27 Week Bump

It's been a few weeks since I took a belly picture.. I have "popped" since the ones I took at 21 weeks, so its fun to compare :-) Thanks to Jeremy for setting up the background and photography equiptment and taking these since I can't do it right now. Enjoy :-)

Blue Paint and Bedrest Update

Blue Paint

My brother Brian finished finals early and offered to come to Omak for a few days and help out. He did a ton! He ripped up the old floor in the kitchen to prep it for Jeremy putting in tile this weekend, fed the animals, helped me paint the baby room.... BLUE!~ and even nailed himeself with 240V taking out an old baseboard heater, OUCH! Here are a few pictures of him painting.. i'll post more when the room is complete.



The pink color is the old color.. no our little boy isn't going to
have a pink and blue room :-) The Blue is the one on the wall
behind Brian.. A light "sky" blue. The plan is to paint accents
in the dark brown that the crib is... you'll have to wait and see what I mean later.... :-)



Duke doing his part in painting the baby room..
Chewing on his rawhide.. he couldn't stand being
outside of the room, so we finally let him in, all he
wanted was to be in the same room as us.. typical
Lab!!



and Bedrest Update

I went in last week for my ultrasound (the doctor wants them weekly to check changes in my cervical length) and also to do the glucose and iron check. I received a call Tuesday that my iron was low and my glucose was elevated... "GREAT" I thought! "now this?" So now i'm taking 325 mg of iron sulfate 3x a day and had to go back in today for the 3 hr glucose screening. It luckily came back normal. I also had another ultrasound today. All of the ultrasounds up until now showed my cervix at about 4.3. I knew something had changed when the ultrasound tech (who has no personality and barely talks), looked at me and said "when do you see your doctor next?" I asked what my length was and he said "it's definately changed, its 2.9, you aren't to leave this clinic until you have talked to your doctor"... talk about freaking me out! So I hung out (had to so they could poke me with needles 4 times) and eventually got in to talk to my doctor. She explained that it isn't too big of a deal at this point, that sometimes the cervical length will change from week to week, and that it isn't until I get below 2 that they start to get really concerned. She did put me back on strict bedrest until I could have another ultrasound done. So that is where I am at. She did still give me permission to go to Boise for Christmas though, so I actually decided to stretch it and get approval for 2 weeks there. Other than the long drive, I am more comfortable being there for bedrest because I'll be 5 min from a level 3 NICU and Labor and Delivery facility and because i'll be away from my daily responsibilities that made me overdo it in the first place. Christmas will mark about 29 weeks, so i'll be really close to being out of the "scary 20s". 

Special Meeting and 2 Basketball Bellies

We had special meetings this past Sunday in Tonasket, I was able to go because I took my portable recliner chair to lounge in. It was so nice to get to be there for both meetings, I was really whiped by the end of the day, but it was worth it! Came away fed as usual :-)

Jeremy's cousin Angela and her husband Dave are also expecting, they are due exactly one month before us. They were in town for the weekend, and so Angela and I had to compare our baby bellies...  Can't wait to have pictures of us holding actual babies in a few months :-).. but for now, these are pretty fun too! 

Jeremy looks like he is afraid to touch my belly.. (he really isn't, he loves feeling baby move... or do push-ups as he calls it)

I hope to have some new updated belly pictures of me posted soon....I have really "popped" the past 5 weeks, so it will be fun to compare...

Doctors Orders and Super Mom...

I had an apt with my doctor on Tuesday and she is keeping me on bedrest, but has changed it to "modified" and is basically giving me the freedom to trust my body. "If it makes you have a contraction, you can't do it". She has approved me to work 2 days a week, but I can only do office work. So basically I am training my replacement until the new year, then we'll see where I am at. She is having me get ultrasounds every week for a while so we can see if there are any changes in my cervix (now that I am up and doing more). If there are changes, then its back to strict bedrest. If there aren't any changes, then I have also been cleared to go to Boise for Christmas!! YEAH.. I just can't fly, and we have to stop every hour so I can walk around (we don't want blood clots).. which stopping every hour won't be a problem.... ;-) The only thing she told me was that if I should go into labor and deliver while in Boise, that I would have to stay there with baby until he is out of the hospital.. which, being close to mom and dad wouldn't hurt my feelers! Plus Boise has as good of NICU as Spokane which is where they'd send us if we went into preterm labor in Omak.. I was excited to get this news, it is so much better than being on my back all day, but I am still going to take it really easy, I have a tendency to over do things, and this is one time I really don't want to!

My mom has been here in Omak since Monday and it has been such a HUGE help!! Jeremy and I both have appreciated all of the cleaning, organizing, feeding of the animals, shoveling of snow, cooking etc she has been doing for us!! Takes a huge stress off, and makes our short evenings much more enjoyable!