Nolan's gifts!!

Nolan's gifts from friends and family

Aunt Mae: Puppy blanket and 2 outfits

Lori and CC Hill: 3 outfits

Sherry and Brandon Eubanks: Diaper Cake, extra diapers and baby wash stuff and outfit in keepsake box

Sara Bender: Bibs, wash clothes, Tommy Tippee bottles

Laurie LaBarr: High chair, booster seat for kitchen table and shopping cart cover

Lisa Visek: money $

Karen and Jamie Stevens: Visa gift card

Jessica Short: handmade cloth diapers, wet bag, baby carrier, nursing pads

Shannon Taylor and Mimi: Baby toy, baby wash, wipes, onesie and pants

Julie Money and Saleen: Tommy Tippee bottles, nipples and pacifiers

Candace and Jerry Risdon: Safety 1st kit with nail clippers, brush, comb, etc and monkey butt outfit

Jessica Bohannon: Baby keepsake box with gifts inside

Rebecca Simmons: John Deere onesie and handmade stuffed elephant

Andrea Wood: $ money

Brandy Hicks: $ money

Sherry and Tobin Leonard: Diapers and Mickey Mouse onesies

Lori Hawks and Michelle Eller: Bouncy seat

Kristen Fine and Brad Higgins: bath tub for the sink

Cindy Wiles: handmade charm bracelet with families initials

Starr O'Hal: Target giftcards (used to buy diaper bag)

Alisa Carithers: Target giftcards (used to buy diaper bag)

Anna Moyer: Monkey photo album and Garden stone

Crickett Choplin: giraffe blanket

Melissa and Tina Coleman: Cloud B "Sleep Giraffe", giraffe toy and diapers

Tracy Fowlkes: Bear coat and gloves and Christmas outfit

Stephanie Matos: Diapers, wipes and Daddy's little hunting buddy outfit

Holly Belk and Shannon Carr: Green & Tan automatic bouncer

Cindy, Angie and Jo Anne Pennell: Diapers, monkey onesie, bib, Mickey Mouse piggy bank

Candy Miller: monkey onesie, awesome onesie

Maggie Bohannon: handmade burp clothes and bibs, baby book and box of boogie wipes

Jenni Howard: handmade blanket (green, tan and brown) handmade matching hat and booties

Mandy and Sam Pegram: giraffe blanket, "my prints" picture frame

Keri Moser: blue elephants blanket, alligator onesie

Christa Bowen: train onesie, shorts, shampoo, lotion and baby wipes 

Shady Forbus: grandma's brag books, 1st tooth/haircut keepsake, swaddler, frame w/ pregnancy announcement

PawPaw Charles: Baby monitor

Beth Coleman: receiving blankets, socks

Nana and Richard Short: baby crib

Matt and Sherry Rorrer: brush/comb set, head support, outfits, thermometer, desitin, gas drops, diapers/wipes

Marsha Barbor:  no scratch mittens, outfit and monkey blanket

Amy and Makayla Fix: Snuzzler, diaper change pad, shampoo and lotion

Mary Lou: Wal-Mart gift card and an outfit

LeeAnn Collins: Fruit and food feeder(nets) that baby can hold, body wash and medicine droppers

Charles and Michelle Lawrence: blue cart cover, tummy time frog play mat, body wash, lotion and spoons

Lucille, Lena and Karen: Walmart gift card

Delores Lawrence and Trinity Rigney: Daddy's helper outfit, pants, burp clothes, 1st haircut/tooth keepsake

Arlene Hutchens: $ money

Martha Hutchens: handmade quilt

Granny/Papa Hall and Jeannie Clark: baby carseat

Dot, Cathy Pegram and Deborah: $ money, Mickey Mouse blanket, wipes, monkey outfits

Michael and Lisa: yellow puppy outfit, blankets

Ron and Pam Rorrer: gowns, pacifiers and receiving blankets

Larry and Dena Brown: monkey head prop/neck support, diapers

Wanetta Doss: handmade light green crochet outfit and blanket

Jenee: handmade crochet cocoon with hat  

Betty Hunt: diapers and wipes

Mike and Janet Rorrer: Angel care baby monitor

  

3.14.12 Doctor Visit... Transverse

Went to the doctor today for what will be the first of my weekly visits until the baby is born.  They did a non-stress test on me today, where they monitored the baby for about 15 minutes to see how his heart was handling contractions I have been having.  Contractions are small but annoying and a bit painful mostly across my lower back.  Baby handles all of this fine.

