Wednesday, July 25, 2007

33 Week Appointment

I just got back from my 33 week appointment, no change, baby is still growing and has a perfect heartbeat of 140 beats per minute. It was a pretty uneventful appointment really, except it was the first one where I gained NO weight since the last appointment, which made me very happy. This little bouncing baby boy is getting so big that he is now more like a bumping baby boy instead, he's running out of room so instead of the kicks I was feeling, now it's more like nudges. Mike still thinks it's great fun to sit and watch my stomach jump around from the outside.

The doc is slightly concerned about all these contractions I keep having. Last Tuesday we spent the day at the hospital getting them monitored. They had to give me two shots to make them stop. They aren't producing any real labor or changes, but they want me to rest as much as I can and keep an eye on them. Doctor Deffenbaugh said at the appointment that she wants me to get to 36 weeks and after that baby would be fine to come early, which would also be FINE with me as that would mean only three more weeks of pregnancy. However, the way my life runs, this kid will just pretend he wants to come out all the time, but will make mommy suffer a complete 40 week (or more!) pregnancy. I keep telling him if he doesn't knock it off he will be grounded til he's 21 but apparently he doesn't believe me. He must have talked to my other kids who told him mom never follows through with groundings. (I'm too nice!)

We have a crib now and I can't wait to get his room finished. I will post pics when it's done. I am so very excited about my baby shower, which is this Saturday!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

31 Weeks

Friday the 13th wasn't a bad day for me this year, nothing horrible happened, however it was my 31 week doctor appointment. Garrett is still doing great, growing bigger and had a heartbeat of 160 beats per minute. I was relieved to find out I passed the 3 hour gestational diabetes test after I had failed the one hour test. Everyone keeps telling me that I look like I am about ready to pop any day...even the nurse at the appointment looked at me twice when she read in my chart that I was at 31 weeks and said "honey, you look more like 38!" These people just don't realize how big I get when I carry babies. I show right away (at 8 weeks) and just get bigger and bigger. So now there are 9 weeks left until my due date, I'm really hoping to go in the "safe range" of two weeks before my due date, which is closer to 7 weeks. Although I am getting very nervous because I don't have hardly anything ready yet! I did spend Saturday cleaning out the rather large walk-in closet portion of our room that will be the "baby's room." Now all we need is to move the crib in. I had gotten up early that day and gone to a rummage sale in a shall we say "upscale" part of town and hit the jackpot on 0 to 3 month size clothes. At least if he did come early now he would have a basinette to sleep in and some clothes to wear so I don't feel completely uprepared anymore. My wonderful mother in law is throwing my shower on the 28th, I can't wait!!! After that I will know what I have left to buy and can get the rest of everything ready. I can't believe that in less than 60 days there will be a whole new human being joining our family.

Here's how big I look as of Friday the 13th...(exactly 31 weeks)










And here are the pictures of the things I purchased to match our John Lennon Nursery collection that are on their way! I will post the pictures of the room as soon as it is finished, hopefully in the next few weeks.



Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Garrett's First Pictures!



Isn't he the sweetest thing you've ever seen?

His name is Garrett Michael Sommerer, and even though I won't meet him until sometime around September 14th, I am so in love with this little baby boy.

On July 2nd we had our 3d/4d ultrasound. They are different than a regular ultrasound as you can actually see the baby instead of just black and white shadows. It was the most amazing experience. I instantly started to cry when I saw him, he is so beautiful. Mike and I were just in awe throughout the whole 20 minutes as we watched him move, open and close his mouth, stick out his tounge and even swallow! We confirmed he is DEFINITELY a boy as well. If you can afford one I would highly recommend this to any pregnant woman. The sonographer told us that we were really lucky to be getting such clear pictures, that most of them do NOT turn out this clear at all, but that I had "good fluid" that was helping to capture the pictures well. I will include a few other shots here, but if you want to see them all click this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/heather723/GarrettSFirstBabyPictures