Home Stretch

I had my doctors appt yesterday and we have an official birthday for baby Guyton. They scheduled my C-Section for April 22 at 12:30pm. I will be a little over 37 weeks. The doctor didn't want me to go much further than that as he felt my body could not handle it. I am still on my contraction medicine and will be on that until April 21st. The doctor is afraid I will go into labor if I stop it before hand. I did have a good week last week and actually ventured out for a night out with the girls for pedicures and dinner. It was much needed! We finally got the babys room finished. I will post some pictures later.

Pregnancy Update

Well its been a long 3 weeks on bed rest but I went to the doctor Friday and he says the bedrest is doing what its supposed to and was pleased with the improvement. I am still on modified bedrest and will most likely be in the bed until the baby comes. I will continue to take my terbutaline until 34/35 weeks at which time we will reevaluate and he will decided whether to keep me on it until 37 weeks. At 37 weeks I will go off of the meds and he said I will most likely go into labor after the medicine is stopped. He is planning on taking me around 37 to 37 1/2 weeks which will be around April 20-23. We will see how everything goes. We still don't have the nursery ready but that will come in due time.
By the way I feel for anyone who has ever had to be on bed rest. This is definitely a lot harder than anyone could imagine especially with two little ones that don't understand.

28 Week Pregnancy Update

Well. its been a long week this week. Thursday evening started having mild contractions pretty frequently without any relief so I called my OB and off to Labor and Delivery I go. They hooked me up to the monitor and my contractions were coming pretty frequent. Everything else looked good - baby was handling the contractions very well. So I got my shot of brethine (to stop contractions - which it did) and then got to go home. The doctor sent me home on terbutaline every 6 hours to help with contractions until 32 weeks. I stayed off my feet Friday and Saturday. By Saturday afternoon the contractions had slowed down a lot even though they had not stopped completely.
Got up Sunday Morning felt pretty good (it was a great feeling to stand up without having contractions instantly) so I went to church. Half way through Sunday School the contractions started back - Got back home got back in the bed.
Called the doctor this morning and they wanted me to come in and get checked out again so they hooked me up to the machines and I was still have mild contractions so they increased my terbutaline and gave me a progesterone shot. I will stay on the shots until I have the baby and have been put on bed rest until Friday morning when I go back to get another shot. We will take it day by day at this point.
Hopefully by Friday we can get things quieted down and I will be able to go about my daily activities by this weekend.
I'm doing good - I am not concerned God is in control of everything that happens so there is no point in me worrying or getting stressed cause it doesn't do me or the baby any good!

Snow Storm of 2010 :)

Well the snow was nice while it lasted but I am sure glad it's gone. Gavin had a blast in the snow. He made snow angels, ate some snow, sledded and rode the 4 wheeler. It was hard a times to get him to come inside. I enjoyed watching Kyle act like a little kid throwing snow balls. I was a little sad I couldn't really participate. However, I would hate to have to deal with this day in and day out.
Madison on the other hand was not interested and was quite miserable. She didn't last long (maybe 5 to 10 minutes) before she was screaming and crying to go in and warm her feet and hands under warm water. She is such a diva.

24 Week Pregnancy Update

Well its been a long couple of weeks with this pregnancy. Been to the doctor every week since before Christmas - Been given more than enough medicine to last me a little while - Hoping to stay out of there next week. So far so good - just really tired. Trying to keep up with a 2 and 3 year old can be a challenge when you are 6 months pregnant. We are busy trying to prepare our house for the new baby (we still don't have names picked out). We are converting our office to the babys room, we are moving Madison into a bigger room with a big girl bed and converting her old room into a guestroom/small office area. We should have the rooms painted by the end of next week. I've been looking for bedding for the baby and found its very hard to find a good modern, gender neutral bedding ........ so I decided to make my own. Below are the bumper pads and one curtain for the room. We are using black and white and I am painting the room green. I haven't stuffed the bumpers yet so that is why they look a little strange.

(curtain)

Christmas 2009

We had so much fun this year at Christmas - The Kids both somewhat understood what was going on and they were so excited - Gavin didn't go to bed the night before until after 11. Here are just a few from our busy day!

This is me at 5 months - This may be the only picture you get!

Our 18 week ultrasound

We had our ultrasound on Monday and we did NOT find out what we were having. We think it will make it a little more exciting when that day comes. The baby looks good. Kidneys look good, heart looks good, Spine looks good - God is so good. They did find one little cyst in the baby's head we will go back at 24 weeks and have another ultrasound. We are not concerned about it - Those can be very common. The baby was very active they had a hard time getting good pictures of the baby cause it was moving around so much. The baby is measuring a week ahead of schedule in size so that is good that everything is growing like it should be. I will try and post some pictures later!