At Home in the Mountains

Here I am as big as I'm going to get. Cindy wanted one more picture of how I looked before I had Maddy, so here it is. Induction at 5 a.m. tomorrow. It is so crazy to think that when we come home we'll be hauling around a little baby. I can't quite get my mind wrapped around it, even though I bought diapers yesterday and we put the car seat in today. (By the way, the carseat instillation was not nearly as complicated as everyone made it sound.) Please be praying for us tomorrow and hopefully we'll soon have pictures and good news to post.

Today was my last OB appointment before delivery. I cannot say that I am sad. Not much news from today. He decided not to check my cervix since he was already comfortable that I was in a place where the induction would be successful. Fine by me. I mean, I am kind of curious if anything more has happened, but not curious enough that I'm going to tell him to check me anyway if he says he doesn't have to. The NST went fine for Maddy. She is a little mover and shaker. She is sitting down low. :) So I will go in at 5:00 a.m on Monday. They will start pitocin and then break my water once labor progresses for a little while. I'm sure most of you don't even want or care to know but for those who do, that is the procedure. Recently I have been thinking of things that I am going to enjoy about not being pregnant anymore. Obviously meeting my daughter for the first time is a big one on the list, but it is also clouded by the uncertainty of her health and development and what kind ...

We had the last appt. with the high risk doctor today. Maddy's estimated weight is 5lb. 10oz. Hopefully she'll gain a little more before the 30th. She is just below the 25th percentile in weight. Doctor was satisfied though and said she was within the normal range and gave the green light for induction on the 30th. Still no changes on the hands and feet. Everything else is looking good. She is head down, always a good thing. So we'll see if we can get her to come a couple of days early. I sure would like not to have to be induced. I really feel like it would make things easier on me and her, but it will all work out. So just keep us in your prayers this week as we will be meeting our baby soon! Pray that whatever is going on with her hands and feet is not too serious and that we will be able to help here with therapy or whatever she needs. Also pray that she will be healthy enough that we do not have to put her in the NICU or anything like that. I have one more appt. with m...

I got back from my weekly OB appointment about an hour ago. I am stuck at 2 cm. :( I was really hoping for another cm or something. We found out that our induction date has been scheduled for sure for March 30th at 5 a.m. Wow! Less than two weeks now and we will have a baby on our hands. I am getting really nervous. Nervous about labor, nervous about being induced, nervous about Maddy being okay when she is born. For a while I was really wanting to be done with being pregnant just because it felt like all this craziness of doctor's appointments and worry and stress would be over if she'd just get here. But that is not true. I guess the good thing is that we will know more about what we're dealing with once she arrives. Now I am just ready to not be pregnant anymore because it is so uncomfortable. I can't put my shoes on without almost falling over. I can't move anywhere close to furniture without bumping my stomach against everything. Yesterday, I was at the library...

So yesterday was a pretty busy day. We went to our weekly dr. appointment in the morning. The NST again went okay. The b strep test they did last week came back negative so no antibiotics during labor. We also found out that I am 2 cm dilated! I know that doesn't mean much in the whole scheme of going into labor. Many people can stay there for several weeks, but I am happy that my body is preparing somewhat because it looks like we will be scheduling induction for March 30th. I am really hoping I go into labor on my own a few days before then. That is my preference, but the fact that I am a little dialated took the fear away that my body would not be ready for induction and it would turn into a disaster if they tried to induce me before my body was ready. So we'll see what happens but the fact that I was a little dilated scared Aaron to death. You could almost see a physical shock hit him when the doctor said that. This week is spring break. Aaron still has to go into the offic...

Aaron admiring the almost finished project. Tricia taking care of the trim working away Abbey's looking through the window wondering why she's not allowed to "help" Aaron and Tricia worked hard all afternoon on Saturday to paint. I appreciate them doing it so much. The lighting on the pictures is not great so I will try to get more pictures to put up once we get everything together in the room that will hopefully be better. I planted flowers and cooked dinner while they worked. We have been having gorgeous summer weather here. It's been in the 80's all week so a great time to work outside. This Saturday we also did our registry stuff at Target. I had registered for a few things online before we went to the store, but we finished it up (I think). Anyway, if any of you are curious, feel free to look. If you see an important item that should be on there that we haven't thought of, let me know. We are in over our head when it comes to baby equipment. Tomorrow...

Well it has been a busy week and weekend for us. Tuesday we did the NTS like usual except with a different doctor because mine is out of the office until next Tuesday. All was fine on that test. I definitely like my own doctor better. Wednesday, my pregnant brain played tricks on me and I triple booked myself for the day. About a week ago, Aaron asked if he could invite some of his students over for dinner on Wednesday so I said sure. Then a calendar got set up to take food to our friends who just had their baby--2 weeks ago now. So not thinking about the dinner I'd said I'd do, I signed up for Wednesday. Didn't really clicked that I'd signed up for two things that day until about Monday when it was too late to change anything. Then I got an email on Monday from our doula reminding me that we had scheduled to meet at DBU on Wednesday to talk about birth stuff. Yikes! So Wednesday morning I came to school with Aaron and met her. At this point we still didn't know whi...