Non-baby related excitment

We are finally going modern at our house. No we haven't caved and gotten cable, we have gone wireless. Right now I am sitting on the couch, typing on a wireless keyboard, which is hooked up to my computer that is using my brand new wifi network! I know, I know, fancy stuff! So, if you come over you can get on my network too. Woooo, super fancy! I am pysched to be able to sit on the couch and use the internet, with my big screen TV as my monitor! I think we can instantly download Netflix movies and watch them on the TV now!!! I hope everyone is as bowled over with this development as I am! :)

I have to force myself to bed about an hour ago so I am well rested for tomorrow's attempt at producing Baby Brother.

Not a Priority

So, I called the hospital at 6am today and they said "things are hectic now, we will call you in a few hours." At 8:30 they called and told me to come in for a nonstress test and lab work. So we went in and everything is perfect and normal. :/ Yeah, and boo! I am glad that my blood pressure is fine, the baby is active and looking great and he still has lots of amniotic fluid but that meant that I got bumped and sent home. If things quiet down this afternoon they will call me in but probably I will be calling them at 6am tomorrow to do this whole thing over again. It is looking like I will be lucky to go tomorrow, but I may still be waiting this weekend (because they of course don't do inductions on the weekend so I would have to wait until Monday). Wish me luck for tomorrow!

And Still waiting

We are still awaiting the prince's arrival. However, if he is not here on his own by Thursday, I will be going to the hospital to be induced. I am a little nervous about that idea but mostly excited and relieved to see the end. They decided to schedule me for an induction because my blood pressure was high again today. It is high enough to be worrisome but not so high as to be an emergency.

I have made some progress on my own. The highly irregular, mildish contractions I have been having are doing something, I am dilated to 2cm, twice what I was last week! :) Dave thinks I will go into labor tonight or tomorrow on my own, but he is the guy who bet with his grandmother that I would have had the baby two weeks ago. He is highly unreliable! Lucy is also not to be trusted, she has been telling me for a week and a half that the baby was coming on Tuesday, also wrong. The two of them have raised my hopes too many times. ;)

I am not sure, but we might be able to take Dave's laptop and get on the internet at the hospital. We will post as soon as we can to let you know how it all comes out. (You know, that he did decided to come out. I am beginning to think that he might want to stay for another month or two.)

Still Waiting

Yup, we are still waiting.

3 Days

Three days left until my due date. Lucy made her entrance on her due date so lets all wish really hard! :)

I've had a few contractions, unfortunately they were very irregular and mild. Well, it's not really unfortunate that they were mild. ;) I had another non-stress test today and Baby Brother is a busy one. Last night he was kicking so much so hard, that Dave could see the movement from across the room and it made him wince. Baby Bro is kicking me in the back and making my back hurt sometimes, I don't remember Lucy ever doing that. I hope that isn't a sign that I will have back labor.

I am trying to walk when I can, but it's tough in this weather. I worry about taking Lucy out for too long in the stroller when it is so cold. I think that she will be really cold really quickly because she is sitting still in the stroller. Maybe tomorrow we will go to the mall again. I need to go shopping anyway because I just realized Lucy's birthday is in two and a half weeks. I mean, I knew it was soon but that is really soon! Chalk that one up to pregnancy brain.

Lucy has been using real sentences and expresses much more complex things these days. She remembers so much! She will bring things up that happened weeks ago. She is also exhibiting all the normal toddler behaviors, trying to be independent, doing things herself, and saying no just to say no. Normally frustrating things that are extra difficult due to my lack of patience at this point in time. We are managing pretty well, but sometimes we have to call Daddy to come home for a few minutes, or Grandma and Bobbob have to come take over for awhile, like they did Tuesday. (I am so glad they are home from their trip!) I guess it will get worse for awhile but eventually they will play together right? Pleases say right! :)

