Hospital Tour

Today we were able to get a tour of the birthing center at Meriter hospital.  Walking through the halls, and seeing all the equiptment is weird.  It still is such a crazy thought to me that I have something living in my belly!  Even though I feel him moving all the time, it still amazes me that I have the ability to house another being.  As we walked the hallways I kept trying to imagine us there having our baby and what it will be like and it overwhelms me!  Sometimes I feel like it's all just a dream.  I just need to remind myself not to overthink things and to take one day at a time!  On the otherhand leaving the hospital made me just wish he was here and coming home with us.

Anyways, the hospital just remodeled all of their birthing suits. They are very nice.  I just wish we could stay there the whole time, and not have to move to a recovery room 2-3 hours after delivery.  The recovery rooms are fairly decent sized, but the tv is tiny!  Thank goodness we'll have our new bundle of joy to watch instead.  :)

29 Weeks and Counting

A few days ago we had our 28 week appointment.  Around 28 weeks they test you for gestational diabetes.  You go in and drink a solution, wait an hour, and then they draw your blood.  The solution wasn't that bad, I happened to get lemon lime.  The blood drawing on the otherhand was terrible.  I have pretty hard veins when it comes to drawing blood.  They are usually pretty hard to find.  The nurse started with my left arm and of course after moving the needle around couldn't find my vein so she moved to my right arm.  She poked me and the same thing happened.  Then she started to panic because she only had a five minute window total- to draw my blood, and she kept repeating, "Oh my gosh, you weren't kidding about your veins."  This did not make meel feel any better, because I was thinking I was going through this pain for nothing if she couldn't get my blood in time.  Then she moved to the top of my left hand.  As she wriggled the needle around I became very hot, light headed, and actually thought I was going to vomit.  This made her panic even more.  She was yelling for a nurse to come bring cold packs and stopped to quick put my feet up. I never have fainted, but I can say it's the first time I ever thought I was going to pass out! At this point she asked if I wanted to try again a different day or if she should try the top of my right hand.  Of course my reply was, "Just do it!  Quick get it over with!"  Thankfully the fourth time was the charm and she got my blood!  Jordan couldn't even believe how many times they had to prick me!

Thankfully I passed my glucose test, so I don't have to go through this test again. 

At this visit they also checked my fundal height for the first time.  They say that your fundal height should match with how many weeks you are.  I measured at 30 and since at the time of my apointment I was 29 1/2 weeks she said we were right on track.

Baby's heartbeat is still nice and strong at around 140 beats per minute.  

Baby Shower

We had our first baby shower on April, 14.  It was so great to get back home and see all of our friends and family.  This shower was thrown by my two best friends Shelley and Lisa.  They both had babies last fall.  The shower was wonderful and I can't thank them enough for throwing it.  Here are the three of us with our babies.

I wish I had more pictures to share, but my camera broke a few months ago, so these were the only two pictures I could get my hands on.  Thank you Shelley for tagging me in these photos on facebook.  As soon as I get the pictures downloaded from my mom's camera, I will post more.  Here is the other one of me holding the delicious cake.

Thanks again Shelley and Lisa!  You two are amazing!!!



Moving

Jordan and I are in the process of buying a house.  If all things go well, we will be the proud owners of a three bedroom, two bath home in Stoughton, WI.  As of right now we will hopefully close on the house at the end of April.  No matter what happens, we need to be out of our apartment by the end of April.  That means.......lots and lots of packing.  It is amazing how much stuff we have accumulated and crammed into our tiny apartment.

This past weekend we started packing.  After having two full days to pack, we only got one room packed.  Our guest room is packed and ready to go. 

The rest of the apartment still needs to be packed and we have three weeks to do it.  My goal is to pack a couple boxes each night.  I'm such a procrastinator though, we'll see if I follow through.

One reason we didn't get very much packed in two days is beacuse Jordan and I are easily distracted.  We are good at coming up with reasons to take a break.  While I was packing, Jordan was tearing apart and old couch that we are "junking".  The dogs were feeling left out so they wouldn't leave Jordan alone.  You could tell they just wanted to play.  Here they are making there point to Jordan.

Since Jordan didn't instantly drop what he was doing to play with the dogs, Rowdy made it a little bit more clear that he needed some attention.  He jumped into the couch with Jordan, and didn't give him any room to keep working.  

Us being easily disrtacted, ended up taking a break after all to take the dogs on a walk.  The dogs got their attention and we ended up being done packing for the day.

Baby Boy Has Mama's Nose!

Jordan and I took a trip to Meriter hospital yesterday for our third and final attempt to get clear ultra sound pictures of baby boy's spine.  I gave him a pep talk in the shower that morning, and apparently he listens well.  The minute the technician put the wand on my belly, it showed baby boy was face down!  Perfect position for the spine pictures!  After he took all the spinal pictures, I asked if it would be possible to get some 3D pictures.  He explained that we would have to try to get him to roll over since he was face down, and hope the placenta didn't get in the way.  Well, our little boy was quite cooperative.  The technician wiggled my belly and sure enough, he turned enough to get some cool 3D pictures!

Here Jordan and I were able to tell that our little boy has mama's nose!  I was super excited!!!

Here our little one is yawning......posing for pictures is hard work!

Then we were even lucky enough to get a little smile from him!  See his little cheek puff up when he smiles!

This one is harder to see because he was moving, but he is holding his little hands in front of his face.

This next picuture is not 3D but it shows an Xray view of his eye.  Jordan and I thought it was pretty cool.

As if Jordan and I weren't already excited, seeing our little boy in 3D has made us pretty giddy!  I can't stop looking at his pictures!  Now..... the hard part.  Our perfect little one still needs a name!  Wish us luck!



Miss Marie......Can I feel your baby?

This is a question I hear a lot lately at school.  The children are so cute!  They are constantly asking to touch my belly to feel the baby.  They also like to come up and tap my belly and say, "Hello baby."

I have one little girl who needs to confirm with me everyday that there really is a baby in my belly.  Every single day like clockwork she aks, " There is a baby in your tummy....?"

The kids have also started to give the baby and me several of pictures.  The other day a little boy came up to me, placed something on my tummy and said, " Miss Marie, I made a toy for your baby." 

It's amazing how a peice of paper the size of a dime can make your day!  I love Preschoolers!

26 Weeks

Our baby boy is growing and growing!  We are getting anxious to move out of this apartment........hopefully into a house.  I would LOVE to have baby's room set up, but for now I just get to think and dream about what we will do to decorate. 
I was able to feel baby boy moving around starting at 18 weeks.  It was a very light tickle that I occasionally felt.  I would say that at about 22 weeks those little tickles turned into real kicks and punches.  It almost feels like little popcorn kernals popping.  One day I swore he was running a marathon in there.  It's a cool feeling and I like knowing he is there.

Well, I took another belly photo to see how much baby has grown in the past five weeks.  Can you see a difference?

21 Weeks

26 Weeks

Last time I posted about baby boy, I had pictures of his ultrasound.  They weren't able to get clear pictures of his spine so I had to go in for a second ultrasound.  Unfortunately, the little guy was pretty comfy and once again, she wasn't able to take clear pictures of his spine.  This means I will now have to go to Merriter hospital to get my ultrasound done a third time.  I guess the hospital's machine has much better screens than the clinic's so the pictures should turn out clearer. Hopefully the third time is a charm and they'll get the pics I need.  I guess I can't complain though because I really enjoy seeeing him.  Last time I saw his mouth just a moving.  It looked like he was singing!  So cute!  The doc said the rest of the ultrasound pictures look good and not to worry, it was just that the spine pic kept not turning out well because of baby's position and they need to cover all the bases.