37 Weeks

I had my appointment this morning, and I would be lying if I didn't say I was a tiny bit disappointed. Last night I was having CRAZY contractions. Every 4-7 minutes, a few of them were super painful. I thought about going in but convinced myself I had an appointment at 8:40 this morning. If my water broke or anything, I would go in, otherwise I would wait it out. LONG night, they finally did slow down.

Went to the appointment this morning and NO PROGRESS at all. I was still just a fingertip dilated and 30% effaced. Oh and probably from the contractions, he is now turned sideways. Not that he can't easily turn back to head down from where he is, but after all that, nothing. He is still growing well, still has a good heart rate (I forgot to ask what it was, he just said it was good, and I was asking a million other questions.) My stomach feels like I did about 500 crunches yesterday, just sore. It did give me this kick in the behind I needed to get my hospital bag packed though (oh and to go buy the rest of the things that I needed for my hospital bag) so I guess some good did come of it.

Blankets for the boys

On Tuesday my mom was here to help us clean the house. She comes every Tuesday, it's been the greatest blessing! After we are done we usually end up running errands and things. On Tuesday I needed to go to the mall, and my mom needed to go to the fabric store. I wasn't planning to buy anything at the fabric store, just help my mom find the fabrics that she needed. Well, I was in trouble because they put the nursery prints right by the homespun fabrics that my mom was looking at. There was a super cute monkey fabric that jumped out at me, I looked at it, put it back, looked at it again, and as I was looking at it again Roman saw it. He immediately grabbed the fabric and started hugging it. He didn't want me to make a blanket for Hudson with it, he wanted one for him. Well, I started looking at fabrics that would match the monkey fabric and found a green and yellow that matched perfectly so I decided to do it.

I haven't quilted at all since Roman was born (so in the last 3 years) so at first I was a little worried that I wouldn't be able to get them done before Hudson's born. I forgot how exciting it is to see a project coming together. How I have such a hard time putting it down once I can see it working. I had the quilt tops together on Wednesday.

I decided that I wanted to do their quilts a little different (so that we didn't have arguments over blankets). So Hudson's has 4 triangles that form a squares between the monkeys.

Roman's is triangles with a strip down the middle. Roman's is also 2 rows longer then Hudson's.


By Saturday I had Hudson's all quilted. I just need to get Roman's quilted and they will have adorable matching quilts!

36 weeks

Yesterday I had my 36 week appointment and things continue to look good. The best news is that Hudson has turned again. He is once again head down (he turned night before last, and it's such a relief to not have his head in my ribs anymore!), I am measuring about 1/2 a week a head now, but still ahead which is great and my blood pressure has stayed consistently 120/70. I gained 1 lb in the last 2 weeks, so I think I may be able to stay under the 30 lbs total weight gain that I was hoping for. Hudson's heart rate was 139 (which is more in line with where it has been, it was a little higher last week) and as usual he kicked the doppler right off my stomach. My doctor commented again that he must be doing soccer practice in there. Really it's just that he doesn't like any pressure against him! I am about a finger tip dilated and 30% effaced but negative engaged (Everyone comments about how high I am carrying still it seems.) My doctor isn't in next Monday or Tuesday so my next appointment is next Wednesday. I still am just in shock (very good shock) that things are still going so well and we are still just plugging along. Only a few more weeks and Hudson will be here!

34 weeks

I had another good appointment yesterday. Heart rate was back up around 150, he kept kicking the doppler. He didn't like having it on my stomach. I was measuring about a week ahead still so everything is looking great. Oh and I LOST 1 lb from my last appointment. So I am pretty much on target for weight gain. So far I've gained 21 lbs, I was hoping to keep my total weight gain to around 20 lbs, I am afraid it will be closer to 30 by the end.

The doctor confirmed my suspicions that he has once again turned and has his head in my ribs (and the doctor could feel his feet up on the other side too). He wasn't too worried about that yet, he said he still has a few weeks to turn, and if he doesn't we were already preparing for that, so it's okay. I was kind of hoping to not have to plan for a c-section, but whatever gets him here safe we will do!

And here is a picture from last week when I was 33 weeks 4 days.