18 Days to go!!!

Well, the doctor's appointment went well. Not a whole lot more to say. I am not dialated any, not that I thought I would be but sure did hope she would say so. There is a little progress being made but not much. Not enough that she would definetly induce on the 15th. She said we will just have to wait and see how things progress by the next time that she checks me to see if that could be a possibility or not. So, in the mean time, I will do my best to make progress by doing some of those 'old wives tales'!

Jaelynn Rene 2/15/10!!!

*The AMAZING crib that Dennis made!!

I will update you all a little earlier this time, as I probably will every time until this little guy makes his big entrance! At the doctor’s appointment on Tuesday she really didn’t say much just that if he can stay in until Sunday then she will deliver us in Sabetha. 37 weeks is the cut off for being transferred to Topeka as a Just-in-case. Now that it is Friday I keep telling myself only a few more days, then he can come out!!! I know he loves me but punching my pelvic area and bladder is not the best way to say “I love you Mom”. In fact, I would say the opposite but, none the less, he is growing rapidly and healthy. (I do like him letting me know he is okay though)

Monday, Lacy and Jere had some great news! They had a baby girl, Jaelynn Rene Engelken. She weighed 6 lbs 5 oz. and is very healthy and doing great. All three are now home and hopefully getting the rest that is needed. She is very beautiful but who would have thought anything differently with those two as parents! I now want this little boy out even more so to meet everyone and his new little girlfriend. ; ) This summer will be very fun having the two little ones camping with us. I look forward to all the fun times we will have!

Happy Valentines Day!

I want to wish you all a HAPPY VALENTINES DAY and hope you spend it with the people that you love!!!

At the doctor’s appointment the baby was really excited, his heart rate went from 130-170 and then back down. I guess when he does summer-salts his heart rate goes sky high. He is doing well though, he is still head down and ‘nice and low and in great position to enter this world’. No progress is made yet, I know, hopeful thinking. I was measuring at 37 weeks for 35 ½ weeks so just a little ahead of time again… she did say that it isn’t as accurate later on in pregnancy though. Doctor Glynn did say she will induce me on March 22nd if we haven’t had him by then, so there is an end date!!!

Dennis got the crib done! It looks so amazing! He did a wonderful job on it and I will post pictures as soon as I have a picture. Now that he is done with it though he is board at night and wants to start on something else down stairs in his wood working shop.

Tara and I had a great day shopping yesterday. We finished up with everything that was needed and so now it is just putting it all together and away. It will be so nice and refreshing to have it all done. I really want to stay home until it is all done and put together. I was really excited at how much money that I managed to save in going, with coupons and everything. Without Tara going I would have not picked up things that I am told we need and I would have picked up things that we didn’t need, so a BIG thanks to Tara for going with me! I do have another doctor’s appointment on Tuesday. I am sure that it will go well as all have so far.

Quick post.

Wow how this week went fast!!! I didnt really realize that I didnt post on Sunday. Sunday I was busy writing thank you cards from a great baby shower!! The shower went great, we got lots of gifts that we needed. Tara and I will be going to Topeka to pick up last minute things that we need yet. As time is nearing we are both getting more and more excited. Dennis is almost done with the crib and I have been organizing the little guy's room as much as I can. All of his clothes are clean now and in the dresser. We have a doctor's appointment today (Tuesday) and then we will be going once a week. I dont really have much of anything else to update for now so I will let you all know how the doctor's appointment went later this week!

Since this is the week before Valentine's Day I am working overtime! If I am awake and not at the Sheriff Dept., then I am at the flower shop. Wish me luck in keeping my back from hurting to much as I stand in place and arrange flowers for hours every day!!!

Emergency Medical Dispatcher

As time passes, I want to meet this little guy more and more. I have been getting more tired as I just stand in place. That actually wears me out more than walking or any other kind of exercise. The little guy is measuring at 34 weeks and that was at 33 ½ weeks, so not much difference. His heart rate was holding steady at upper 120’s and lower 130’s. As of this doctor’s appointment, he was still head down. Somehow, I did not gain any weight in the last two weeks. I actually lost half a pound. I wasn’t trying for this but boy was I excited! Let’s call it the Krispy Kreeme diet. ; ) My next doctor’s appointment is set for February 9th, . Cross your fingers for a low or no weight gain again! Also baby related, I think he rotated on me because he is kicking me in places that he had never kicked before. I think it is because of this that it hurts so much when he kicks now.

This last week was pretty much the same old, same old for Dennis. He didn’t work much on the crib or anything, just enjoyed not having me around I guess. He was busy with work during the day and hauled a bunch of manure after he came home from work. So, he deserved to just relax after work a few days!

