Well its official...

...my body does not want to have babies! It makes good babies but can't seem to get them out on its own. After 2 dr. appointments today and an ultrasound we are scheduled for a c-section Monday morning. My fluid is still in the too high range, the baby is measuring approx 9lb 10oz, she is in oblique position (head on base of one side of rib cage and butt on base of other) and we are no where near going into labor because her head won't push into my cervix to tell my body to start. So, I am disappointed that I don't get to even try for a VBAC, I still haven't even gotten to go into labor on my own and I will get to have major surgery four days before my sister gets married. Awesome! We will let you all know as soon after she arrives what her stats are and try to post a couple pics.

More updates

Well, this sucks. I met with my midwife yesterday and with the massive amounts of fluid I have and the fact that my baby can just swim around and not really engage her head down to actually tell my body to start labor and the fact that my sister is getting married in 8 days is leading to all kinds of complications. I was supposed to go in and see my actual OB today to talk about our options, then of course this morning I get the call that she is out sick and I can see someone else. Well I signed up for the appointment but the someone else doesn't really know my situation and probably isn't as likely to let me keep trying to wait and have a vaginal birth with the fluids. Not to mention they are pretty concerned about me traveling so soon with a new born after I give birth for my sisters wedding and all this other drama. I have held it together pretty well but dang, can't I just have a body that does this birth thing the normal way! It is a pretty frustrating time not to mention a bit concerning. I do know that currently baby girl and I are both still in great health, she just gets to swim around in her own little ocean all day as my midwife put it. My fundal height (not the most accurate measure but supposed to roughly equate to how far along in your pregnancy you are) is now at 50, I love being the size of a 50 week pregnant woman instead of just a 40 week pregnant woman. Grrrr! Thanks for listening to the rant.

Baby Girl update

Ok, so I carry my pregnancies waaaay out there! With Jaydon I was huge and people would certainly give me looks but my midwives didn't seem to think it was all that big a deal because we were otherwise healthy (until past his due date and the whole blood pressure, induction, bandl's ring, c-section fiasco that ensued). So my midwives wouldn't really do regular fundal height measurements (the size of the belly), which meant I didn't reallly think all that much of being so big.

Hower, this time, as I continue to carry sooooo big it just is painful, my midwife and dr. are paying a bit more attention to my size and were a little concerned by it. When at 36 weeks I measured 42 they had me do an ultrasound and I carry a lot of extra fluid. I had to go back for more glucose testing (all normal) and another ultrasound - still high fluid levels. Then when I was 38.5 weeks pregnant my fundal height measurement was 47 weeks (if you don't count where the little girl was shoving her bottom out slightly to the side of my belly because that measure was 49 weeks). So, I am the size of someone who is 47 weeks pregnant, which to be that large while parenting a toddler (who has been refusing to nap) and try and carry on like normal is so challenging.

The bummer is that I have gotten my hopes up to have an early delivery when it just seems like my original due date was probably the accurate one to begin with and I shouldn't have even been that excited for this last week and a half. One night last week I had contractions 5 minutes apart for an hour and a half and they lasted around a minute each so I was thinking we might be getting close but now I am back to thinking that if Jaydon was a couple days late and my due date isn't until Sunday the 25th I might as well just anticipate an arrival after this weekend. And plus, if I post this and complain about not delivering I can always just tempt the fates and maybe labor will start soon:)

So, I know I had referred some of you to our blog to get updates, and I promise, when we actually head to the hospital I will do a post and let you know, for now just know we are hanging out and nothing exciting is going on. Other than still trying to figure out how to get through each day being the size of a house! It is all a bit new to us because we didn't really expect Jaydon to be early, I wasn't even ready for him to come until about 5 days before he was due and then we didn't get to go into labor on our own anyway both Jeremy and I are a little unsure what to really expect from this one. I guess time will tell - of course the sooner the better in my world, I do still have to find time to buy a dress for my sister's wedding in 11 days.

Visit with Granny and Papa

Granny and Papa got to come down for a quick visit (it sure would be awesome if this baby girl could make her appearance while they are here but we are running out of time). It is always so fun to see them and have them visit. Jaydon is loving his time with them!

More evidence that Higgins is not just a devil cat. Here he is cuddling wtih Papa and Lily is even close by resting near Granny.

We took Granny and Papa to the railway museum after they came and helped out at our parent and me preschool. It was great! Jaydon really enjoyed showing off the trains.
Unfortunately, the great picture with both Papa and Jaydon smiling was too blurry to use but this one is still cute! We look forward to a couple more days of fun and maybe even a baby to add to the festivities!

Re-arranging!

Well at least we now have our furniture moved and ready for the baby girl to make her appearance. Though I still don't want her to arrive any earlier than March 14th, we at least have some space for her (though don't look in the closet that is supposed to be hers - we will get to that next week).

I didn't think to do before and afters so if you haven't ever seen our house before, sorry - may not be so fun, if you have you can see how some of the rooms have had to change.

The guest room/baby room. We had to remove a couple book cases and move the bed way against the wall to get the crib to fit but it works out okay. Not ideal but we can't do away with our guest room so this allows us to still have people stay and when we don't have people staying the little one can be in there.

The master bedroom. We now have a bassinet and the changing table in our room so we had to move Jeremy's nightstand to the closet and our tall dresser to the corner. Surprisingly it is working for me. I may not be really thrilled with the changing table being there but for now it is the best solution.

The dining room hutch got shifted corners and one of the book cases from the guest room is now in the dining room, doesn't match all that well but it is out of the way and we really didn't have to do away with any of the furniture or space we had in our house even bringing in Jaydon's huge bed! The only problem is the poor large houseplant/tree thing that was in a corner of the dining room is not readily finding a new home. We shall see what happens there.

It's a GIRL!!

Our new baby girl looks healthy and was moving around a ton during the ultrasound. No surprise, she has been kicking me like crazy for the past week or so and at this point seems even more mobile then Jaydon was (which may just be because I can feel her earlier). Everything was just fine and we hope to welcome her into the world around the 25th of March. Of course part of me is okay if she wanted to arrive after Aunties wedding on the 31st of March!

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Alien Baby

A foot

I chose to put the same three pics we had for Jaydon's ultrasound. I still don't know how to link a previous post here but if you looked at our early posts from April of 2009 you could compare these photos with Jaydon's. (and if anyone knows how to link another page here, feel free to let me know).

Oh and check back because I do still have a couple weeks of posts to catch up that will be an older date than this one so you might have to scroll a bit to find them. Hopefully by the end of the week we will be fully updated again!