Final Birthing Class

Last night was our final birthing class.... are we supposed to feel ready after that? Ha!

The class was very much like the first one we had, a big lecture of information. I was hoping to maybe walk around the hospital a bit to see a Labor and Delivery room, but no such luck. But I know our hospital is rather small... so I imagine there really wouldn't be much to see.  The good part about the class was that yesterday we were the only people there! Just us and the nurse. So that was kind of nice, we got to ask her a bunch of questions without feeling awkward.  I also asked her some things I would need while I was there in hospital and have a longer list to add to my hospital bag!

I timed our drive to hospital... just to see how long it would take us. I knew we were close, but didn't realize we are exactly 2 minutes from the hospital!! Lol Can't beat that!   UNLESS of course school is letting out or starting, then we will be driving through a school zone and may opt for another route! But either way... we are pretty freakin' close!

I am soo excited for this weekend, we will be spending it with our closest friends and family members for a small shower. I am not the biggest fan of baby showers, but I know a lot of time energy went inot this one, so it should be excellent! Plus, it will be soo nice to hang out with our loved ones and perhaps the most exciting part is we are telling everyone the baby's name this weekend!  Don't worry, I will blog about the name probably on Monday and post some shower pictures too.  :)

34 weeks

34 weeks! I can't believe how close I am getting!!  According to the baby center's website, Baby boy Waggoner should be around 4 3/4 pounds and is almost 18 inches long! The next couple weeks the baby is filling out his fat layers to help regulate his body temperature when he arrives into the world! I think they said he is supposed to gain a half a pound a week, bulking up on his fat layers!

I have been looking at pictures of newborn me and newborn Ryan and we looked sooo different as newborns! I am really curious as to which of us the baby will look like or if he will look like both of us!

I have been having some more aches and pains this week. I imagine these are only going to get worse. I just think the baby is starting to run out of room and is taking over more of my space! (who would've thought, right!?!)  

And hiccups have been really regular, like a couple times a day! I like them... I think they are funny!  :) 

Here is the photo:

Well... That's never happened before.

Yesterday I had an embarassing moment.  I am going to blame it on the pregnancy.... because I can. Plus, it has never happened to me before this, so yeah.

I ripped my pants.  Right over one of my butt cheeks.  Full on rip. Did I mention they were black pants... and I was wearing bright WHITE undies.  :) Yeah.  Fun stuff.

I had a bunch of errands to run yesterday and was going to end my day at the soccer field. I looked in my closet and saw a pair of maternity black capris that I've never worn before that someone had given to me. I thought, I should wear these before it gets too cold and I never have the opportunity to wear them. So I pulled em on and didn't think anything more about them.  I did notice they were a bit snug, but didn't put a second thought into it.  I ran some errands and I remember hearing a ripping sound everytime I sat down in the car, but it wasn't that loud so I just ignored it!  I got to the chiropractor (one of my last errands of the day) and  I sat down in the chair to wait for her, when I noticed that tearing sound again...  this time much louder in the quiet room of the chiropractor and I felt some air sweep into my backside.  Low and behold I felt the back of my pants and there was a GIANT tear from the waistline all the way down past my underwear at this point!!   Lol.  I have no clue how long it had been torn and if I had walked all over town with my white undies showing under my black capris.... and no, my shirt wasn't very long.  My chiropractor (who thankgoodness is a woman) got a great laugh out of it!   And needless to say I went home to change my clothes before I finished up the rest of my errands.   :)

That's Swell...

It's official... I've started to swell. :(  I first noticed it last week when the air conditioning in our office broke and it was like 80 degrees out. I don't have a window and I was majorly overheating. I looked down at my feet and my toes looked like little sausages.  Not cool.  

I thought it got a bit better, but then I went down to Socorro to visit my parents. Socorro is always at least 10 degrees warmer than it is here and my parents like their house warm.  YUCK!  I was having a hard time with that and I felt like my feet were on fire and my joints felt all stiff... and swelling ensued. :( 

Yesterday I went to get a pedicure and even the little Asian lady doing my toes said that my feet were a bit swollen. LAME!

BUT I think they look better today. I can see all my toe bones when I wiggle them... which is normal and when they are swollen I can't. Hopefully it was just a fluke of being overheated and as long as I stay cool, I will be fine.  :)  Hopefully.

Family dynamics

I often wonder how our animals will handle a newborn baby...

