IT'S BABY TIME

Today I had my OB appointment, and guess what??? They are going to admit me on Thursday night and start Pitocin on Friday morning! Yea! I finally get to meet my angel! It is so surreal to me right now. I have dreamed over and over about this, and here it is. I have cared for and carried a living person in my belly for 4o weeks being ever so careful to make sure he gets the best of the best from me and now....I finally get to hold him, love him, kiss him, bathe him and just be his mommy. Justin is ever so excited too. He is like "Okay, we need to get your bag together, and go get a baby book, and......so on! He is going to be such a cute daddy! I will try to keep everyone posted about what is going on, and how the baby is. Another thing I very excited about is I GET TO SEE MY FAMILY!!! My mom and hopefully stepdad will come Thursday, my sister is coming Wednesday, my best friend Melissa is coming Wednesday night, Justin's mom and aunt are coming Thursday, my dad and stepmom will hopefully come Thursday and I will just be surrounded by everyone close to me! So only a few more days on bedrest. Everyone say a prayer that the induction goes as planned. We will keep everyone not able to make it here posted.

Non Reactive Non Stress Test

Jill and I at my shower in Arkansas
Melissa, Jill and I the best shower hosts in the world!
My most recent belly picture


Just a peek at what I see when I look down!

Today at the I had my Non Stress Test. Justin and I went to the clinic, sat in this tiny room for about 30 minutes monitoring Aiden's every move and his heartrate. The nurse told me that every time he moves to push the button, well he must have heard her say that b/c we waited about 15 minutes just for him to move. Normally he moves all over the place so much my belly looks like a constant tidal wave!! I am kinda starting to think he may be hard headed like his sweet little daddy! :) So to intice Aiden to move the nurse stuck a vibrating machine to my belly which "vibrates the amniotic fluid and startles the baby", well might I add Aiden was NOT happy! He kicked me harder than I think he ever has. He kicked and moved for about an hour straight. It kinda got a little uncomfortable. However, the test went well. They want to see two accelerations with movement, (meaning they want to see his heartrate increase with movement twice) and it did. So the nurse and doctors concluded that he is not under any stress and just happy and content as ever in my belly. Also for those of you wondering, when I went to the doctor Monday of this week I still was not dilated..A SINGLE BIT!! I am so ready for some progress! Any tips on how to get this show on the road??? Today my BP at the doctors office was 108/80?? hummm..what is going on with that? Who knows! So, I will continue to sit on bedrest and go stir crazy!!

New Blogger??

So I decided, thanks to all the girls at work, to make a blogsite for all of my family and friends out of town to check out what is going on here in good ole KCMO. I guess I will start out by saying...in case you didn't know we are having a baby soon (the due date is June 25th) and we can't wait. Actually Justin and I are getting pretty impatient. Every single cramp or ache I will grab my belly and Justin will stop everything look at me in sheer panic and say "was that a contraction" ? I reply back to him..."uhhh I really have no idea to be honest". I will try to update as I go to the doctor so everyone can keep up with the progress. As of now, I am on bedrest..and just about to go CRAZY, I never imagined bedrest would be so hard. I mean what do you do on bedrest?? Just sit and wait I guess. I had a dr. appt on Monday June 16th and my BP was up to about 140/90. They rechecked it a little later and it was still elevated. The dr came in and suggested we be admitted to the hospital to do some bloodwork and monitor me and the baby. After lying there for about 3 hours waiting for the doctor to look at my BP's and labs and tell me if he thinks I should be INDUCED (I was in a panic), everything looked fine and back home we went..to sit..on bedrest...I have another appointment Friday June 20th, for a Non Stress Test, which just monitors Aiden's heartrate with movement and with rest and makes sure he is not under any stress with my blood pressure being up. So everyone say a little prayer that my little peanut is not stressed in any way. I will update after my appointment.