T-3 Days...

We are getting closer to our dinner date and I can't be more excited!!! Yesterday we had the pessary cleaned only to find out that it has caused an infection! Even after having it cleaned every 2 weeks like he said, I still get an infection. So now I am on a 2nd antibiotics. As soon as he told me about the infection I was so worried about the baby. I asked him if it would affect her and he wouldn't give me an answer I felt comfortable with...he just kept making jokes. So we decided to walk down the hall to our normal OB and ask her about the infection and medication.

They were able to squeeze me in and I am glad they did. My doctor made me feel so much better about the infection and the meds. She actually gave me a different medication than what the pessary doctor gave me. I felt a lot less stressed after talking to our OB. Although you would not know that since I pretty much broke down right there in the exam room. I think it has just been a rough few days. After 19 weeks of bedrest and now 2 infections in 3 days...I was due for a breakdown. It has just been such an overwhelming pregnancy. I am very much ready for our little girl to be here. I feel as though we take a step forward and then 2 steps back...she will be worth it in the end, it is just getting to the end that is so tough.

Today will be filled with watching tv and reading my book. But first a nap! I didn't sleep well last night...I was so tired but just couldn't fall asleep. So I will start the day off with a nap :) Thursday we head back to my regular OB for our regular appointment. Will be nice to get out of the house again. It is the little things that make me happy!

T-4 Days...

4 days to go!!! That's right...there will probably be a post every single day this week :) Today I have an appointment with my other OB to remove, clean, and replace the pessary. This is the last time I will have to do this!!! The next time I see him in 2 weeks it will be removed for good! I am so excited to have it removed. That means that I will also get to go off all of my medications. That will be nice because it makes me feel like crap. It will be nice to not have to watch the clock all day to make sure I get my meds in on time too.

Besides the appointment, I am not sure what is going to be on my schedule for the day. I will probably read more of my book "Good Night, Sleep Tight." Apparently this is a highly recommended book for helping your baby get to sleep and stay asleep. I have learned some stuff already by reading it. John and I watched the DVD "Happiest Baby on the Block" last night and it was actually quite informative as well. We both feel like now we have some techniques to help calm our little girl when she is upset. Which is more than we had a week ago :)

I am going to try and work on my cross-stitch at some point today. Maybe after the appointment. I haven't worked on it in a couple of months. I will definitely not finish it before Alexis comes, but I can at least try and get close. I really want to start scrapbooking again. I haven't been able to scrap any of this pregnancy. I will start soon though...sometime in the next couple of weeks. I really am excited to be able to use my craft room! I do need to get a chair though for my craft room. That and a light is the only thing that is missing :)

46 days until our due date...getting soooooo close!!! We love you Alexis!

T-5 Days...

5 days until I actually get to see the inside of something other than my house, car, the hospital, or the doctor's office!!! I get to go out to dinner on Friday! I am so thrilled and very much looking forward to our little adventure! I am going to eat so slowly so as to enjoy the outing for a longer time :)

Friday night we ended up at the hospital for 6 hours. The first 3 were spent in the ER due to more pain in my left leg. My OB wanted to check for a blood clot again. We got there at 7:00 p.m. and finished up around 10:00 p.m. Just when we thought we were being discharged, the doctor came in and said that my OB wanted me to head up to L&D to monitor the baby for a few mins to make sure she was okay. So up we went...thinking that nothing was going to be wrong. Well with this pregnancy, we definitely should have known better. Sure enough, they hooked me up to the heart monitor and the contractions monitor, and lo and behold I was contracting every 3 minutes. I could definitely feel them, but being as I have never been pregnant before, I had no idea they were true contractions. After eating a sandwich and drinking some water they gave me an injection of terbutaline to stop the contractions and it worked! It worked almost immediately. However, my body didn't not like the terbutaline and I began to feel sick and very very dizzy. The nurse came in and my heartrate had dropped from around 100 to around 70 in a matter of seconds. They also checked my blood pressure and it too was low. So they laid me down and within a few minutes I was feeling better. After 3 hours of being in L&D, they sent us home around 1:00 a.m. with instructions to begin antibiotics the following morning for a UTI.

