37 Weeks 3 Days

Well I had a Dr. appt yesterday but I was kind of bummed when I left and had a decision to make.  I only gained 1 more pound so I am at a total of 36lbs, heartbear was 143 and bp was good.  Dr. Cook came in and checked my cervix and no change from the last time which I was hoping for at least some kind of change.  Last week I had seen Dr. Nanda and she said when she took my stitch out I dialated to 1cm well yesterday Dr. Cook made it sound like I had not dilated at all which really confused me.  He said they had me stitched up pretty good and he wasn't expecting any changes.  He left and came back in about 5 minutes later to discuss what exactly we wanted to do.  I told him they had me scheduled to come in on July 5th to be induced.  He said we could stay with that our there are other options.  He knows that I really want a chance at having the baby vaginally so he the options were: 1) I could stay scheduled for the 5th but my chances of a c-section are higher 2) I could just opt for a c-section all together or 3) I could wait it out and see if I go into labor on my own with the possibilty of a c-section.  I finally told him that I was starting to get scared and worried about my size and the size of the baby.  Everytime someone would ask if I was having the baby natural or c-section (which happens a lot and i don't understand why) and I say I want natural they look at me like I'm crazy even some Dr.'s & nurses at my clinic.  So yesterday I asked him if he thinks I have to small of a frame and if I am going to have difficulty having the baby natural and he just got this look on his face and said I was borderline and that's why he was giving me different options.  He said his wife (who is also an OB) opted for a c-section right away, she is about my size, cause they were worried about her having problems with the babies coming out.  He said we don't have to make a decision right away to go home and talk it over and call him this week.  All day yesterday that was all I could think about cause this is a big decision and I want to make the right one and not regret it.  We talked about it and I called my sister and mother to kind of see what they thought but I still really want to try for a vaginal birth.  We tossed around every scenario (excluding option 2) and we decided to stay with going in on the 5th to be induced.  Either way it sounds like theres a pretty good chance of having to have a c-section but if we induce early I feel like(which it probably is going to sound like I'm crazy) the baby will be a little smaller and maybe I can squeeze it out better and also if this darn cervix of mine isn't going to cooperate there's a chance they will want to induce if I go past my 40 weeks and also a chance of a c-section.  So either way I think this is the best option.  I can't wait to finally meet our little one it is going to be so exciting yet so scary!!

We have a date...if it doesn't happen sooner!!!

Saturday we had another big anatomy scan that I was super excited!! Bert had decided not to go so I scheduled my mother to go with me.  When we got there she took us back right away and started.  First off she checked my cervix and there were no changes :(.  While she takes all the measurements and everything she doesn't let us see the screen just in case we were to be able to tell what we have in there.  She then turn the screen towards us so we could see that cute little face and let me tell you it looks like we are going to have one healthy little baby cause those little cheeks looked so puffy.  She had told us that the baby is weighing right around 7lbs (which these are usually off) and the heartbeat was 158.  And our little one was measuring at 37weeks 1 day (I was exactly 36 weeks saturday) so he/she is 1week 1day ahead.  It was really short and sweet and we were out of there with a few pics but it's really hard to see them so I'm not going to post any.

Monday was the day I have been waiting for.  Last week they were supposed to take out my cerclage but Dr. Cook wanted to wait til my appt. Saturday to see how developed the baby was.  They put us in a room and I asked the nurse if they were taking my cerclage out and she said well nobody told me anything but let me go check.  Next thing she walks in with some scissors and a few other things.  Dr. Cook was at a delivery so I saw Dr. Nanda.  She came in but they had to move me to a different room to remove the cerclage.  So down the hall I go wrapped up in paper to another room.  I asked her how things looked fromt he u/s saturday and she said really good and our baby was ok to come out whenever.  So then we started the removal process, it wasn't horrible having that thing removed but it was a little painful with all the pressure and cramping but it was over in like 5 minutes and out came this big blue stitch.  She said as soon as she took it out I dilated to 1cm.  I was happy to hear this since Dr. Cook seemed concerned last time about my cervix not opening cause of that little procedure I had done many years ago.  I know there is a possibility that I could stay the same for a while.  Once I got dressed she came back in to answer all the questions I had.  The first thing she told me was now with the cerclage out you could go into labor right away or it could take up to 2 weeks.  I already knew this since I read to much stuff on the internet.  I told her that Dr. Cook had mentioned scheduling me and she said yes we will get with Rita before you leave.  I had a few more questions for her before I just let her leave.  So off to Rita's office we went.  She gave us a date of July 5th or 6th and called the hospital to see what they had open.  So if nothing happens within these next 2 weeks our little one should be here on July 6th.  We go in on the 5th at 8:00 pm to get things going but since it's so late in the evening I'm pretty sure nothing will happen until after midnight.  I am super excited and scared but I can't wait to meet our baby!!  Only 2 weeks left or less depending on what my body decides to do!!

Busy Weekend & Baby update!!

