36 Weeks

Well it has been awhile since I last posted. We have had a lot going on. So I will try to do a quick catch up for now.

My Grandma passed away on September 16th, so we have been busy with her funeral and cleaning out her house and things like that.

Tanya and Keir got married on September 20th - Congratulations!!!!! Chad and I did not stay very long. It was hot and I did not feel very well. It was a nice wedding and Tanya looked beautiful.

I had my first baby shower on September 21st - Thanks to Mikayla and Melissa. It was fun and I got all kinds of things I will need very soon.

We are in the process of putting up the crib - or at least Chad is. Those things come in a million pieces! Once he is finished I will try to post a picture of the baby's room. It is pretty boring at this point because I don't want to pick out bedding and stuff until after so it is gender specific.

We had our 36 week appointment yesterday. It went good, but it sounds like I will be having this baby in about 2 1/2 weeks. My doctor thinks he/she is getting a little big. I am also very uncomfortable with my massively swollen feet and the baby is sitting right on my sciatic nerve so I have a pain shooting down my right side and my leg likes to go numb. I also had my first "exam" and this is what I found out:
-Dialated a little over 1 cm-60% Effaced
-Belly measures 37 cm
-The baby weighs around 6 pounds
-The heartbeat was in the 120's
So the heartbeat theory must not work - the heartbeat has always been in the 140-150's and now this time it is in the 120's. So what do they say....140's is a girl and 120's is a boy? So I guess that means I still have a 50/50 chance.

I will try to post some pictures later.....

Childbirth Preparation Classes

We had our first Childbirth Preparation class last night. Actually my Mom attended with me, since Chad was "busy". It was pretty interesting, they talked about the last trimester emotions, aches and pains. I realized that I am not crazy, I can be this tired and not be able to sleep! That will only get worse before it gets better!

I have the baby's room pretty much ready to go, well as much as I can without being able to decorate anything. My Mom and I picked up the crib mattress last night and will be getting the crib in a couple of weeks. We have a bassinet all set up and ready to go to use right away.

We have an appointment on Wednesday to tour the hospital and get pre-registered and I also have my 34 week appointment on Wednesday. It will be interesting to see what my blood pressure will be this time. I don't think my hands and feet can get any bigger! It is a good thing I can wear flip flops because that is all I can fit into!

Belly Pics - 31 Weeks

31 Weeks - 9 To Go!!!!

I think we finally have the daycare issue solved! We have a appointment with an infants only daycare center in Mankato. We toured it once already a while back, so we are going to take a look again and get registered. Thankfully they have an opening for January.

Update on Grandma: She is in a nursing home in Blooming Prairie now and seems to be doing better. She still has not gotten her speech back from the stroke, but she is able to move her arms and legs again and eat semi-solid food. The doctors say it can take months for her speech to come back - if it does, so we are still hoping she will improve in that area too.
I am going to try and have Kandi take some belly pictures for me tonight - so those will be posted today or tomorrow.

Also, Congratulations to Steph & Chris on their first baby due in March and Janet & Arik on their third baby due in April! Baby Luscomb will have lots of new playmates!

30 Weeks, 1 Day

I had my 30 week doctor's appointment today. Nothing too exciting, we listened to the heartbeat and it is in the 150's. I was told I had to cut down on the amount of glucose I take in. My glucose level from the gestational diabetes screening was 137 and 140 is abnormal, so I am pretty high. But it is nothing to get too worried about. This was also my last 4 week appointment, now I am on the 2 week appointments.

We are having a daycare delimma, we still haven't found a for sure place yet. We thought we had it all settled, but it turns out the place we were planning on is not going to work out. We looked at another place today that I thought for sure would be the one, but now after seeing it I am not sure. I think my expectations are just a little too high for these daycare centers. So I am not sure what we are going to do. We may just have a spot held at the center we looked at today and then in January check out some home daycares that have openings. It is a good thing Chad is able to stay home until we find something - that way we can be a little more picky. Hopefully at that point we will be settled in a new house in Mankato too!

I will have to try and remember to put some belly pics on tonight. It is getting pretty big! I am already worrying about getting rid of it as fast as I can once the baby is born. I think I am going to have a lot of work to do!

29 years (for me) and almost 29 weeks (for baby)!

I am not very good at keeping up with this! I am really trying to remember to keep at it, but things have been crazy! I thought since it is my birthday, I will make an effort today. Happy Birthday to me! I just got some pretty flowers from my wonderful husband (that thought today was the 31st this morning). They even have mini snickers in the vase - just what I need!

Lisa's wedding reception is tomorrow night, so I am heading back to Austin this afternoon to help get that all set up. It should be fun! I am hoping it is not really hot and humid. The heat is torture on me and especially my feet and ankles. At least my feet and ankle swelling goes down if I go in the A/C for awhile.

I got a letter from the clinic saying I passed my gestational diabetes test and my hemoglobin test, so all is going well so far. This baby is definitely growing and kicking and moving like crazy. I have my next appointment on August 13th and after that I start going in every two weeks. I think at 36 weeks I start going every week. Eleven or so more weeks and we will find out what the little one is! Then I can FINALLY go shopping for all those cute little outfits.

My Grandma is back in the hospital again. She was able to live at the Cedars for 4 days and was pretty happy about it. She had a stroke Tuesday morning and so far has not regained her speech or movement on her left side. So far she has not really showed any improvement, but she has not really gotten any worse either. The doctors told my Mom and Dad that she could still snap out of it, so I guess we will wait and see.

Trying to catch up.....

Well, I haven't been very good at updating this, it just slips my mind all of the time! But after a few reminders from Mikayla, I am updating it today.

We got back a week ago from Reno, NV, it was a good time and the wedding was perfect. Lisa and Taylor looked so pretty in their matching dresses. Taylor had some issues with the sand in her shoes, so she stopped midway down the "aisle" to try to clean them out and then realized she had sand on her hands too. Lisa and Dad ended up going around her to keep the ceremony going. They did break the record with a 4 1/2 minute ceremony! The pictures turned out really good, now they have the fun part of deciding what to order.

It is a good thing there is little humidity in Reno, because I don't think I could have handled the 100+ degree temperatures if it was Minnesota! The sky was a little smoky from the fires in California and a couple of the days it smelled like a campfire every time you went outside, but the day of the wedding it seemed to be a little clearer out than the other days.

I had another Dr appointment last week and had to drink the yummy orange mixture to test for gestational diabetes (Yuck!), seems the test must have come back ok because I haven't heard anything yet. The baby is growing just fine and I have gained another 4 pounds. I should be gaining about a pound a week for the rest of the pregnancy - yikes! That is another 12-13 pounds!

We celebrated my Dad's birthday last night. He is officially a senior citizen! Grandma Snider took us all out for pizza at Steve's. Grandma did not get moved into the Cedars this weekend as planned, but it sounds like she should be able to move shortly. I think she is in pretty good spirits about it, considering she is getting out of St. Mark's, which she hates.

I also found out a week or two ago that my friend Sarah is expecting her second baby in February. Congratulations Sarah and Steve!

One more picture of Lisa and Brian. I have more I will try to put on sometime today or tomorrow.