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Little Miss Natalie is growing up right before our eyes. I just had her weighed at the pediatrician and she is up to 6lbs 13 oz, up 5 oz in 3 days! She is doing wonderfully, we have been blessed with the calmest and happiest baby in the world! She is staying up with her daddy till about 10:30 at night and usually wakes us once at about 2:30 to eat and then sleeps till about 5:30. Lucky us! She got to meet her great grandfather this weekend, he exclaimed "HOLY MACKAREL!" when he saw her and had tears in his eyes when he was holding her. Here's a 4 generation picture with Peter III (my husband), Peter II, and Peter I holding Natalie! I feel great and can't believe I gave birth a week and a half ago!
Natalie Walker Bidegain has finally arrived!!!!!!!! She came into our little world on August 20, 2005 at 6:55 pm weighing in at 6lbs 9oz and 18 inches long. She has a beautiful mop of brown hair and her daddy's monkey toes! She is an absolute delight and it is amazing how much we love her already! These first few days have been pretty good and I am feeling well... we'll keep you posted.
Yea!!! So I have gone back to the hospital several more times these past couple of days and today they are finally giving me the green light to induce! Thank god. I will go back in tonight at 8 and she will start me off with a cervadyl and then tomorrow morning, the pitocin. I am so ready for this to happen and just glad that I am not sitting around questioning everything. Wish me luck, I will talk to everybody soon.
Well, we have had a crazy past couple of days since my last post. I went to the doctor (yes, again) on Wednesday and things were progressing well so I was sent home to continue my wonderfully exciting "home rest". But then, I went on Friday for a stress test and my blood pressure was through the roof. By the end of the test, about an hour later, it still had not come down so doc decided to send me to the hospital for some blood tests. I was hooked up to all kinds of monitors (I actually felt a little like Frankenstein) and had some other tests. While there, I started having contractions that weren't too strong but very regular at about 4 minutes apart. The blood work, my blood pressure, and everything else came back okay and I was sent home. But even though my blood pressure came back to below normal, I was sent with strict bed rest orders. At about 9:30 (my bedtime, because what else am I going to do?) the contractions became very severe and we decided to go back to the hospital to see if labor was progressing. Well, no it wasn't and we were sent home with a sleeping pill for me (Peter probably needed one too along with all the other family members that knew what was happening). They were reluctant to do anything since I am 36 weeks and 4 days, still premature for 3 more days. I went back in this morning and had another stress test and BP check- everything fine again. It is funny when you reach this point because there are so many other moms that are at your stage and you can hear them and their husbands begging with the nurses to admit them "But I'm in so much pain", "I was crying in the car", etc. Yes, I tried a few of those myself and Peter told me to scream during my contractions, not that bad yet. So here we are playing the waiting game...
So now I get to go to the doctor three times a week... which is not actually that bad since I am not doing much anyway. We have decided to do non-stress testing twice a week in addition to my normal visits just to make sure that the baby is moving okay and was not troubled by my bout with high blood pressure. Anyway, I went last Thursday and we are thinking that we will induce somewhere around 38 weeks. Doc is reluctant to give me a straight answer so we are playing the waiting game. Peter is not sleeping well at night thinking that I am going into labor at any moment and if I wake him up and ask him for a glass of water, he bolts out of bed thinking that I said "My water broke". We went on our hospital tour last night here at Tucson Medical Center, pretty nice but I hope the nurses are a little smarter than our tour guide! This morning, I met with the pediatrician to "check her out", she is great; at least this is one area I don't have to worry about. Pregnancy is one big state of worry... your first trimester, all you think about is whether you are going to make it to the bathroom on time and if the baby is healthy. Then second trimester, you lie waiting for one faint movement, pushing on your belly, trying to get the baby to move. Then third trimester, you really start freaking. When's the baby coming? Is he/she healthy? WHAT AM I DOING? I guess it is good preparation for parenthood. I thought I worried about my dogs, that was nothing. One bit of advice for anyone thinking of getting pregnant, DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE'S ADVICE AND DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF TO OTHER PREGNANT LADIES. Everyone is uniquely different and all it will do is freak you out.
Well so far it is 11:30 in the morning, and I feel like I have had a rather educational day. I watched Montel Williams this morning and he taught me that if I spoil my kid too much, they may develop separation anxiety and try to kill me with a knife if I need to leave and go to the grocery store. No ice cream or toys for you, Natalie! Let's see... then I watched this wonderful program on Lifetime and I learned there that yes, drinking during pregnancy is bad and that according to the main character on the show, it should be a crime. Also, the doctor in this show purposely gets the drunk pregnant lady arrested for a DUI and goes to all her family members and co-workers to arrange an intervention. And who said doctors are too busy to spend quality time with you? If you are ever stuck at home like me, you'll realize that your standard of GOOD TV goes down quite a bit.I should also add in some things that I have learned from my ever-so-smart husband during this pregnancy. While spending hours roaming the aisles at Babies R Us (which let me tell you how much he loves) we discovered some interesting items. - While looking at mattresses for cribs, we found one with a 30 year warranty, and my husband quickly responded "For the baby that stops growing". Really, do we need a 30 year warranty on a crib mattress?
- Then we discovered the high chair aisle. My husband found a high chair that claimed it "Stimulates your baby to keep learning" with all the gadgets and toys on it. I believe my husband said something to the effect of "Thank god. This is for babies who just give up and STOP learning!"
Well I just learned about this new craze from one of my friends in San Diego and I have decided "WHY NOT?". As some of you know, I am about 8 1/2 months pregnant and stuck at home on this wonderful thing my doctor calls "Home rest". Not as great as it sounds. But I have LOTS of free time on my hands but on the other hand, that may make my blog pretty darn boring.Peter and I are anxiously awaiting the birth of our daughter, Natalie Walker Bidegain, hopefully sometime near the end of August. My actual due date is September 7 but for those of you that haven't had a baby, you're ready to get it out of you once you're about 8 months. It has been a long hot summer being pregnant, especially when the temperatures hit 112 degrees in July. Our dogs, Teala and Zoe, are not quite sure what is happening and I think they are in for a rude awakening when the baby comes. So let's see if we can keep up with this and keep you all up to date.
