A Bedrest Playdate

Logan got a special treat today. He got to stay home from daycare with mommy for a playdate. Some special NICU grad babies and their mommies came over to see how we were doing and bring meals.

Carey and Kiley came and brought Panera for lunch(one of Mommy's favorites). Julie, Ori and Calla came to bring a supper to put in the freezer and some yummy cookies(they are already gone Julie!). The kids had some minor sharing issues but were really fun to watch play together. This was quite the little group. After mommy is off bedrest we will def have to plan some zoo trips!

34 weeks

At our doctors appt today we had a sono...We have pics to share but are waiting on Nana to bring them back. The baby looks good, is practicing breathing very well. They were slightly concerned that the abdomen measurement was less than 5th percentile so we will have another sono next week to recheck.

Still dilated to 2 and hanging in there. I won't be goinng back to work which is not what I wanted to hear...just trusting that someone much bigger than I has a plan for all this because it certainly isn't following mine!

Mommy's Helper

Yummy!

Please don't look at my mess of a kitchen! I assure you it did get cleaned after we were done making a mess. Logan was such a helper tonight. He loves to sit on cabinet and watch me cook. We cooked fajitas for supper then made cookies after that! Mommy had a craving..

Monday night we ended up over in LDR again...contractions were about every 1 1/2 minutes apart. But after 3 hours they weren't changing my cervix so they sent me home again. At this point, I'm not sure I am gonna know when to go back. I guess if my water breaks or the pain is so bad I want to kill someone then we will know. Let's just hope we make it in time.

Summer and Friends

Logan has spent some time with Abby, Payton and Gray this week at Linda's farm getting ready for Landon's wedding. Logan was in love with Paytons flower basket. The wedding was last night. I did go and take pics and everything went amazingly well. It was overcast most of the day and not to hot. The bride and groom were gorgeous. That is all the fun I have planned until Logan's bday party on Sept. 11. Time to be boring for awhile.

Happy Early 6th Anniversary

Last night I escaped bedrest for the evening to spend it celebrating with my husband. Logan stayed with Nana and Steve and I went to dinner and to the Jake Owens/Keith Urban concert. It was AWESOME! Our anniversary isn't actually until the 26th but we thought this was the perfect opportunity to celebrate. I love my husband. Happy anniversary early honey, you are the best!

Role Modeling

Bumpin bellies
Silly Bubba

Cookin Logan's baby

"Baby fall out!"

32 weeks

Logan's newest development is role playing having a baby in his belly. He has walked around the house for the better part of the evening "havin' a baby." If the baby falls out, it's a catastrophe. He says his baby isn't "done cookin." He's really picking up onthe lingo around here.

Speaking of that, I have to share the low point(and high point) of the day. Earlier while yelling at the teenager, I said something to the account of "that's Bull$Hit." I didn't really think Logan was paying attention. To my surprise while sitting on the stairs and waiting for supper he proudly spouted the word off....over...and over...and over again. I was trying so hard not to laugh and to be stern saying that was not a good word. But my bladder gave in. It was laugh or pee my pants. Oh, out of the mouths of babes...I will learn not to sound like a sailor. Did I mention my husband stood in the kitchen with his face covered up laughing? No help at all!

32 weeks

These pics were actually from my sono last Thursday but it hit me this a.m. that I hadn't shared them yet! Kind of difficult to scan in sono pics when you are stuck at the hospital. We think someone looks an awfully lot like his big brother.

I just got back from a doctors appt which meant I got to leave the house, highlight of my week! I am so not used to sitting around and doing nothing. Tomorrow I will be 32 weeks. Today at the doctors nothing had changed which is good news. I am still dilated 2 and 50% effaced. Baby's head is down but not engaged so we're happy with that.

I have lost 3 pounds since appt last Thursday prior to the hospital stay. I am eating like crazy I am just having a hard time holding on to any of it if you know what I mean. Hopefully it was all just due to the stress of the week and things will calm back down. SO we're gonna be boring til next Weds!

