Baby Update

Just a quick update on the baby front. Around the time of my last appointment, I did my GTT test (Glucose Tolerance Test) to test for Gestational Diabetes and am happy to say that I passed. Since I have diabetes in my family I am at higher risk to get it when pregnant so I am always glad to hear that I passed. When they do the GTT test they also take blood to check for Anemia. Unfortunately, I didn't pass that test, my hemoglobin is low and I am now on an extra Iron supplement in addition to my pre-natals. They want to see that number go up, being anemic is making me very tired, but otherwise I feel ok, but it can cause problems for the baby and at the time of delivery because of blood loss, so hopefully these supplements will do the trick and next time they check I will be ok.

Diaper Shower Pictures (finally)

I am finally getting around to posting about the diaper shower that was given to me by my wonderful husband back in June. For those that don't know, a diaper shower is usually given for second or subsequent pregnancies instead of a traditional shower. The Mommy-to-be receives diapers (which everyone needs no matter how long ago your last shower was) and of course there are variations of the diaper shower, a friend of mine from grad school had a board book & wine shower where everyone brought a board book for the baby and a bottle of wine for the Mom-to-be! It was so nice to have the shower and really celebrate this baby, up until that point both Matt and I hadn't really relaxed about the pregnancy or really enjoyed it, we still feel very guarded given what we went through last summer and in the beginning of this pregnancy. So the shower was a wonderful way to celebrate this baby. It was a small affair just the immediate family, Great-Grandmas, Grandma's and Aunt's and cousins and sister. Matt did a lot of work and I helped him with some shower ideas since the poor man really didn't know what he was getting into. I had a really fun time and everyone that was there said they had a lot of fun too. We had two games that were diaper themed and we did onesie decorating (and I keep getting compliments about how cute they turned out) and lunch, cake and opened some presents. I got a big surprise from Matt, my Mom and Matt's Mom, they all went in together and got the double stroller I had my eye on. It was such a nice surprise. I got lot's of diapers and we are pretty well stocked for baby's arrival and I also received some other goodies which was also a nice surprise. All in all it was a very fun day and it will always be a special part of this pregnancy.

Diaper Cake

Mom playing name that baby food

Logan sneaking some food

Onesie decorating time

Logan's decorated Onesie for the baby

All the finished Onesies (I have gotten many compliments on them, I have such talented family)

We received lots of diapers and come other cute stuff as well!

The double stroller I really wanted, a big surprise from Matt, my Mom and Matt's Mom!

All the loot!!

A big thank you to our family for coming out to celebrate this pregnancy and this baby. It's been a long road to get here but we are nearing the end now and I am glad we took a day out to celebrate!

Happy Father's Day!

We had a fun and mostly relaxing Father's Day this year. We spent the morning at home just hanging around and then spent the afternoon visiting with Matt's Dad and had dinner at my Mom's. Matt was treated to sleeping in (something he usually doesn't do since I have been pregnant and Logan has been getting up earlier since the switch to his big boy bed) and breakfast and presents in bed. Of course Logan insisted on having his breakfast in bed with Daddy too, which was really cute.

After breakfast Matt opened his Father's Day gifts and Logan helped. Just think next year Matt will have two little one's helping him on Father's Day! Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's in our lives and Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband who is one of the best Father's out there, we are truly lucky to have you.

Baby Update

We had our 24 week OB appointment and another ultrasound today. The big news of course is that Matt and I know what we are having!!!! Of course we are keeping it a secret until delivery day for the family, hey we have to have some fun. Otherwise, baby was in a better position today, head is down, which is good news for our VBAC attempt, hopefully baby won't do any flipping to breach. The only thing that came up was that the baby's ventricles in the brain are measuring normal, but on the high side of normal and the doctor wants to follow up at my next appointment at 28 weeks, just to make sure they are not getting bigger. He said it was probably genetic and normal (read another big headed kid) but they want to make sure they don't measure bigger next time. Our doctor said the measurement was normal, so don't worry and it's probably nothing, but of course we will have that in the back of our head for the next month. Always something going on with my pregnancies or with our kids, but I guess that's what being a parent is all about. Say a prayer that this is just some little fluke and doesn't mean anything serious. The doctor said if he was really worried about it he would take action now and not just do a follow-up ultrasound in 4 weeks. He's not worried so we are trying not to be.

So we have our next OB appointment at 28 weeks and an ultrasound to follow up on the ventricles and then after that appointment we start going every two weeks already, time is going fast now!

And get your baby pool going! Is it a boy or is it a girl!

Arm above the head again in this pic

P.S. We are having an elective 3d/4d ultrasound

next week and I will post pictures afterwards, then you will really be able to see the baby, we did it was Logan and it was the coolest!

Update on Logan's Therapies

We had Logan's 1 year Early Intervention meeting the last week of May. We got together with our service coordinator and Logan's speech and occupational therapists (his developmental therapist could not make it) as well as a coordinator from our school district to speak to us about options after he ages out of Early Interventions when he turns 3 in October.

