Week Two of Bed Rest

All though I am on strict bed rest I am pretty lucky to have had lots of visitors and tons of help-
mostly from my mom, jill, Kathy and of course Chris. Catherine and Adam dropped off a 'bed rest' gift bag full of movies, popcorn, candy and magazines. Meghan dropped off the complete seasons of Sex and the City and Whatley gave us some manly movies to watch as well. Alicia and Seth brought us dinner one night and it was awesome. Kathy, Jill and my mom have been keeping my house clean and taking me to the many doctor appts. that I am now going to in order to monitor the baby and my blood pressure. Michele also took me to an appt. Jeanne has brought over dinner and stopped by to visit many times too, she brought me Chris' moses basket for the baby, which is pretty cute. Kevin and Renata brought me flowers and Katie and Josh stopped by as well. And on top of that i have had endless offers from friends and family to drive me to dr. appts., visit and bring food, which i will probably have to take advantage of eventually.

And obviously Chris has done a million and one things including putting up with my 'tude once no one is around. This bedrest thing is extremely frustrating and sometimes he takes the poop end of it all and he does it with a smile-which then makes me feel bad! I am pretty lucky to have him and I can't wait to watch him as a daddy. Right now he is in the basement putting up shelving to get things organized down there. Just before that he painted the kitchen lights and reorganized the art room and made me dinner in the middle of it all after a 10 hour work day. Geez, he is a good hubby.

Today at the dr. they decided to run blood tests once again becasue i have had a headache since Thursday, it is now Monday. They wanted to make sure my uric acid levels were in normal range, if they were not they were going to admit me and medicate me through IV for as long as possible before they had to get baby out. That freaked me out to say the least. My mom and I came home and packed my hospital bag and baby's bag just in case. They finally called back and all looked in normal range for the time being but they said they will do this routine week by week and there is no saying what will happen from here on out. I do think the baby will be okay if delivered in the next week or two, I am just not ready yet!

These headaches and other pains are getting pretty unbearable. Lots of people have said to me that it would be nice to be on bedrest but this is not nice, it hurts and I am going a little crazy. I basically watch HSN and QVC all day along with Food Network. I can't really read because of my head and I can only be online when Chris brings his laptop home at night. Sitting up at my computer is not really an option anymore, I can do it for about 15 minutes before it gets painful. Okay, well, this is depressing! Bo and Newman on the other hand want me to remain on bedrest for the rest of my life. They can sleep for 20 hours out of the day and prefer to do it on my lap. They do keep me company and I love them. They are in for a rude awakening though, they have no clue what is about to happen.

On a lighter note, I was able to have Chris take some photos of my belly. Even with not feeling well, I was bound and determined to get a few 'pregnancy shots' of my belly. I left my face out of it because I look ill in all of them. We took these photos in a matter of 10 minutes, Chrisopher is quite the photographer if I do say so myself. I'm glad we did these photos.

Week 32 Picture

Here is week 32 photo. This is just before the Hawkin's family shower. Lots to update but will do that later, I am going to try to get some sleep through this nasty heartburn. My new home for the next month is the couch and bed. I was put on bed rest today by the dr. until baby arrives. Not fun but baby is strong so I am happy with that. Dr. thinks baby will be here before January, probably before Christmas. My hopes of a natural delivery have dwindled and we may be looking at a c-section, the one thing I really did not want. Oh well, not much I can do but hope for the best, maybe I will get lucky, if not the baby is immediately going into time out when it is born.

Week 31 Picture!!

Here is the photo from week 31 finally! This is just before the McHugh shower.

This weekend was very eventful, both good and bad! I had a shower with my girlfriends on Saturday thrown by Mary, Michele, Katie and Jill. It was so nice, the food was awesome and I got to see all my girlfriends. I got lots of great gifts for baby from newly experienced moms so I am feeling pretty good about what to do when this baby pops out.

On Sunday, I had another shower thrown by the McHugh aunts which was also awesome. They had awesome food too and everything was so nice, they always do such a good job. This is the first grandbaby to be born on that side of the family and they are all super excited to be Great Aunts and Mama said that she thinks she 'is finally old enough to a great grandma' I was so happy Mama was able to come, I know with her dizziness and backaches, leaving the house is a challenge but she made it and stayed the whole time and threw in lots of little mama jokes. It was wonderful.

Bad part- on Saturday night I was having trouble breathing. I thought the baby was probably just pushing on the diaphram or something of that nature. I could barely sleep but eventually slept sitting up so I could breath. I was short of breath and had to keep focusing and taking deep breaths. Eating was hard too.

On Sunday at the shower I told my mom that I was having trouble breathing. She told me to call the dr. a.s.a.p. My mom is a Red Cross instuctor and she said 'you don't mess with not being able to breath' so I figured she was right and called my dr. thinking she would say just take it easy it's normal. Nope. She sent me straight to the ER.

They were looking for a blood clot in my lung. They said this is something that can happen to pregnant women and the first sign is shortness of breath. The clot normally starts in the pelvic area near the uterus. The uterus is preparing to clot for childbirth or something like that. So they did an EKG- which showed a few signs of a blood clot and then they did a CAT scan, which is super wierd and I thought I peed my pants as the dye went through my body. I hated the CAT scan, they had to put a shield over the baby to protect it from the radiation and made me sign a waiver- I didn't like that at all. They said it is normal and babies born at 32 weeks undergo chest x-rays all the time. So that made me feel a little better.

After the CAT scan I went back to the room and my mom and Aunt Diane showed up with lots of 100 calorie snacks that they tried to force feed me. Soon after, the dr. came and said everything looked NORMAL! I didn't have a blood clot which was so relieving! However, my blood pressure is high now, so we are on the look out for preclampsia (spelling?) They thought a reason I am short of breath is from the heartburn- acid is coming up and then going back down the tubes to my lungs which will irritate my breathing. So good news is I am okay! Baby is okay! Bad news is we will have a giant medical bill and we missed a really great Colts game!

Oh- and more bad news- notice I have no picture on this post. Yep- our computer broke too. Heading to the Apple Store tonight- Hang on Mary! I will get Connors pics to you soon!

Here I am at 30 weeks. I wasn't able to post at 29 weeks because of work but now I am HOME FREE!!! The Buckaroo Bash is over and I can focus on Baby now. The baby is the size of a cabbage.

I am actually wearing maternity pants here, I broke down and I (well..my mom) bought some maternity clothes, I am alot more comfortable and have more options of what I can wear, it is really nice. Thanks Mamabird (and Jill and Kathy for forcing me to go into a maternity store)!

This week we start birthing classes, we are taking Hypnobabies. Read more here on their website- I am really excited about it, not sure if it will work for me or not but we are going to give it a try. You basically 'hypnotize' yourself into a relaxed state to lower drug intake or take no drugs at all.

Baby is moving around constantly and I can usually tell where the head and butt are. I am getting more and more excited/freaked out/anxious than ever. Today Chris said he thinks the baby will look like a hamster. I love hamsters.

Everyone thinks this baby is a boy. Even strangers that talk to me about the baby always say they think it looks like a boy. Today a little girl in Costco told me I was having a boy. We'll see about that!