Weekly update!!

Well, everything went well at the dr yesterday. Nothing really to report. I received my second to last progesterone shot!!! YAY!!! I can not wait for next week when i get the last one of this pregnancy. She didnt check me or anything but they will start next week doing that. No weight gained but she wasnt worried. She says i am measuring correctly so she isnt concerned. I thought i would have gained weight easier while being on bed rest but that hasnt been the case ... so oh well. no complaints here!! :o)

The other big accomplishment this week has been hunter getting potty trained. My friend Lensey was right ... it will just happen when he is ready. And she couldnt be more right. Saturday I woke up and had him pee in the potty after ate breakfast then i just left his diaper off. He told me when he had to pee pretty much all morning. Then everything kind of built on to that. He now wears his "underwears" all day unless he takes his nap. I had been leaving his diaper on during the morning around the time he usually poops but for the last 3 days he has been telling us when he needs to go. He is pretty excited ... especially about his spiderman underwears. I think spiderman is the key that helped us get him used to wearing underpants. He has been sick through all of this which made me nervous but like lensey said ... when they are ready they are ready and he is proving to be easy at these types of things ... like weening the paci ... nemo helped with that ... when he had to go get an ECHO and EKG ... perfect angel ... no issues ... when he had stitches removed from behind his ear and they held his head down ... no issues ... i guess that means ... baby sister here is going to be our little miss diva!!!

I will keep you all updated on any news as always. Hope you are enjoying the warm weather!

Here is a pic of hunter "doing his business" on the potty this morning ... he had to take his new leapfrog in to help things along!! :o)

Weekly update!

We went back to the dr yesterday. Everything basically stayed the same. My cervix was 2.5cm and i wasnt dilated anymore then before. They did another FFN on friday when I was in the hospital with contractions again. I have been there the last 3 months on the full moon or friday the 13th. Its been crazy but next month if it happens again ... no problem! :o) Anyway, the test was negative so they didnt do another one this week since it was just done. 

Basically the dr said if my water breaks then from friday on they wont stop the labor to give me the steroids. Between now and 36 weeks is when the baby learns to suck, swallow and breathe at the same time. So 36 weeks is the ultimate goal but anything now isnt bad either. I no longer have to take the Procardia just try and drink lots of water if the contractions start. We are really excited to finally be out of the critical ... scary times and just waiting her out now. I told the dr i made a hair appt for the weekend i turn 36 weeks ... she laughed and even said i could drive myself ... i hope i remember how to!! :o) 

I hope everyone had a very blessed Easter. Hunter really enjoyed coloring his Easter eggs and doing the Easter egg hunt this year. He was such a little man. Easter morning he was so excited to go through his basket he was shaking. Then he kept hiding the eggs outside and throughout the house then going to find them. it was so cute!! Now he uses the Easter basket ... it was the baseball bucket from target as a bucket to collect all his golf balls ... seriously he has about 30 or so ... he puts them in the bucket gets his club puts them in his little tikes truck he has and "goes to the golf course." Of course its just in the back yard but he was line up some tees ... put the ball on the tee ... then go collect all the balls and do it again ... it is so cute to watch. He is crazy about golf! 

I will keep you all updated on any developments. I will continue weekly dr appts until the baby comes. Hopefully things will stay quiet for a few weeks then we will have some pics of ... Avery ... Layla ... or Gracie to share!

33 weeks!!

I wanted to write a quick update, while i am laying here on the tile floor trying to pay bills and do some facebooking. My brothers laptop needs a charger so I am not able to easily get on the computer right now. Anyway ... Danny didnt have practice today so him and hunter went to the driving range ... big surprise right!!! :o)
I went to the dr yesterday and thinned more. When i first layed down for the ultrasound my cervix was 1.4cm which is down from 3cm last week. But we think it was during a contraction because as we continued it thickened to 2.4cm so they documented between 1.4cm and 2.4cm. Which is down from last week of course but with my FFN test still being negative it wasnt too concerning yet. They plan to do another FFN test next wednesday and another ultrasound. If i am below 1.5cm or the FFN is postive they will admit me for 24 hours to give me the steroids for the babies lungs then hopefully i can go back home to the couch! :o) Next week will also be the last transvaginal ultrasound so thats exciting since this has een weekly since 22 weeks and every other week since 16 weeks. I will still have to do the progesterone shots. I can not wait until these are over. We have also been doing these since 16 weeks and let tell you just how sore my booty is. Its been awful these last few weeks but I will still continue them till 36 weeks. I lost weight 1 pound which conpletely amazes me. I havent been too hungry since i just lay around and dont expend much energy and I have to drink more then a galloon of liquid a day and so my stomach is always full of water. Its just crazy. I am sure i will make up for it next week so no worries.
I did get to target yesterday, it was pretty humorous ... danny pushing me around in a wheelchair which was really short. But I really wanted to pick stuff out for hunters Easter basket. Funny story ... hunter walked in on me in the bathroom the other day ... well his diego potty seat was there and he looked at me ... then pulled up my shirt and said ... thats my diego potty ... baby sister ... mommy will buy you a dora one!! I am ecited to see him with her when she does get here. He has been so cute and excited lately!
Well i will keep everyone updated. Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers we can feel them and really appreciate them.

wednesday update!

31 weeks and counting!!

I went to the dr today as usual on wednesdays. Danny was able to come with me since he is on spring break. It worked out really well because he was able to meet the other dr in the practice. My cervix measured a little thicker then last week. I was 2.9cm which is good. Its holding. She checked me and i was still the same ... 1cm dilated. They also did the fetalfibronectin test but we wont know the results till later today or tomorrow early. So everything is staying steady! Maybe we will get to 36 weeks!!! :o) The dr was joking that i will have to end up being induced. We will see!!!

Danny has been off all week and although he has had baseball at night Hunter is living it up. Every morning he wakes up and is so excited that the "sun woke up" and the "golf course is open now." They go to the driving range which he calls the golf course. I wish I had some pictures to show how cute he is there. I havent been when they go in probably before I got pregnant but danny said he does extremely well. He brings his driver and goes over picks up the ball ... puts it on the tee ... then swings ... and says "ooohhh". He does it over and over and loves every minute. For some reason while i have been on bed rest I have gotten into watching golf especially when tiger plays so hunter is in golf heaven. When we say theres tiger ... he says ... "no tigers go roar!!" so we have to be sure and say ... theres tiger woods! Hes so cute!!!

I added some pictures of Hunter in the bathtub. He found his wings and "lifesaber" as he calls it at the house. My mom has been coming over and helping go through things and get everything organized. He wanted to go swimming so badly but although it is almost warm enough the water is freezing so I had him get in the bath. He loved it!!

Cheese!!

Floating on his back!!