The Party Is Scheduled

The party has officially been scheduled!!!

Well actually, some call it a C-section, however due to 

calming this mom's nerves 

we are calling it a 

"Birth Day Party!!!"

The party will take place on 

Tuesday, August 6, 2013!!!

Nothing personal, but the guest list will be short...very short.

Those invited are Brooklyn, Mom, Dad,

my doctor, her team, my nurses and Brooklyn's nurses and doctor.

11 DAYS to go!

A Visitor & Italian Food

  Every day three times a day the nurses come in and place  monitors on me for an hour to  get a good tracking of Brooklyn (they are watching her heartbeat). Well...it's an hour if they can get a good tracking, otherwise I stay on the monitor until the nurse or doctor are pleased with what they see. Well leave it to my uterus to have an overly generous amount of amniotic fluid that provides Brooklyn the perfect setting to practice her synchronized swimming moves.  She loves to move.  Who can blame her she has a swimming pool to swim around in.  However, this causes great stress to every nurse that enters my room and tries to monitor her.  This morning's monitoring lasted almost 2 1/2 hours.  Finally my doctor came in and ordered an ultra sound that would track her within minutes and give them the information they needed.  (When this is done the baby is given a score, pleased to say Brooklyn scored 8 out of 8.)  After being on bed rest since the middle of March I'm officially ready for this party to be over.  I KIT (kept it together as my sister would say) and held back the tears. Thankfully my dear friend Shelby showed up at the end of the monitoring.  Her timing could not of been more perfect.  She was a much needed distraction from the mornings events.  Not only did she bring me her hilarious life stories, but she brought the sweetest gifts.  One of them being this outfit...

Brooklyn is going to have the cutest little Cupcake Bum ever!!!

After having this replaced again, but this time by one of my favorite nurses, Michelle (she is also LDS, so we have lots to talk about!  Her daughter and I are in the same Stake)...

My dear husband brought me this...

to end my day.

A Pin Cushion & Flowers

I've officially become a pin cushion.  Now granted it's my own fault seeing that my veins do not like to cooperate when it comes to sharp objects being inserted into them.  They have to change out my IV every 3-4 days.  Today was the day and it only took 3 tries!  2 blown out veins equals one extremely swollen bruised hand.  And not to mention a lovely shot in the arm. But no worries when one of my husbands co-workers showed up with these  & a sweet card from his department...

Everything was instantly better! ;)

Home Sweet Home

My doctor made it official, I will be staying here at the hospital until it's time to deliver Brooklyn.  The plan is to schedule the C-section for when I am 36 weeks, which will be around August 6th. There are still too many risk factors to send me home. So hopefully all will be quiet until then.  Two more weeks...I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

Iron Woman

Today they gave me a dose of iron to boost my iron levels in preparation for the C-section.  It will hopefully help in not needing a blood transfusion after the delivery.  The nurse diluted the solution so that it wouldn't be as painful going in.  It looked beyond nasty, but thankfully didn't hurt.  Some things you have to see to believe.  Just call me "Iron Woman"!

That was enough excitement for one day.

A New Doctor & Nurse

Today began with a visit from Dr. Reed and Nurse Reed from the "Inspired Doers Hospital".  Dr Reed said he would be my new "OBYN" doctor...meaning "OH BOY YOUR NICE" doctor.  They came bearing gifts of flowers and a basket full of kindness.  Dressed to the hilt in their doctor aparrel they were a much needed visit filled with love and laughter.

Later on this afternoon my younger sister Megan came to be with me.  She cracks me up with all of her stories and adventures that she has in Boston.

Overall a quiet day, no news is good news!

My Favorite Visitors

Today was filled with additional monitoring of contractions and Brooklyn.  So far so good.  Overall it's been a quiet day.  My doctor came in this morning to discuss the results of yesterday's ultra sound and to let us know that due to a larger than normal amount of amniotic fluid I will stay here in the hospital until I deliver.  The extra amount of fluid is putting additional stress on my uterus and is causing me to contract more, which just adds to our already high risk pregnancy.  The more contractions I have the greater chance I have of bleeding.  At this point we will be scheduled to deliver Brooklyn at 36 weeks.

Later this evening Danial brought the kids in.  It was quite the visit.  They brought in dinner & pie.  We then watched a couple of movies.  It was wonderful having all of my kids and husband in the same room again.   After they left they headed to the airport to pick up Aunt Megan.  The kids had no idea she was coming...best surprise ever!!!