She's here!!!!

And I'm so lat... sorry!!! As you can imagine, things have been pretty crazy around here! Let's see if I can update you...

I know you know that things have been absolutely crazy and my life has completely turned upside down! For the better of course, I am so in love with this little girl! When people told me that I would never truly know what love was until I had a child, were so right. I never thought that I could love someone so much that it physically hurts!

I'll take you back to April the day before the surgery....  My dad's flights ended up getting SOOO delayed, almost a full 48 hours delayed, but he made it! My mom's flight got in on time so at least I knew that one parent was going to make it! My poor dad was so frustrated... it was a long story and so many things have happened since that I don't really remember all of the details, but he was super delayed and I was so sad to have less time with him, but I am so grateful that they both made it to see their grandchild be born!

Here is me leaving for the hospital! And my last bump picture!

The delivery went so smoothly, everything went very well. We weren't scheduled for a time slot on the Saturday that she was born, but we were told to come in at 7:30am and from there I was placed into a waiting hospital room called Triage. Dad, mom, and Dan got to wait with me. I pretty much just sat there in the hospital bed until they were ready for me in the OR. It ended up being about a 4 hour wait from the time I got to the hospital to the time I was taken into the OR… they had a few emergencies that they had to tend to before they were able to take care of me since I wasn't an emergency I got kind of pushed to the back burner, it was ok cause I was able to calm my nerves a little bit before I went in. They prepped me and got me completely ready to cut and then they brought Daniel into the room. He looked SO nervous, the poor guy. But I calmed him down a little bit. I was very relaxed and told him that if I wasn't just about to have a baby, I could totally take a nap. Once he saw how calm I was, he was able to calm down a little bit too. I was omitted into the OR at 11:40 and she was born at 12:22pm. She weighed  8lbs 3oz and she was 21 ½ inches long. She was born with these huge cheeks that were just so kissable!!

They took us from the OR into the recovery room where I had to wait for some feeling to come into my legs before they let me go into my hospital room. I got to hold her the whole time and Daniel and I just sat there and stared at her and kept saying how perfect she was. We were so in love with her right away.

Us in recovery and our first picture together!

 After recovery they took her back to the newborn nursery to give her a bath and run normal newborn tests before they gave her back to me. I got back to my room and was SO thirsty since I wasn't able to eat or drink anything since midnight the previous night. I was so incredibly thirsty… the nurse gave me a HUGE cup of iced juice and told me to drink it slowly…. I should have listened a little more carefully.  I did drink it slow, but I guess not slow enough and right after I finished it, it came right back up! She gave me another cup full and this time I really listened to her so I wouldn't get sick again….. I must have drank 4 of those huge cups in about 2 hours’ time… Daniel’s family came to visit shortly after we were out of recovery, mom and dad were there as well.. However they took forever for them to bring Emma back to me! It was like almost two hours before I got her back from the newborn nursery, but once we got her back I had her the rest of the time if I wanted to. She passed all her tests with flying colors!

Family and Emma...

My mama- Emma's Gigi

My daddy- Emma's Grandpa

Daniel's Dad- Emma's Grandpa

The first few days of us together:

The only people that came to visit that day were Daniel’s family and mine, we decided it was important to just have immediate family there right away and have friends come a little bit later. More of my friends came the next day. I didn't get much sleep between all of the machines I was hooked up to, the nurses coming in to check my vitals every hour and then them bringing Emma in from the nursery to nurse every 3 hours…. We decided to let the nursery take her the nights we were in the hospital so that we could get some sleep… I felt better sleeping while she was being watched by the nurses since she was still so little and fragile. I didn't sleep still; I just missed her and wanted her with me. I don’t think I slept for a full 3 days. I finally got some shut eye the day before we left the hospital, I just napped while mom and dad and Dan watched TV in the room and watched Emma… I felt better knowing she was in the room with us and being watched at the same time while I slept.

We were supposed to be discharged on Tuesday morning around 10am, but they started to get concerned about Emma’s jaundice levels. She had already lost almost 12% of her birth weight and they started to get concerned that she wasn’t eating enough. We were given the choice to supplement with formula until I was able to produce enough milk to make sure she was getting enough to eat. They weren’t 100% comfortable with discharging her until they talked to her doctor to make sure that her jaundice levels weren’t anything to be concerned about. Her pediatrician agreed to discharge her that day around 1pm with the condition that we come in the next day to her office so that she can give her a weight check.