Doctor rechecked the baby's position today and he is no longer complete breech, but is now laying in a transverse lie presentation.  Maybe he is on his way to getting flipped around in time for a vaginal delivery.  Only time will tell...

The weirdest dream....

I am doing this blog pretty early...6:45am to be exact.  I had to go ahead and write it down before I forget any part of it.

I had a dream that I had the baby at home, alone with nobody else there with me.  The baby was born feet first and in my dream I do not recall having much pain associated with the birth... (indeed this is a dream!)  After he was born, I held him and talk to him. He didn't have as much hair as I have pictured him to have, but he had the most precious face ever. Cutting the cord didn't make it into my dream. I began feeling very sick after he was born and felt like I was running a fever.  I decided I needed to go to the hospital to make sure everything was ok with us, but not before stopping by the mall.  I had no carseat to put him in, so I raised my shirt up to find a small incision in my stomach.  It was almost like it could be opened and closed like a ziploc sandwich bag.  I opened the incision, and put the baby back. (maybe I am part kangaroo?)

I got to the mall and met my cousin Andrea there.  I had told her I had the baby and I had put him back because of the carseat and she asked me to take him back out so she could see him.  We stopped outside of a store in the mall, I lifted my shirt, unzipped my incision and pulled the baby back out.  Although I was facing a corner, people had began to gather around behind my back (like they had never seen a baby pop out of a belly in the middle of the mall before :)  Andrea shoo'd them away and when I got him out, I wrapped him in a blanket and showed him to Andrea.  I remember in my dream staring at him and he was staring back.  He had blue eyes and thin light brown hair.  He never cried.

After this, I told Andrea I was feeling horrible and needed to get to the hospital to be checked.  So I left and went.  This time I didn't put the baby back.  I just held him instead.  When I got to the hospital I explained that I had given birth at home.  There were several of my friends and family members there... except for Ryan and the kids. (this must come from my fear that he won't be with me at the hospital because he never answers his cell phone when I call and he is at work)  The nurses checked me out and told me I was getting an infection because the placenta was never delivered.  They took the baby and then rushed me back where they put my feet in stirrups and began pushing on my stomach trying to finalize the delivery.  The doctor in the room was CC... from Skateland and his wife Lori was in there holding my hand.  It was the weirdest thing!  After working on me a while, he was able to get it out and I began feeling better almost immediately.  Lori brought the baby back into the room and handed him to me.  My dream ended with me nursing him...

Whoa.... what a dream!  

Scheduled C-section

Our doctor office has scheduled us for a C-section on Friday, April 13th at 7:25am because the baby is breech. We are hoping that between now and then that he turns into head down position and I go into labor on my own.  I really do not want a c-section delivery.

Blood sugar :(

I have been having problems with my heart racing.  It happens everyday at random times.  Just this past weekend, I was able to put 2 and 2 together.  I realized that it happens about an hour after I eat.  I started checking my blood sugar when my heart started racing and my numbers are unusually high.  I called the doctor today and they are reviewing my numbers and are putting me on medication.

Just a blog...

Well, we now only have 46 days until our due date.  I can't believe it has flown by as quickly as it has.  Maybe it's because life has been so busy for us that the days have just passed by.  I have enjoyed my pregnancy up to this point.  I was only sick a handful of times and other than that, I have felt pretty good.

With only a few items left to buy before the birth, we are ready for you to join our family!

This week I started feeling uncomfortable.  It's hard for me to breathe at times and this makes my heart race.  Sleeping is a challenge all by itself.  I toss and turn most of the night and can never seem to get comfortable.  I do miss laying on my stomach, but for now side sleeping with my legs thrown over whatever large object I can find seems to work.

READY FOR BABY NOLAN!!

33 week doctor visit 2.29.12 Sonogram

Went to the doctor today for a sonogram to recheck Nolan's weight and to make sure the placental lakes have not gotten any bigger or that no more have appeared.

At 33 weeks, he is measuring/weighing in at 5 pounds and 8 ounces! ALREADY?  We still have 7 weeks to grow!  He is in the 76th percentile for his growth, meaning that he is bigger than 76% of other babies at 33week gestation.

We also found out that he has flipped back out of the head down position and is now complete breech. (just like Haley was!)  My doctor is doing another sonogram at 37 weeks to recheck growth.  He said that if Nolan is still breech that they will attempt to turn him.  Due to his size, this may not be successful and if it isn't then we will be scheduled for delivery by c-section during the week of April 9-13th.  This was not at all in my birth plan!  I was hoping for a Vbac, but hey... looks like baby has his own birth plan in place.