerned. She said that after the baby's heart rate accelerated (after moving around) it dropped way down (decelerated) and she was a little worried, so she wanted me to be hooked up to the continuous monitor for a little while. So the nurses came in and attached a contraction (which I'm not having yet) and heart rate monitor. They did see some dips, which was still not comforting. She said to be safe, she wanted me to go to the hospital where they could continuously monitor it for an hour. She said the cord could be around the baby's neck, or it could just be squished behind the baby, the baby could be grabbing it, or sucking on it. The hope was that by the time I got to the hospital, the baby would let go of it or move and all would be gin line for me to go home.
So, I went to the hospital. I called Chris (but his phone had died), called my mom (no answer), and finally got a hold of my sister. I asked her to keep calling Chris until he turned his phone on and tell him what was going on. I went to the hospital and triage was full, but when they heard why I was there...they bumped me up and put me in a different room to be monitored. Listening to the baby's heartbeat was comforting, and I felt better when Chris showed up after my sister filled him in. The nurse seemed very optimistic about the whole thing, but after a while said that I had to stay overnight. (This made no sense at all, because I thought everything was fine and I was going home.) They wanted me to be monitored all night and get an ultrasound the next day to make sure the cord wasn't being blocked. The nurse made a comment about when the last time I ate was...which was when lunch was over at 12:15. It was now like 6 and she was talking about how that's so long. Yah, but my appointment was at 3:30, which I thought would be over quickly and I could eat at like 4:30. Needless to say, I was REALLY hungry by this point.
Well, I stayed all night. I finally got dinner at like 8. They gave me an IV (which I HATE), hooked me up to the continuous monitor for baby's heart rate, and was hooked up for them to read contractions(which I still wasn't having). My baby, who is super active at night, made all the nurses either laugh or get really irritated because he/she would move every time they tried to get the heart rate. Literally, some of the nurses were working on it for 20-30 minutes at a time because right when they would get a good read, the baby would move. One nurse said, "You know this baby is laughing at my right now." Needless to say, I didn't get more than like 2-3 hours of sleep that night. They had to keep coming in and moving things around to pick up the heart rate again. Chris was wonderful. He went out to take care of Paris, got stuff for us, and stayed with me at the hospital. I can't imagine trying to get up and unplug everything by myself so that I could go to the bathroom (which was a lot because of the IV and water I was drinking).We both missed school on Thursday (which was the first time I have ever been gone without having Sub plans) but the people I work with are awesome and took care of it. The next day, I ended up getting the ultrasound and the baby looked good. The cord was not around the baby's neck or anything, which means we didn't have to get an emergency C-Section. The baby has chubby little cheeks and a little bit of hair too! :)
So apparently, what ended up being said was that the baby has a low baseline heart rate. So, normally a baby's heart rate is 140-160, our baby's is like 120. When it gets excited or moves around, it jumps way up (to like 160-200) and then drops back to normal (120), but that huge drop is what had them worried. They didn't originally see that 120 is normal for my baby. So anyway, they ended up saying that it is just a very happy baby. This concerns me a little bit because I could see Paris the same way. She is so relaxed, but then gets SO excited that she pees everywhere. I hope our baby isn't an excitable pee-er too. We JUST got a handle on that. :)
So that's that. It was scary for a while, but we are so thankful for all the thoughts and prayers and for everything being ok. A baby is such a little miracle. There are so many things that have to work out just right in order to have a baby and we have been appreciative and in awe of this the entire time.
Like I said, good trial run for many reasons. 1. Chris will not let his phone die anymore so he knows what's going on. 2. My mom will answer her phone and have her bag packed in case it's the real thing. 3. We will have the hospital bag ready to go. 4. We wrote the neighbor's phone numbers down so they can help us with the dog. 5. Every day I leave work, I will be ready to not be back.