Leaving the hospital was very emotional for me. I was so protective of her and I was so scared that she was cold since it was her first time ever outside, it was the first time she was ever in her car seat and she was so tiny it didn't look like she was really supported enough. She was crying so hard when we were trying to get her into the car, it was cold and windy and I knew she was cold because I was cold.. I started crying because I was so hormonal and I was so worried about her, I was a wreck. I was a wreck for pretty much the next two weeks after leaving the hospital. People tell you about postpartum depression, but I didn't know my anxiety would be so bad. I felt like I had so much to lose now that I had a child to protect that I loved so much, I just wanted to curl up in the house to prevent anything from happening to her. I still get weird when other people want to hold her so much, I feel like I want to hold her at all times and I miss her when I don’t get to hold her. The hormones are subsiding for now and I don’t feel as anxious anymore, thank God! That was not easy to deal with. Of course I had to deal with the hormones while I had to say goodbye to mom and dad, as if that isn't already hard enough. Their time was so short here and since I was so busy with Emma, I didn't even get any pictures with them! I got some pictures of them holding Emma, but that is about it.

Here is us leaving the hospital!

The first night she was home with us from the hospital, she was up every hour on the hour and I was so tired! All she wanted to do was feed and feed and I wasn't producing enough milk, so she wasn't ever getting full. I was so scared that all her nights home were going to be like that and I was going to go crazy! She was up feeding and at her doctor’s appointment the next day they weighed her and she gained 3oz in one day! So I guess the feeding paid off. However, her doctor did notice that her eyes were starting to yellow meaning that the jaundice wasn't going away, it was getting worse. I was so scared she was going to have to be put back in the hospital and go under the lights. They had us drive to the lab to get her blood taken, I cried almost the whole way there. I was scared she was going to cry during the heel prick, she didn't though! She did cry at the end when they were trying to collect the blood only because she was hungry. Her levels had gone down since the hospital and she didn't have to be looked at anymore. The doctor told me that once my milk started to come in that she would poop out the jaundice and the yellow would start to go away. It did eventually come in and she was feeding like a champ after that! I was so relieved.

Things are so different now with a newborn in the house, my entire life is turned around and my every minute is devoted to her. I love it though. She is absolutely perfect and I feel so blessed to have her be my daughter. She is so beautiful! Right now she has dark blonde hair and blue eyes, but those are said to change within the first few weeks of life, so we’ll see what color they turn out to be later! Daniel has been helping me so much with the diaper changes and the feedings as well. He doesn't get up in the middle of the night with her unless he doesn't have to work the next day. I figured since I am off I can get up with her and I can sleep in a little in the mornings. I’m feeling almost back to 100% too! The procedure was easy peasy and I was up and walking that night. I felt really good and I have been off of my pain meds since about a week after we got home. 

We also got her newborn photo shoot under our belt already and the announcements have been sent out! Here are a few of my faves from her newborn shoot!

Week 36 and 37!

Sooo, apparently the time is passing so fast I completely forgot about week 36… so I’m combining weeks 36 and 37… which is… FULL TERM!! WHOO!!!

Today is Friday, so technically I am 37 weeks and 6 days… however, moral of the story, I have EIGHT. DAYS. LEFT!!!! Just 8 freaking days! I am so lost in dreamland right now I can’t even wrap my head around it.

Update from last week: My BFF Jenn, she's having a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!

We saw our friend Sarah who took our maternity pictures on Easter Sunday and she gave me a disk of the edited shots!! I am so in love!! I couldn't be more happier with them!! Here are a few of our faves!!

LOVE, LOVE I tell you!

Last week was pretty eventful… a few girlfriends and I attended Wicked at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre.. it was absolutely amazing and so much more than I thought it would be. I’ve heard such great things from it and I had been looking forward to seeing it for forever. It did not disappoint. And, I totally saw my OB there! Lol… one of the friends I was with goes to her as well so she was surprised to see both of us together, kind of random and funny at the same time. Although it was totally comforting because I was feeling weird movement patterns from the baby during the entire first half of the show. The only way to describe it would be as if the baby was fully pushed up against my belly and breathing! My belly looked like it was breathing on its own. Completely crazy and so nothing I’ve ever felt before. I was going to ask her about it when I saw her, but she was there with her family, I didn’t want to make her think work when she probably doesn’t have many days off. Just knowing she was there was SO comforting. I had an appointment the following Monday anyways so I got to bring it up to her.

