Well, we have some new news. On Tuesday night I went to my doctor appointment and was exactly 39 weeks. My doctor was concerned about my blood pressure because it was elevated. All throughout my pregnancy my blood pressure has been good so she took precautions and told me that I was to be on modified bed rest and could no longer work. So today was my second day at home. Tomorrow (Friday) we go back to the doctor to have my blood pressure checked again and if it is still elevated she said they would probably admit me and induce labor. Our bags are pretty much packed. We’re taking everything with us and dropping Jack off at my parent’s house before our appointment.
Last night, after my first day of resting, I started spotting and the contractions were just a little bit stronger than they have been. They are not painful yet, but they were a little more uncomfortable. Of course, I have barely felt any all day long today!
I have been keeping track of the baby’s movements. There is a lot of movement every night around 11:30. During the day I feel movement usually after I have eaten something. I just had a pudding cup and I’m feeling the baby a little right now too.
I’m not very nervous quite yet. I am really ready to get started with true labor. I want to have as much time at home with the baby as my maternity leave allows. I don’t mind being at home and taking it easy because I know it’s best for the baby and I. I just worry that it takes away from the days that I want to be with baby. I think I’ll be back at school by the end of March, right before report cards again. Yay!
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Baby's almost here!
One week until our due date! It’s been too long since I’ve last written. Since my last entry I have had three showers thrown for me as well as attending three others (two of which I helped put together)! So it has been a pretty busy couple of months. The showers were nice. Steve and I received pretty much everything that we need to start off with. His mom let us order a changing table from Target.com so that is the last thing that we’re waiting on. The soccer teams that Steve coaches for gave him $200 as a gift so we went out last weekend and purchased two strollers – a regular one that the car seat can attach on to and a jogger that we can start using this summer when we go for longer walks.
My sisters threw me my first shower at Kollette’s apartment. Kourtney gave me some things for the baby’s room – a framed print, bookends, and a picture carousel. She also gave me a vibrating bouncy chair for the baby. They’re so nice. We actually received two and decided to keep both – one will be for traveling from place to place. Kollette gave me diapers and wipes and my mom gave me some sleepers (the sack kind that I really wanted), diapers and baby ducks for bath time. Everything was really nice. The best part is bringing everything home and organizing it and washing all the clothes so they smell like baby.
Louise threw my second shower for me at the beginning of January which was also very nice. She gave Steve and I the baby carrier that you can wear and the baby monitor. My third shower was with the faculty at Luther. Nancy Steffes helped put it together. We received a lot of nice things including a car seat that we’re using in my car. We bought the stroller to match this car seat.
Tomorrow is our ultrasound due date, but I have been told to just stick with the due date that the doctor originally gave us so we officially have 8 days to go! I can’t believe that it is almost time to bring our baby into the world!
We had a bit of a scare in December that I have been meaning to write about – One Sunday before Christmas I woke up around 6:30 a.m. with a terrible stomach ache. I thought I could probably sleep it off, but when I woke up at 8:30 I was still in a lot of pain. Steve called my doctor to let her know, and she said that I should go down to labor and delivery at the hospital to get checked and make sure everything was o.k. Of course by the time we got down to the hospital an hour later I was feeling much better, but once they put me on the fetal heart monitor and the contraction monitor, they realized that I was having contractions! So they kept me for quite some time injecting a drug to stop the contractions. I wasn’t feeling them, but they were showing up on the monitor about two minutes apart, and the doctors didn’t feel comfortable sending me home while that was going on. I gave my parents a little scare, but I was home by the middle of the day feeling fine. I think being in the hospital, spending time in one of the delivery rooms helped to ease my nerves a little bit. I was able to meet some of the nurses and to see what my situation might look like once I am there for the real thing!
Now we are just counting the days. I am ready to go whenever the baby is. My classroom is about as organized as I think I can get it. Report cards are done, and I am perfectly fine with possibly missing parent/teacher conferences!
Steve is getting pretty excited. He has shared with me a number of times that he is nervous that he will not be a good father. I told him that he will do just fine, that we will both do our best and will do just fine. He has been pretty helpful. He spends the weekend going up and down the stairs with laundry so I don’t have to. He has also been rubbing my back for me every night which feels so good. That is probably the thing that has bothered me the most during this last trimester – back aches.
We are still hanging on with the names Owen Michael and Madyson (not quite sure how we’re spelling that yet) Olivia. Soon we’ll know which one we will be putting on a birth certificate!
My sisters threw me my first shower at Kollette’s apartment. Kourtney gave me some things for the baby’s room – a framed print, bookends, and a picture carousel. She also gave me a vibrating bouncy chair for the baby. They’re so nice. We actually received two and decided to keep both – one will be for traveling from place to place. Kollette gave me diapers and wipes and my mom gave me some sleepers (the sack kind that I really wanted), diapers and baby ducks for bath time. Everything was really nice. The best part is bringing everything home and organizing it and washing all the clothes so they smell like baby.
Louise threw my second shower for me at the beginning of January which was also very nice. She gave Steve and I the baby carrier that you can wear and the baby monitor. My third shower was with the faculty at Luther. Nancy Steffes helped put it together. We received a lot of nice things including a car seat that we’re using in my car. We bought the stroller to match this car seat.
Tomorrow is our ultrasound due date, but I have been told to just stick with the due date that the doctor originally gave us so we officially have 8 days to go! I can’t believe that it is almost time to bring our baby into the world!
We had a bit of a scare in December that I have been meaning to write about – One Sunday before Christmas I woke up around 6:30 a.m. with a terrible stomach ache. I thought I could probably sleep it off, but when I woke up at 8:30 I was still in a lot of pain. Steve called my doctor to let her know, and she said that I should go down to labor and delivery at the hospital to get checked and make sure everything was o.k. Of course by the time we got down to the hospital an hour later I was feeling much better, but once they put me on the fetal heart monitor and the contraction monitor, they realized that I was having contractions! So they kept me for quite some time injecting a drug to stop the contractions. I wasn’t feeling them, but they were showing up on the monitor about two minutes apart, and the doctors didn’t feel comfortable sending me home while that was going on. I gave my parents a little scare, but I was home by the middle of the day feeling fine. I think being in the hospital, spending time in one of the delivery rooms helped to ease my nerves a little bit. I was able to meet some of the nurses and to see what my situation might look like once I am there for the real thing!
Now we are just counting the days. I am ready to go whenever the baby is. My classroom is about as organized as I think I can get it. Report cards are done, and I am perfectly fine with possibly missing parent/teacher conferences!
Steve is getting pretty excited. He has shared with me a number of times that he is nervous that he will not be a good father. I told him that he will do just fine, that we will both do our best and will do just fine. He has been pretty helpful. He spends the weekend going up and down the stairs with laundry so I don’t have to. He has also been rubbing my back for me every night which feels so good. That is probably the thing that has bothered me the most during this last trimester – back aches.
We are still hanging on with the names Owen Michael and Madyson (not quite sure how we’re spelling that yet) Olivia. Soon we’ll know which one we will be putting on a birth certificate!
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