35-1/2 weeks and a new diaper bag

I received the sweetest gift from my mom and SIL this weekend. I was at my Grandmas yesterday with my parents and my mom randomly pulls out this beautiful bag. Not just any bag but a bag that was handmade by my SIL's aunt just for Cooper. Its a diaper bag with his name sewn on it and all. Its the colors of his room and its so me its not even funny. I'm wild and loud and silly and the bag exudes all of these things. I LOVE IT! My mom said that they were afraid I wouldn't love it. But I totally do. How could I not. I can't wait to carry it when Cooper comes.
Here it is ladies!!!


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They did such a great job, Her aunt is so talented. I think she should make and sell these but apparently she doesn't. Either way I feel so lucky to have one that she made for me.

Friday I went to see my doctor for my weekly appointment. I weigh the same. That's weird. I feel like I'm growing, maybe not allot but a little. And we all know that the baby is small for 35 weeks but doc N. said to us yesterday that he's eliminated all things that he thought could be wrong or could be causing the slow growth and he has decided that I'm just small. End of sentence. I'm small so the baby will be small. The baby looked good, he should be around 4lbs 13 ounces the doc said. Which is smaller than normal but he's so close to 5 pounds woohoo!!!
He looked great, no sign of giving birth anytime soon, which is fine by me. I have a feeling we are in this one for the long haul. I might just have to be induced. That's ok, that's more time for Cooper man to grow.

Please pray for our little one to stay healthy and to keep growing and for my body to be able to accommodate his growth. Apparently I'm the one slowing him down. Sorry sweet baby boy.
I've posted some pics below of me this week, one with my new diaper bag.



Random..... I have to say, Lately I've been getting that dang acid reflux more often. I'm not trying to complain, I'm just simply saying its annoying. I feel like I am going to throw up multiple times a day. Yuck. And its like liquid lava throw up (sorry that's gross I know). I must say I will be happy when that little symptom is gone after I have this guy. Other than that I'm truly feeling quite good.

Well I've showered for the day, watched hairspray (yes that's right, the musical) I love that movie, I can't help but sing as I get ready and have it on in the background.
Now I'm off to see the family. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe weekend :)

My ticker now says 36 days!

36 days! That isn't very many days at all. In just 6 days it will be in the 20's. I guess I can't believe we are this close! We will be starting our 35th week of pregnancy tomorrow. My big goal was 37 so I could be full term and as of right now its looking good. I just can't believe how fast all of this has gone by. What do I need to do and when? I'm not quite sure when and how to start to truly prepare myself for whats to come in the next month. I haven't packed my own bag, Mainly because I have no idea when I should and as far as "feeling" like its time, I don't. I just don't feel like this baby is coming anytime soon and I'd rather him not although I can't wait to meet him and have him here I want him as healthy as possible.
So my question to anyone who like to help me out and answer is, when is truly a good time to start packing? What do I need? What do I need for him?
Oh and also my doctor told me last week "the baby is head down but has not gone down into my pelvis yet". I don't know why I don't ask questions when I'm in there and then later I think "hmmm I wonder what the heck he meant", does that mean it won't happen anytime soon? Does it mean we have plenty of time? This coming Friday we go in and have our first Vaginal exam since my first 10 weeks of pregnancy. I know he will do some measuring and checking then. He will also be measuring the baby.
Please pray for us, mainly that the baby is growing and is healthy :).
So what does it mean exactly if they haven't dropped into your pelvis? How long before birth does that happen?

I could have googled these questions but honestly you ladies are far more knowledgable and helpful than those random websites I pull up.

my baby shower and the Nursery

This past weekend was just wonderful. Filled with friends and family. We had our friend shower and the girls that put the shower on are absolutely amazing. There were six of them and they did a fabulous job. It was great. I decided to make a slide show of my 33 week pics, and of the shower and a few thrown in there from my b-day. Oh and also of the nursery finally all finished. WOOHOO!!

So if you have a chance enjoy the pics. The nursery is in there randomly. We worked hard on it all weekend and I think we are all set and ready.
It seems a little cluttered but I still think it looks great. I'm so excited to meet our baby boy in the following month to month and a half. :)
God is so good.

33 weeks and 3 days

This week has been crazy. I feel like I've fallen off the blog world and had no time to get on and check everyone and update. Sorry for being a bad blogger. I hope everyones week went well. I'm going to try to play a little catch up this weekend on those of you I haven't gotten to check up on.

Today we went to see the doctor. It wasn't what I would call a good appointment. 5 weeks ago our son was in the 40th percentile. 2 weeks after that he was in the 35th percentile. 2 weeks later he was 33rd percentile and 1 week later (that was today) he was in the 24th percentile for his size and gestational age. He is slowly dropping in the percentages.
Thats the bad news. The good news is our doc told us that he looks beautiful and healthy. No stress and his heart sounds great. He said we can just watch him closely like we have been doing. He weighs about 4lbs 2oz right now. My main goal for Cooper is that he weighs over 5lbs at birth. I asked my doctor if he thought that was possible and he seemed to have no worries that he would make it for sure to atleast 5lbs. So that was assuring. We go back in 1 week to check his growth again and see whats going on. They said they don't start to worry or really get to involved with the size until the baby is under the 10th percentile. So we still have a ways to go.

Tomorrow is my 2nd shower. Its my friends shower. Six of my best friends are throwing it for us and I can't wait to be there and see what they have done.

Tonight I went to go see a movie with 5 friends of mine and my mom. We went to see the "time travelers wife". First of all I just bought the book in a quick attempt to read it as fast as I could before seeing the movie because good love stories are always better to read first. I didn't of course get to finish it and now I've seen the movie and don't know if I can finish the book. I CRIED LIKE A BABY!!!
for those of you interested in seeing this movie or reading the book I will not tell you any details I will simply say I was sobbing when it ended. So hard that other people in the theater were looking at me funny as I walked out with my puffy red eyes. I never cry that hard, especially not in public. I'm not a big crier but apperently that movie just wrenched at my heart. So if your interested in seeing it, Warning you will most likely cry.
As we were walking out of the movie a man was standing in the walkway off to the side. He nicely said "oh I'm waiting for my wife" and motioned for us to go past him. I passed him and said to my mom and bf "I'm so glad I didn't come with him". I meant my husband, I was so glad I didn't go with my husband because then I probably would have cried even harder. As I finished saying it though I realized how it sounded to that poor guy and I said "my husband I mean, I'm glad I din't come with him". The man said "Wow thats not very nice" but luckily I knew he was joking. My mom and friend were cracking up though because only I could blurt something like that out and bring some poor stranger into my comment without even trying. I tend to somehow start up conversations with strangers by saying random things all the time. This is just me. I talk! I talk about random things to random people all the time.

Ok well I guess its time for me to go. I'm so excited for tomorrow. I'll post some pictures and stories from the shower later this weekend.

Oh and by the way, we got our furniture in!!!!!! YAY! I'm so excited. It looks amazing, I can't wait to take pics of the nursary also so you can see that. All of these are soon to come.
TATA LADIES!

A birthday and a doctors appt.

I'm now 32 weeks. Yay!
Yesterday was my 27th birthday. I can't believe I'm 27 years old. It was such a nice day though. I had a great time at work with all the work friends and the sweet gifts they gave me. One of the ladies I work with gave me a whole handful of adorable kids books for me to put on the book shelf in Coopers room. I LOVED this gift. When I got off of work I met my best friends for a girls pedicure! I haven't had one all summer and I wanted one bad. It was great. Except for the fact that I think I might have bruises up and down my right leg due to the near beating my lady did when she was "massaging" my legs. Hah, It actually hurt. But the rest of it felt great and my toes look just beautiful.
I went home with the girls all following me to meet all of our hubbies at my house so we could go to dinner. To my surprise my younger brother had driven two hours to surprise me on my birthday. He's in college at OU and is just finished with summer school and lives in Norman with the rest of my family. He works every weekend so when we go there we see him but its always so short and I feel like I never spend time with him. So this was a GREAT surprise. We all went to dinner and enjoyed the night. I got a yellow purse from my friend Shannon, I love it! Its so sunny and fun. I love birthdays, but I was exhausted by the end of the night and ready for some much needed rest.

