Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The End is Near....

It has been an interesting last few weeks to say the least. After that doctor's appointment I had on the 12th, I haven't been back to work. My blood pressure continued to stay low when I was laying down and then elevated when I was sitting up. So she thought with the way I sit up all day at work and the added stress of work in general, it would be better to just be done with work. So I tied up all my loose ends and have been just laying around at home. As much as I can make myself that is! It messed up my maternity plan for work a little bit, but that is what I get for being such a planner I guess. And I am hoping it will still work out to be off of work until August. Fingers crossed!

So for the last two weeks I have had to go to the doctor on both Tuesdays and Thursdays to monitor everything to make sure everything else was still okay. Between blood tests, urine samples, NST's... everything is still going great. Just the blood pressure won't go down! At my appointment I had last Thursday, she mentioned she would want me to deliver at 39 weeks. So I started asking her questions about this and she said we will talk about it at my appointment Tuesday, which was today. So Grant thought it would be a good idea to be at this appointment with me, so he came with today.

I had lost three pounds last week, but thanks to Grant's mom bringing over a French Silk Pie and my mom bringing over tons of bars, my weight was back up today. :) Better enjoy those sweets now before I have to lose all this weight! My blood pressure was high again today when sitting, and low when laying down. At least it is consistent right? SO she suggested that we schedule an induction for this Monday, Memorial Day. There is an end in site! I am dilated to almost 2cm, 80% effaced, -2 station so I am hoping that this progress will make the induction easier than I have heard from other people. With this heat, I am more than ready to be done! So stay tuned for further updates, I am still hoping he decides to come on his own before then. :)

Here is a picture of me today, 38 weeks, 3 days....

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Almost 37 Weeks, Not so much fun!

We sure have been keeping ourselves busy the last few weeks, I cannot believe how fast time has been going. The good news is, I feel that I am now ready for the baby to get here, I just want to be done! My biggest concern was holding him in long enough for Grant to get done with his finals and we made it to that milestone. He had a very stressful week last week, but is now more than happy to be done. So now we are good to go! Here is a funny picture he texted me last week of what he was up to in class.....


My aunts Jennifer and Brenda hosted a baby shower for me last Saturday and it was fun to see everyone I hadn't seen in a long time. I was once again overwhelmed with presents and thankfully I had my "little helper" Carter Lou with to help me open all of those. I appreciated all of their hardwork making it a fun shower! And I also thank everyone who came.

After the shower, Grant and I headed to the cabin for the night. Then on Sunday Grant's two aunts Barb and Debbie hosted a shower for me there! Again, it was nice to see everyone and I appreciated everyone's work on making this shower fun as well. I was overwhelmed with presents again, and had a new little helper Mason there to help me out. Thank you everyone who came to this one as well. As you can see we overflowed the nursery again... But I had Monday off to organize so it ended up looking much better by the end of the day. :)



Then comes the not so fun stuff. At my dr's appointment on Tuesday, my blood pressure was quite elevated which concerned the dr because it had been low the entire pregnancy. So she did a couple tests and decided to put me on bed rest with no work until Thursday (today) and see what happened in those two days. I had my other appointment this morning, and it was still elevated but only when I was sitting up. When she had me lay down, it went back to how it has been. So she did a few more tests to test for pre clampsia again and those results were normal. SO she prescribed me some medicine and kept her order of bed rest and no work until this next Tuesday. Her main concern was having me make it past the 37 week mark on Saturday. So until Tuesday, I will be forcing myelf not to do anything work or stress related and just hang out. Hopefully on Tuesday these restrictions will be lifted! I go to the dr every Tuesday now until I have him, so I am thinking the time will go fast.

The other day I had Carter over and I thought it was funny when she came to lay with me she put her baby in the bassinet and pulled it close to her to "watch" over her baby. She was holding onto it until she fell asleep... She will be a little mother hen to our baby, I can see it now!


Not much going on for me this weekend as I am now restricted. Grant will be enjoying some fishing for the opener, but not at the cabin like usual. We have to stay close to the hospital so he is just going to go somewhere around here. Hopefully he has good luck! Here is a picture of me at 36 weeks, 5 days....

Monday, May 3, 2010

Shower Pictures

As promised, here are some of the shower pictures from a few weeks ago. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and I will do another update then!

Kate, Jenn, Laurie, Leslie, Carter Lou in the way back...


Me and Carter eating some good food!


Carter patiently waiting to bring me the next present...


Always a good helper :)


Charli was much happier away from all the action!


Not sure what we are doing here...


Chloe, my other helper!


Katie, Jenni, Sarah... Katie must not like pictures :)