Almost There....

Almost there for baby Alex to be born. Went to the hospital (yes again) This time I broke down cried and that didn't even work on the doctor, but some good news; she told I wouldn't make to 39 weeks and she doesn't think I'll make this week. HURRAY!! Roland and I want Alex to come so badly. Maybe he'll come tonight, on Pierce's Birthday (Roland's nephew) Happy Birthday Pierce!!

Today was my last day at work, didn't go in Monday, that was the day I came home (did you know my hospital policy is not to induce on the weekends? How stupid.) When I went into work everyone was surprised to see me and then my boss came in later and freaked out that I was there. I told her I had some little things I wanted to do and that I would leave at noon and wouldn't be back until a couple of weeks after Alex was born. I hoping to go back on Andrew's first day of school (depending on when Alex comes.)

I tried my experiment with Alexis - she saw me holding a friends baby, she didn't cry, she wanted me to give her the baby, I didn't. Nana maybe thinks that Alexis might change her mind after Alex sticks around for a couple of weeks. We'll see.

I bought one of those baby carrier slings for Alex. I let Alexis play with for awhile and after awhile she wanted me to wear it but she wanted to be in it while it was on me. I told I couldn't do that, boy did that upset her.

Andrew is wondering when Alex is coming. Every time I grab my belly, he asks "is the baby heavy?" and keeps asking me (almost everyday) when is the baby coming. I tell him 3 weeks or a couple of days. I tell Andrew to talk to Alex and he does, then he puts his ear up to my tummy to see if he can hear Alex. I have to keep telling him, Alex can hear you but you won't be able to hear him since Alex is inside my tummy. I keep telling Andrew to tell Alex "come out, we want to meet you" so far that hasn't work. =(

Hopefully next time you see a post, I'll be posting about Alex and how crazy I'm going with 3 kids not 2. =)

Another Update

Well went to hospital this past weekend. I was in labor (OK, I'm still in labor just not hard labor, as the doctor put it). As of right now I'm at 3cm and 50% effaced and lost my mucus plug, the plug I lost today and it was for that reason why I took another trip to the hospital again today. (if you don't have any clue of what I'm talking about, look it up on the Internet, I'm not going to explain it)
At the hospital today, my doctor made me stay for an hour and if dilation changed I would have had to stay the night, which of course it didn't. So I got to go home, but the nurse did agree with me that my contractions did pick up while I was there, so who knows I might go back again tonight. (dread) (no dread if Baby Alex comes) I did find out something I think I should complain about. I found out from the nurse that some medical board or medical people decided that they will NOT induce you if you just want it, they'll only induce you if you have medical condition or you are at 39 weeks. OK here is a good reason: A pregnant woman about to go mad!!! I'm so PISSED, I'm going to be looking on the Internet to bitch, got nothing else to do as of right now. Keep you updated.

Baby Update

Well, had my doctor's appointment today. Everything looks good. My 3rd diabetes test came back normal, which means I don't have gestational diabetes. Alex is at normal size for 35/36 weeks, so no talking about getting induced. =( They won't check to see if I'm dilated until next week, even though I almost begged to be checked, but he is head down (hurray, and like I couldn't tell from pelvic pressure I sometimes have when I get up from sitting. Ouch!) but I don't know if he's dropped or not. I will be asking next week. Everybody who sees me (well, not everyone) ask if I'm having twins. I tell them no, I just look big. =( It seems that everyone I knew who was pregnant or close to giving birth, has. I'm the only one left, sometimes feeling really alone. (not really) I really just want this little one to come, I'm tired of being pregnant. (OK, who doesn't get tired from being pregnant) I'm really curious about how little Miss Alexis is going to take about having a newborn in house. Don't know if I'm going to get annoyed at her because she wants to be in my lap and be held or trying to make her understand she can't feed, change the diaper, or carry the baby around. Maybe one of the women at church can help me with that, let Miss Alexis see me holding another baby, maybe I'll try it this Saturday. I just know I really don't want what happened last time to happen when she saw me holding her Cousin Pierce, she started crying, but that was about 2 years ago. =) I don't have any pictures, but will have lots coming as soon as Alex is born (which reminds me - I need to put my camera in my purse) =)

Andrew and Alexis are doing fine. They are both going to Alexis's daycare for the summer. Andrew sometimes wants to stay home - by himself while Roland and I are at work. I ask him some important questions about what if someone came to the door, what if there was a fire, questions like that, he usually gets one wrong and even if he did get them all right, I still wouldn't let him stay home by himself, I'd start to panic at work. Andrew really got to feel Alex move the other night, as did Roland. I was laying in bed when they could both see and feel Alex move. He doesn't really kick anymore, it looks like he rolls around. And if you feel around, you can actually feel something semi-hard (Alex's head) and feel his butt. =) Alex loves to move around 11 o'clock at night-right about the time when I'm about to fall asleep, but once he starts moving I have to wait to fall asleep until he stops. And man does Alex have the hiccups. I swear they are more annoying than anything, especially when they are at night.

Update

Well I had my doctor's appt. this past Wednesday. Everything looks fine. Instead of being two bigger, now Alex is only one week bigger. Roland guesses that Alex was doing a growth spurt. I did do my third diabetes test last week as well. Should get the results by the end of the next week. I did however forgo any trips to the hospital within the last two weeks. I'm happy about that. I did talk to my doctor about being Alex being big. She said she not going to worry about that until I'm full term, which means when I'm nine months which is two weeks and that is when I go back to the doctors again. And probably I will get check to see if I'm dilated and all that other stuff. And then we really get to talk about inducing labor if Alex is big, but she said we'd do an ultrasound first, just to see how big he is. My doctor did recommend a maternity belt, which helps support the weight of the baby, since I told her that sometimes there is a lot of discomfort and on the day I saw her I felt a lot of pressure down in my pelvis. I will be looking into that, since standing at work is not working at all. I even hate getting up from my chair. I don't have any pictures to post, sorry just haven't been in the mood to take pictures.