Last two Labor and Delivery Classes

Just in case anyone wondered...we passed Labor and Delivery Classes! Our final test was to change a diaper, and since I have done it before I let Michael change his very first diaper, and I caught it on camera! Below you can see pictures from class the week before where Michael got to where the empathy belly. He took a deep breath in and as soon as he exhaled Mary Jane wrapped him up tight...so as just to give him a bit of the pressure we feel when we try to breath. But don't think that he became all empathetic after wearing the 35 lb suit...no not my husband he said it wasn't that bad! But in his defense he didn't have to wear it 24 hours a day and deal with the wear and tear it puts you through...not to mention that 35 lbs to me is not the same as 35 lbs to him.

38 weeks and 4 days

I am posting our final ultrasound shot, not because I think you need to see it but because it is such an unbelievable blur! You would think that as the baby has become such a snug fit inside my uterus it would be easy to see him or her...but no! Baby G was shying away. Anyway I had an ultrasound to see how big the baby is and right now the baby is an estimated 6 lbs. 13 oz. And at this point a baby puts on about 1/2 lb. a week, so we should expect the baby to be almost 8 lbs.

After the ultrasound I went up stairs for another weigh in and urine check...all seemed fine, until we got to the blood pressure. The nurse took it once and then acted as if she had been so busy talking that she had to do it again...but I could see the wide eyes on her face and knew there was more to the story. Then she took it again and asked if it had been high before. I said no, and she said she would give me some time and come back and take it again. So at that point I put my homework that I had been reading over down...figuring it was not helping and sat there and practiced some of those fabulous breathing excercises that Mary Jane taught us in birthing class. It is very hard to try to calm yourself down when you are realizing that there is a pretty good chance you could be sent directly accross the street to the hospital. I mean I know in my head I am going to have a baby...but I really don't have any clue how to embrace everything that is about to happen...so as I have all along I am taking it one step at a time. Luckily for me (and wouldn't Mary Jane be glad to know) the blood pressure taken post breathing excercises was ok.

Next came the exam, and I have dialated a little bit more since my last appointment, but I am still shy of 2 full cm, and I am still only 50 % effaced. She said she could feel the bag of fluids sitting right there and that the baby is either at 0 or -1 I think. So I have dropped a little bit, but you cannot tell by looking at me. Dr Connor also asked how I felt about being induced. And I said I have no idea. I had not stopped to think about it because everything about my pregnancy had been so matter of fact I just assumed I would go into labor on my own. She said I was very soft and a good candidate for induction, so I am tentatively scheduled to be induced on the 15th of December if I do not go into labor on my own first.

Sweet little lambs!

Sorry I can only upload so many pictures to a blog post so I ahd to come back and show off my precious lamb pictures that Mary made....I am totally obsessed with them!!

Nursery: The Finally!

I know this whole nursery thing was quite a process...but I have to tell you it is absolutely PERFECT!! PERFECT in EVERY way! So to everyone that helped make this the perfect room...thank you so much! A special shout out to my Mom, who has made the bedding, and the pillows, and covered the rocking chair, and made the curtain tie backs, and made the curtain for the transom....the woman has been busy! Also must say thank you to the Daddy to be who still feels to this day that the baby would be just as happy with a "Sesame Street play pen" for all of his painstaking hours of painting all the walls and furniture, hanging the chandelier and some other stuff. Thanks to Mrs Godwin for helping paint, and to my Dad for installing the dimmer on the chandelier and hanging my most adorable shelf that Michael drew the line at! And please note the adorable picture of the little Lambs! Are they not the cutest things you have ever ever seen??? Mary made those for us and I just about died when I saw them...could they be any cuter??? Now to everyone else who has helped us to get prepared for Baby G, thank you all for everything...I swear my thank you notes are on the way...school is almost out! Michael and I are so blessed to have so many wonderful family members anf friends supporting us as we get ready to welcome baby Godwin into the world and we know that Baby Godwin will get to know you all and feel your love and support too! So thank you for everything that you have done to be a part of this very very special time.

Don't drink from the water cooler...

37 weeks and 4 days.............29 weeks and 5 days...............19 weeks and 1 day. This is where Baby Center puts each of us when this picture was taken last week. Tracey has been after me to take a group shot and of course I wait until I am enormous to cave in! Do you like the sassy hand on the hip? I look so much cuter that way! Oh well, we can see I am over trying to look cute these days. Just being seen is a big step for me.

Anyway for those of you that do not know, that is Tracey Allen Williford in the orange ( I wonder if anyone made pumpkin references to her that day?), and the cute skinny pregnant Mama is Carolyn Dwyer. We all work in the same office, so there is a warning on the watercooler these days! Seriously someone actually put a warning on the cooler...

37 weeks and 4 days

Yes...just when you thought I could not possibly get any bigger...I did. This picture was taken last week the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Thought I get a picture in the same sweater for comparisons sake. And this puts me 17 days from the due date in this picture...and I am still holding out that little Baby G is going to come right around the due date. Time will tell. Now stop gaucking at my enormous side and go read some other blog.

Catervention

Above is Velma, and isn't she sooo cute! She loves Christmas lights.

So when I was home a couple of weeks ago my parents sat me down and tolfd me that the cats were moving to Pensacola when the baby was born. Daddy is obviously getting the bad end of this deal. Momma will be in Montgomery with me and the baby, and Daddy will take the cats home with him. Then they informed me that upon the cats return to Montgomery it will be as outdoor cats. They are no longer going to be spreading their fur balls all over the house. They say it is because they don't want the baby around so many allergens, considering our house is already allergen prone being built in 1929, but I think it is because Momma hates seeing their furballs in the corner. Anyway, I think it is a good idea to get the litter box out of our house, I know Michael won't miss it. So I am not disagreeing with the crowd. But I will miss having Roxy (aka Darkness) and Velma around as much.

And this is Roxy, or as Michael calls her...Darkness. And as you can see she thinks she belongs in the bassinet with all the stuffed animals in the nursery! This is exactly why my parents want them out of the house. And of course neither of the cats had jumped in the crib, until I said that out loud! Then last night Roxy went for it. Ha!