So, I have not posted any updates in a while and apparently we have some avid readers (thanks!!) so here's what's been happening...
The lack of updates does have an excuse. We 're in the middle of gutting out our entire kitchen and redoing the entire thing. This means we can basically use two rooms in our house right now and we've been having to eat a ton of carry out. Plus, in the midst of all of this, we had a scare and had to go to the hospital. In hindsight, not the best idea to do a bunch of remolding while I'm pregnant but it beat the alternative of doing it once she got here. (also, I'm no longer allowed to wield a chisel and hammer to rip up the kitchen floor - but it was fun while it lasted) :)
On Sat. Feb 28th, I was having a lot of pain in my abdomen that lasted the entire day. Sometimes it would get increasingly worse and the middle of my stomach would be rock hard. Mike and I, of course being novices, thought... maybe it's her head??? It wasn't. I was having contractions. On Sunday the pain went away and I felt a lot better - which prompted the floor removal - but then around 4:00 I started having some spotting. After a lot of crying, I called my doctor and he told me to go up to Beaumont to get checked out. This made Mike and I even more nervous (I think we were hoping for a "happens all the time, don't worry about it" response).
On the way to the hospital, she was moving and kicking like crazy so I felt a lot better knowing that she was still okay. The hospital was great - we walked right in, I got hooked up to a monitor for contractions within 5 minutes and examined about 5 minutes after that. Apparently the contractions from Saturday caused a small amount of bleeding so that's what the spotting was. Whew! The midwife we saw at the hospital was right, if it's not one thing in pregnancy it's another!
I don't really have a lot of restrictions except for taking it easy, which I thought I had been doing, and not being so stressed out. This means my days of staying at the office until 6:30/7:00 are over for now. I actually have felt much better this week now that I've been making my self leave by 5:30.
The plus side of this is that Mike now knows the way to the hospital and we both know how to get to the labor and delivery area. Plus, we got to see her face on the ultrasound! No profile this time, she was looking right at us.