During my appointment I had mentioned that I was having pain in my pubic area, almost like the bone was bruised and the muscle was pulled. It hurts to walk, do stairs, lift my legs… pretty much do anything. Sometimes it even hurts to sit if I’ve been super active for long periods of time. I told her about it and she diagnosed me with Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction… basically there are two joints down there that are being held together by cartilage and my cartilage is tearing…. Sounds fun! It’s super painful and apparently the cartilage could actually completely tear apart which she told me was super painful and takes a really long time to heal. She mentioned that if I was having a natural delivery, chances are it would completely separate. So she told me no more stairs, light activity, no lifting anything over 15lbs and the best part…… she took me out of work early!!!! YES!!!! Today is my last day… I am sitting here at my desk with  52 minutes left of my last day of work for TWO MONTHS! Although I would totally take working the last 3 days I was supposed to be scheduled, I am ok with this. This will give me a week or so to get my house in order (for the most part) and prepare for my parents coming in a week!!  I am going to try to take it easy though… I don’t want to tear this thing…. She said one of her patients tore hers while scrubbing her floor! She bent down and then couldn’t get back up. Ugh, sounds so painful!

Also, during the conversation I had with her about the pain and my new limitations, she told me no more sleeping on the air mattress unless it was on an elevated platform to eliminate having to get off of it 3 or 4 times a night to pee…. Wah wah wah…. Daniel, the awesome husband that he is, took our mattress and put it on the floor for him to sleep on, and then put the air mattress on the bed on top of the box springs…. It hasn’t been the most comfortable, but it is easier to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom.

Well that whole fiasco led to my wanting a king size bed sky rocket… needless to say I cracked down on the search… craigslist is always my first option for anything… I ended up last weekend finding a deal for a sleigh bed, a box spring and a mattress for $150… I was pretty hesitant on using a used mattress, but my mentality was $150 for at least the bed itself and the box spring isn’t a bad deal at all considering the frames like that go for at least $300 and the box springs alone are around $150… It was an hour drive to get there and we figured once we learned of the seller’s living conditions we would then decide on if we were going to use the mattress or not. I did buy a mattress allergen cover that I was planning on using after a nice spray of Lysol to disinfect it as much as possible. However, once we got there, the minute we stepped foot in the house we both were like, NOPE! Let’s just say the living conditions were enough to make child services concerned… and they had a 4 month old. The house was so freaking dirty, we came home and cleaned our house for 2 hours straight. However, we preceded to look at the bed and the box springs already knowing we were going to be curbing the mattress itself. The room we were in was kind of dark so it was hard to see the nicks and dents on the BLACK bed, but I was so excited about the deal, I paid them and we loaded it and drove the hour home.

Once we got home, we noticed the box springs were in worse condition than the mattress and we were both so grossed out by everything we had seen in their house we decided to curb both the mattress and the box spring and only keep the bed. I felt a little jipped…. Especially after learning that in the daylight, the bed was NOT that great… however, I continued to look for a mattress and box spring brand new online. There was a set I had been eyeing at Walmart.com for a memory foam mattress and a split box spring… I talked Daniel into it and bought it… and may or may not have paid for rush shipping for it to get her sooner. It arrived on Wednesday and last night I made Daniel take down our bed, I washed the “new” king size bed and we set it up in our bedroom. I was so excited to use the new mattress I literally like rushed to bed. It only took 5 minutes for me in the bed to realize that it was going back to the store. First off, the mattress was supposed to be 8”… it only expanded to about 5” and the minute I settled into the bed it felt like I was sleeping on the hardwood floor… I dozed off because I was so tired, and woke up around 3am to go to the bathroom. I got back into bed and said “EFF THIS.. I’m going to the couch.” I was so irritated at how fast I bought this set the numbers I paid kept flashing in my head…. I literally got maybe like 4 hours of sleep last night, so this weekend we’re on a mission “FIND NEW MATTRESS”….. that is all I can concentrate on right now! Not only that, but the tossing and turning and the pain of sleeping on the new mattress made the “cartilage pain” feel like 10 times worse today… I am so happy it’s my last day!!

