4 weeks and counting!

Things have been going pretty well over the past few weeks. I am still at home resting, which has been nice. I went to the doctor on Monday and I have started to thin out. So I am making a little bit of progress. I had to come off the medicine to help with the contractions because you are not supposed to take it after 36 weeks so we will see what happens. I am slowly coming down on the insulin so maybe by next week I will only have to take it at night versus two times a day. All in all, feeling really good! Just ready to meet Lawson!

Our family threw me and the baby a shower this past Saturday. It turned out wonderful! I could have not asked for a better day because it really felt like fall in August with low humidity! We had a great turn out and and got all the last minute things we would need for Lawson. So now the car seat bases are in the car, his bag is packed, wreath is bought for the hospital door and now my bag is packed. So I think we are ready.

We have been doing a few things around the house to help us get ready. We always felt that we needed more seating and so we bought a love seat! We used the excuse that we would need the seating for people when the baby came but I think deep down we wanted it too for football season! We also bought a new entertainment center to house the 46 in flat screen we bought at Christmas. It has been in our bedroom so it will be quite an adjustment going from a 46 in to a 37 in. in the bedroom.

A few weeks ago, Mitch and I had some pregnancy pictures done. They turned out pretty good. I do not think I look like myself because of the bells palsy but over all they are good. Here are a few of them!

No more work, no baby yet....what's a girl to do??!!

So, Mitch and I went to the doctor yesterday. We met with the nutrionist, who showed me how to administer my shots, and then off to the ultrasound and fetal monitor we went. Lawson is growing great! He is 5lbs and 13 oz. His heart rate was 160 and poor thing had the hiccups while we were doing the ultrasound. He has the hiccups ALL the time but it was kind of neat seeing his stomach move up and down with the hiccups. He continued to have the hiccups all through the NST, which got quite loud. For those of you who do not know what an NST is, it is where they hook you up to a fetal monitor and a contraction monitor and watch the baby and me to see how we are doing.

Baby Lawson did great! Me on the other hand, started having mild contractions...again. Strong enough for them to register. So we went in to see the doctor, she checked me and I am not dialated but she has now taken me off work....starting today. So I was a little bit in shock because I felt like I had so much I needed to take care of before I left work but I got it all done and now I am looking forward to just taking care of me and Lawson.

Hopefully, as the meds taper off for the bells palsy so will my insulin. If that happens I will have a better chance of making it to my actual due date and not have to be induced! Either way, we are just so excited to meet our little boy!

Mitch has been such a trooper through this entire pregnancy and continues to rally by my side here at the end with all the issues I have been having! He is a wonderful husband and is going to be a GREAT dad to Lawson!!

Pregnancy Does The Weirdest Things

So I noticed on Tuesday that my right eye was extremely dry. I thought it was just my contacts and maybe some allergies. So that night I went home took out the contacts and put my glasses on. My eye starts pouring water...which again I thought it was just my allergies. Then Wednesday morning I was brushing my teeth and realized when I went to spit I could spit out of one side of my face. As the day went on it got a little worse. I realized I could not really move the right side of my face. So I called the doctor and they told me to come in. I saw the on call doctor since my regular doctor was in Gadsden. He told me he wanted me to go see a neurologist and come back tomorrow to see my regular doctor.

So I went back to the doctor yesterday. She told me that I have Bells Palsy. Which apparently is common in pregnant women who have gestational diabetes. It, like the diabetes, will go away after (or even before) delivery. So now I have to take a steroid and antibiotic (all are safe during pregnancy) to help the Bells Palsy. But since I have gestational diabetes, the steroids will make my blood sugar levels uncontrollable without insulin. So now I have to be put on insulin on Monday.

From now until Lawson arrives, I will be at the doctor twice a week. Once to be checked to make sure I am not dialating and then twice a week to be hooked up to a fetal monitor to make sure I am not contracting. At least I only have a few weeks left, and since I have to go twice a week maybe it will make these last few weeks go by quickly.

They moved our ultrasound to Monday instead of the 20th, so we will find out how big Lawson is!!! I am really excited! I am trying to be optimistic because we have prayed so long for this child and I know all this is totally worth! Just a little overwhelming to deal with in the last final weeks!

I will keep you posted on our appointments on Monday. Please continue to keep us in your prayers through these final weeks!!

Almost There!

I will be 33 weeks tomorrow. It feels like yesterday when I found I was pregnant. Time sure does fly!

This past weekend we had a wonderful couple's shower hosted by some of my sister and good friends! Despite the rain, it was wonderful! We are truly blessed to be surrounded by wonderful people! We go TONS of stuff and now Lawson's room is almost filled to capacity. His closet look more full than mine and Mitch's. He is definitely going to be one well dressed little fellow.

Despite feeling larger than life, I have felt pretty good. The heat of the south is the only thing that really slows me down. I am getting to the point now where I have a hard time sleeping at night because the only way Lawson will settle down and let me sleep is on my back, which I have always hated sleeping on my back. But who needs sleep anyways!

I go this Thursday for my bi-weekly check up. I have to meet with my nutrionist first (because of the gestational diabetes) and then to the doctor.

On August 20th (Mitch's birthday), we are going for my next check up and get to have another ultrasound to see how big Lawson is. One of the side effects of gestational diabetes is a large baby so they are keeping an eye on him to make sure he is growing just fine! What a cool present for Mitch (and me) to get to see our baby on his birthday! I wonder if that means I have to buy him anything.

Well, this blog thing is new to me but thought it would be a good way for out of town relatives to see what we are up to! I will try to post some pictures soon and keep you posted on the arrival of Lawson!