Uncle AJ and Aunt Kristin

Logan has been rowdy, rowdy, ROWDY in the evenings since we have been home. Thank goodness we have had plenty people over to wear him out. Uncle AJ has been the favorite thus far. You wouldn't even know that it has been almost a year since they had seen each other. It's so cute to watch them together. Aunt Kristin had to fly back home on Monday and we are missing her too. I'm so proud of my brother and what he does and admire my sister in law so much(I could never live without my husband by choice for months at at time). I hope that we can have more frequent visits. Maybe next year we can fly out and see them in SC. We are already making plans for Aunt K to come spend sometime with us when I fly to Washington, DC in Decemeber for a business conference.

Home, Sweet Home

I was released from the hospital Sunday late a.m. I am home on bedrest...not sure how restful it really is! Logan went to the new sitters today and my brother is home from SC on a short leave to visit. So everyone's worlds are turned upside down right now. Hopefully tomorrow morning I will get the new pics of Logan, Aunt Kristin and Uncle AJ up to share. For now I am off to bed. I thought I would have more time to catch up on blogging but I have been overwhelmed by the amount of people that are pitching in to help around here and keep me company. Oh yeah, and I think I am catching up on the last 2 years of sleep deprivation too! I am going to get waaaay to used to all this napping!

Update and Pics

Things are settling down...last night they repeated my fetal fibronectin which is a swab that tells them something about how active my cervix is...I don't really understand it. Bottom line, if it is negative then >90% chance I won't deliver in the next two weeks. Well, it was negative. SO they shut off the magnesium, pulled my catheter and I am now being monitored up on the womens floor at Wesley on bedrest. I am still contracting regularly but the contractions don't seems to be changing anything so we are just tolertaing them for now. I am hoping if all goes well tonight that I will be dismissed to home tomorrow...on bedrest.

Bedrest seems to be the word of the month...til at least 34 weeks then I will be allowed to go back to work and resume normal activities if things are going well. This is not what I had planned! It is going to eat up an entire month of my maternity leave that I have worked so hard to save. Not to mention the huge adjustment it will be. It's hard because the NICU RN side of me says, "Even if this kid was born today, it would be alright." It's really difficult for me to say, "Any amount of time we can keep this baby in is the best thing possible." Working where I do makes having preterm babies seem very normal to me. I am constantly being reminded by my OB that though these babies do fine, it is not ideal by any circumstances.

So I am laying this normal hospital bed beig very thankful for the priviledge to get up and pee, not having a catheter that makes my bladder spasm every time the nurse looks at it. Also being thankful for a regular hospital bed and for the fact that our baby is still safely tucked away inside me doing well. Those ldr beds are made for one thing only...having babies! There was nothing even tolerably comfortable about it.

The next couple weeks will be trying for sure but I know we will get through it. A big part of me thinks that it is times like these you find out what your marriage is really made of. I am so lucky to have a great husband who knows me better than anyone and great friends and family that continue to make everything ok.

Change in plans

So....I have lots of really cute pics to share with you of Logan from the past couple days but I'm just not feeling up to it right now.

Yesterday I had my sono for cervical length and there was a HUGE change, it is now<1.8cm. This is not my dilation but the length of the cervix between the outside. They admitted me to Wesley and started steroids to help babys lungs mature.

I am on Magnesium Sulfate to try and stop my contractions which makes me feel like I can't hold my eyes open or move a msucle(extrememly frustrating when you can't sleep). I have a catheter in, IV drips and I am on complete bedrest.

We'd like to hold baby off until 34 weeks but at least until 24 hours after my second steroid dose which will be this evening. For all of you who know me so well, I am trying to lay here and be still and not worry about who has my kid or what bills are gonna get paid how, but that is much easier said than done!

Thoughts and prayers would be appreciated and I will keep everyone posted.