Newborn pictures of Hudson

Wendy's little sister Becky here again...I'm making a regular habit lately of hijacking Wendy's blog. I hope you guys are enjoying it (because otherwise you would get a whole lot of waiting for pictures of this cute little guy.)

Yesterday Wendy's friend Heidi went to the hospital and took some amazing newborn pictures of Hudson. I think she did an amazing job, and Hudson is so cute.

After Wendy is out of the hospital and settled in at home she can provide the blog with all her fun adventures, in the meanwhile enjoy these beautiful pictures.

New pictures of Hudson

Hey! This is Wendy's little sister Becky...I have hijacked Wendy's blog (again) to post new pictures of Hudson to those inquiring minds that would love more, and can never get enough of this adorable new little baby. The photos are courtesy of my mom.

Hudson's Here

Hudson is here!

Born Monday July 19, 2010 at 2:45 p.m.

Weighed: 7 lbs. 13 oz.

Length: 19 inches

39 weeks 4 days

Yesterday morning we had another NST (non-stress test). I was completely prepared. Had bags packed for Roman, hospital bag in the car for me, Spencer was with me...so of course, nothing happened.

First thing they did was weighed me. I forgot to mention on Wednesday I have now kept a consistent weight for the last 3 weeks. Haven't lost a pound, haven't gained a pound. (The funniest was the Wednesday after the 4th of July and the doctor asked if I had been eating okay. I told him it was the 4th of July I had eaten PLENTY!) Then they took my blood pressure. On Wednesday it was 120/70. Yesterday it was 140/80. So it was a little high.

The nurse then took us back to a room and thankfully NO problems getting things set up. We started the test and after the first 10 minutes the nurse came in, everything was reading fine so she said the doctor would come look at things in another 10 minutes. About 10 minutes later the nurse popped her head back in and said that when the doctor was finished with the patient he was with he would be in. So we waited another 10 minutes.

When the doctor came in he said that everything looked really good, asked how I was feeling and talked to us about what we would do next. I told him that I haven't been sleeping very well because I have just been so nervous because this little wiggly boy who used to move all the time just doesn't move much anymore. I know, I know, he doesn't have room to move anymore, but it's hard not to worry when you don't know what's going on in there. My doctor explained that if he thought there was even a tiny problem he would have not hesitate to deliver him. The other problem is that the hospital will not allow them to induce until you are a week late unless there is a problem.

39 Weeks

After my appointment last week the doctor told me to schedule a non-stress test (NST) before my appointment this week, just to make sure everything was still looking okay then my appointment.

I went in for my NST at 10:20, everything you can imagine was going wrong getting it set up, first the batteries on the machine died, then they were out of paper so it took 20 minutes just to get things started. Then the nurse had a hard time getting him to stay under the monitor. FINALLY got it going, it was supposed to be 20 minutes. After 20 minutes the nurse came in and re adjusted because there were a few times that she had lost his heart beat so she needed a longer reading. After 10 more minutes my doctor came in and he didn't like the way it was reading so he readjusted it again and wanted to watch it for 20 more minutes. Finally after an hour he came in and showed me "See this is what we want to see" and showed me the accelerations, and there were 13 in the hour which he said was great, but there was one deceleration that concerned him (his heart rate dropped down to 98 bpm and it was slow to come back up) He did my exam, still just 1 1/2 cm dilated (he didn't tell me how far effaced) but he said "I am not too concerned, but we've made it 9 months, I know your history, I don't want to take any risks."

So he had me go over for an u/s to make sure fluid levels were still looking okay. He said if it was under 7 he was going to induce me right then. Fluid level was 11.3 so he sent me across the hall to labor and delivery (his office is in the hospital) for an hour long NST because their equipment is better and he really wanted to make sure everything was looking okay.

Every 15 minutes or so a nurse would come in and talk to me about how things were looking. After the first 30 minutes the nurse was so encouraging she said that everything looked perfect and she said we would for sure be headed home today. After the next 15 minutes (so I'd been there just over 45 minutes) she said that his heart rate had dipped again so they wanted to monitor me for another 30 minutes.

After that 30 minutes was over I was surprised when it was my doctor that came in. Again I have to say how great he is. He was very reassuring, he said if there was really a reason that we should take him today he would have in a heartbeat but he felt like after the second NST that everything was okay.

He wants to see me again on Friday for another non-stress test before the weekend. So Friday afternoon we'll either be having a baby...or at my family reunion...either way should be an exciting day.

And, for those of you who wonder just how big I am...here is a picture from last Wednesday when my friend did my maternity pictures. (More to come)

38 weeks

I had my appointment this morning. I am now 1-1 1/2 cm dilated, 50% effaced and Hudson's heart rate was around 137. Because he hasn't been moving as much lately he did a NST today, which he said looked great. He should have an increase in heartrate at least 2 times in 20 minutes and he had 6. I wasn't having any contractions while we were doing the test but my uterus was irritated. The u/s tech said he weighs about 6 lbs 6 oz right now and fluid level was looking great. I asked the doctor about induction if he hasn't come...he said because everything is going "normal" right now, the hospital won't let him induce before I am 1 week late if there isn't a problem. So the soonest he could induce me would be July 26 but he said he really thought I would have him by then. He said if he were to guess based on size, position, and progress so far he thinks I'll have him pretty close to my due date, his guess would be the 17-21. Hopefully he's right!

Tonight my friend is taking some maternity pictures for me...so I'll have real pictures to post sometime in the near future...

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.