I am officially 29 weeks! I have always counted on Fridays but there's actually a chance I am a little farther than that because they've changed my due date a couple of times and I am still counting from the latest one, which was August 10th. But, we'll just say I'm only 29 for the sake of motivating me to keep going farther. If this were my Gabe pregnancy, my water would break this week when I got up to pee in the middle of the night. Let's hope that doesn't happen this time around!
Josh left for his 2-week trip this morning at about 6:30. Diane (his mom) has been here all day helping watch my kids for me and attempting to teach me how to crochet. I'm pretty sure she showed me at least 100 times but I am still moving at a snail's pace with this little burp cloth I am working on.
Right now, Diane and the boys are in Idaho Falls, picking up my mom at the airport. Then my mom will be here until next Saturday. I wish Josh could just be home by then! But no... 8 days is not long enough to learn how to take care of a dog. So then the following week will be a little crazy, but with each passing week I am feeling a little bit more relaxed with the idea of having the baby. Not that I want to have it next week or anything, but at least I know at this point I am in familiar territory.
I went to the doctor on Tuesday again. My ultrasound showed that my cervix is about the same as it was last week - the length is 1.4 cm (normal length is 4cm) - which is a the whole reason for the concern/bedrest. At least it hasn't been getting worse! The baby weighed exactly 3 pounds, and she weighed 2 lbs 10 oz the week previous. So, they say a baby gains about 1/3 pound to a 1/2 pound per week at this point. I would really like to have at least a 5 pounder! So that would mean I need at least another 4 weeks. Preferably more of course, but... we'll see.
I told my doctor I would really like to have the cervical stitches taken out around 34 weeks and then go into labor naturally like a week or two later. What I do NOT want to happen is to start having contractions in the next few weeks, rush to the hospital, then have to worry about telling someone to remove the stitches while I am in labor and about to push a baby out! That does NOT sound fun. She seemed hesitant to take them out before 36 weeks though and gave me a prescription to take twice a day that's supposed to put off contractions. I was kind of like, "Well... I haven't had any contractions yet...so do you think I need this?" But I think she's just doing anything that might possibly help. (My mom said, "She probably was just trying to settle you down. You better stop whining or she'll prescribe you Valium next time!") I had the steroid shots for the baby's lungs, I still do the weekly progesterone shots until 36 weeks, I have my cervix stitched shut, and for pete's sake my sister-in-law even "zoned" me (rubbed my feet a fancy way basically) to supposedly help close my cervix. If there's anything else left to try, I would do it, but I'm pretty sure I've done everything that's possibly out there to try. Bedrest is by far the hardest and least convenient thing, but probably the most important. So here I lay!
In other fun news though.... Gabe and Caleb are officially done with school! Gabe's last day of Kindergarten was Wednesday and Caleb's last day of preschool was Thursday. I can't believe little Gabe will never be a Kindergartner again! He had a little program on Tuesday night that Josh went to and videotaped. He read a little story he wrote and it was all about the playhouse his dad built for him and how he plays with his puppy by his playhouse. It was so cute. All the kids wrote their own little stories and read them and that's what he chose to write about. He also had a school assembly and he got chosen to go up on-stage and he came home with this big balloon hat and a cool yo-yo. He was pretty excited. Here is Gabe with his teacher, Mrs. Hill and the aide who helped him in his after-school reading club, Mrs. Snedaker. It was a great first year of school for him!
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