32 weeks

So here we are. 32 weeks pregnant and on bedrest in the hospital. Bet you didn't see that coming?! 

It's been such a crazy weekend as we start day 4 being here. Quick recap that brought us to this point: Thursday I got a tummy bug and felt horrible. I reached a fever of 102 and had the poops. I figured I just finally caught what Madison had 4 days before and it would clear up in 12 hours. Well it did and I woke up Friday morning feeling better but dehydrated. I started getting fluids in me and then that afternoon felt like I was maybe getting a UTI. I decided to call my nurse to check because I didn't know how to treat a UTI while pregnant. She told me to go straight to labor and delivery and I said no. I convince her to let me go in to the office to take a urine test first and she let me. The test came back negative but she still insisted we go to labor and delivery.  Zachary and I walked to the car where I began to cry. I really didn't want to do that. It just seemed stupid .  But as we drove back home, the still small voice kept telling me that we just needed to go. Just to be safe. I told Zach and he agreed. We went to Provo hospital because Zach was supposed to start his ER shift at 5 so we figured that would he easiest.   Labor and delivery checked us in and we got settled. Turns out I did in fact have a bladder infection that did not come up on the little doctor office test so they began to give me fluids and antibiotics. Then they noticed that I was having contractions pretty steady about every six minutes.  They checked my cervix and found out that I was dialated to almost 2cm and was already 60-70% effaced. Wow!  The nurse also checked during a contraction which was the most painful thing! Then they decided to keep me over night for monitoring and keep the contractions at bay. The last thing they wanted to do was to send me home and I go in to full labor. 

Zach went down stairs to finish his shift and my first night stay in the hospital began. 5 bags of IV fluid and several pills later it was morning. Nothing to exciting to report but contractions were still steady enough that they wanted to keep watching. They also wanted to get a couple rounds of steroids in my to help prepare baby's lungs if he did come early. So I got two more fat needle shots in the butt. I was starting to feel like a pill popping pin cushion.  So Saturday night came and went and Sunday morning when we thought we were going home they said baby's heart rate had dropped several times through the night and they were not comfortable letting us go home. Dr Harward is so sweet and I knew it broke his heart to tell me he wanted me to stay another day. At first I was really upset but since then I have had a change of heart and I feel like I am dealing with the entire situation much better now. I am in the best place possible for me and my baby. It may be boring and inconvenient and I miss my house and daughter like crazy but again.... This is where I need to be. 

We aren't sure how long I will be here. We aren't sure when the baby will come. There are so many unknown things and we are just playing it by ear. Today I get another ultrasound to measure every inch of boy and see how big of a baby we are working with. I also meet with the neonatal team and decide the best choice for baby boy. So who knows? Maybe I'll have a baby this week. Or maybe they will leave me to cook in this hospital bed for 8 more weeks? Which I highly doubt. Any way you slice it, I'm currently getting so great one on one time with my son before our world gets flipped upside down again. 

Wanna hear the kicker? Zach is testing for Provo fire department today. RIGHT NOW! Funny huh? Seems our life always tends to have some sort of chaos before a big event or opportunity comes to pass. Just the story of our life I guess. He will do great. I have no doubt that the Lord has a plan for us and if we rely on him we will be ok. He has already blessed us so much just through this trial and has helped us in so many ways. For instance. Grandma Lyman fell and broke her hip and will be in a rehab place for at least a month and she allowed us to use her car while she was there. So now we have a second car that gets good gas mileage. Secondly my mom got laid off and decided to come to Utah while she figures things out and she now has the free time to take care of madi while I'm here. Truly two HUGE blessings. And yes I understand that as I write this that Heavenly Father has given to major trials to those lovely women so that we could be blessed because of it. 

We will continue to pray and rely on our Father in heaven. We have faith in him and his plan for our family. We know we are strengthened through these trials and we will become stronger because of them. They are a chance to learn and grow while we are here on this earth. 

Can't wait to see how the rest of this week will go. 

Sick again

My poor little girl is sick... Again. I believe that Madison and I have the same horrible immune system. We seem to catch every cold and sickness from October till March. I think she has croup four times, stomach flu twice and a couple common colds this winter and ended up in the ER twice. Fun times for this pregnant momma. 

Today she is sick again. Seems to be a tummy bug and low fever and I am very hopeful it passes soon. Zach has a sinus infection as well so he is down for the count. Praying constantly that I do not catch either one and I have the energy to take care of my sick family. Fun fact, I am far enough along in this pregnancy that catching the stomach flu could send me in to preterm labor. 

My parents just arrived to utah last night so my mom made a quick trip to the store for the "sick kid" starter kit. They are so sad she is sick and isn't able to play. Hopefully this is just a 24 hour thing and she will be back to normal soon. However I did get to score a sweet couch cuddle session today as she took a random nap. We will see how bedtime goes tonight considering she fell asleep from 4:30 -6. Oops. 