Now, back to waiting. I just have to count the baby's kicks 3x a day to make sure that baby is still moving and active. So, 38 weeks and 1 day. 1 week and 6 days until my due date. So excited to meet this little one. <3
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
37 1/2 Weeks
I cannot believe how soon it is until we will have a baby. I am getting very excited. Knowing that it could happen any day is crazy. It's bizarre knowing that your life is about to change and never be the same, but not know when. As I have told the baby, I would not like to be in the hospital on Christmas. We will see though. The most important thing is that both the baby and myself are safe.
I met with the girl who will be my long-term sub after I have the baby and explained everything that I do today after school. So now I can leave anytime and not worry about it. :)
The baby has been CRAZY lately. I feel like it is constantly moving (I'm not complaining...it's fun sometimes). Sometimes it hurts really bad too! My stomach also ends up lopsided because of the way the baby is pushing on me. It cracks me up. It looks like a little alien belly. heh
We had such a great Thanksgiving! Chris' parents, my mom, his sister, and her husband all came down to our house. It was wonderful. 1. Because we didn't have to drive over the holiday. 2. Because we got to spend time with family. 3. Because we made lots of delicious food. 4. Because I have so much to be thankful for. The people who left apparently forgot about stuff left up in the attic that the inspector told us about. There was a ton of outdoor Christmas decorations, which is sweet! We didn't have to pay for them, but still get decorations! Chris decorated outside and it looks great. I love the holidays. I will try to take a picture of it soon. 15 days of school left until Christmas break. 13 until my due date. Nervous, but extremely excited.
I met with the girl who will be my long-term sub after I have the baby and explained everything that I do today after school. So now I can leave anytime and not worry about it. :)
The baby has been CRAZY lately. I feel like it is constantly moving (I'm not complaining...it's fun sometimes). Sometimes it hurts really bad too! My stomach also ends up lopsided because of the way the baby is pushing on me. It cracks me up. It looks like a little alien belly. heh
We had such a great Thanksgiving! Chris' parents, my mom, his sister, and her husband all came down to our house. It was wonderful. 1. Because we didn't have to drive over the holiday. 2. Because we got to spend time with family. 3. Because we made lots of delicious food. 4. Because I have so much to be thankful for. The people who left apparently forgot about stuff left up in the attic that the inspector told us about. There was a ton of outdoor Christmas decorations, which is sweet! We didn't have to pay for them, but still get decorations! Chris decorated outside and it looks great. I love the holidays. I will try to take a picture of it soon. 15 days of school left until Christmas break. 13 until my due date. Nervous, but extremely excited.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
4 more weeks!
Things have been going really well! My due date is four weeks from today and I have been getting really excited! (I think Chris has too.) We are pretty much ready. We are still waiting a little while longer before we wash the baby stuff and put it all away, but other than that...just waiting for baby to be fully cooked! We got our pack-n-play from people at my school, which was the last big thing we needed...seeing as how the baby is going to sleep in that in our room to begin with. I am so thankful for that! :)
I had my doctor's appointment yesterday, which begins when I have to start going weekly. That means it's getting close! Chris came with me to my appointment so that we could go over our birth plan and ask questions that we had. So we are going to a group of midwives and the lady that we had yesterday is my favorite. We are hoping that she is the one that delivers the baby. She made me feel so comfortable and was so helpful yesterday. She agrees with what we are wanting for our birth and was very supportive. She got very excited with us, which made me even more excited!
As far as school goes, I am feeling much better about it all. The intervention specialist has been in my room part of the day to help out and pulls my small groups. We have been planning together so that she could help my sub. However, my principal said that she might take over for me and then we would have the sub for her position AND that I don't have to do plans for my leave since she knows what I do. So I've been planning with her and we are SO ahead, it's awesome! We have to plan four more days and then we are planned up until Christmas break! This doesn't take into account all of the lessons that we won't get through before Christmas, so realistically..it will probably cover the first week of January too. This just puts my mind so much more at ease. One more reason I'm not stuper stressed! :) I am loving it!
