Contractions

Thursday started as a very normal day at my house but ended quite the opposite!! Before Scott left for work I told him I was having more contractions than normal but I have been contracting since 13 weeks so this is pretty old news for him. I ran the errands that I needed to in the morning and came home around lunch time to decorate and clean the house! It was about 2:30 when I noticed that I was having contractions pretty close together! I started to time them and they were about 5 minutes apart. So I called my mom and asked her when I was supposed to call the dr! She told me I wasn't in labor but to call if they got closer! A little more movement and they were down to 4 mins apart! I called the dr office and said "I know I'm not in labor right now but I am 34 weeks and contracting a lot when do you want me to come in? She told me to come to the office and have An NST just in case! So Siena and I loaded up the car and off we went! The NST showed that I was contracting about every 3-4 minutes! She sent the strip to the doc and he wanted me to come get checked at the hospital and be monitored a little longer! I walked over to scoffs office told him the crazy story and we were off to labor and delivery! Once there they started monitoring me and my contractions had then moved to 2 mins apart! They checked me and I wasn't making cervical change (thank heavens) so they gave me some pills to stop the contractions and told me to slow down until 36 weeks! I will be 36 weeks on the 15th and I think might go for a run that day;). I am so eager for this little one to arrive but she needs to wait a little longer!
While pregnant with Siena the 3rd trimester was my easiest but this time I am not feeling so great! I have the worst pain in my butt every time I try and move! It is quite debilitating and the by the time I sit for three hours at church I can hardly move the rest of the day! I am also at a point where everything I eat makes me sick... Not sick enough to throw up just enough to feel gross! The list of foods I can eat are so slim at this point that I'm going through two loaves of bread a week! Thank heavens for coke! I don't know what I would do to get through the day if I didnt have 3 cans of coke!! I also am slightly addicted to tums! I sometimes get heartburn when I think of eating! Siena gets jealous every time I pop three tums and wants candy! If only she knew that this was in fact the most disgusting candy mommy had ever eaten maybe she would change her mind!
I go in for an NST on Tuesday and a BPP on Wednesday plus I see the doctor that day! Hopefully things will stay uneventful until 36 weeks and then this little princess is welcome to come join our family! Until then I have a nursery to decorate, a bassinet to finish sewing, christmas to buy and prepare for, and a little one to spend every extra moment I can with before her life changes forever! Hope I can fit it all in!!

28 weeks!!

Just thought I would post a photo since it's been 6 weeks since the last one I took!!

Hiccups

Siena is obsessed with the hiccups... We actually call them Mickey mouse hiccups and there is rarely a day that goes by that we don't have a pretend form of the hiccups! So I was pleased to feel Harlee have the hiccups for the first time this week! She has them ALOT! Her sister will be so excited when she comes out and has the hiccups. I'm getting so excited to have this little angel in our family.

26 weeks

Ultrasound at 24w6d

Well, you would think that after 11 ultrasounds this pregnancy I would be able to tell what this is a picture of, but I can't. My mom pointed out the heart and head, but that's all I've got for you! I didn't get any good photos this time. Hope you can tell that this picture is in fact a healthy happy baby girl (because I sure can't)!!!
This appt was a much better appt that the past has been. He told me the previa is gone (YAY), and that I can travel this month (I already have two trips planned), but she is a little lower than she should be and he did the ultrasound to check my cervix. Because of all the placenta problems I have had this pregnancy they can't physically check me they have to see what they can through ultrasounds (it apparently has something to do with going through the placenta... who knows). So I have been having some pelvic pressure and a few times during contractions have felt like I needed to cross my legs to hold her inside of me. The ultrasound showed things were fine and that she is healthy!! I am so relieved!
I have been feeling pretty good! The vomiting is sparatic which is nice! I go back to the Dr. at 29 weeks which is perfect. I am realizing that now the holidays are upon us time is going to start flying by and I do have quite the list of things I need to finish before she arrives, but October will be spent with my family :)!!!

22 week photo

I spoke too soon...

Shortly after I described the fact that I am not truly dieing... I passed a kidney stone. I seriously thought I was going to die! Women say they would rather have natural childbirth than pass a stone, I have not done that but after the 3 1/2 hours of pain I had last Thursday night I am certain I would rather do a lot of things than pass another stone. I laid on the bed, the floor, the chair, the bathroom floor, pretty much anywhere trying to find a position that would take the pain away but nothing worked. IT WAS AWFUL! I am on antibiotics now that have taken the UTI/Kidney Infection away and now I'm just dealing with the nausea and yeast infections associated with antibiotic use but I am finally starting to feel like myself again. I was able to have a normal functioning day yesterday!! I have decided that my pain tolerance can't be as low as we have assumed my whole life because most people end up in the ER with a kidney stone and I dealt with it at home! The thought of going to the ER for morphine crossed my mind numerous times during the battle though!! I am really just hoping that the 2nd trimester will end soon and the third trimester will bring some comfort!! With Siena I felt the best at the end of the pregnancy, so let's cross our fingers!! Please baby girl let me have some relief!!!

Let's clear something up here....

So a friend of mine pointed out that when I talk to you in person I down play my struggles with this pregnancy, but when I write on here it sounds as if I'm going die... i want to clarify now! I am seriously doing fine! Nausea sucks, but I'm only feeling nauseated part of the day now and I don't even throw up every day!! Thanks heavens for that! The contractions aren't uncomfortable at this point just surprising, and the bleeding scares me but is easy to deal with! I am truly doing fine! Do I feel the best I've ever felt in my life? NO but I dare say that if a pregnant woman tells you she is feeling better than ever, she's LYING!! I am really blue this pregnancy, but nothing that I can't deal with easily! All in all; I am alive, I am thrilled to be pregnant with another baby girl, and I feel decent! I am fine to go out with my husband and friends, happy to watch kids, love to clean my house, and I am finally starting the process of nesting!! Watch out house, you are about to get a total makeover from my pregnant little hands!!
I hope this clears up my venting from the past! I have struggled but I have certainly made it sound worse on here than it really is!! We are enjoying life and eager to welcome baby #2 to our home!!