Anywho…. In baby news…  last week baby was the size of a Honeydew!

Your Baby: Week 36

Baby is getting closer and closer to being able to breathe on her own.

This week, she's the size of a wintermelon! (Where do they come up with these??)

Your Baby: Week 37

Around 37 weeks, many moms-to-be find themselves organizing cupboards and scrubbing their floors. That’s the nesting instinct kicking in as your body senses baby will be here shortly.

No scrubbing floors for me!

Symptoms: Vag pain, back pain, hip pain, peeing every hour, heartburn, pelvic pain, some constipation still...and still feeling tons and tons of movement... kidney pain...hot flashes, headaches and bloody noses like woah!

Food Cravings: Back to Mexican

What I'm most excited about: My parents arriving, my last day of work and April 20th!!

Something I've done to prepare for baby: Bed nesting...

Here are my bumps!

Week 36:

Week 37:

35 weeks!

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin', into the futureeeeee.

Seal anyone? I love me some Seal.

3 weeks 2 days left, and exactly 13 days of work left. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around the fact that in just under a month I will be holding this little girl in my arms. I can’t wait to see what she looks like, I think that is what is going through my mind the most. I have a vague image of what her 4D pictures have looked like, now I know to imagine hair as well…. But dark/blonde/red head? Blue eyes, brown eyes, green eyes, grey eyes? I am half Hispanic and completely pride myself in it, I hope this little girl has some trace of Hispanic in her! Dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin? I’ll take it! Daniel has darker skin than me so it’s a chance she won’t be as pasty as I am. I can get a nice tan though when I’m out in the sun, the summer time is amazing on my skin and I rarely burn. (Our trip to Mexico where I refused to wear sunscreen doesn’t count.) I can’t wait… she’s going to be beautiful to matter what. I. can. not. wait.

I scored on a clearance sale at BRU on Thyme maternity this past weekend! The sale was buy one get one free on all clearance. Helloooo? I got a 3 piece pajama set to wear after delivery at the hospital and a cute maternity top that was free. I do have to go back because the top was too small, so hopefully I’ll be able to find something else. I also got 2 nursing bras that I had 20% off coupons for, I have to go back too because I got the wrong bust size, blah. Oh well, all the more reason to go back and hopefully get some more deals!

My best friend, Jenn and I went to the Carrie Underwood concert on Tuesday. Freaking girl rocked it, like usual. She is 20 weeks pregnant and the way she announced it to me back in January was talking about the Carrie Underwood concert that was coming up in march and how we should make shirts that said “Future Carrie Fans”… So we made shirts for the concert. We got a lot of comments on them! I was really surprised by all the attention it drew, we even got some random drunk girl belly rubs, lol. I can’t really blame them, the shirt was kind of like a welcome message for it.

Here is a picture of the two of us from that night.

And also of Carrie, because she is just amazing.

Jenn found out what she is having today, but I’m sworn to secrecy until the word is out! (I have no clue who reads this blog, but knowing my luck it’ll be someone I’m not supposed to tell).. Let’s just say I am SOOO happy for her!!! I love that our babies are only going to be less than 4 months apart, seriously dream come true to be able to raise kids with your BFF! So fun! 

Also, last weekend we had our friend Sarah (with her snazzy camera and super awesome photography skills) take maternity pictures of us at the same exact location that we took our wedding pictures! We have one sneak peak, and I can’t wait to see the rest!!!

Here is one sneak:

This week baby girl is the size of a coconut!!

Your Baby: Week 35

You’ve reached 35 weeks, and your uterus has grown about 1,000 times its original size, a number that might sound exaggerated to everyone else -- but to you it probably feels more like a million.

Holy hell, that's a big uterus.

Symptoms: Back pain, hip pain, peeing every hour, heartburn, pelvic pain, some constipation still...and still feeling tons and tons of movement... kidney pain...hot flashes, headaches and bloody noses like woah!

Food Cravings: Fish Taco's

What I'm most excited about: April 20th!!

Something I've done to prepare for baby: It's been a lazy week, don't judge me.

