Another great doctor's appointment today!

We had our Thursday BPP and doctor's appointment today. Went well...nothing to report so that's always good. Seems that while I feel like this pregnancy has been dragging on forever, at least it's been uneventful! Nothing out of the ordinary which is just how I like it.

I signed the official "this is your appointment" paper for the c-section on the 16th. We have to be there at 0530...and I can't have any coffee. This is probably a bad thing, but I'll be drugged eventually and won't care I'm sure. We can't wait to meet our little girl!!!

For some reason whenever we ask Orion what his little sister's name is he says "Moo". I hope to God that she's not a fat child/teenager because I have a feeling we'll be calling her Moo for the rest of her life. It would just be cruel if she were pudgy...then we'd have to come up with a different nickname.

Tomorrow is a busy day for us (well, more for me). Orion and I have an appointment in Gladstone at 9:00 and after that I'll need to drop off Avon stuff. Works out well because the person I'm delivering to basically lives right across the street from where I'll be. At noon I have a meeting with Malissa to get her all signed up to sell Avon and tomorrow evening is Jodi and Jon's Halloween party. I was thinking about going as a pregnant beauty queen. Would be funny at least. Saturday night is *actual* Halloween and we're going trick-or-treating with Rylee, Jason, and Danielle this year. It's supposed to be super rainy, so I think we'll probably end up at the mall. Not the same as real trick-or-treating, but at least it's warm and dry. Plus, Orion probably just won't care either way. He's going to be a frog prince (though the costume I made looks more like a lizard king) and I'll have to get lots of pictures since it's the first costume I've ever made.

36 Weeks Pregnant

She's still breech...*sigh*

Well, we had our second BPP today. Little girl decided to keep sitting, so we're going to have to figure that out. We did schedule our c-section though, so unless we go into labor on our own we're set for 7:30 am on the 16th of November. Danielle is going to take Orion Sunday night and keep him during the morning and then bring him to the hospital in the afternoon. I think it'll work out well...he'll get a chance to play with Rylee and probably won't be TOO upset that Mom and Dad aren't around. He probably won't even miss us even a little.

The doc did give me some suggestions on how to get her to turn over so we'll try those and see what happens. He's not so sure she won't turn over, so that's good. And that way, if I *do* go into labor, we'll be able to hopefully progress the way we should. Of course, after my experience with Orion, I'm highly doubting that labor will come on its own. Then again, I shouldn't count on anything. heh

We had originally decided on the name Piper, but changed it to Abigail because Tom really liked that name. I was OK with it until earlier this week when I went completely hormonal and realized I didn't like it at all. We've switched it back to Piper, but we'll see what actually ends up on the birth certificate.

It's getting so much closer and I'm feeling a bit stressed out, but not too bad this minute. We did finally buy her mattress (can't beat $36!) so that's out of the way and she actually has a crib to sleep in. We moved it over a couple of nights ago and put some of her safari stickers on the wall. I have a shelf that we're going to put up in there and hang her name letters from. It'll be super cute, I think. I was worried that the room wasn't girly enough (even though I'm not the biggest fan of pink), but it turns out that Babies R Us has pink safari stuff! I've change our registry to include some of that, so hopefully we'll be able to add a little bit of pink to her room by the time she gets here.

27 Days!?!?!?!?!?

Time for extreme panic to set in.

I started my twice-weekly NST's/BPP's today. Abby is still head up (little shit), but everything is looking good. She met their requirements for heart rate increases...just barely, but still met them. After that, I had an appointment with anesthesiology over at Labor and Delivery. I'm not really sure why because it seemed like a waste of time, but at least it's done now. They basically went over my chart, saw that I've had two back surgeries, and I told them that the spinal worked with Orion but they just had to put it higher than the scar from the surgeries. They said OK, put a note in the chart, and I left. Besides, the chances of getting the doc that I met with today for anesthesiology are slim to none anyway, right?

We finally got the crib moved over into the baby's room and will spend part of tomorrow cleaning up Orion's room. It's mostly just putting toys that made it under his crib into his toy box, so it shouldn't take forever. Of course, putting me on the ground at this point is sure to make it take longer. I don't do bending over well. heh However. I did find it in my power yesterday to shave my legs. It was interesting, to say the least, but they got (mostly) shaved. It's even worse that I did it in the shower. hehehehe

Our baby shower that my mom is throwing is going to be on November 7th, and then a week after that, we'll have our little Abby here!! I need to get to the craft store and get her letters for her wall...it'll give me something to do. Of course, I still need to finish Danielle's Halloween costume, so once that's done, then *maybe* I'll get to the store. ;)

Haven't posted one of these in a while, but here is this week's :

35 Weeks Pregnant

We're SO in for it...

We had our first BPP and a doctor's appointment today. Everything looks absolutely perfect. Abby's measuring great and in the 44%...this is all great news. EXCEPT. At 34 weeks, my darling daughter apparently has decided to turn around. Instead of being head down like she has been the entire pregnancy, she thought it would be a good idea to make herself breech. What the hell!? Of course, this is MY child we're talking about, so I knew it couldn't be as easy as it's seemed to be. heh

Everything is going well on this end though. We're slowly getting things organized around the house and trying to clear things out that we don't need. We had that garage sale a while back and this weekend we're having another one...sort of. Mom and Dad have a bunch of stuff to get rid of too, so we're headed down that way for the garage sale. We've already taken everything down that was left over from the one we had here, so hopefully things will sell. I don't know what the weather is supposed to do this weekend (because I haven't checked...I'm lazy) but it'll be in the garage so it'll be dry there regardless. Hopefully people feel like coming and checking it out. I posted it on craigslist a couple of times and so I'm hoping that helped.

The doctor's appointment...

...went well. It was basically just a check-up so no ultrasound or anything. I did get to hear Abby's heartbeat though, so that's awesome. It was kind of even cooler that I got to hear her heartbeat and mine simultaneously. Turns out I don't have to start going twice a week next week, but get to wait until the week after. Actually, I'll only go once on that Thursday, have an ultrasound and a doctor's appointment, then will start the NST's the following Monday. I get to go every Monday and Thursday...yay!

Tom cut his finger pretty good last night. He was working on a part for the fish tanks and sliced his pointer finger on his left hand open. My husband really doesn't handle blood well, and handles needles even worse than the blood. He barely let me look at it, but I saw that it was bad enough that we'd need to go get him some stitches. Unfortunately, urgent care doesn't do stitches, so we had to go to the ER (which means a bigger co-pay of course). Since he cut his finger with a razor knife, they obviously wanted him to get a tetanus shot. The poor guy did not like that one little bit. And they had to use a needle to get the lidocain into the wound, so that didn't go over well either. Ten stitches later we headed home. Luckily, it was a Thursday night at 5:30 and we were only there an hour and a half. He's sore today, of course, but holding up.