33 Weeks!

I am hoping for only 6 more weeks but we will see. I don't love the idea of being induced a week early (or at all unless I have to) but I don't want to experience what I did last time. 24 hour labor, 3 hours of pushing, having to start pushing at 9cm to get myself to 10cm, numerous tries with the "baby vacuum" and a little guy who came out blue and not crying. He made a little squeal but never did cry like a newborn should cry. He was exhausted, I was exhausted and I barely remember his birth. No thanks! I want a better experience this time! But I know I can't be choosy. You just never know what will happen when it comes to labor and birth.

I really hate complaining about pregnancy but I am starting to get to the uncomfortable stage now. I feel like garbage most of the time. I can't sleep to SAVE MY LIFE. I am having serious insomnia and my hips hurt so bad from sleeping on my sides. I am dying to sleep on my tummy again! I swear I must turn over 100 times in the night because my hips can only handle so much. I can't say I am ready for this baby to be here because I'm not. I am okay with him staying in until he is ready. I am just getting uncomfortable and I am nervous about the weeks to come. It also doesn't help that Griff might just be officially done with napping. Oh.My.Goodness. How am I going to survive the no napping?

All Done!!

I guess I need to listen the first time when Griffin tells me he is ALL DONE. He shouts it at me when he is done eating but since he eats SOOOOOO GOOD I usually ignore his first few all done's...not anymore! OR I need to just start buckling the kid in ;)

Another Interesting Appointment....

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I went to my OB appointment this morning feeling great and ready to see what was new. Of course this pregnancy has been a tad interesting so why should it stop here? LOL. I did my urine sample and all was good. Then we went to measure my belly and check the heartbeat, my two favorite parts! Nolan's heartbeat was way lower than it normally is. He is usually around 150-160. This time it was 135 and the doctor was a little "iffy" about how low it was. He then went on to measure me and come to find out I am not measuring quite right, I am almost 2 weeks behind. I also haven't gained weight in a whole month, not a pound. I know I complained about my weight gain in one of my last posts but I honestly didn't change my eating habits since that post and I haven't been working out. So, measuring small and no weight gain made the doctor wonder a bit. Now I have to go to the doc every 2 to 3 weeks to see if this baby will grow and hopefully catch up. I am going on 31 weeks so measuring around 29 is a little on the small side. He moves a lot and I feel pretty good for the most part. I just hope he is healthy. Any insight or input on this would be GREAT! My Mom would like me to ask the doctor to at least give me an ultrasound or a non-stress test. I don't want to be that pushy patient who worries about everything but maybe I need to do more? I have no idea. Opinions are welcome!

Giving It A Try!

Griffin has been telling me when he is about to "poop" so we have been sitting on the potty and trying every time he lets me know. He is no where near knowing when it's time to go "peepee" but the pooping is a start! I usually sit him on our toilet and kneel down in front of him and he hugs me around my shoulders and begins his pushing. It is so hilarious and over-exaggerated. He usually just toots and then says ALL DONE! One time he did poop in the potty and he was so excited about it! I praised him galore and we talked about it for days. I decided after that, it was time for a potty! I won't be able to kneel, crouched over the toilet for much longer ;) We got the potty in the mail today from Grandma Arizona and he was thrilled! We have sat on it numerous times and I think he really likes it. He feels much more secure on something more his size. He did tell Kason and I tonight that he needed to poop so we frantically ran him into the bathroom and started the whole process but he had already pooped haha. I hope that maybe I can get him somewhat potty trained or used to the toilet before Nolan gets here. I have NO problem changing diapers but changing two sets doesn't sound all that fun! Here's to trying! We will see what happens! And YES, those are stickers all over his face. That is nearly the only place he puts them!

Manti Trip

We just got back from a FUN trip to good old Manti, Utah! The weather was gorgeous (not quite cold enough for my big, pregnant self) and the scenery was to die for. We went with some family friends to camp out and go on some 4 wheel rides. Kason and I rode with Griff and just stayed at the back and went slow. It was so nice to look around and soak up the beauty of this place. It really was gorgeous! One of the day's we were there everyone went on a 50 mile ride, no thanks. So Griff and I stayed back at camp and made our own fun. We went into town and did a little bit of shopping, found a spot in the river that was shallow and threw some rocks and found a pretty reservoir and tried to see some fish. It was such a fun trip that we decided to plan another one to Beaver Mountain for the first week in August! I can't wait to once again get out of this heat and into some cooler weather :) I will be 34 weeks when we go so I probably won't do much 4 wheeling but we will see! Maybe a few slow rides...