For years our animals have been our babies. I got our cat, Eric Cartman when I was in college. I lived alone in my apartment and he was my little buddy. Over the years he has had a lot of transitions, some of which he handled well, others not so much. I've moved him.... 4 times. Some of which he took well... others not so much. I moved into a place with Ryan, which he wasn't so happy about and peed on the only piece of furniture that Ryan brought with him... a couch.  Then we got a puppy... which he actually transitioned to quite well... mostly because he could beat her up because he was much bigger than her (for awhile... now she has a good  20-30 pounds on him... but she is still afraid of him!). When we moved to our current house, the cat was in heaven... until we got our 2nd dog. That dog didn't like the cat and would try to kill him any chance he had. The poor cat has had litter box issues ever since. This is the dog we recently gave away and the cat is still having some litter box issues... but he is also still scared and always looks around for the dog before he goes to the litter box. So I'm hoping it will pass.  BUT I do wonder how he will handle not being my baby anymore. He is a giant momma's cat(boy) and loves to snuggle with me and follow me around. It should be really interesting to see how he reacts to sharing my time with a real baby. I hope he doesn't pee on the baby or try to smack him. But I am thinking he will be scared of the baby, but you never know.

Our dog I'm not so much worried about. She is a very sweet girl and loves EVERYONE... even her cat brother. But I am curious as to how she will react and what she will do. I am betting it will be lots of smelling and licks... but I could be wrong.

It shall be very interesting to see how everyone adjusts and I just hope that they all get along!

Just ordered the print collage for the baby shower that has the baby name on it. EEEEEeeeeeek.  I think it came out good (I photoshopped pictures at work all afternoon for it!). I am so excited and even more nervous to share our baby's name. I just hope that people like it as much as we do, but I know it really doesn't matter because we like it... and so does the baby! :)  And if they don't like it... I sure hope they fake it to my face! (Hint hint... to all those reading this!) Lol 

That being said I am getting really excited for my shower. I just got a new dress to wear for it and I am really excited to see all of my friends and family and have them all be together!

Sleep. Friend or Foe.

Usually sleep is my friend. Last night it was my foe.

I know when baby boy gets here my sleep will be even less, but I think last night was a quick preparation for that! 

I went to bed at 11. Woke up at 2 to pee and to lock the cat up in the den. Ryan's alarms went off at 4 (he is working out of town and forgot to turn them off), and then I got up a little after 6.

 That my friends is every 2-3 hours.  Which will be my life in a couple weeks... only difference is I will be woken up by the cutest little baby boy ever and not annoying alarms and such. :)

Our apt. yesterday

The appointments are definitely getting more boring! Lol. They called me in soo quickly and I feel like they kicked me out just as fast! BUT we did have a nice little chat with my doctor, which was good. I am getting so good at peeing in cups it is ridiculous... Anyway.

My blood pressure was a little high when I went in, so they re-took it after my appointment AND after I got a flu shot. I expected it to be even higher, but it miraculously dropped down to 124 over 80! Lol  Guess I should get shots before I take my blood pressure everytime! Ha!

The Dr. found the heartbeat right away and said he was a strong happy baby in there! :) We talked to her a lot about delivery and we had a nice conversation. We both asked her questions about random things and logistics about when we go into labor.  She said we have 2 more apts like this... and then we just wait for the baby!  I can't believe it that time almost here!

Other than that everything looks good. I did have a bit of swelling yesterday, but I blame it on the fact that our darn air conditioning broke at our office and it was 80 degrees yesterday... I WAS DYING!  Lol. Thank goodness I got to leave work early for the apt.  My dr. wasn't worried and said a little swelling is normal for pregnancy.  :)

33 weeks

33 weeks and I am seriously nesting. I don't think my house has been this clean in months... and by months I mean since before I was pregnant! Lol

I have to clarify that  haven't been a slob I just let the little things go... like dusting and scrubbing the bathrooms.  Now every little dirty thing bugs me and I HAVE to clean it. The fans, the baseboards, the grout in between the tile in the bathtub... you name it... gross.... and needs to be cleaned!

Today I cleaned for hours. I bought one of those magic eraser sponges (it works good by the way, but falls apart easily) and scrubbed the crap out of my bathtub... it just might be the cleanest its ever been. Then I moved to the bedroom. I did LOTS of organizing and vacuumed and dusted EVERYTHING. Not including 2 loads of laundry and dishes. Yesterday I swept and mopped the rest of the house. Yay for a clean house!

Anyway, 33 weeks.  Baby is the size of pineapple. Weighs a little over 4 pounds and is 17 inches long. They also say that the baby's skeleton is hardening... so maybe that is why all I want to do is drink milk?

We go for an OB apt. tomorrow at 4! I am excited to hear the baby's heartbeat again and see how I'm measuring. I thought I had dropped a bit... but when I compared my picture to last week's I think I just grew, instead! Lol

According to my scale here I have only gained a pound since my last apt. 2 weeks ago... which is a good thing! :) But we will see what the Dr.'s scale says!

Here's my 33 week picture (excuse my hair... I had a busy day cleaning):

Hiccups

I felt the baby have hiccups for the first time last week.  Today I felt the baby have hiccups twice and one of those times Ryan got to feel it too! It was the neatest thing!

Usually in the mornings the baby is VERY active. I was laying in bed, trying to get motivation to move and enjoying the baby wiggling, when I felt it. A constant, every couple of seconds hiccup or movement in my belly. I actually started laughing because it was really strong. Ryan put his hand on my belly and couldn't believe how strong it was and that he was able to feel it to!

So there you have it. Another milestone: Hiccups! Lol  :)

Birthing class #1

Well, we've been debating on attending a birthing class for months. When we finally decided to look into it, I didn't think it would work out with our schedules, especially Ryan's work schedule.  Luckily I called the lady who is teaching the class and she was very flexible. We can only make 2 of the 4 classes and she is going to give us all the materials she hands out  during the classes that we miss so we will be all caught up.

The class wasn't exactly what I expected... more of a lecture class. I guess I watched too many tv shows or movies where they have people like sitting on the ground with their partners and stuff. Definitely not this class! The information she gave us was very informative and answered a lot of the questions that we had, like when do you go to the hospital, when do they contact your doctor... and some other basic stuff.  Interesting enough she said it typically takes first time moms 12 - 24 hours to have a baby. That is a long damn time! Which makes me want to stay home while I'm in labor for as long as I possibly can. I don't want to spend 24 hours in the hospital in labor when I could be in the comfort of my own home.

I asked her when was too late to get an epidural and she said technically it is never too late to get one. I don't know how I always hear stories about people being too dilated for an epidural, but maybe each hospital is different? But she said it is never too late. So I guess that is cool.  She taught us some breathing techniques and gave us some handouts for different positions you can use while you are in active labor.

I am excited that I got some handouts to read about breastfeeding. My Dr. never gave me any and that is probably my biggest worry.

The best part about the class was the fact that the teacher/nurse lady was from New York. You could tell she hadn't lived there in awhile, but she still had an accent, just like my family does. After the class I asked her where in NY she was from and we had a big ole conversation about where my family was from and how they got to NM.

Anyway this is long and I'm sure most people have stopped reading by now....

pregnancy love

I think... (so far anyways), that I am one of those women who enjoys being pregnant. I have been VERY lucky this pregnancy and feel very blessed that so far I've been very healthy. (Maybe this is premature to write! Lol)


But really I've enjoyed it so far!

I still don't feel THAT huge. It is nice not to have to worry about having a perfectly flat stomach, sucking it in all the time or trying to fit into skinny jeans. Pregnancy is the only time you can proudly stick out your gut and say, look what I have.... A Big ole' Belly!

Maternity clothes are not that bad... and rather comfy! I know, I sound crazy! BUT next time you try to squeeze into a pair of pants or jeans that are a bit to snug... imagine getting to wear pants everyday with a stretchy waist... and then you will know my love. :) Also, I've discovered a whole new appreciation for dresses and if I could, I'd wear a dress every single day... too bad I have to work and wear a uniform! Lol


Another amazing thing about pregnancy is to feel the baby moving inside of me. I always refer to it as kind of like your own little secret. Only you know and can feel when the baby moving. Nobody else has a clue and you can enjoy it all on your own! I wake up to him wiggling every morning and although I realize I will still probably wake up to him for a long time, it won't be the same and I am going to miss it.

Also, I've noticed people (mostly strangers) are a lot nicer to me, pregnant! Lol I get more doors opened for me, people offering to carry things for me, hold things for me, offering me seats, etc. It is rather nice. I wish people were that nice all the time! Lol

There are the occasional stares that I dont like. There is a little girl at church who, whenever she sees me just stares at my belly. It is rather annoying. She is older so it isn't like she doesn't know any better. I just feel like telling her, what the heck are you looking at little girl! Lol But other than that, no real problems with people being mean or rude to me. In fact a couple weeks ago, I had a stranger come up to me in the store and tell me I looked beautiful. :)

So yeah... So far, I rather LOVE being pregnant. I know there are uncomfortable moments, but all the good moments waaay out way the bad.


Wonder if this will mean I will be anxious to be pregnant again after this one is over and will have a million kids because I enjoy being pregnant? Lol I guess only time will tell.

32 weeks

32 weeks... wow. 

The highlight of my week last week was getting an order of Carter's clothes in the mail. They had a big sale (70% off) so I got suckered into buying some.  We literally didn't have any clothes yet... I know, I know, we haven't even had our showers yet. But it is nice to have SOMETHING to put in our drawers for the little guy. It seemed like I got a ton of stuff... but really I just got like 2 or 3 outfits in each size... NB, 3 mos, and 6 mos.  And they are sooo freaking adorable. I can't wait to put our little man in them!

Also our other set of curtains came in. It is amazing how dark that room is now!  I actually have to open them a bit otherwise it looks like it is night time in there! Hopefully it will be easy for baby still in that pitch black room!



How far along?: 32 weeks



How big is baby?: 17 inches long and 3.75 pounds!



Weight gain/loss?: I think I am still at +19 pounds, BUT I just made some oatmeal cookies and Ryan is gone until Wednesday... sooo it could be more pretty soon! Lol


Stretch marks?: Sadly yes.  On my thighs, but not yet on my stomach. :(

Maternity clothes?: Yes, everything I wear is maternity except for dresses and my stupid work uniform.


Sleep?: Not so much. I have been getting more uncomfortable at night. My back, legs, stomach.... different things wake me up.  I typically get up once a night to pee and if I don't get up to pee, I get up because I am thirsty... always around 3 or 4.


Food cravings?: Still Raspberries and Steak. But now anything with calcium is added to the list. I had 2 LARGE glasses of milk in the past hour. Ice cream, cheese, yogurt, milk... you name it. Mmmm... My new favorite is chocolate milk! Lol 



Gender?: Boy



Movement?: Oh yeah! All the time! At church on Sunday, he was sticking either his little butt or his legs out on the very top of my stomach and uterus. I kept pushing it down and he kept pushing it back up! It was actually rather painful



Belly button: Still an innie!! Take that haters who said it would pop out! :) Although... I know I still have 8 more weeks... Lol  But it is still pretty far in there!


What are you looking forward to this week?: More movement! I love feeling his little wiggles!

I also got brave and took a bare belly shot. Not sure if I'm brave enough to post it on here... BUT if you are my friend/ family member and would like to see it, send me a text.... lol  :)

You know you're in the 3rd trimester when...

I know lots of people do this list, but I thought it'd be fun to do my own version, because lord knows I have one!

You know you are in the third trimester when :

Wherever you go, someone asks you when you are due.

You get up at least once at night to pee... if not more

Sleeping at night requires many position changes to get comfortable many different times throughout the night.... and not very much sleep.

At the end of the day, especially the end of the week all I can think about is going home to either take a nap or put my feet up!

Eating has somehow become a difficulty. I don't know how, but food ends up everywhere. On your belly, on your boobs and down your shirt. I don't know why or how, but 3rd trimester makes you a slob.

Getting in and out of low chairs or even my low car is like an athletic event. Seriously, it is hard to get in my car or even into bed.. not to mention getting out!  I am opting to drive Ryan's big ole truck because I can get in easier, believe it or not!

Walking around and thinking it is awful cold and then looking down and realizing your are leaking! Not something I expected! Lol

Shaving is another athletic event. I am going to have to ask Ryan to help me with this before the delivery... otherwise I will be a woolly mammoth by then!

And forget about cutting my toenails! I am like a couple inches away from reaching them... soo frustrating. The ladies at LA Nails here in town are going to become my best friends before this is over!

Having hot flashes is a common occurrence. I am so thankful for the 70  and 60 degree weather we've been having, but I still have bouts of heat flashes!

Dropping things on the ground makes you debate on whether or not they are important enough to even try to pick up. Luckily I have monkey toes and have been resorting to using them to grab things that have fallen.

Anytime you have a free moment you nest!  That's right. I've been nesting any free chance I get. Today I took the carseat out of the box and learned how to tighten and loosen the straps and take it out off of the base! Lol

And you have a countdown (58 days!) until that big due date... even though most kids aren't even born on their due dates!

Thats all I can think of for now... but I imagine I might add more later!

Stretching...

I discovered my first stretch marks today. It was a sad day.  Surprisingly they aren't on my stomach... but on my right thigh... Lol. And it isn't like I've gained a lot of weight in my thighs (or my right thigh... for that matter.) I've exercised this entire pregnancy... played and coached soccer until I was 4 or 5 months, did Zumba after soccer was over and until about my third trimester and I've walked on my treadmill almost every morning and just started doing evening walks too.  How the heck did I get stretch marks on my thighs?!  

Oh well... guess I can't complain. It isn't like I spent lots of time in a bathing suit BEFORE getting pregnant... so I don't really plan on spending tons of time in a bathing suit afterwards.  Guess I will just keep up my regular routine and see what happens!

31 weeks

Today was a good day! It was the first of our 2 week OB appointments, which is exciting in itself.  I knew I had gained some weight since my last apt, because I swear baby went through a big growth spurt last week... and you saw the proof by my pictures! Ha!

The best news of the day, the Dr got the report back from our ultrasound and MY PLACENTA MOVED UP! Hooray! No placenta previa and no planned c-section! I kind of felt like I've been in limbo waiting to see what our outcome will be and what to mentally prepare for... and I am so relieved that for now I can mentally prepare for a vaginal birth.

Anyway, baby was good! The Dr. said he was the most well behaved baby she had seen all day because she was able to find his heartbeat right away and all the other kids were hiding from her today! So she told him he was a good boy! Lol

His heartbeat was in the 140's and I was measuring right on target at 31 weeks!  :)

Ok, got the picture! I look the same as last week! Had a big growth spurt from 29 to 30 weeks... but nothing really since then.

Last Doggie post

Today I watched Bodie boy drive away with a new family. It was definitely bittersweet. I did not cry (shocking, I know) But I think it was because I knew he was going to a good family and he would get lots of love and attention. 

Bodie seemed to like the guy and the guy seemed to think that his wife would just love him. And knowing Bodie, he will  love her to death because he loves women! I was kind of surprised that he just jumped right into the guy's car like nothing. I gave him a dog biscuit and said a quick goodbye. The guy left his front door open while I talked to him and gave him all of Bodie's shot records and such. I was really shocked that Bodie didn't just jump right out of the car, but he instead just stayed in the back of the car... like he knew.

I thought when he drove away would be really sad. He watched me for a little and then went and smelled the guy's face and was looking about the car and out the other windows. I thought he'd freak out and be really sad to leave me, but he didn't seem all that concerned. Although part of me thinks he was just intrigued and would realize what had happened and get sad on his drive back to Albuquerque.  :(

A couple times today I thought about what he might be doing and if he was sad.  But Ryan just reminded me that he was probably on their couch getting spoiled... and I bet he is right. Lol  I just hope he isn't too sad.

Our other dog, Bailey seems to be enjoying the individual attention... although she keeps looking for Bodie.  I think she will be a bit lonely at first but will adjust to how life was a year a half ago pretty quick.

Also, tonight we were able to let our cat outside to play in the backyard with Bailey for the first time in a year and half. Bodie HATED the cat, while Bailey and Eric are rather fond of each other. It was soo funny to watch them play together again. And makes me see how much our lives were turned around with the Bodie. I loved him very much and he was a part of our family, but he definitely stirred things up and changed our family dynamic and it is kind of nice for it to be back to normal. I just hope and pray that he is happy and makes his new family very happy too.

Update on our Bodie Boy

Earlier this week I posted a blog about one of my biggest stressor, finding a new home for our boy dog, Bodie. I posted it on facebook... and boy I didn't realize how much traffic I would get off of that! Lol I typically get like 2-4 readers a day and after I posted it on facebook I got 25 readers one day and 13 another!  Crazy!

Anyway, after I had kind of written off the dentist lady and her husband (who I had fallen in love with over email as the perfect match for Bodie) because they hadn't gotten approval from their landlord. I got an email from them Tuesday afternoon.... they had finally gotten approval!! Hooray!  I was so very excited!  The dentist lady can't come this weekend... but her husband is coming to meet Bodie on Friday morning.  I am very nervous, but hopeful that he will fall in love my Bodie boy.

I know Bodie will be nervous. He always has a hard time when he is away from Bailey and acts very calm and shy.  (Which I guess may be a good thing, since he won't be acting all crazy! Lol) I just hope he opens up to the guy a bit so that he can fall in love with him, like I have and want to give him a good home.

So... fingers crossed. If it doesn't work out for them Friday morning they are supposed to think about it and get back to me before Saturday morning, when we have another family coming, the family with an 8 year old boy, on Saturday.

So that is the update. We should know more on Bodie's new home by this weekend.  Fingers crossed that everything works out for the best and he goes to someone who will love him as much and even more than we do.  Also... that I don't cry to much if he does find his new home this weekend!