Baby Shower Time!!

33 weeks - did my belly drop?

nursery is DONE!

32 weeks 4 days

can you see how red my tummy is? I have been scratching today, and my belly button is getting some shooting pains, I think we are gowing again. Baby is very quiet today, which is not unusual. That exact behavior landed me in the hospital last week, in the Fetal Diagnostic floor hooked up to monitors.

The weekend I hit 31 weeks I noticed a decrease in movement, which is probably related to her increasingly small home. With my "advanced maternal age" they waste no time shuttling you to the monitors to make sure baby is well. I happened to hit them on a day when I dehydrated. My fluid levels were at 7.5 and they don't like to see anything less than 10 so up to LDR I went (in a wheelchair, hospital policy) to be examined and tested for a possible LEAK! Now mind you if I had had a leak, I would be posting in my blog via my laptop at the hospital. Thank the Lord, I was not leaking amniotic fluid and I was sent home to drink as much water as I could and comeback in 3 days for a repeat NST (non stress test) <-- basically they hooked me up to a monitor strapped around my bog ol' belly and they track fetal heart tones, movement and any contractions I have ( I had one GOOD one) they also do a level II u/s and measure 4 quadrants of open space to gauge how much fluid she's floating in. Well the next test came back at 14, so I had to pass one more which I did yesterday and now I am released from any more testing until I hit 36 weeks, then I will go back as her due date approaches.

I turned 38 yesterday and I haven't given it much thought since the only thing on my mind right now is NESTING!!!! What can I clean or put away at this point. LOL! I am looking forward to my showers in 2 weeks, I can only imagine the wardrobe this child will have by then. The nursery is done, picked up the final pc., the chair TODAY! YEY! I hung the curtains and the box valance yesterday, came out cute!

Time to go make Valentine's Day dinner for my boys.

4D pictures taken at 31 weeks

she's in 3D

Amazing, surreal, there she is snuggled and folded in half. Those are her feet on either side of her face (you have to trust me on that) and the shadow on her head is just that a shadow, not hair. I'm betting on another blondie.

nursery update - 31 weeks

Getting close, need to get my chair and the window treatments, oh and hang shelves/pictures and then we are DONE! Oh and one more small detail, her door needs to be hung, a door would be nice. LOL!

Feeling winded now very easliy. Painting is finally over and I can finally start putting back everything. I'm exaughsted.

30 weeks already?

I can tell she is getting BIGGER! She seems to just push vs. poking and rolling. She gets the hiccups all the time, I feel them in my right groin area, she is still always burrowed down there, not an easy baby to feel. The books say she's approaching 4 lbs. my guess is 3, I don't know. I carry her so differently than I did Lydon. I was just HUGE by this time when I was pg 9 yrs ago. Amazing I don't have any dark stretch marks (thank YOU God!) I have a couple silvery ones that you caould never see, my secret. I do have that hernia thing going for me, when your stomach mucles seperate, ouchie.

My trip up to the mountains was great, I felt good despite coming come a tad bit dehydrated. Hubby did manage to get himself a concussion, errr.... since when were helmets a bad idea? My belly felt expanded while I was up there and I scratched myself silly all day. Now that I am back to sea level I feel almost heavier in a way. My left knee (the good one) is now jacked! I can't squat without an excruciating pinch in that joint, that is soooo not a good sign I probably tore something in there. Interestingly enough the back pain seems to have mellowed and I find myself more troubled with just being out of breath or feeling a little anxiety like, almost like I can't quite catch my breath. Could have been just the altitude change over the weekend.

Doc appt. yesterday went well (asides from the scolding about the dehydration) her HB was 140, a mellow baby (I hope and pray), I'm up to *gulp* 181.5 - if I stay under 190 I'll be happy! I hit 205+ with DS.

The nursery is coming along, the 3rd and final attempt at getting the armoire almost didn't happen. The darn thing was damaged AGAIN, this time I just took the thing and a 20% refund, done deal. I have one more pc. of furniture, the chair and then I am done! Need to hang the shelves and pictures but that's just gravy on the top! :) I'm really loving the finished product, sooo sweet!!