I can't believe how in just two short months there will be another little one hanging out with madi and I all day. I know I have the ability to love both my children completely, I just don't know how physically I will be able to give them both the attention the need and deserve. Newborns are so needy and I hope we all do well adjusting. For now, I will enjoy my final months snuggling just my girl. 

29 Weeks - Maternity Model

Bump it up

16 weeks and the day we found out the gender!

18 weeks

22 weeks

24 weeks

27 weeks

I am definitely horrible at taking pictures this pregnancy but I am trying my hardest! I think the fact that I was so small for so long made it hard to remember to take pictures. Literally until 22 weeks boy was stuck so low in my pelvis that you couldn't tell I was pregnant. Once he popped out I finally grew a belly, so the first 6 months were very small. My friends at church joked that I must not be pregnant then or that they wouldn't believe me until I had a belly, well now they believe me. But every time someone finds out I'm already 7 months pregnant they don't believe me either. I'm not sure why you are so small. Everything on the ultrasound measures the correct size. my uterus is measuring the right size.... its just not a huge belly. Granted I have 10 weeks left and this is when the big bulk up starts to happen but its just different. Aunt Lindsay is 9 weeks behind me with your cousin and is larger then me, and says comments all the time about it. Its really not a big deal. This is her FOURTH baby, its different. She is also bigger then me naturally and carries babies differently. Its OK! I was expecting to be bigger the second time around and who knows -- if I have more children I may get a HUGE belly with them. Its a part of life. I see the OB again next week and then we have appointments every two weeks until June. Which I think at this point that frequent of appointments it so pointless. I go in, the dr asks how things are going, and then we leave and repeat two weeks later. They don't check for dilation or take any more tests until June.

Today I am at 29 weeks. Its crazy to think that a month from today I went in to preterm labor and they stopped it and then 6 weeks from today I had Madison.  I still have 10 weeks to cook this little man.

Do I feel ready? Slowly we are getting there. I have enough that if he came tomorrow we would be ok. I'm nervous for two kids, I really am. Dividing my attention is what I am really nervous about.

29 weeks with baby boy

Well the third trimester is here. I am currently sharing a cold with Madison and Zach and I feel completely miserable. On top of pregnancy miserable, sickness just makes everything worse. You don't get the rest that you need when you're chasing a toddler all day. 

It's currently 3am and I have been wide awake for an hour so I guess it's the perfect time for a blog post. We are still battling Madison to sleep through the night and IN HER OWN BED. She hates sleeping alone and I can't really blame her because we shared a room with her until she was 18 months so I think she got used to it. It just makes this queen size bed feel even smaller with my growing belly in the way. Hopefully in the next 8-10 weeks we can get her sleeping through the night and potty trained, but perhaps I am just feeling ambitious. We have set up the crib and bassinet but that is about all the baby prep we have done. Oh I have finished the blessing blanket, crib bumper and quilt for little man! Madi is looking forward to having baby boy sleep in her room with her so maybe that will help her not feel alone. We live in a really small space so we have slowly been figuring out how to make this all work. In the next few weeks we will finish getting things out of storage and ready for the arrival. I'm slowly starting to get together my hospital bag too incase he comes early. 

Other then that I am feeling pretty good. As is apparent by my 3 am blog post... I have some pretty decent insomnia. Some nights I have trouble getting to bed and other nights I have trouble staying asleep. Madi woke up about an hour ago and I literally just lay here wide awake and try to sleep again. Guess it's just more practice for the newborn stage all over again. Baby boy likes to hang out on my right side for the most part and I feel him move all day long. If I eat after 8pm I get wicked heartburn but I'm hungry all the time it seems like. I have a KILLER sweet tooth these days! Since about 15 weeks I have had intense round ligament pain which made it uncomfortable to move. I also have a good bit of lower back pain most days. It was really bad for a while because baby was so low in my pelvis but now that he has moved up I have less pressure and can walk without waddling. I'm still comfortable sleeping at night which has been good and I haven't needed tons of pillows to prop me up or anything, but I do get really warm at night which kinda sucks. 

I passed my glucose test and everything looks good with the pregnancy. I have gained I think around 15-18 pounds at this point depending on the scale we use. I do get big waves of neseaua during the day but have learned if I just keep eating and don't let me sugars drop, I'm fine. We switched to Dr Kory Harward a couple months back and I REALLY like him. He delivers at Orem Community and that's where I want to have this baby, it is literally 4 minutes from our house. 

I have several Braxton hicks through out the day so it makes me wonder if he will be coming early like Madison did. But this time I am taking things more seriously and not doing as much. 

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Zach graduated from fire school today, he has applied to 3 different fire departments and another hospital job lately so our life may take another crazy turn here in the next month or so. Tomorrow is Easter and General Conference. We will see how we do being stuck at home all day hopped up on jelly beans and trying to listen to conference. I have a feeling that Madison won't let me watch any of it. Because of that tv is on she wants one of "her shows". Zach will be working at the er all day and then we will go to the Lyman's for dinner.