July OR September? September Please.

I had quite the scary and miserable night at Labor and Delivery. Get ready for a long and complicated story! So, around 6pm Tuesday night I was getting ready to leave the house for a girls night out. I wasn't feeling very good but not sick enough to cancel at the last minute so I went ahead to meet my girlfriends for dinner and a movie. I ate a yummy salad and then we headed to the theater. I remember still feeling strange and kind of sick but I got through the movie just fine. I had a number of contractions while I was sitting there but nothing painful enough to make me worry. When I walked out of the theater and walked to my car I felt SO weird. I almost didn't feel like myself and I felt quite disoriented. When I got home I sat down and thought about why I felt so weird. Was I sick? What was wrong with me? I had some tummy "issues" and then sat down again to see how I felt after taking care of that. I started to feel worse and my contractions were coming on consistently and I also had a dull backache. By then I was a little nervous. I thought about going to L and D but I didn't want to be that silly girl who goes to the hospital and ends up with gas or heartburn. I decided after a few more minutes that I was feeling pretty bad so I told Kason I was going to drive to L and D just to get looked at. As soon as I got there and got hooked up to monitors the throwing up started and I was having good, hard contractions at 2-3 minutes apart. They were so strong that I couldn't talk through them and they put me to tears. The nurses started to scurry a bit more and gave me a shot in the arm to try and stop the contractions. It was nuts being in actual, painful labor! The shot slowed the contractions down so they decided to do an IV. I was so sick and dehydrated (and I have CRAPPY veins) that between the two nurses with me, they tried to get an IV in me 5 times and blew through all of my veins. It was so painful! They tried EVERYWHERE too, even the really sensitive spots. They ended up calling in an Anesthesiologist to do it. He numbed up the spot he wanted to try with yet another needle poke (at this point I had been poked like 7 times!) He said he needed to use numbing medication because he thought he would have to dig for a vein and he did. Thankfully it didn't hurt and he finally got the IV into a tiny little vein on the top of my hand. They tried to draw some blood though the IV for labs but no blood wanted to come out, too dehydrated. So then they had to call the labs people to come and poke me once again to draw some blood. It was awful! They took urine and drew blood finally and all the while I am still having some pretty good contractions so I needed a shot in the other arm in an attempt to stop them once again. My labs came back showing that my white blood cell count was high and my Potassium was scary low. They admitted me right away and put me in a room to start some Potassium which hurt terribly going through my IV. It felt like my arm was breaking, it was horrible! All night long I continued having contractions but thankfully I wasn't dilating and the fetal cells test that the nurses did (OUCH) came back negative so it looked like Nolan was staying in. I had another bout of hard contractions every 3 minutes again the next morning so they tried a stronger drug to stop them and then continued to keep giving me that medication every six hours. The doctor came in the morning and chatted with me about what was going on. It is complicated but basically I had some kind of bug that put me into labor and zapped my Potassium. Then he listened to my heart and it was beating way too fast so he ordered an EKG. I guess when you Potassium gets that low it can cause an Arrhythmia. I swear it was one thing after another in there! The EKG came back fine and as the day progressed my contractions got lighter and I was feeling better so I got to go home! I have to watch every little thing closely and I know the symptoms to watch for that will send me right back to L and D. Let's HOPE not! I honestly think that birthing Nolan will be a walk in the park after my lovely hospital stay. Please baby Nolan, stay in there and cook a little longer :) Oh, and thank goodness for double insurance, phew.

Griffin's Favorite Things (Pictures!)

Laundry basket, standing in his high chair, making a train out of the chairs, Dirt Wheels magazine, YouTube, making slides out of pillows, his 4 wheeler toys, all three of his blankies with him at once, Dad's books and his dog pillow.