Time to Guess!

OK, I'm looking for guesses for my baby pool. The game name is Flipper, in case you need it. The prize is going to be a $10 gift card to somewhere (possibly Kwik Trip). The winner can pick some place as long as I can get to it fairly easily. The deadline to sign up is this Friday, June 19 at 8 p.m. Good luck!

Heading down the home stretch

Well, no baby news to report yet from us, but a couple pictures and an update so here we go.

First picture is from Dana Paul's baby shower. Dana (left) is married to Nate's best friend Ryan. Her due date was two weeks before mine but as you see in the next picture they beat us by quite a bit! The other preggo there is the wife of Nate's other good friend, Terra. She is due in early September.

Dana and Ryan's little boy came a little early on May 20. Hank Brian was 6 pounds, 8 ounces so pretty good size for more than three weeks early.

He's the world's cutest newborn, at least until mine gets here. ;)

I'm doing pretty well, taking my blood pressure meds and trying to eat a little better with the gall bladder thing. Pretty much I'm either nauseous or having heartburn most of the time, but at least the abdominal pains haven't bothered me much. I'm hoping this just goes away after the baby is born. Annoying, yes, but I don't feel like I'm miserable enough to need the thing taken out. My blood pressure had a little episode a few weeks back and went up over the 140/90 mark. I spent a few hours at the OB wing at the hospital. Some rest and TV and it went back down on its own. I think it had a lot to do with not sleeping well the night before (once again, nausea and heartburn did that in...) I've been trying to put more emphasis on getting enough rest since and my BPs have been lower, 120s and 130s over 60s and 70s.

I got checked the first time last week and was pretty surprised to find out I'm starting to dilate. The baby is still very, very high, I haven't been having much for contractions and nothing else is happening in that department so I don't think it will happen anytime in the next week or so. I got checked again today and there was no change, so I got clearance to head to Cumberland this weekend for a wedding, about 2 hours away. Only thing she said was "Don't over do it." It'll be a nice little getaway.

Other than that, not much new to report. Jacob spent a long Memorial Day weekend visiting Grandma Debbie and the gang down south. We finished all the planting on Memorial Day so that's a great feeling. Nate's been cutting hay this week and the chopper is ready to go so that should start tomorrow. The cows are milking pretty well right now, but like always, the better the cows milk the worse the milk price is. That's not going to stop me from doing a little car shopping tomorrow while Nate's truck is getting its oil changed at the dealership. We've completely outgrown the Grand Am and, well, after six years and 167,000 miles, I think it's paid its dues. Plus, we might have a buyer for it but I'm not getting rid of it before I have something else lined up, so better not wait too long.

I'll try to post some more frequent updates since we're into the last month. Most days I'm OK with being pregnant, but on some I just want this thing to be over with!

A look back

Cindy and I were chatting about a woman in the Twin Cities who is going to document her entire pregnancy online AND (and this is the kicker) allow a live web cast of the birth. Don't think I'll be doing that. No video and no cameras pointed in my direction in my delivery room.

But, I will do this again. Here's the most pregnant I was with Jacob, taken a little over 12 hours before his birth. 40 weeks and 5 days. Yes, I was eating baby carrots because I was hungry, they were in the fridge, I knew it might be a while before I got to eat again (it was almost 24 hours) and I figured they wouldn't be all that bad to throw up later if I needed to (I didn't). That's a 8 pound 15.2 ounce baby in there and I don't think I'm anywhere near that big now, so either I'm going to have a smaller baby or I'm really going to explode in the next six weeks.