Anyway, much of the time Lucy is a joy. She tells us she loves all the time now, she plays by herself for stretches, she goes to bed at night (almost always), she is a good eater (so at least I don't have that common toddler behavior to deal with), and she hardly ever throws temper tantrums in public (at home is a different story). yesterday she was even trying to share her toys with brother. She was smooshing matchbox cars up against my belly and saying "Brother, want that?" I am sure she will continue that type of thing once he is here and big enough to actually play with her. hahahaha

Hospital info

Here is the website for the hospital: http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/hh/services-centers/maternity/index.cfm

Just so everyone knows: visiting hours are from 11am-8pm; kids under 14 are not allowed unless they are a sibling (sorry Molly, not that you will be here to get turned away but sorry anyway that you couldn't come if you were here to do so :) ); I will be in for 48 hours once the baby is born; Lucy gets at least an hour to herself to meet the baby; we are giving Lucy a new baby doll when it is time for us to bring Baby Brother home (it is a surprise until then); and I am still not telling the baby's name until he is born. hehehe Lucy does NOT know his name because I know everyone will be trying to grill her for it. :p

I am having a down in the dumps day today because I am very uncomfortable and I realize that I could still be in this position a week, or god forbid, more than a week from now. it is very frustrating to not be able to do anything. I can't do anything to make him get here, I am too sore to do pretty much anything physical other than walk, it is too cold out to take Lucy for long walks like I wold like to do, and I am tired of walking the mall (I've done that 3 times in the past week). Lucy asks me how I feel and "back sore?", that is so sad!!! I tried chasing her around last night, as well as I could so I think she is happier with me. It is getting tough to think up things that are exciting enough to keep her occupied while I sit. :) today we played play-doh maybe tomorrow we will paint. That'll fill up 20 minutes.

I'm done complaining. Well, not really but I am done complaining on the blog, Dave can listen now. :)

One week to go!

Lucy has been telling me that Baby Brother is coming on Tuesday. I am inclined to believe her possibly because I just hope she is right. :) I chased her around the house tonight, maybe that will get things going. I mean I actually ran, if you can call what I am capable of running. ;)

Lucy is full of it these days. Today she has been singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" over and over again, clapping for herself each time.



Her pronunciation has seen a big improvement lately. She has started saying "I love you" very clearly. She used to just do a sign of her arms crossed over her chest (like a hug); then she progressed to saying something that started with an "l" sound that I knew meant I love you; next she would say "love ooo"; now "I love you".



These videos are both from today. She is so sweet, so smart, so crazy and so frustrating! I love my almost 2 year old and I can't wait to see what her brother will be like!

I almost forgot to tell you about my tests on Friday. They were all fine and nothing exciting happened. We did get to have another ultrasound though and they estimate his weight to be about 7 and a half pounds. We also got a quick glimpse of his face and he looks smooshed. Actually all of the ultrasound showed us just how crowded he is in there, he kind of looks like he is folded up and crammed in there. Exactly the way it feels! :)

Yup, still here.

I say that a lot of times every day. "Yup, still here", "Yes I'm ready", "haha, I sure am huge", etc. Anyway...

Minor excitement this week. Tuesday at my midwife appointment my blood pressure was high, so to help calm it down (yeah right) they sent me to the hospital to get it checked out. It was not an emergency so we took our time and took Lucy home to Oma, and put my bags near the door just in case I wound up staying at the hospital. Well, my BP was still high when I got there so I got hooked up to the monitors, and after a half hour of listening to Baby Brother I relaxed. My bp was down, they took blood and urine samples and sent them off to be tested and sent me home. All of the tests came back normal and they told they hoped to see me back soon for the real deal.

To be on the safe side I do get to go have an ultrasound and a non-stress test (they hook me up to monitors and watch the baby's heart beat, his movements, and see if I am having contractions) done tomorrow afternoon. They will also be checking my blood pressure again. It was also discovered that I have become anemic so I need to take my iron supplement twice a day as prescribed not just when I randomly remember it (oops).