I'm not going to post a pic this week since the Carrie Underwood should count. :)

34 weeks!

We have 4 weeks and 1 day to go... as of today. INSANE! I feel like I’ve been pregnant for forever, but then again, I feel like it’s seriously flown by.

I also have a love/hate relationship with being pregnant. I love that I am assisting God in the greatest miracle of all time.. a human life is forming inside of me and I’ve done almost nothing to help it. My body has taken over preparing for this baby, helping her grow and feeding her the nutrients she needs to be healthy. On the other hand, I hurt all over! While my body has kicked into overdrive nurturing this child, it’s put my comfort on the back burner. Everything just hurts, doing the most simple task is a chore, I can’t wait to get back to normal! I know that I am going to miss being pregnant though. The thing I think I’ll miss the most is the feeling of her moving around and how it’s only between me and her, unless someone by chance looks at my belly at the right time, I love that it’s almost like our little secret. Again, unless she has a power punch/kick and it makes me wince or say “Ouch!” in the middle of a conversation, which is starting to happen more and more.

I also can’t wait until she’s out, safe in my arms, and I don’t have to worry about going into labor early anymore, or what happens if I see blood, or what happens if I have cramps that I can’t handle anymore, or what happens if I’m not packed and she decides to come early?? Of course, then I’ll have other things to worry about… but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Pregnancy is a such a wonderful thing, but SO worrisome at the same time, it’ll be a HUGE relief to have her in my arms so I can see her.

I scored on some baby clothes this past weekend and then again during the week. I went with my friend Jenn (who finds out if her baby is a boy or girl next Thursday!!) to a “mom’s club” sale at her grandma’s church. I got sooo many adorable outfits (I think about 15 to be exact)… 3 swaddle blankets…2 bassinet sheets….a new bobby pillow… and pair of maternity yoga pants.. all for a whopping $26!! Score!! Then on Tuesday I went to Once Upon A Child, they sell gently used baby gear/clothes, etc… and I got baby girl 4 pairs of jeans, 20 onesies (some long sleeve and some short sleeve), 2 bathing suits, a terry cover (for our summer family vacation in June), and 3 outfits all for $50… not as good of a deal as the garage sale, but still awesome!

Here is a snapshot of all of the clothes that I bought:

This one deserves it's own picture because it's Sleeping Beauty and it was .50... BOOM!

I also bought these off of eBay for our maternity shoot, and because she has to have a pair for every size her foot is going to be:

I also went to BBB this past weekend and bought clothing size separators for her closet, they really came in handy! Here is a pic of her closet so far… I need to get more hangers and hang the rest of the clothes up…

Also, we were never able to do those maternity pictures with my mom the morning of the shower so this Sunday a friend is coming over to snap a few shots of us at the same place that we took our wedding pictures, I can’t wait!!

This week baby girl is the size of a butternut squash… (ok these fruits are seriously getting out of control, I think they just ran out of comparison fruits??)

Your Baby: Week 34

At 34 weeks, you might breathe a little easier, since baby may descend lower into your pelvis and give your lungs some space. (Ahh!) The pitfall of this descent, of course, is even more pressure on your bladder, so be prepared to make even more trips to the ladies room over the coming weeks.

(They ARE NOT kidding)

Symptoms: Back pain, hip pain, peeing every hour, heartburn, pelvic pain, some constipation still...and still feeling tons and tons of movement... kidney pain...hot flashes, headaches and bloody noses like woah!

Food Cravings: Fish Taco's

What I'm most excited about: April 20th!!

Something I've done to prepare for baby: Last night Daniel and I washed and sterilized all her bottles, cups, pacifiers, and all of my breast pump accessories... all ready for use!!

Here is my 34 weeker:



33 weeks!

Only 5 weeks left!! I can’t believe how quickly the time has flown by…. But then again it really hasn’t. I absolutely cannot wait to meet this little girl… and kiss those feet that have been jabbing in my rib cage for the past week… and kiss those little fingers that have been punching my bladder... and kiss that little mouth that has been hiccupping at least 2-3 times a day for the past two weeks… it’s so worth it. Everything I’ve been going through, just to know that in 5 short weeks, I’ll be holding her.