This will be a very long post.  This past weekend was very busy.  Friday I had planned on taking off of work a little early and going to help decorate for our family reunion since it was our families turn to have this year.   I knew I wouldn't be able to do a whole lot but I could help get things set up inside and I had planned on trying to drag my husband with me to help the guys set up all the tents and outside stuff but as always my plans didn't work out.  I got off around noon and went to my parents to see what I could do.  She was working on table decorations but it involved cutting stems off wild flowers and all so I figured I would just let her do that.  Bert was on a job so I was kind of waiting to hear from him to see what he wanted to do.  When I talked to him he really didn't sound like he wanted to go out there and help right away so I was like well I will meet you at the house and we can rest a little and decide later.  I had just left my parents and he called and said he had to go to Corpus on another run and if I wanted to ride with him and we could go eat on the seawall?  Of course I wanted to go.  There's just something about being outside and water all around that just makes me happy!  It was still early when we left so it wasn't like we would be home super late.  We got there about 4 and dropped off tools and went to eat at Landry's.  I wanted to sit outside even though it was kind of windy it was still a beautiful day.  He told our waitress to we were going to relax a while to just bring our plates out slowly and she understood exactly what he said and did a wonderful job.  I ordered me a virgin strawberry dauquri and it was so good.  As we were sitting there I looked down and my feet were huge.  I guess that car ride didn't do me any good.  We finished eating and headed home and we got there right before 8 and the first thing I did was put my feet up.  Bert got called out on another job so I had a peaceful evening and went to bed early.  When he is gone at night I always wake up like ever 2 hours when he is gone and call to make sure he is ok so I did this until he got home around 2 in the morning. 

Saturday was our family reunion.  I had planned on being there around 10-10:30 since they had me at the registration table along with my cousing Jessica (she's also prego) since it didn't involve much work and we could sit.  I felt bad waking Bert up since he worked so late but we live in Ganado and my car was still at my parents in El Campo needless to say we didn't get to the reunion until after 11 and almost everyone was already there.  It was so hot outside and the air wasn't working good inside but I had to tough it out.  When the auctin rolled around I really wanted to see it so outside I went.  Bert was helping with this and it is so funny watching him.  His initials aren't BS (bullshitter) for nothing.  It started getting way to hot so I went inside and there's Jess sitting on the couch and her husband had put a fan on her so I plopped down and tryed to cool off.  Later in the day the little kids were swimming so I went out there in the shade and put my feet in the water since they were huge again and everytime I would take them out Livy would come and grab them and put em back in the water and would tell me I had to leave them in there.  I was so ready to go home but Bert had just finished the washer tournament and still had the horseshoe tournament and I was not able to watch either one :(.  Finally around 8ish I got him to help take the tents down and cleaned up just a little and headed home.  I wish I could say I slept in Sunday but I can't sleep very late these days.

Sunday was my shower at my sister's house.  She did a great job of getting everything together and decorating.  It was small just mainly family and a few friends which was very nice.  I got a lot more gifts and the host gave me my pack-n-play.  Bert and I like to go a lot so that pack-n-play will get a lot of use.  The shower was so short and sweet and to the point I loved it.  I was so tired from going all weekend that I was ready to go back home and lay down after being there for about 30 minutes.  Thank you sister!!

Here are a couple of pics from the shower.

Me with the Grandma's

Now Dr. appt update.  At my last appt Dr. Cook had told me we were going to remove my cerclage and it sounded like we were going to schedule something.  Well I made Bert take off of work for nothing.  I really wanted him to go with me for this.  We went early so I could go and get me a pair of glasses and I needed to stop a Babies-R-Us for one thing.  We got to the Dr. early so we waited for a little while.  When we finally went back the nurse came in weighed me which I gained another 5lbs so up to a total of 34lbs gained and checked the heartbeat which was 140.  I was all excited and asked her he's taking my cerclage out right?   And she looked at me puzzled and said I don't think so we usually don't do it this early and I was like well that's what he had told me she said she would check.  A little while later Dr. Cook comes in and checks me and said nothing has changed and he felt around a little and said he thinks the baby is somewhere around 6 1/2lbs and then told me to get dressed and he would be right back.  He came back and asked if I had another big ultrasound scheduled and I do for this Saturday.  He said he wants to see how big the baby is before he removes my cerclage so next week I will get this darn thing out hopefully.  Then Bert asked how much longer he is thinking until the baby is here (since he had talked about scheduling me before) he said normally FTM's go full term but I would say with y'all 2-2 1/2 weeks so now it sounds like he's not scheduling me so I really don't know where we are at.  I am only 35 1/2 weeks so I want my baby to stay in there and cook a little longer but I am so ready to be comfortable again.  I know a few mommies that have to go all summer in this heat huge prego and I feel so sorry for them.  Anyways hopefully Monday I will find out more and try and figure out exactly what my Dr. wants to do. 

One Shower down and One to go!!