We are having Thanksgiving here and we bought a bunch of the stuff yesterday. I am super excited! I have energy (at least until like 6:30 p.m.) and I'm feeling better than I was a week or two ago. I can't believe how soon we will have a little baby here with us! Hopefully before Christmas day! :)
I had my doctor's appointment yesterday, which begins when I have to start going weekly. That means it's getting close! Chris came with me to my appointment so that we could go over our birth plan and ask questions that we had. So we are going to a group of midwives and the lady that we had yesterday is my favorite. We are hoping that she is the one that delivers the baby. She made me feel so comfortable and was so helpful yesterday. She agrees with what we are wanting for our birth and was very supportive. She got very excited with us, which made me even more excited!
As far as school goes, I am feeling much better about it all. The intervention specialist has been in my room part of the day to help out and pulls my small groups. We have been planning together so that she could help my sub. However, my principal said that she might take over for me and then we would have the sub for her position AND that I don't have to do plans for my leave since she knows what I do. So I've been planning with her and we are SO ahead, it's awesome! We have to plan four more days and then we are planned up until Christmas break! This doesn't take into account all of the lessons that we won't get through before Christmas, so realistically..it will probably cover the first week of January too. This just puts my mind so much more at ease. One more reason I'm not stuper stressed! :) I am loving it!
We are having Thanksgiving here and we bought a bunch of the stuff yesterday. I am super excited! I have energy (at least until like 6:30 p.m.) and I'm feeling better than I was a week or two ago. I can't believe how soon we will have a little baby here with us! Hopefully before Christmas day! :)
Saturday, November 12, 2011
35 Weeks...and counting!
Well, today marks 35 weeks, which is crazy! Everyone at school is talking about how big I'm getting and keeps asking my due date again because (based on how I look) they assume it's soon. One lady asked me about it one day and told me that she doesn't think I'll make it to my due date. The next day I saw her and she said, "You're still here!" I was like geez...I better not be THIS early! So while part of me is SO ready to be done with school and have our little baby here, I also want it to be closer to my actual due date so baby can be nice and healty and I can take off more time after Christmas break, rather than before. I also have had many people comment about us not finding out the sex of the baby. For a long time, I didn't think I'd be able to wait. There were also times throughout my pregnancy (like when other people find out what they are having) that made me want to know. But now, I am so excited that we didn't find out! It's also fun to see what people think it will be and have to wait and find out who was right. Oh! We got our monitor from Chris' grandpa which we played with already and figured out how it works. I was a little bit worried about the range, but it looks like it will work just fine! So thanks to Grandpa Bibb! (Soon to be great-grandpa)
As for how I have been feeling...I feel very pregnant. :) I've had some stomach issues, but nothing too severe. Most of my problems seem to bother me for a while, but then go away. However, I have been SUPER tired. Here is a glance at the nights in our household this past week: After school Chris and I have dinner and sit down to watch a TV show or something because I am exhausted. He makes a comment to me at the end of the show(which wakes me up) and I realize that I fell asleep. This usually happens around 6:30. Then, I go up to bed and within an hour am asleep. Then I wake up at 5:30 and do it all over again. I like sleeping though, so I'm ok with it..I just laugh about how ridiculous it is. So many of my coworkers and kids are sick though, so I figure my body is very busy right now...you know, trying to grow a baby and stay healthy and all that so I might as well let it rest! Last night, however...makes me almost feel like the baby is here. Every few hours I woke up and was awake for 30 minutes or an hour before I was able to fall back asleep. Don't worry, I was still in bed for almost ten hours, not to mention the sleeping I did during the TV show. :)
We have completed a lot of the necessary things, which is good because now I'm too tired to do anything. We did our childbirth class, which was 5 weeks. We are preregistered for the hospital and have written our birth plan. We are just waiting to wash the clothes until it's a little bit closer so they don't get all gross before the baby is here and I have to pack my hospital bag. That's about it though! We are excited and are thankful to have friends and family who are excited with us! So thanks! :)
Oh! I almost forgot...at my last doctor's appointment, I asked about the Braxton Hicks that I mentioned last time and they said that the baby is facing down, so it was probably the baby sticking their butt up. Hehe, I thought that was funny. So I guess I haven't really felt Braxton Hicks...
As for how I have been feeling...I feel very pregnant. :) I've had some stomach issues, but nothing too severe. Most of my problems seem to bother me for a while, but then go away. However, I have been SUPER tired. Here is a glance at the nights in our household this past week: After school Chris and I have dinner and sit down to watch a TV show or something because I am exhausted. He makes a comment to me at the end of the show(which wakes me up) and I realize that I fell asleep. This usually happens around 6:30. Then, I go up to bed and within an hour am asleep. Then I wake up at 5:30 and do it all over again. I like sleeping though, so I'm ok with it..I just laugh about how ridiculous it is. So many of my coworkers and kids are sick though, so I figure my body is very busy right now...you know, trying to grow a baby and stay healthy and all that so I might as well let it rest! Last night, however...makes me almost feel like the baby is here. Every few hours I woke up and was awake for 30 minutes or an hour before I was able to fall back asleep. Don't worry, I was still in bed for almost ten hours, not to mention the sleeping I did during the TV show. :)
We have completed a lot of the necessary things, which is good because now I'm too tired to do anything. We did our childbirth class, which was 5 weeks. We are preregistered for the hospital and have written our birth plan. We are just waiting to wash the clothes until it's a little bit closer so they don't get all gross before the baby is here and I have to pack my hospital bag. That's about it though! We are excited and are thankful to have friends and family who are excited with us! So thanks! :)
Oh! I almost forgot...at my last doctor's appointment, I asked about the Braxton Hicks that I mentioned last time and they said that the baby is facing down, so it was probably the baby sticking their butt up. Hehe, I thought that was funny. So I guess I haven't really felt Braxton Hicks...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
33 Weeks
Last weekend, my mom decided to come visit semi-last minute. It was awesome. We had such a great weekend! We got some great deals on some of the baby things that we still needed. I'm feeling like we are almost ready to go, with just a few more things that we still need. We got baskets and a hamper for the baby's room, a bouncy seat, and some other smaller things. My mom is awesome at getting deals. We went to a used store and ended up getting the bouncy seat brand new for $2 more than it was at the used store! I am feeling huge. My belly is getting harder and I think it's sticking out a lot more too. The baby is filling up all that space! This weekend, we got to relax, we did a lot of shopping, took some pictures, and my mom even made me pumpkin bread! I LOVE her pumpkin bread. We are so thankful to be blessed with such a wonderful family and have so many great friends.
I have tried to be on top of things for school. I have been getting my lesson plans done each Tuesday (so, yes...my lesson plans are done today for next week!) and I am also staying pretty caught up with my grades. This is a big deal because grades are due soon and it's the first time I haven't freaked out because I was so far behind. Today I felt (what I think was) Braxton Hicks a lot. The top and middle of my belly got REALLY hard and stayed that way for quite a while. This makes me feel like the baby will be coming so soon and makes me try even harder to stay on top of things. But, honestly...like I'm going to care when I'm in labor/have the baby. Still, it's nice not to have to worry about it.
We saw some really great costumes yesterday and some adorable kids when they came around trick-or-treating for Halloween. Chris and I sat out on the porch and passed out candy, which was enjoyable. I love passing out candy. Now, I'm really looking forward to Thanksgiving! (I know, already...) Family is coming down and I am very excited to have it at our new house and have some great time with some of the family too!
Here are some pictures from this past weekend.
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| Relaxing with the baby! |
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| Chris listening to baby! |
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| So excited for the baby to come! On the left is our new bouncy seat! |
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| A big belly is rough on my back! |
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| Look how big my belly is getting! |
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| Woah! Look at that thing! |
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| She will be such a good big sister! She is being so gentle with my belly! |
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