Today at work we had a meeting scheduled with my boss and 5 other co-workers who are all sharing my responsibilities when I go out on maternity leave. Before the meeting my good friend/co-worker came to my cubicle to walk down with me, we both stopped by the bathroom first and then walked into the meeting room to find no one in there yet but my boss. My boss goes “I guess no one is in here yet.” So Kim was like “Let’s go into the cafeteria and kill some time.” So I’m slowing walking in behind her and she walks past this partition that’s up in the cafeteria usually used for meetings and I almost didn’t follow her because I’m like, “Someone’s having a meeting, let’s not disturb them!” And as I walk closer I see all of these “It’s a Girl!” decorations and all of these women I work with yelling “SURPRISE!” I was so floored… completely shocked!! I received a few more gifts from friends and a BRU gift card that about 26 different people chipped in for! Kim made delicious cupcakes and the decorations and balloons were adorable!!

I felt so overwhelmed and so special. I have lots of thank you cards to write this weekend!

My mom and dad have both booked their trips to come and see the baby when she’s born! I’m so glad they’re both going to be here for her arrival… She is going to have both sets of grandparents with her after she’s born! That is going to be a VERY rare occasion seeing as how we live across the state from my family. I’m so blessed to have an amazing family!

This week Daniel finally got to FEEL and SEE her hiccups! I don’t know why I was so excited for him to feel them and see them, normally it’s too much of a subtle movement for someone else to see, but he was able to the other night. He was also able to see her rolling around, he got a little creeped out. Hahah, it was funny!

My body is really starting to feel this pregnancy too. I have been feeling pretty uncomfortable sleeping in our bed at night and it seems like I wake Daniel up at least 4-5 times when I’m switching positions, getting up to pee or just laying awake because of how uncomfortable I am. So we were in CT this weekend visiting family, I slept on an air mattress thinking it would be the death of me. It was SO comfortable!!! When we got back it was followed by the two worst nights I’ve had in our bed, just nonstop tossing and turning which leads to a 1pm crash at my desk. So last night I buckled and decided to try the air mattress again. We blew it up and set up all my blankets on the floor to our bedroom and we slept in separate beds last night… we both hated to admit in the morning that we both slept AMAZINGLY… so we (currently) are officially one of those couples that sleep in separate beds. I am not ashamed. It felt amazing to wake up not stiff and sore!

This week baby girl is the size of the fruit that I posted last week… oops. Last week she was the size of a squash… this week she’s a durian fruit. I don’t know how I screwed that up.

Symptoms: Back pain, hip pain, peeing every hour, heartburn, pelvic pain, some constipation still...and still feeling tons and tons of movement...hot flashes are now added to the mix.

Food Cravings: Fish Taco's

What I'm most excited about: April 20th!!

Something I've done to prepare for baby: Make sure I get some good sleep by switching to the air mattress... I know those nights are going to be few and far between once she's here!

Well, here is my 33 week bump:

32 weeks!!

 So now we're down to only 6 weeks, 1 day... my c-section date was changed from the 22nd to the 20th... ahhh!! So 6 weeks from tomorrow our beautiful baby will be born, it’s so surreal!

My baby shower was this weekend, it was an absolute blast! I loved to see everyone that came to celebrate with me, my mom threw one awesome party! The décor, the food, the games, everything was so planned out and just turned out so well. I shouldn’t have expected anything less from my mom though, if I thought I was a planner, my mom takes the cake! I get my organization skills from her… or what I have of them.

Here are some pictures from the day. I am kind of bummed that I again forgot to take pictures WITH people and not just of things… my sweet neighbor Missy took pictures of me opening gifts. I would post more, but I seriously look like I just ate all the presents and then posed for pictures, I look GI-NOR-MOUS. So I’ll spare you most of the pictures.

This is me with my "Canadian Dad"... our friends Jennifer and Steven that we met on our honeymoon came down from Canada to visit for the weekend and come to my shower, her parents drove down for the day! I felt so blessed to have them there... Everyone was laughing at our stomachs saying we were due the same day. :)  

We played the game called "My Water Broke!" where each guest got an ice cube with a baby in it and when your baby breaks free from the ice, you yell "My water broke!" and first one to yell it gets a prize... Super fun!

