Wednesday, August 27, 2008

today is my sister's birthday.


Dear friends and family,

mom and dad are busy today.

Today is my sisters birthday.  so no update about me-- (but they looked under the hood and am good)

If you have an opportunity to light a candle tonight, it would be appreciated. Be well, take care and thanks again for being there for us during such a difficult time in our lives.

Peace, love, and light,
mom, dad, Olive Lucy & Me

Portrait by Davin Watne life long friend of daddy...

Saturday, August 23, 2008

we bought something for the baby and 35 wk update

I/we put a ban on purchasing anything baby until this baby came home... but Old Navy had/is having a sale today so i got up early and bought a few things (online not about the brave the mall PG and crabby) because if the sale. all unisex or passiable for unisex and all what i would call "staples" of anyones wardrobe... *sigh* let's hope i didn't jinx us.

this is what i bought.


I bought 2 pair of jeans 6-12 mos & 12- 18mos they were only 7 bucks



i also bought this romper

and 3 pair of these white socks -- i wish  had bought the "natural" cotton instead but whatever...
their socks.

i also got myself a pair of post Pregnancy jeans... hope i guessed the right size for myself.

Update: i weigh 172lbs again PHEW! told you the scale lied last friday! NST was perfect, belly is measuring on target BP was 110/70 (almost always is) sugars are good.

next appt is Tuesday PM. BPP & prenatal visit with an OB that hasn't seen me before... little scary but he has meet me and he was trained by DR. H so let's hope he is good.  if not just one visit with him then DR. H & Dr. Angel are back as is DR. D my perinatalogist.

we are officially 35 wks today. so 2-3 more weeks and if all goes well we'll bring home a baby... or maybe this is a tiny monster.... EEEEEKKKKK!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Harvard anyone?

Poppy and Shelby (those are the bellies) and Cris & NIk

Nik & Don. 
the skyline as you drive over harvard bridge... which incidentally was measured by a bunch MIT students using a guy named SMOOT
Harvard Square... not really a square at all. but they have good ice cream nearby.

Nik was presenting her Dissertation to a bunch of people at a conference during a poster session. In case you were wondering about how we ended up in Boston.

Watson also spent his freshman year in Boston at BU. So for 12 years he has been trying to get me there... it took my sister being in town for us to go... and i was cranky from the bus ride... so Watsy i promise we'll go again (and some time before another 12 years has passed.) and we'll walk from downtown to BU and get a cup of tea...

I love you!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

ugh i'm huge

So I am on a bus going to Boston and I have to say that I think it sucks that I don't fit through the doorway to the bathroom!

I'm sad, angry and crying because now I am stuck on this damn bus for 4 hours without access to a bathroom toilet!

Ugh!

Friday, August 15, 2008

budda belly at 33wks6ds

had our "first" office NST today was super fast the baby was reactive and good fetal HR.

WOOHOOT! yeah baby!  

I linked to a short explanation of a an NST above, but here is another version little more for you non high risk, or unfamiliar readers. maybe next week i get someone to snap a picture of me hooked up to the monitor.

so the 2 belt one at the top of my belly nearest the fundus ( the apex of your uterus while carrying a fetus) is placed there to monitor if i am having contractions. the 2nd is place lower on my belly to monitor the baby's heart rate i am also give a little button. that i push every time i feel the baby move.

all these things get printed out on a graph like sheet like this:

the black dots indicate where the mom feels movement  and hits the button; the rest is HR etc. what they look for specifically is that the baby's heart rate accelerates when it moves just like yours dies when you exercise or move. this means the baby is "reactive" and indicates good fetal environment.

so the whole time i am doing this test 20 ins they aim for 4 accelerations with a PEAK acel that exceed 2 or 3 squares on the graph paper if i remember correctly... changes with gestation age of the baby. anyway so they turn up the sound and you push a button and listen to the sweet swoosh swoosh sound of the baby's heart beat. kind of cool.

in other news: oddly enough the scale said i gain 1.5lbs since tuesday but i think it was lying i was in a different exam room on a different scale-- evil turd scale is what i will call it from here out. so i am now officially 174 LBS! evil turd scale not nice!

anyway this is what my belly looked like today.




this belly look HUGE in profile but when i look down on it not so much.
I have been told it is very pointy and strangers are telling me all the time it look very forward what ever that means. all i know is that i am beginning to feel like i have been pregnant for something close to forever. i know watson is feeling it too, but in a different way. i haven't had work since i was 4 month  along and that is starting to become pretty evident when you see how hard watson is working to make up for my lack of work.  

Not sure what we would do without him. 

tomorrow we take the belly to boston. i have never been. but my sister and her hubby are there for the day and what better excuse to see my Sis Nik & her hub Don then that the baby wants chowda and lots of it! (that would be clam CHOWDER for you non- new englanders) so off we go.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

33w3d

no picture. baby is not feeling like it.
but we do know this:

Kingdom: Animal
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primate
Family: Hominiae
Genus: Homo
Species: Sapien
weight: aprox. 5 lbs 1 oz
length: unknown
hair: yes
eye: two, open today
gender: undisclosed to us

also start twice weekly visits this week. BPP & a visit one day & NST and a visit another day later in the week..

GD still sucks and i request that my first meal post delivery consist of- starch, starch, & more starch followed by a coke, ice cream and a GIANT milky way or huge box of dark chocolate covered caramels... I love you baby, but seriously i so miss sugar and starches like mashies and pasta!

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

32w3d

no picture this week. our very sonogenic baby pulled a celebrity vs. paparazzi move and showed us a whole lot of back...

and when the sonographer tried to snap a picture of the face up went its chubby hand to block the shot....

OH yeah! eat that hollywood. Who's your baby!


so here is the short list
baby is fine doing well--except for the ego.
still no weight gain on my part holding fast at 1/3 the birth weight of a pachyderm calf. what, you have no idea how much a elephant baby weighs! unheard of.... it weighs about a half ton so that would make me... you guessed it 172 lbs.
I am nervous wreck and just want the baby born soon.

I have the best team of OB docs a gal could want.. 2 Maternal fetal specialists, one of these is also the head/director of the OB/GYN dept at the hospital, and then there are my OBs Dr. Angel and Dr. H that are the men that held us up they day the world stopped spinning. they are amazing and great at actually listening to their high maintenance patient. the newest member of our team and the sole female OB is another DR. H. and she is awesome too..

I spoke with DR. Angel by email today and he has assured me that he will be there for our delivery (despite his promotion and subsequent busy schedule in another wing)

meanwhile watson and i have been entertaining ourselves with the poppy's recent pastime of kicking me and doing back flips that if you watched you might think it was looking for an escape hatch.