Thursday, May 23, 2002

Well, we got through two more non-stress tests - a-ok. Only one more nst and one more dr visit and then we go to the hospital. Dr says baby is breech still/again and it's lloking like a c-section. Bummer. He'll do an ultrasound on Wednesday before we start to make sure. Either way, it looks like I'm in for several days at the hospital, since I have not even begun to think about dialating. That would mean 12-24 hours of cervadil, followed by ?? hours of pitocin to get the labor going. Oh joy. C-section is sounding better and better. We'll see on the other side. I figure that way, at least I'll have the baby to love on while I recover. Can't wait to be on the other side of it all and meet the newest member of our little family! ;-D

Sunday, May 19, 2002

Yes!!! I am finally having a nesting cycle! I was feeling so miserable, and thought I'd just go straight to baby with a messy and disorganized house! Not so. Well, maybe less so, tee hee. I was about to post that I had a lazy day, but that's not true. Between yesterday and today, I have: organized the baby stuff I already have on hand, updated my registry at BabysRus, sewed some burp pads, washed and made a place to store the bottles in the kitchen, went to BabysRus to get some supplies, packed, made my phone list and hospital list, cleaned off my desk and bookcase, as well as completely clean the kitchen (including sweeping and mopping and ceiling fans - wowser!) not to mention the usual laundry and dishes, etc. Such a nice feeling to have all that done! So . . . Baby, come on down! We're ready fer ya!

We also finally cleaned out our swimming pool and took a dip this evening - so much fun and shocking to see how much higher my growing children rise out of the water. First time in, and Kaitlin was asking to take off her "floatie" and she did real well. It's just a med size 4 footer, but oh what a relief on those hot summer evenings! (Not that today was one of those - it was pretty cold, but the kids were so excited to go, that we all took the shivering plunge together for the fun of it.) In fact, bummer of all bummers, as we were playing in the pool, up blows this terrifical dust storm and tomorrow we'll probably be back to square one with a dusty murcky pool. Oh well - that's dad's territory.