Today we went to see the doctor. This visit was important because we have been sitting on pins and needles for weeks now waiting to see if he grows and if its enough for them to feel confident he can stay in there and grow for quite some more time. The doctor we saw was so sweet and explained things great. (Our doc is out of the office this week). He measured the baby's head, femer, and waist 2 times to get an accurate measurement, he felt like the baby had consistently grown (although he's still small and his waist is still small) he felt he had grown consistently over the past two weeks and felt good about the progress. He said to come back next week and we will measure again and keep hoping that he keeps on growing slowly but surely. If his growth declines at all thats when they will start to worry but so far we have made it this far and will definitely make it to 33 or 34 weeks. I have a great feeling that he might suprise us all and stay in there growing slowly but surely until the very end. That would be SOOO GREAT!.
The doctor said the heartbeat was great, the amniotic fluid looked wonderful and my placenta looked good. So everything else seems good. We can do this Coop. God is watching out for us.

Thank you to everyone for all the prayers. We appreciate them always.

Our baby shower!

Cooper room halfway finished.




First of all I want to thank all of you who sent a comment on my last post. I was very upset and worried and still am but feel encouragement and power in prayer. I appreciate your support and just want you all to know that it means allot to me. So thank you.

Now for a happier post than last time. We had our first baby shower on Saturday. It was my family shower and it was just beautiful. My mom and S.I.L threw it for us. They did an amazing job. I have TONS of pictures so I have to share some. I will try to only post ten or so, but I have so many good ones.
We are blessed with some really great friends and family and the shower was everything I dreamed of.
We now have the nursery half done. The walls are done, there are lots of baby items in the room but unfortunately half of our furniture is still on back order. So I am going to post pics of what we do have in there right now and then when we get the furniture in I will post more.

Also my sweet cousin Caroline came to my shower. She took some pictures for us (she's interested in photography) and I think she did a great job. So I will post some of the maternity pics she took of me in my shower dress and of me and my hubby.

Update on the baby: We won't know more on his status as far as growing and his waist circumference until a week from tomorrow. But as far as I know we are both doing well. I feel really good which is sort of bothering me since I know he may not be feeling the same. I would trade and take that discomfort away from him in a second if I could :(
We met with the pediatrician and I am feeling VERY good about him. He was so great. He wants us to call him after every appointment and tell him the status so he is ready and waiting and knows exactly whats going on with our little Cooper and what to expect the day he's born. I feel like he's really on top of things and knows the situation.

I just want to say a prayer for our little guy before I finish this post.

Dear God, Please watch over our son and help him to grow and to be healthy mentally and physically and to be ready to enter this world when his time comes. Please give us the strength to make it through these hurdles and bring us together safely. We love you!
Amen

Please pray for our little Cooper

Today we went to the doctor, I am 30 wks and 3days pregnant. Our appt started out fine, The babies heart sounds great, his head and femur measured at about the 30th percentile. Still slightly below average but he's healthy. Then our doctor decided to measure his stomach because he said it looked a little on the small side and sure enough it was -2 compared to his body size. I didn't quite understand what this means so we had the doctor explain further.
Basically (and he said this is more common with IVF babies but there is no reason or cause for this). His stomach isn't growing as it should. Its pretty small therefor he can't eat as much. He's getting nutrients just not as much as he could be so he's growing slowly. The doctor said that this problem will not get better while he's in the womb and that it can either stay stabalized and the same or get worse. If it gets worse then they will consider taking him early because if his stomach starts to shrink and he's not getting nutrients and they can't fix the problem it would be worse for him to stay in then to come out.
I called my mom the minute we left the doctor, she helped me to feel a little bit better but no matter what I'm so worried. Then I got to work and my boss new something was wrong and I burst into tears and he starts asking me whats going on. I explained it to him and its like it all hit me. I'm only 30 weeks pregnant. I know its not happening right now but I really wanted my son to be healthy and ready and strong when he comes out and its looking like that may not happen. I have been praying extra lots today and will keep praying that he keeps growing and that this stomach problem stays the same and doesn't get any worse so that he can stay in and keep growing gradually for the next atleast month and a half. He weighs 3 lbs right now. He won't gain as fast as he should but every week he's in there he will gain as long as his stomach doesn't start shrinking.
Please help us pray for our baby boy. I'm so worried about him but trying to be positive because I know that the stress and worry isn't good for him or I either. I know prayer is what will help us through this so please pray for our Son.

I appreciate it girls. And I will update as soon as they tell me more. They want us to wait 2 weeks before checking him again to see what happens in that period of time but after that we go 1-2 times a week depending on if its getting any worse. So we will know more in two weeks.