Blog 10: Are We There Yet???

Only 24 days until my due date!

When trying to get pregnant a woman can get pretty obsessed and as I described in my first blog I was a looney tune about wanting to get pregnant. Well, my desire to become pregnant had me peeing on a stick at the earliest possible time to have it confirmed that I was in fact pregnant. Due to my desire to know I found out I was pregnant at like 4 weeks and now that I am 37 weeks I feel like I have been pregnant FOREVER!

After I found out that I was pregnant it seemed like everyone around me was finding out they were also pregnant and everywhere I went I saw prego bellies and every time I logged into Facebook someone else was making their big announcement! It was super exciting and I loved the thought of all these babies being born all around the same time as my baby.. One problem with all this is that now all these people have their babies out and mine is still in and I am feeling like all these mommas are flaunting their babies like “ha-ha, mine is out!”! Even one of my fish gave birth this week and I swear every time I walk into Baby Co’s room she is mocking me!

Other than our new addition of two baby mollie fish, nothing too exciting has been going on especially with my pregnancy which I suppose is a good thing. Baby Co is a moving machine, my belly button has officially popped, and I have one swollen leg, but other than that things are pretty low key.

Swollen Leg ^^^^

The nursery is pretty much done and by pretty much I mean it is ready for a baby, but not totally decorated because I can’t quite decide what I want to put on one of the walls. I still need to get a few things and get his toys all washed up, but know I will still have time to do that kind of stuff after he is born since he won’t really be playing with his toys for a while. Fortunately, my to do list is pretty small, but unfortunately it is mostly stuff I can’t really do myself so unless I can recruit a little assistance it’ll have to go undone for now. Here is my list so far:

1. Take down glass shower doors in Lucy and Baby Co’s Bathroom.
2. Install car seat bases
3. Re-pack hospital bag(since I had to kind of use it last week)
a. Pick up travel size toiletries because my hospital does not provide conditioner or bar soap!
b. Bring a real blanket!
4. Clean out vehicles
5. Spray/kill dandelions.
6. Pick up correct diaper genie refills
7. Wash up baby toys
8. Dust all the blinds in the house
9. Order and hang wedding pictures and Lucy’s 4 year shots
So as you can see some of my list is stuff that actually needs to get done and some of it is stuff that can wait.. I just have random stuff I want done and am feeling like there is no good time to work on it..

As I mentioned before my pregnancy has been pretty relaxed, but my health otherwise has been a little iffy and last week I had a bit of a scare.. On Monday I came home from work feeling pretty crappy so I went to bed kind of early and ended up waking up around midnight with a fever of over 103! I took some Tylonel and went back to bed and was up several more times throughout the night just feeling awful. Tuesday was spent pretty much in bed and my fever continued to climb. I called my doctor who ran through a list of symptoms: “Does your back hurt?” Yes, but it always hurts(I’m pregnant!). “Are you peeing more frequently?” Yes, but I always have to pee(I’m pregnant!). “Are you having contractions?” No. “Are you leaking any fluid?” No. “Well, make sure you are keeping on top of the Tylonel for your fever and drink a lot of water and let me know if you don’t get to feeling better.” On Tuesday night I went to bed still feeling awful, my fever spiked to 103.7 and I woke up every single hour to pee. I woke up on Wednesday feeling even worse and called my doctor again to let her know I was getting worse. I was told I should be seen by a primary doctor so I got in to someone in town and after some testing it revealed I had a bladder infection and I was put on an antibiotic. I know the antibiotic wasn’t a miracle drug, but I just couldn’t believe that just a tiny little UTI was causing such high fevers and body aches. The next day I felt worse so I called my OBGYN and told her what the other doctor found out and told her that I felt worse. She ended up having me go into the hospital to get treatment for a kidney infection. I only had to stay one night, and felt tons better after getting medication through the IV and being pumped full of fluids! It was crazy how fast the kidney infection worsened and when you are pregnant it is so easy to miss the symptoms because it is normal to have some back pain and to have to pee all the time! I am just glad I stayed on top of my doctors and trusted myself that I knew something was wrong. Even though most people don’t study the human body as extensively as a doctor no one can know how you are feeling better than you and doctors only know what they are being told so the lesson I learned in all this is to speak up! (even though I felt like one of those annoying patients that called every other minute).. Had I not called back on Thursday to talk to my OB again I would probably still be at home, sick in bed, and waiting for my antibiotics to work.

On a lighter note I decided I should get some updated pictures of the nursery up so you could all see how adorable it is turning out! Any suggestions for the empty wall over the changing table would be appreciated too! Finding stuff to decorate a little boys room is so much harder than doing a girls and since we ended up kind of doing a golf theme it has made it even harder!

Blank spot in wall is to hide Baby Co's name and the fishtank houses the new baby mollies!

Well, it is almost baby time and I can’t wait! Cary is pretty darn excited too and after seeing what a mess he was trying pack stuff for the last hospital trip I know I need to get us just a little more organized I told him the baby wasn’t coming out when we went last time, but that we should bring our stuff just in case and he was in a whirl, packing things up and talking about how surreal everything was.. it was so cute listening to his excited voice talking about the chance he could have his little Tiger on his lap this weekend watching the Masters! I told him not to get himself too excited and sure enough we came home without a baby from our last hospital trip! Hopefully the next one will be the real deal and we will soon be welcoming our little guy home! Even though I still have a few things on my list to be done, our hearts are ready and our home is ready to have our sweet little man finally join it! Heck, maybe our fish giving birth is a positive omen and I’ll be next!!

Thinking baby thoughts!
-Lexi