And just because of how in love with this gift I was.... this is from Daniel's best friend's wife and their two little girls... They know how much I love Sleeping Beauty... I saw this first and started to tear up a little...

Then I pulled this out and completely lost it....

I cannot wait to put our little girl in these!!! I'm going to keep buying different sizes so she never grows out! Lol....

Also, after the shower was all said and done and I was able to put everything away, I put baby girl’s nursery together! I had started the process a while ago, but now that we have everything we need, I was able to set everything up. I am absolutely in love. It turned out better than I had pictured in my head! I loved that I was able to use the Sleeping Beauty things that I had saved specifically for if I ever had a daughter… I wanted her room to have some Disney in it… even though I promised Daniel I wouldn’t go overboard with the whole “Disney Princess” theme… I think I kept my word. You be the judge.

                                            Door sign made by my neighbor, Missy... so adorable!

Sleeping Beauty cut outs I made...

 More on the other side of the window

      (Daniel and I made this... well he made it, I stained it... Daniel also made the bookends and I painted them)

Now all we need is our little girl in the room to enjoy it!

I’ve started to get a hospital bag together as well… so far the only thing in it is a sleep nursing bra that I bought from Motherhood Maternity, a folder with my FMLA and disability paperwork, the paperwork for Emma’s social security number and birth certificate that I received already, and a bunch of other paperwork… it also has my Medela nipped shield that I got in case she has trouble latching, and a few other things… I made a HUGE list of the things that I will need to pack for the day of, but I won’t start that until a few days before the 20^th… I’m planning on packing some clothes that I wear ALL the time so I’ll need them out for now. I did buy an extra pair of yoga pants (cause those are what I live in these days) and I have a nursing shirt and I’m planning on putting my robe in there in case we have an emergency situation and we don’t make it to the 20^th, this way at least I have a partial bag going and I’m not scrambling at the last minute.

I’m excited for this weekend! We’re driving down to CT to visit my BIL and SIL and our new baby nephew, Simon! It will be good to spend time with them and see the new addition… also maybe learn some tips from her about delivery and hospital stay. We’re driving down with my in-laws too, I’m looking forward to the road trip. Time in the car is always so relaxing. I’ve got my iPod and my Nook all charged up and ready to go and fresh new batteries in my book light!

I went to the Dr. (twice) this week… once for an ultrasound and once for a check up. At the ultrasound, the tech told us that Emma weighs 4 pounds 12 ounces! She’s in the 75^th percentile for weight and she is head down now!! Although that doesn’t really do us any good since the placenta is still completely covering my cervix so we’ll still have to have the c-section. My Dr. said she is very pleased with the way the pregnancy has been going. I have only gained 12 lbs so far and the baby takes up almost 5 of that… my blood pressure and my growth are right on track and she also said that even though Placenta Previa is considered high risk, I’m a pretty low risk patient because I haven’t had any bleeding during the pregnancy that was caused by the Previa. That makes me a little more relaxed knowing that. She is pretty confident that I can make it to 39 weeks without any issues… which is also awesome because if they have to take her out any earlier than 39 weeks, we’ll have to have an amnio done to determine the maturity of her lungs and I really don’t want to have that done…. So I’m glad she’s letting her bake in there as long as possible.

Currently she is the size of a Durian fruit…. WTF is that?? Oh and PS… the tech said these whole “fruit comparisons” are bogus.. lol. She said “Nothing irks me more than when people come in and ask me if their little lime or lemon is the right size.” Haha kind of funny… especially as I see these fruits get smaller and larger each week, this Durian fruit or whatever certainly looks smaller than a freaking squash.. where are they getting their information from??

Your Baby: Week 33

Baby's keeping her eyes open while awake. She's also starting to coordinate breathing with sucking and swallowing.

Symptoms: Back pain, hip pain, peeing every hour, heartburn, pelvic pain, some constipation still...and still feeling tons and tons of movement!

Food Cravings: Taco Bell...bean burritos more specifically..

What I'm most excited about: getting things ready for her arrival!

Something I've done to prepare for baby: Her room is all set up, I need to wash some of the clothes still and blankets and towels... I also need to open up her bottles and the Tommee Tippee set we got and sterilize it all to get ready for use... installing the car seat is also on the list.... we put together the travel system we got for the shower, I love it!!

 

Here is my 32 week bump: