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Monday, March 26, 2012

Movie Angst

Steve was watching "I Love You Man" the other day. I realized I don't like movies like that. I like funny movies, but when the main character is going to crash and burn before things get better it causes me a lot of angst.  Even when I KNOW that it will get better and end happy. I watch them do everything wrong, and all I want to do is yell at them that they are stupid.  I know a weird thing to get angsty about.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Random Baby Thoughts

As I sit here watching and feeling my belly move all over the place, I have that surreal moment that Elsa will be here very very soon.  I can't wait. I want to see what this little bugger looks like. Hold her. Love on her. I'm really exhausted all of the sudden.  A little from not sleeping well for several days in a row, and a little from just being pregnant in general. I guess that what being in the ninth month of pregnancy will do to you. Other than being tired I'm feeling pretty good. I have to be thankful that for the most part I have had a wonderful pregnancy.

Everyone keeps asking Steve and I if we are ready. Are we? We have all the stuff we need.  And we are excited to get her here. So I guess you could say we are as ready as we possibly can be. Is anyone ever ready?  Although I nannied for years, I was always able to give the kiddos back to mom and dad at the end of the day.  Elsa isn't going anywhere. She is ours 24/7.  How awesome and how scary all at the same time!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Cricked Neck

Today Steve told me that he knows why babies are born all surly and crying. They are upside down for at least a month if not more, and their neck's have to hurt. They have cricks in their neck and it takes some time for them to work it out.

Too cute!

Friday, March 9, 2012

In Her Own Time

We have been given our first lesson from our daughter.  She will do what she wants when she wants. No matter what we want. We are a mere three weeks away from our due date and Elsa had been quite comfortable in her snugly womb, in breech position! We had spent weeks trying everything that we could do to get her to flip. On Monday we had another ultrasound that showed she was still happy where she was.
We decided to schedule a procedure called External Cephalic Version, commonly just called "Version," for Thursday morning. This procedure is an attempt to manually turn the baby. It requires being admitted into labor and delivery, getting an IV, and taking a medication called terbutaline to relax the uterus so that the Dr can manually turn the baby from the outside. It has about a 50% success rate.
We checked in to North Florida Regional Hospital at 6am. Got all the paperwork and questionnaire stuff done, got hooked up with the IV.  Then at 8am Dr. Brazzel came in to start the procedure.  Before they start they do an ultrasound to figure out where everything is like the placenta, baby, and umbilical cord.  Well he made a funny face when he started viewing the ultrasound, and come to find out she had flipped on her own!! Sometime between Monday at 10am and Thursday at 8am, she turned head down. We all had a good laugh. The nurse asked us all when was the last time we had seen her in breech, and Dr. Brazzel  and I both said "Monday!"  Then he said that it wasn't like she just turned breech, that she had been like that for weeks.  The likelihood that she would turn on her own at this point was very small.

We are grateful she has finally turned, which gives us an even bigger chance to avoid a c-section and try to have her naturally. Now, if she will just stay head down! :-)

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Pinterest

Yes, I have delved into Pinterest, and I may be addicted. It's so awesome to see so many good ideas that I can implement myself.  But what I hate to see on Pinterest is a picture of your kid. Pinterest is for ideas, for sharing and more importantly for RE-sharing. Unless your kid is wearing an adorable pillowcase dress that you made and want to show it off so others can make it, why on earth would you upload a photo? I'm not going to Repin a photo of your kid.  You have completely missed the point of Pinterest!!