39th Week Update and Belly Pic!!

So on Friday April 27th I went to my regular weekly check up.  The doctor felt the baby and could not for certain feel her head down low anymore.  Since it was a Friday and ultrasound places would be closed and probably all booked for Monday...AND I was 39 weeks pregnant...I was sent to the hospital for an ultrasound the next day (Saturday).  We get a call 8am Saturday morning saying to come in as soon as we could for an ultrasound.  We're there just before 9am.  We get hooked up and the ultrasound revealed that indeed baby was breech.  The doctor told us that we had 2 options...to have a C-Section THAT DAY or to try having the baby turned.  We opted for the latter because I did NOT want a C-Section.  I burst into tears and started shaking all over because I was TERRIFIED of the idea of being cut open.  Not once in my entire pregnancy did I ever even THINK that I'd have to get a C-Section.  It was a total shock and I was NOT handling it well.  So they moved me into the operating room where I was instructed to lie down flat for a few hours in hopes that the baby will disengage from the pelvis so that it'd be easier for them to turn her.  5 hours later we were told that because there were so many emergency births that day that we'd have to come back the following day (tomorrow) to try to turn her.  They did not want to try right then because the process of turning the baby could put me into labour or it could rupture the placenta...both of which would require me to have a C-Section right away....and they didn't have enough staff to do all that right then if it came to it.  They checked the baby again and the ultrasound showed that she was still fully breeched.  The chances of them being able to turn her successfully is 30-60%.  The chances of her turning by herself by my due date is 5%.  SO...we are going back tomorrow...and we will try to have her turned.  But most likely it will end up in a C-Section I think.  Baby COULD be here tomorrow!!!  


Symptoms: Been crampy here and there.  Still no signs of labour.  

Mood: Very anxious!!

Cravings: Nothing really....warm milk?

Bump Measurement: 39.25 inches!

Weight: 120lbs!!!


These are probably my last belly pics of this pregnancy!!!  I'll take one POST baby when I get home and we'll compare!!!

More Maternity Photos!

Just got more of our maternity photos from the photographer!! Here they are!! 

Nursery Transformation (PART 2)!!!!!

Baby's nursery is officially DONE!!!!!!!!!  If you missed it, here's my first post on the nursery's transformation!
Sorry for the bad photo quality. I took the photos on my Iphone and I'm so sore/tired these days that I'm not going to bother making them nicer LOL.  Click on them for a better view!!!  I'm VERY happy with how the entire room turned out!  Kind of wish we went ahead with the striped walls cuz our ceiling is so high the room looks half bare in photos.  But I LOVE the chandelier Ed picked out and all our furniture!  We decided not to get a glider/rocker because really our living room/couch is just right outside the room and I much rather sit there to feed her (if we had a house where all the rooms were upstairs we totally would have got one).  I love the shaggy little rug I found too!! We might get something to put up above the wall where the crib is but maybe later on.  It'd be some sort of wall decal because I would never hang anything over the crib cuz I'd be scared things would fall off and go into the crib at night.  The wall of white frames was super cheap and easy to do! I used scrapbook paper to fill in most of the frames for now until we have photos of her! Oh, and we actually still need to get a garbage can (probably a white hamper-type) too...but I'm waiting for our cloth diaper stuff to arrive later this week so I can figure out where to put those things!  I plan on adding more frames later on when I find different white ones...it's so hard to find nice white frames under $10!!
The photos are ordered to give you a 360 view of the room...

Here are some detail shots of the nursery from our maternity shoot. The little shelf below the picture frames was not purchased yet at the time so I've moved some stuff around since!

38th Week Update and Belly Pic!!

Symptoms: So halfway through week 37 I woke up one morning and BAM...it hurt to walk.  My pelvis was totally sore and it hurt to move.  I'm totally just sucking it up now (it hurts more and more every day) and am hoping that baby will just come soon.  Heartburn and Braxton Hicks has stepped up a notch again (who knew it could?!!) so I'm up a lot at night because I'm so uncomfortable.  I'm just really grateful that I don't have work anymore! 

Mood: I'm just anticipating her arrival now! ANY DAY!

Cravings: Not much....just hungrier than ever!!!!

Bump Measurement: 39.5 inches gained half an inch!!

Weight: 120 lbs!!!!!!!! Gained 2 lbs!! 

38 weeks!!!

Notice how my legs are not together? It hurts to stand!!

I'm realllllly curious now to see what I'll look like post baby!! I'll make sure to take a
photo of my non-belly after baby is here and compare it to the pre-baby pic!

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Maternity Photos!!!!

We had our maternity photos done on April 7th and April 14th! 

These ones were taken in Fort Langley, BC on the 7th!!!  They were taken by my friend Vivian who offered us a free maternity shoot as our baby shower gift! I didn't realize how ROUND and BIG I was until I saw these photos!!!! I really do look like I stuffed a basketball under my shirt!!! Also, I'm very pleased to disclose that all 3 of my tops from this photo shoot are NOT maternity tops and are actually XXS tops I owned before!! They must have been pretty loose on me back then!!!

*Viv's Photography*

And these ones were taken in baby's nursery on the 14th!!!  Melissa who is a friend of a friend offered us a free shoot as well!!!  I'll do another final post on her nursery once we get all the photos!!! This top is ALSO a non-maternity top in XXS!! LOL!!!! 

*Eve Photographer & Design*