Since speech was our main concern I will start there. As of Logan's last speech evaluation he is 6 months behind of where he should be, and is catching up a little more each week. He has made tremendous strides in his speech in the past year and both his therapist and Matt and I are very happy with his progress.Logan is only delayed in two areas and the delays are I think around 23% according to the tool used to asses him, and to receive therapy through the Early Interventions program you have to be delayed 30% in one or more areas. Since he was previously in the program, his therapist is able to over-ride that rule so he can keep going until he ages out. We are very happy that he is pretty much all caught up now. He will continue to do speech until his birthday in October and at that point if his therapist feels he should continue he will be evaluated by the school district and if need be he will go to speech one or two times a week after he turns 3 through the Early Education program. We don't know if he will even need that at this point so it's something we will address as the time gets closer.

As far as occupational therapy goes, Logan has excelled and at this point his OT doesn't feel he needs to continue with OT. Logan has a few little things we can still work on, but he is no longer delayed enough to be receiving services technically. His current OT is taking a leave of absence starting this month, and a new OT should be taking over in the next weeks, and she will take a look at him as well, and it sounds like if anything he will go down to twice a month OT sessions. His sensory issues have really resolved and like all this therapists have said he is a new boy now.

We had a coordinator from the school district there as well to talk about the options for when he ages out of Early Interventions at his 3rd birthday. They do offer a preschool that would be five days a week but it is more for kids who need a lot of therapy, have autism/autism spectrum/neurological disorders, have physical disabilities, etc. As we talked during the meeting it sounded like if anything Logan might need more speech therapy and if that is what is needed he can do therapy through Early Education once a week. Everyone at the meeting thought that it will work to Logan's benefit that he won't start preschool until he us almost 4 because of when his birthday falls so we don't have any pressure to get him ready for preschool this coming fall. Logan will keep going to his Mother's Day Out program this fall, which has helped him tremendously and he is very happy there and we are happy with the program and he will continue to go to Gymboree as well which is also very good for him.

Logan's developmental therapist couldn't make the meeting and we hadn't had his evaluation done either at the time of meeting because Logan had been sick and then Memorial day was thrown in there, so he just had his yearly evaluation for developmental therapy two weeks ago and we will go over that once we get a copy, but looks like he will continue until his birthday, and we may talk about going down to twice a month like with occupational therapy.

Overall is was a very positive meeting and we are so proud of Logan and all he has accomplished in the past year.

It's a......surprise

Well we went into our 20 week "big" ultrasound this morning all ready to find out if we were having a boy or a girl (if you remember with Logan we did not find out). We are planning on finding out this time, but still keeping it a secret from family, I know we are cruel. Once we got going with the ultrasound it was pretty clear we were not going to find out today. The baby was in a very weird position and the tech wasn't able to tell at all. Baby was laying on it's back with it's legs above it's head, legs tightly shut, some of the umbilical cord stuffed down in there as well as one of it's hands, this baby really didn't want to make itself known that's for sure. The ultrasound tech also was not able to get all the anatomy shots she needed due to the baby's position. So we will have another ultrasound at our next appointment in 4 weeks and hopefully baby will be positioned better to see everything. What they could see, looked perfect and baby is measuring just about a pound which is where it should be and I am measuring about 21 weeks, which I will be on Wednesday. Blood pressure is holding steady at about 122/78 the last two visit's, it was up in the 140's for two of my visits with my old doctor, I have since switched to a new doctor that is VBAC friendly and overall just a better fit for me, we are very happy with our new doctor and I think my high pressures were due to the stress I felt going to the doctor I had been seeing, he had been making us feel very uncomfortable about our choice not to do an automatic repeat c-section and we were just not meshing well so hopefully those pressures were a fluke (I was on bedrest with Logan for the last month with high blood pressure and treated as a pre-eclampic while in labor). That is all for now, here are a couple of photo's, not to great this time, hopefully we will get better pictures next time. The first picture is the baby laying on it's back with it's legs above it's head, the second picture is the baby's arm above it's head, and the last one is a shot of a foot.

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's Day this year, thanks to my sweet husband and son. I was treated to breakfast in bed by both of them, they made eggs benedict...yum it was good! When I came downstairs Matt and Logan gave me my Mother's Day gifts which included a poem from Logan (with some help from Daddy) chocolate covered strawberries and a gift card for Old Navy so I can go do some shopping and get some new maternity clothes. We did some shopping after we all got ready and then headed out to see Matt's mom. We had a nice time going down to the park by there house and Logan had fun throwing rocks into the pond and playing at a new playground. Then we headed over to my mom's for Mother's Day dinner which was very good and of course all the men folk to care of everything for us so we could relax. Logan had fun playing basketball with his uncle's and running around Grandma's yard. We were all very tired by the time we got home, but it was a wonderful Mother's Day and it didn't even rain!