I left for Hays on Wednesday for an Emergency Medical Dispatcher class. The drive down there was not that bad at all, we got to our hotel about 5:30 and took advantage of the hot tub and exercise room. Since neither of us (Debra a co-worker) brought our swim suites (I don’t have one that fits) we just wore shorts and only got our legs in the hot tub. Class started at 8 on Thursday and we were greeted by a Steve Martin look-a-like. He smiled like him and everything! Anyway, about the class; we did learn a lot. We first started going over the EMD past and how it got started and then got into how to use the EMD system. I will not bore you with all the details but I do think that I will be able to use what I have learned in not only my work but also for personal knowledge. Class did last until 5 everyday. I was severely hoping that it would have gotten over shortly after lunch on the last day but it didn’t. We did make a stop at JC Penny to buy a swim suit or something that I could use to swim and get in the hot tub. Don’t worry I did get out after ten min. of usage. It was a fun stay at Hays but I was very glad to be home! After sitting in a classroom from 8-5, driving 4 hours was not something we wanted to do but did!

Baby's room is done!!

At 33 weeks, the amniotic fluid has reached it limit so from now on, when my belly grows, it is all baby! He weighs at least 5 pounds now if not more and is about 16-18 inches long. Time has been flying by I really don’t want it to slow down any. When he moves now, it almost hurts at times. The other morning when I laid down to sleep, he kicked so hard on the side that I was laying on that it pinched my belly and truly hurt! I said fine and rolled over. Walking now I get Braxton hicks contractions a lot. I have only noticed them 2-4 times a day not working out. Saturday, Katie and I went to Sabetha to walk with Mom because it was such a beautiful day and I was getting the contractions every two to four minutes. They did stop when we stopped walking so it was no big deal but a great example to why I have quit working out, walking is about all I can still master. Besides that, and eating enough calories for two or three people a day, all has been great, just the minor pains.

Dennis got the baby’s room done!!! YEAH!! I have to patch a little more paint but then we are ready to start filling his room. I am so excited to get everything set up now! I have this brilliant idea to switch my dresser with the tall one that used to be Dennis’ that I don’t like because then we can use the top of it as a changing table. I truly don’t like either of these dressers but we must deal with what we have until a nice one is made! Maybe I can talk Dennis into building me a dresser when he is done with the baby’s dresser. He has made quite a head way on the crib too. The other night when I worked night shift, he stayed up until 4 AM working on it! Crazy boy! But, I believe that almost everything is cut out, and he is just working on some of the posts.

Now that the room is done, I am ready for the baby shower and then I will welcome this little guy at anytime! I am starting to get the things that you don’t really think of that will be needed for delivery and right after words. I just can’t tell you how excited I am getting now! Anyway, I will be leaving for Hays on Wednesday for EMD training. Becoming an EMD will allow me to instruct 911 callers how to do CPR and some other first aid while they are waiting for the ambulance. It is also a coding system that in the city the dispatchers use with the EMT’s to give them a better understanding of the problem. For Seneca, the EMT’s don’t use this coding system but, it will give me more questions to ask the caller and will make me a better dispatcher. The class is three days long and so I will be coming home on Saturday night. We are supposed to get out at 5 but let’s hope that we get out by 3 so that we are not getting home at 9 or 10 on Saturday night! I will be going with Debra, a co-worker. We are the only two who are not certified so we thought we get it done (I thought before baby). It will be nice to have a few days away in a nice hotel on the counties dime ; ). We will be staying at the Ramada Inn, so I plan on using the treadmills that they will have there to hopefully counter-act all the eating out we will be doing. Anyway, we have another doctor’s appointment tomorrow and so I will inform you how that went we I get back from Hays.

8 weeks left!!!

With only 8 weeks left to go, I am starting to think of ways to “induce” labor in a natural way. Now I know the little guy will arrive when he wants to and only when he wants to. This will not stop me nor has it any pregnant woman to do some things to help encourage the processes along. Some things that are universal for labor inducers are eating spicy foods, pineapple I just read and I will do that! Marching up stairs or going on long walks, getting massages, having sex, and a few other things that I will not go into. I have thought about this and what I will do besides eating my favorite fruit I think that I will make a trip to Sabetha and take advantage of Nikki and Kent’s trampoline. So, March 1st or anywhere around there that is a nice enough day I am going to spend the afternoon jumping with Madelynn and Trenton! Nikki had to say that she plans on recording this event but she must remember that paybacks are hell! The last doctor’s appointment went well. He was measuring at 33 weeks at only 31 ½ weeks, so just a little bigger than supposed to be but I was expecting that. Other than that, he is still head down and kicking up a storm. It is nice to know that he is head down still because I know what his butt is and if it ever gets higher than I will have a hunch that he flipped on me!

Oh what to say about us. We haven’t been doing too much this week. I did get the baby’s room painted and Dennis has started putting up the trim. He finally got the wood in for the crib so who knows what he will work on now. I think he is just really excited to start working on the crib. We are both excited to get it all done and set up, or at least I am, he is just excited to build furniture! I have been working night shifts so I am looking forward to next week, getting to sleep during the night again. Oh and I cant forget to say that Dad treated me to another dozen of those fabulous deep fat fried dough coated in sugar paste also known as Krispy Kremes!!!