Early Arrival

Well...

Gregor has decided that he needed to make an early entry into our lives. Laura has been doing "non-stress testing" due to her high blood pressure. The little guy has been having some "heart decelerations" during these tests so the hospital ran a "contraction stress test". After that test looked fairly normal they kept Laura overnight for monitoring. During the night Gregor had several more decelerations, so the doctor feared that there may be a problem with either the cord or placenta. Because of this fear the doctor scheduled a C-Section for this morning. Gregor was born at 9:43 AM and is doing very well! He is absolutly adorable and I will be posting many pictures in the coming days. He was 5 lbs and 10 ounces. 18 and 1/2 inches long. Mom and baby are doing wonderfully. They will be in the hospital until at least Tuesday, so feel free to come and see our little miracle.

I love you all, and wish to thank everyone for the support and help that has been offered and given.

Jason

A little more news

So I'm not working and it is pretty boring, I am getting a lot of books read though. On the first I had another ultrasound done, I was measuring a little large and the doctor wanted to have the size of the baby checked. They estimate him as of that day as being about 5 lbs. 10 oz. so if I go full term he should be in the 8 lbs. range (not really a surprise, I was expecting a baby that big). They did manage to take a cute little picture of his profile this time as you can see here:

Take a good look at that cute little profile- they also told me his head is in the 90th percentile so that cute little head is HUGE :) He is of course still breech and loves to press that cute little head against my ribcage any chance he gets (as he is doing right now).

The baby shower is on Saturday and I am very excited to get out of the house, I don't really get to do that much anymore (oh sure there was a bit for the holiday but I get cabin fever so easily this staying home and resting is killing me).

My appointments are going well and the tests are usually okay, my cute little baby likes to have heart decelerations that make me have tons of extra testing that all turn out okay. I keep telling him he isn't supposed to play with his cord but does he listen to me?

I'm feeling monsterously huge as you can see from my latest picture I am:

the most surprising thing right now is I haven't been any more effected by the heat than I normally am, I was expecting differently after all the sympathy I received whenever sharing my due date.

Anyway things are mostly great, it was great to see Janet for the holiday and speak to people who can answer back (most of my talking is concentrated on my stomach these days). I may have to do something I never do and invite people over- oh the humanity :)

Some news

So what is going on lately? We have finally decided on a name for our little wigglemonster, Gregor Todd Stewart. Although I do think it will be near impossible for me to call him by his name- I think in not too many years he will be begging me not to call him wiggle in front of his friends :)

Because I have had blood pressure problems throughout this pregnancy the doctors have asked me to work part-time & do extra testing, they check his amniotic fluid, heartbeat & my bloodpressure. It has been going very well, and it is really fun to see my baby on a regular basis :) Last week he was playing with his toes- it was quite adorable - this picture shows how bent in half he was to do it:

He also had his first bout of hiccups this weekend & a couple of times since. It is actually a bit fun for me but you can't help but feel bad for him- I hate when I get the hiccups.

We have almost finished all our classes, tomorrow is the last of the childcare class, we should learn child safety and baby cpr (I hope they don't put the cpr dummy on the floor- I'm not sure I could get back up again).

In baby other than mine news, my nephew Xander is doing well- he has had a cold but he is doing lots and lots better as you can see:

isn't he cute? I'm hoping he continues to do well and they can take him home soon.

Hope everyone is great, talk to you soon.

Scottish Festival and Highland Games

This weekend was the annual Scottish Festival and Highland Games at Thanksgiving Point. It was also the first time that I have worn the Kilt that I had made when we went to Scotland last September. All in all it is a pretty comfortable garment, just don't ask what I had on underneath it...

Nothing gets the blood pumping quite like live Pipes and Drums. Hopefully our little growing baby has now developed a taste for the pipes, because he will be hearing a lot of it in our home.

It was a good festival this year. Anyone that did not attend missed out. There were more live bands than usual, and more scottish food choices than in the past. Mmmm...Scotch eggs!

My nephews & a little bit of baby news

I will start this post saying how excited I had been this year to not only to be having our our baby but the additions of several little family members that would be the same age as our wigglemonster. That being said most all my family is aware of the heartbreaking loss we had in April of our beautiful little nephew Julian, so I must say how greatful I am that my sister-in-law Kendra was in the hospital at the time that little Xander decided to make an early entrance on Friday at 32 weeks.

So although he is tiny and in a NICU until he gets to a healthier size I am very happy that we did not suffer another unbearable loss in our family. I'm still so heartsore over the loss of Julian I'm certain another loss would have turned me into a quivering mass of jell-o. But since I am still pregnant & worries keep adding up we have since Friday given wiggle many lectures that even though his older cousin did it he is not allowed to leave his womb (at least until he is actually term). I'm sure he's listening.

The latest news about wiggle: last week Jason actually got to feel our wigglemonster kick- Jason didn't say anything before I placed his hand on my stomach so I think wiggle was not aware it was his daddy until it was too late. Our childbirth classes are going well, and we are learning lots of things including that the placenta may be the grossest looking thing on the planet (really I love the birthing videos-they don't make you the slightest bit panicky about childbirth, nope not at all). So I'm still getting pretty big as you can see:

but I won't complain about that since everything else is going good- no I don't have gestational diabetes & my blood pressure is great & I actually still have a belly button at this point (amazing I know). See things are okay, I won't even complain about all the leaning wiggle is doing lately- even the leaning against my hipbone that makes me walk like Igor- yep things are okay.

Now that I'm a little less lazy I'll post something

So anyway I'm sorry that I posted nothing last month but there really wasn't anything going on with my pregnancy, but since I now have more news I'll try to not be as lazy. First I only took a picture at the beginning of last month but since my feet are still missing it is not very interesting (I decided not to post it since it is pretty boring) so this month I thought I'd be nice and show you the side view:

As you can see I'm getting enormous- okay I admit it I'm already there. Anyway what is going on with our little wigglemonster? Jason and I have decided on a first name but are still working on the middle name- we'd hate to ruin the surprise for all of you so we'll let you know what we decided after we've decided on both :P Wiggle still has not been felt by anyone but me- he is a huge kick tease. He'll be kicking me like crazy and then Jason will put his hand there to feel him and he'll stop kicking, he'll just tickle the spot right above where his daddy's hand is resting (who knew he'd be as big a brat as his parents?). We've started birthing classes- the first class wasn't so bad but I think if they want the dads to participate in the activities I think they should make them a little less woman-centric, like during the breathing and meditation section I'm not sure if Jason was able to relax his uterus but the idea made me giggle hard enough that I'm pretty sure I didn't relax mine. Otherwise it has some good information so far- I'm already sleeping better after learning a few things in class. In other news my gestational diabeties test was abnormal so I have to take the full test next week- I'm really not excited & I hope this next one goes well. Other than that things are much the same, but I'll try to fill you in a little bit better in the future.

My baby has cute feet, mine are missing

So it has finally happened- my feet have disappeared from regular view, so the view in these pictures is going to be very boring from here on out -be prepared. I had a visit with my doctor this week as well, she is pleased with how everything is going and that my blood pressure was in a better range. She of course still wants me to monitor that though. I'm doing really well these days even though I could still nap at any time. The baby has been moving quite a bit the last couple weeks and has been very active the last few days, so his official name currently is wigglemonster, this will probably change in the future. That also means we still haven't picked out a name yet, I hadn't realized how many names Jason and I don't really like until this year of our lives- and there are so many name out there to hate. Oh well we'll get one we like eventually.