Well tomorrow i will be 32 weeks pregnant and i am so grateful to feel so great still. Unfortunately we have had some complications but according to the doctor we are okay and most likely will still have a full term baby boy. I had some preterm contractions in early February and ended up in triage and after a few hours they gave me a shot of turbutaline and the contractions went away. We noted my file and doctor said most likely that was a fluke and no big deal. Then on Tuesday afternoon i started getting a few braxton-hicks copntractions and they started getting more frequent as the night went on, finally by 8 pm i realized they were getting conssitently closer together and not going away. So the doctor sent me back to triage and we went through the process again. This time they gave me another shot of turbutaline and a pill of something that is a smooth muscle relaxer. The contractions did not completely go away but did lessen greatly afterwards so i got sent home in the middle of the night. My doctor wanted to see me the next morning since i was still having contractions very close to menstrual cramps and wasn't comfortable. We checked for signs of cervical change(preterm labor) and luckily everything looked very good so he gave me a prescription for the turbutaline pills to keep the contractions at a minimum and hopefully go away completely. It took a few days on bedrest but finally late friday night they went away and for the past three days i have stayed on bedrest without any contractions. The doctor said once they went away i could start back to normal activity but according to my family normal activity for me is go, go, go which is a no, no, no!
I am grateful that it is only preterm contractions and not preterm labor as it seems to be controlable at the moment with medicine and rest. Also since we are this far along our baby is most likely around the 4 lb mark or bigger which means if the contractions sent me into preterm labor at least the baby would have less complications than if born much earlier. The doctor says we are just working towards 35-36 weeks and that is a huge milestone where if born baby Evan would most likley have a short hopsital stay or maybe even get to take him home right away. Hard to believe that we could possibly have a baby coming home in as little as 3 weeks...yikes!
I have almost all the necessities to bring a new baby home but i am no where mentaly ready for this little one. I keep asking myself what i was thinking wanting a third child why did i feel such a life shattering need to have another child....the past few restaurant and shopping experiences have been pure disasters with them acting like total maniacs but then my son brings me a flower from the yard and a huge kiss and it reminds me exaclty why. I am excited to see how our family dynamics change and what this little boy will do to mix things up. I am wondering if he will look like Grant or completely different. Will he breastfeed for a year like Hailey or will he be a formula baby like Grant? Will he be a content baby or end up with colic? I am looking forward to seeing how we function and cope with being a new family of 5!.
I am having a hard time coping with the fact that our family is now complete. Not sure i totally believe it, even though i know three kids is more than enough for me to handle. I still don't feel in my heart that we are done or our family is complete. I will leave that final decision up to my husband. He was content with two children and i never thought i would convince him we needed a third but somehow he decided it would be so. Now the decision will be up to him again. If he decided this is it-I will be happy with my princess and my two princes, more than happy, overly elated but i have always wanted a house full of girls. I feel a pull for a daughter. Not sure what route i want to try and go to make that possible. Not sure i want to try another pregnancy, change it up and try foster parenting or adoption but i want to leave our options opened for the future, just in case my husband opens his heart to the idea of another child, hopefully a duaghter! ;)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Short Word Friday
Grrrrrr!
Poor Woody!
This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy....
Don't you wish your eyelashes were this long, i do!
Bubble, Bubble, Bubble....Bubble, bubble, POP!
Fingers and toes
See my car can fly!
Instead of coloring i prefer making hundreds of tiny holes in the paper instead!
If i give you the evil face long enough you will do everything i ask!
Cards from my great granny make me smile!
The wonder of an eight year old on her birthday!
I didn't do it, i swear!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
29 weeks and counting
Well, alot has happened in the past 2-3 months! I am already coming up on 30 weeks next Tuesday...hard to believe the time has passed so fast. It has been a busy couple of months and i have been ordered to relax and rest often. Back arouns 24-25 weeks we had a scary close call with contractions coming every 4-5 minutes and lasted over 8 hours before the hospital gave me some meds to stop them. Luckily the Dr. didn't put me on bedrest but he has advised me to use light duty as it seems my uterus contracts when i get up and walk for more than an hour at a time. Luckily i am not having any signs of an impeding labor and my cervix is closed and very thick at 5 cm. He thinks i am in good shape and should hold little Evan in to term...or later with my track resord previously, lol. If your wondering we have finally cam eup with a name, we picked it out on New Years Eve...seems so long agao now! Evan Andrew Steele. Evan after Jason's grandpa and Andrew after my dad. So our final child, our son will have a strong family name to pas on forever!
Our house had a healthy winter until about 2 weeks ago and then the nice weather started us on the yucky allergies and head colds. I ended up at the Dr. on Monday of this week with a sinus infection and allergy problems. I basically slept from Monday until this morning when Hailey ended up at the mec and she has strep throat. I am just hoping our house is on the mend and we get healthy soon.
The weather is gorgeous and i have shorts on, it feels so good and makes me wish we all were healthy and could play outside. I am ready to have the windows opened and fresh air coming in to blow the germs out of the house!
We have had birthday party after birthday party over the past month...and Haileys is coming up this weekend. Lots of GirlScout activities and me trying to get our scouts their cookie sale!It has been a challenege keeping up with all my volunteer activities. Everyone always tell me that i am a busybody but this pregnancy has made me slow down and it is super hard to do! I guess i like keeping busy and having to rest frequently and not walk much has made life super complicated. I know it is what i have to do to keep myself and m=out litle Evan safe though.
Our main computer crashed a couple of weeks ago and we are waiting for tax money to order a new bigger one so i don't have my normal photoediting software for my pictures. I have lightroom on my laptop but have never really tried to use it and understand it the way i should. I ended up taking some sexy maternity pics last week and used lightroom and i was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use for basic lighting issues and fun changes. I have told everyone it might just be my new best friend, lol! I will post a couple of pics here for you all to see. I really like them! Hopefully i will write again soon, but more than likely i will get busy and forget until after Evans born....guess we will have to wait and see!
They are a little racy, actually alot racier than i originally wanted. Then i found the beauty in them....it is a growing baby in there and it is beautiful!
Our house had a healthy winter until about 2 weeks ago and then the nice weather started us on the yucky allergies and head colds. I ended up at the Dr. on Monday of this week with a sinus infection and allergy problems. I basically slept from Monday until this morning when Hailey ended up at the mec and she has strep throat. I am just hoping our house is on the mend and we get healthy soon.
The weather is gorgeous and i have shorts on, it feels so good and makes me wish we all were healthy and could play outside. I am ready to have the windows opened and fresh air coming in to blow the germs out of the house!
We have had birthday party after birthday party over the past month...and Haileys is coming up this weekend. Lots of GirlScout activities and me trying to get our scouts their cookie sale!It has been a challenege keeping up with all my volunteer activities. Everyone always tell me that i am a busybody but this pregnancy has made me slow down and it is super hard to do! I guess i like keeping busy and having to rest frequently and not walk much has made life super complicated. I know it is what i have to do to keep myself and m=out litle Evan safe though.
Our main computer crashed a couple of weeks ago and we are waiting for tax money to order a new bigger one so i don't have my normal photoediting software for my pictures. I have lightroom on my laptop but have never really tried to use it and understand it the way i should. I ended up taking some sexy maternity pics last week and used lightroom and i was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use for basic lighting issues and fun changes. I have told everyone it might just be my new best friend, lol! I will post a couple of pics here for you all to see. I really like them! Hopefully i will write again soon, but more than likely i will get busy and forget until after Evans born....guess we will have to wait and see!
They are a little racy, actually alot racier than i originally wanted. Then i found the beauty in them....it is a growing baby in there and it is beautiful!
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