Yesterday we had our couples diaper shower that Kurt & Cari Stancik put on for us!!  It was a lot of fun and we got a ton of gifts.  I just love getting presents!!  A lot of people were able to come and it was great to see everyone!!  My poor husband is already starting to freak out a little bit but after yesterday I think it's gotten worse.  Everytime we would pull another package of diapers out of a bag he was like what is this??  And you could see his facial expression was like what the heck are we going to do.  I'm really getting nervous to but I'm ready just more nervous about how the delivery is going to go.  We received tons of diapers, wipes, shampoos, body wash, powder & lotions so I have one of each sitting out waiting for when we come home and the rest stored in the dresser.  We received a beautiful quilt that was handmade by one of our good friends, clothes, towels, receiving blakets, a changing pad, bottles, a travel booster seat which I think will really come in handy knowing we do a lot of things now and when the baby comes we will still do things (not as much) but the baby will go with us pretty much everywhere.  It looked like everyone had a good time and I am so happy they all came to celebrate with us.  I will leave y'all with a few pics from the shower.

Thank you Kurt & Cari!!  Everything turned out great and we really appreciate it all!!!

Yes that is me and I am huge!!

This is my husbands confused face after many packages of diapers!!

This is the beautiful quilt we got!

Just another pic of us opening gifts!



We have a plan!!!

Things went halfway ok yesterday so I will start off with our shopping trip.  2 weeks ago when I scheduled my appt. I told Dory I wanted her to go with me so I can get certain little things I would need right away for the baby like all the little ointments and stuff like that.  We were both excited to have a shopping day and give her a little break from the kids.  Our first stop was at a Home Goods store and we just got a few things there then we went to Babies-R-Us.  Know I have everything for a girl or a boy picked out there.  So first we get all the little things I will need then I wanted to look around and make sure they had all the stuff I liked and make sure I still liked it all.  First thing we notice is they didn't have extra's of my stroller, carseat combo all they had were the ones on display that kind of got me a little worried but hey they can get more in.  As we walked around I picked out a few more things I would need and then in the back I noticed they had more of travel systems in the back on clearance.  That can only mean one thing, they are discontinuing them and all they had were 2 of the boy one and 3 of the girl one.  I started to panic just a little.  The stroller is a jogging stroller and they don't have any other combo packages with a jogging stroller and plus I really liked these and they were fairly priced.  It's not like I can go and buy one of each and return whichever one we don't need later if I did that with all the stuff I would break us.  So as I was thinking I walk to the back wall and make sure they have my bedding.  They still have the girl bedding I picked out and I still just love it but they no longer have my boy bedding.  So then I really start to freak a little since my mom and sister are going to pick this stuff up right after the baby is born I need to make sure it is in stock for them to get.  By then I just wanted to get out of the store so we left and went to eat at Chili's and headed to the Dr.'s office.

Now for my baby update!!!  No weight gain in 2 weeks which seems great to me since the 2 weeks before I had gained 7lbs so I am still at a total of 29lbs and the heartbeat was 141.  Then I just had to wait for Dr. Cook.  I'm going to back up a couple weeks real quick.  The day after my last appt 2 weeks ago I had a real sharp cramp like feeling pain that went away pretty quick.  Now I'm not exactly sure what a braxton hicks contraction feels like but I figured that might of been it but I didn't have another.  Then a couple days later I had these really strange feelings every now and then but they didn't really hurt but I wasn't sure what it was.  On Saturday we were on our way to the bay and I had another really sharp cramp feeling again but just that one time and that was it.  These days everything seems to bother me and I'm just really uncomfortable and feel like my baby has no where to go cause I don't think I can get any bigger.  Some of my maternity shirts I bought don't even go over my belly any more so I just wear what I can and if I wear it twice oh well.   Well Sunday and Monday we literally sat around the house all day and I never got out of Bert's big ole T-shirt since it is very comfy and I just didn't feel good so I was glad I had an appt the following day.  Dr. Cook comes in and checks my stitch and he said no dialation yet and your stitch is still holding up then he said what would you think about taking your stitch out in 2 weeks?  I didn't think we were going to do this until 3 weeks later but I was like your the Dr. so whatever you say.  He told me to get dressed but don't leave without talking to me.  The nurse came in and told me to go the conference room to meet with my Dr. so I sent her to get Dory and went to the other room.  Dr. Cook came in shortly after being in there and shook my hand and said congratulations you will make it to full term did you think that would happen?  I was like no but glad it did and I was like I'm only 33 1/2 weeks and he said but you will make it to 36 weeks and that is considered full term.  So he asked me once again what I thought about taking out my cerclage in 2 weeks and I was like that's fine.  He said he should be able to do it in office since the baby is pushing on it and making it stretch he will be able to get to it.  I asked if the head was still down and he said oh yeah.  He said we will schedule something around 37 weeks either induce me or c-section.  So Bert and I will be proud parents maybe before the end of June!!  I will be 37 weeks in 3 1/2 weeks and I am not even close to having everyting done that we need for the baby.  He said we are going to try everything we possibly can for me to have this baby natural but there is one concern.  When I was like 15 or 16 I had abnormal cells on my cervix and they froze them off, I don't know if it caused some kind of a scar tissue or what but he seemed a little concerned about that and mentioned it might not let my cervix open.  If that's the case I will have to have a c-section so keep your fingers crossed that this won't be the case.  Hopefully when he removes the stitch my cervix will start opening.  Well now that we have a plan at my next appt in 2 weeks he should schedule my d-date!!