Vivian Reese, Camille Sofia, and Charles Dale

Well, another Tuesday, another birthing class...more videos that are hard for me to watch! We have had 3 classes so far and it seems like 7 is going to be a lot!! I think it will get better next week since we will meet with the anesthesiologist and learn more about different situations like c-sections, inducements, etc.

We were able to take a quick tour of the labor and delivery area of the hospital last week and it is amazing! More than you would ever need...but of course, we will take it :) It is officially opening on December 1st, but hopefully we will only be visiting for a while.

Finally, my friends here at work threw a shower for me yesterday too (big day)! I got all kinds of really cute clothes, blankets, toys and more :) Colin and I stayed up late last night going through everything and had a really good time. Of course, the cats did as well, since it was more bags and tissue paper than they had ever seen!

Well, I think that is is for now...hopefully we are going to have a quiet weekend before the holidays kick-off and then before you know it piglet will arrive! I am going to do a huge picture upload tonight...so look for that later if you are interested!

Thanks for checking in with us!

Well, we have been bad lately and have not updated the site for a while...but a lot has happened. I had a wonderful shower with my family and a few close friends on Sunday, November 6th. Piglet and I had lots of good food and fun! We also received a truckload of stuff for Daddy to put together :) I will have pictures from this up in the next few days (along with a belly update, which will be shocking compared to the last update)!

On November 10th, Daddy and I intended to celebrate our 4th wedding anniversary...but my body had a different agenda. I had a little scare and had to go into the doctor's office, which then sent me to the hospital (and then Daddy joined me at this point). I was having some contractions and bleeding (but no pain) and was monitored for a few hours at the hospital. We ruled out dehydration and then had a quick ultrasound to make sure piglet was OK. Since piglet looked perfect, head down and doing great, we went back to monitoring contractions. It was finally determined that I had a urinary tract infection (apparently very common in pregnancy - especially the 3rd trimester) and that was causing all of the problems. So, after a long and stressful day, we went home with antibiotics. I was also ordered to rest for the weekend, no work on Friday and no Colts game on Sunday, but back to work on Monday (assuming no problems).

So, we had a very stress free weekend and I had no more problems :) We went back to the doctor today and my infection is cleared up and at the end of the week I can resume normal activity again! Yeah! Also, piglet's heart rate was good and I measured just a little bit ahead of schedule. We will go back in 2 weeks.

We have class tonight and I had another shower at work today...so I will write another update tomorrow! Off to class...

Another uneventful doctor's visit today :) Hopefully we can keep these up the next couple appts...and then we will probably be ready for some action! Everything is going on schedule and piglet's heart rate was around 150 bpm. When the doctor put the doppler on my tummy, the baby kicked hard and moved it! Then it proceeded to roll around and make it hard to measure the heart rate. It was really funny and then, of course, when I laugh, it makes it even harder :) Oh well, I guess piglet was protecting his or her turf!

We also had our first childbirthing class tonight. It was also pretty uneventful...for now. We met the other 11 couples in the group and learned a little about the last trimester and relaxing, but the big stuff starts next week when we will watch a video of a birth! Of the 11 couples in the group, there are only 2 couples (ourselves and one other) that do not know the gender of our baby. There were a lot of boys, not many girls...

Well, that is pretty much it for now! I will update this weekend after my baby shower with pictures and details! See some of you there :)