So that takes us to Wednesday. My parents, who are finally home from their trip, came to visit us! We missed them and are glad they are back! We hadn't seen them since Christmas. I think they were glad to see the giant belly in person. Lucy had a great time playing with them. Now to the exciting part of the day. We went to meet my brother for lunch in the city, on the way home I thought my car seemed weird so I pulled over. I was right, I had a flat tire! It was of course pouring rain, so I naturally called Dave to come change it for me. :) At first he said "Why don't you take care of it yourself, maybe labor will start", but he quickly came to my rescue. :)

That is the end of my exciting stories. Today we ran errands then stayed home and watched the wind blow. It was a lovely spring storm except that the winds brought back the cold and snow. Most of our old snow is gone now though so we have plenty of room for new.

23 months and 2 weeks

Lucy is 23 months old today! She is definitely becoming a 2 year old! And I only have two weeks left!! Of course Baby Brother is welcome anytime!!!!!!

If you haven't seen me in a while, I am huge and quite uncomfortable.


Being pregnant while caring for a toddler is a whole other story. On the plus side I am in much better shape and haven't gained as much weight this time around.











The other plus side to having a toddler around is the entertainment she provides. Daddy taught her to yell at my belly "Baby Brother come out". I have a couple of videos from the last week of her general silliness.


First, we had to take this picture a few nights ago. Before I go to bed I always go in to check on her and cover her up. I found her asleep with her head under the dog and George (Curious George the monkey) laying on her. She is very cute but sometimes very weird too.








She can count better than this, I swear, she was teasing me and being very silly. She is beginning to get a real sense of humor and she teases us a lot by purposely giving the wrong answer or making things up and then laughing at us.



This was a game Lucy and Daddy invented last night. She is using a plate from her kitchen as a steering wheel. The two of them were entertained for at least an hour with this new fascinating toy, an empty diaper case. Remind me why we buy toys?

Well...

As you can guess because I am writing now, last night was a false alarm. Now I am just tired. On the positive side I think the baby has dropped a bit. Supposedly, in second time moms the baby doesn't drop very far ahead of time. I will keep my fingers crossed that that is true!

I am going to go color with Lucy. I hope she is soaking up this extra attention now. :)

So it's 2am...

and I am up. Yeah to the third trimester! I started today, I mean yesterday, (Saturday) off feeling less than 100%. I decided that since it was Saturday, not to suck it up because Dave was home to play with the Bean (that would be Lucy, I realized I don't refer to her as the Bean much on the blog. Anyway...). I chilled on the couch and took a good nap. I was feeling pretty normal so we went to Ben and Melissa's house for dinner. By the time we got home I was feeling less than normal again. I felt the need to clean up the kitchen and started having some very irregular contractions. Cleaning the kitchen totally freaked Dave out! For the last week or so anytime I do anything slightly abnormal Dave watches me and gets a freaked out look on his face; he remembers nesting. :)

So that is why I am up at 2am blogging. I couldn't sleep and I've got nothing better to do. I wanted to get up so I wouldn't keep waking Dave, one of us parents ought to be well rested I figure. Now that I am up I am of course feeling nothing but my inability to sleep. I was extremely uncomfortable and having a few contractions while laying down in bed. I am coming to the conclusion that is a case of rather strong false labor. :( They say second time moms are more likely to make trips to the hospital but not really be in labor. If it weren't the middle of the night (and about ten degrees outside) I would go for a nice long walk to see what that would do.

Tonight Melissa gave me the best present! Not only did she feed me a really good dinner of chili and then brownies, she made Baby Brother a blanket!!! Many years ago I tried to teach Melissa to knit, it didn't really take. She went and bought herself a learn to knit book and taught herself so that she could make a blanket for me. It is the best present!!!!!!! I will try to remember to get a picture of it to post. Thank you Melissa!!!!!

I feel like doing something, like baking or cleaning (yup, definite nesting going on!) but I think I will go put on a movie and try to doze off on the couch. I hope you don't hear from me again soon; meaning I hope I am in labor and can't post!