Blood Pressure Check

When I went into the doctor's office monday, I yet again had high blood pressure. This time it was 140/90 which was higher than it was on thursday. My doctor does not work on Mondays so they brought the nurse practitioner in. She wanted to put the baby on a fetal monitor and monitor his heart rate for 20 minutes to make sure that everything was fine with him even though I had high blood pressure. I laid there for 20 minutes just listening to his heart beat. Afterwards, she checked my blood pressure again and it was down to 126/60 and the baby's heartrate was fine throughout the whole thing. She said everything looked good with him but that obviously I needed to rest as much as possible and pretty much do nothing since that is when my blood pressure spikes. I also have to pee in this huge orange jug all day on wednesday and bring it to my appointment on thursday. DISGUSTING!! I am not looking forward to this but apparently it is to check for pre-eclampsia. I'll do it but i'm not happy about it! :) So there we have it. I pretty much sit around and do absolutely nothing until thursday, and hopefully thursday we would have made some progress. I am not feeling anything that feels like contractions so we will see. The doctor did say at the last appointment that with already dilating and being thinned i'm at a great spot if I need to be induced. Hopefully, even with my blood pressure down, she will decide to induce early. I will be really happy with that decision! :) So we will see what happens Thursday.... I feel like with me not being able to do anything but lay on the couch, this baby won't come at all. I was hoping to do a lot of walking this week and get this baby here but I can't.... so now i feel like he will never come!

eek!!!!

Well we just got back from the dr. office for our 36 week appointment and did we get a shocker. I normally have very low blood pressure, however this time it was high (for me) 130/90. She was a little concerned so I go back Monday to get it checked again. If it is high on Monday we start talking about option such as early inducement. (not the big shocker though....) We had an ultrasound and his head was very low to where we could not get an accurate measurement of his weight, however the one we did get was only about 5 lbs (it was 4 lbs and something ounces but closer to 5). This concerned her just a little bit because it puts him in the 12 percent tile for weight for the gestational age that I am at. She said at 10 % they raise an eyebrow and at 5% they do some serious investigating to see why he is so small. She said if i make it to 38 weeks they will do another ultrasound to see if he is still growing. We talk about all this stuff and then the appointment is over and she is walking us over to get some blood work and then says "have we done your group b strep test". No we havent, so we go back into the room to do that and she then proceeds to check me. I am 2-3 cm. dialated. HOLY COW! I start crying and freaking out, the dr is surprised and then we begin talking again. She says she does not expect me to go to my due date and that with his head so low she would not be surprised if it's within the next couple weeks. She said definitely if I go back on Monday and my blood pressure is still high we will most likely be induced sooner rather than later. Luckily, she said that she really thinks I will have an easy labor as his head is "right there" (her words not mine) and i'm already dialated that much. I seriously started crying when she told me all of this because I just suddenly got very overwhelmed. She had said throughout my pregnancy that she for some reason thought that I would have him early but now that we are this close and I have high blood pressure... just the fact that he will most likely be here within the next 2 weeks... i'm freaking out a little bit!

For now she wants to try to keep him in there at least another week since the measurement was so small but she said if I did go into labor she wasn't going to stop it. For now, I have to limit my salt intake, and do nothing and take it really easy (which I am sooo ok with.. except that there were still some cleaning things that I wanted to do but luckily my mom and a bunch of other people are more than happy to do that for me. )

yes.... i'm freaking out... :)

34 Week doctor appointment

Today I had my 34 week doctor appointment and it was so weird to go back so soon!!! I gained a lot more weight than I thought I would in 2 weeks, but that's ok. The nurse said that it was about time I started to gain some weight and that I still had more that I needed to gain so i'm not too concerned about it.

The doctor said that she knows everyone says I am little but everything is measuring just fine. She tried to find his head, and was pretty sure he was already head down but my stomach was so tight she wasn't sure. She has us having another ultrasound in 2 weeks just to verify everything. This has made me a little nervous just because I know you usually don't get an ultrasound at this point in the game but she didn't act really concerned so I'm just trying to be excited about the fact that I get to see him in 2 weeks. I hope the next 2 weeks fly by!!! I just want to know that everything is fine with my baby boy and see him again... even if it is on an ultrasound :)

The dresser finally came in yesterday so we have been busy putting all the last minute things together. Once the room is completely finished I will put up some new pictures of the progress.... right now all you see is a dresser which is pretty boring so I am waiting until we get the rest of the stuff up on the walls so you can see the whole complete thing :)

Yay for 34 weeks!!! only 6 weeks (or less :) ) to go!!!

More nursery pics!

As you can tell, almost the whole bottom part of the closet is full of diapers! I am lucky enough to have a sister-in-law who manages a walgreens and she got a huge discount on diapers this week. They were on sale, used her discount, and had coupons for all of them and the 50 count of 1's and 48 count of 2's we got for $4.75...... so yes we both took the opportunity to stock up! I know we will go through each and every one of these diapers but at least we got them for cheap and won't be rushing out to the store to buy diapers any time soon!

The laundry basket full of stuff is all things we are going to be putting in his dresser. We ordered it 3 weeks ago and they said it would take 4-6 weeks for it to come in. The lady working said that she was pretty sure that it would come in on the next truck so it should be closer to the 4 weeks. I really hope it comes in soon though! We are waiting on that in order to figure out where everything else is going to go!!





I had two more baby showers this past weekend and got a ton of stuff for Kayden! Thanks to all of my family and friends for showering us with all this baby stuff!! We got our pack n play, car seat, stroller, and a ton of other stuff from these baby showers and we are sooo thankful!

Maternity Pictures!

So at 33 weeks we decided to do maternity pictures! Our awesome friend Aimee Nielson started doing professional photography over a year ago (i think) :) and she takes AWESOME pictures! I was not so sure about doing maternity pictures but she talked me into it and I'm glad we did it! They are soooo cute!! :) Here are just a couple!

More Progress

Nick and I have had this lamp since before we got married. I saw it at IKEA when I was doing some shopping for our apartment. At IKEA they had this lamp painted teal with polka dots all over it and I absolutely fell in love with it. You had to do the design yourself but I bought it thinking we could do that and put it in our living room. 2 years later we are just now taking it out of the box. We decided to do brown, white, and teal stripes on it to match the valance and Kayden's bedding. I think it's going to turn out to be pretty cute when it's done, but man has it been a pain in the butt. My dad and I painted the top stipe the first night just to make sure that I would like it and to make sure the process would work. We had to put painters tape around the stripe we were doing and then cover the whole thing in newspaper. Then, paint the stripe, let it dry for a little bit, take all the newspaper off and the painters tape. It took about an hour for one stripe (not including complete drying time which is 24 hours.) Luckily I liked it but we had to wait a day before we could do anything else since we would have to cover the brown up again in order to do the blue. Tonight we realized that we could tape all the blue stripes and put newspaper in between so that we could do all of one color at the same time. So we got the blue stripes on there and tomorrow we are going to complete the brown stripes. We had to document the process so that when Kayden gets older he will see how hard we worked to make his nursery beautiful :)

More Nursery Pics!

We have made more progress on the nursery. I haven't taken a whole room picture yet because we are still waiting on the dresser but we have gotten the letters up and the design that I wanted next to them. ** I am really bad at taking pictures so sorry that everything is kinda lopsided and I can't make my camera stop putting halos on the wall no matter what I try. I'm going to try my mom's camera later and see if that one takes a better pic :)
obviously, skye was thrilled about the painting :) that is his favorite place to lay when we are in there.