For now, we are stable. Never fun though to add yet another medication to my daily routine. I have had a few contractions on and off this weekend, but nothing major like Friday night. I still think that once I go off the contraction prevention medications and the pessary come out (at 36 weeks), she will come in to the world shortly after. I am completely okay with that!!! I am ready to see my little miracle baby. I want to hold her and tell her how much stress she has already caused mommy and daddy :)

Today's Appointment with High Risk Doctor

I just got back from my visit with the high risk doctor! Today is a great day...finally! :) At 34 weeks, 8 days from now, I can get up and go to dinner or a movie once or twice during that week. At 35 weeks I can walk around a store for a few minutes (nothing too strenuous). So for like 15-20 minutes. At 36 weeks, my pessary comes out, I go off the Procardia and Prometrium, and the restrictions are minimal!!!!!!!!!! At that point I can sit up, walk around for longer periods of time, I still have to take it easy, but at that point they aren't worried if I go in to labor. Then at 37 weeks, if I am still pregnant, I will have my last and final visit with the high risk doctor!!! :)

The end is finally in sight! I cannot believe it! I can't believe my due date is only 7 weeks away! It is starting to feel more real with all the baby stuff around the house. I had my 2nd shower yesterday and got more awesome stuff for Alexis. We got the boppy lounger which I hear is really great! We also got her changing pad and tons of cute clothes :) Now all the room needs now is a little baby girl!

We got the video "The Happiest Baby on the Block" today from Blockbuster. People swear by it so we are going to watch it and see what we can learn from it. Anything to help our little girl sleep more at night :)

The Nursery - Updated Pics!

Okay so I actually managed to get pictures of the nursery taken before the weekend was over :) It looks absolutely amazing now! The only thing that is missing is our crying/pooping little baby girl!

I cannot believe how beautiful the nursery turned out! I am sooooo glad I went with purple instead of pink. The purple is so soft and light...it is very pretty! I still want to get the lamp and the hamper for the room...but other than that, her room is complete. Actually I do have to hang the valance over the window but we have to get a rod first. We want to find a wooden rod that will match her furniture. THEN the room will be complete! :)

New Belly Shot! 32 weeks 1 day :)

We are now officially 32 weeks! I cannot believe we only have 8 weeks to go! It seems so surreal. We are now finally beginning to wash some of her new clothes in preparation for her arrival. I have picked a couple of her newborn outfits that I want to take to the hospital for her. We will be washing them today. Here is a new belly shot taken this morning:

That is one big belly! It is so crazy to see it grow! :) I was looking back at some of the early belly shot and it really is amazing to watch it grow!

I hope to post some pics tomorrow once her dresser is in her room and all the stuff is put away. It could take a while to put all the stuff in her dresser though so I am not promising a new update just yet :)

Baby Shower #1

This past Saturday was my first of two baby shower's. This one was thrown by my sister-in-laws, Peg, Courtney, and Kari. It was absolutely perfect!! I had been looking forward to it for a couple of months and I couldn't believe that it was finally here. My friends Dana, Katie, and Jen showed up, along with my sister Cristina, my cousins Katherine and Rachel, my Aunt Fran, and also my mother-in-law. It was so awesome! Alexis was so spoiled! She got so much awesome stuff. Some of the things she got was her convertible car seat, bedding set, activity center mat, boppy, monitor, bumbo, and tons and tons of clothes, pacifiers, accessories, and socks!

Here is a picture of the beautiful diaper cake that they made for her! It was absolutely gorgeous! There are so many diapers for her in this cake. Not to mention the bottles they used to make it and the pacifiers they used to decorate it.

I was so very excited to see my cousins and my Aunt at the shower. I haven't seen them in forever and it was so great to see them! I will not go that long again without seeing them. It was so sweet of them to drive down from Connecticut and Hershey to attend my shower. Here is a couple of pictures of me and my cousins Rachel and Katherine.

I have more pictures that other people took and when I get them I will post some of them. Right now I just have these few pics. My other shower is a work shower that my friends Karyn and Ashley are throwing for me with a few work people here at my house. It is next Wednesday. I cannot wait to see them and everyone else who shows up!

Tomorrow is week 32!! Yeah! I cannot believe we only have 57 days to go. I see the high risk doctor next Thursday and we are hoping that at that point he will give me the okay to go out to dinner or in to a store at 34 weeks! I really need to get out of this house occassionally. I am surprised I have done as well as I have for this long...17 weeks of bedrest...that is a long time!!! I will try to post an updated belly shot this weekend as well as pictures of Alexis' nursery. Right now it is a mess because of all of her gifts :)