Belly

This is my belly at 33weeks. This is the biggest I've ever been. It's seriously crazy to have a stretched belly button since I don't have a real belly button. Now I really don't!! Lol

3d ultrasound of baby #3

He's sucking his thumb. After the picture was taken, he punched me and went back to sucking his thumb. Little punk!

Update

So I haven't blogged about it yet but I'm el prego again!!!

This baby is definitely a surprise. It took us years and years to get pregnant with both Connor and Logan. And so I stopped taking my birth control to get an IUD in. I had a doctor's appt Tuesday to talk about different forms of IUD's. I took a pregnancy test the Friday before and it was POSITIVE!!

We are excited about this munchkin! We weren't planning on having another one because my pregnancies are so hard. But Heavenly Father had other ideas. I've always wanted 5 kids. But I was okay with 2 because I had such great boys and worked hard to get them here. Now we will have 3!!!!

So this pregnancy has been drama like my other ones. The end of April I couldn't keep anything down, including water, for 3 days so I went to the ER to get some fluids. It lasted a day and I went back on Saturday night. They drew my blood and my platelets were 33K. DRAMA! The other drama was I was 14 weeks pregnant. So when they called the OB doc, he said, "I don't do low platelets. Send her to ABQ." When they called the blood doc, he said, "I don't do pregnancy, send her to ABQ."  So I was Med-A-Vac'd out of Alamogordo, up to ABQ. There I got an infusion of IGG. Chris drove up with the boys and I ended up staying 2 days in the hospital.

Now I have doctor's here in Alamogordo that will take my care and have had another infusion May 26th. I had to spend all day on the phone with Tricare to get my infusion improved but it's worth the blessings. They drew my blood before the infusion and my platelets were below 12K. The lab machine doesn't read below 12K so that's all we know. That's a scary low.

So I have to get my blood drawn every week. Infusions, probably, every 3 weeks until this baby is done cooking. I'm hoping to be able to grow this baby until his term.... 36 weeks. Some of the docs have other ideas but I'm pretty sure mommy rules in these cases.

Okay so I plan on blogging a lot more so come back for updates!

PS Check out previous post about Paying It Forward

Glo bug is HERE!!

Here is a few pictures from my phone. I will try to get more up from the camera but it might be a few!

Welcome Glo bug!

He was born Sunday at 3:07am, weighing 5lbs 8oz.

He was born at 37 wks.

This is Daddy and Glo bug. He is in the NICU (Newborn Intensive Care Unit) because he has low platelets like his Mommy.

He has already gotten a platelet transfusion and IVIG to raise his blood levels. Nothing else is wrong with him which is AWESOME!! We were worried about the fluid around his heart but it is fine.

This is the HUGE Labor and Delivery room. I had a big one cuz they knew they were going to have to have my nurses and doctors PLUS Logan's nurses and doctors. I was in hard labor for 3 hours 45 minutes. Push twice and got to hold Logan!

This picture is taken 4 hours after he was born. His left eye is way swollen and skull is misshaped. BUT that's all normal and he is less swollen today.

This is one one my favorite picture! I love those toes. His nickname: Monkey, already fits him with those toes.

There is some brief info. I will try and update later.

Update from the Desert

We had an ultrasound today. Baby is doing great. He is measuring at all the right sizes. While the tech was measuring his leg, he nailed me in the ribs!! What a stinker!

I had to do the glucose test today! It's so silly to me that they make pregnant women fast. (I get the reasons why...it's just dumb.) I think they need to figure out another way to find out if you have gestational diabetes. I get the results tomorrow.

The weather here has cooled down in the past 24 hours to a freezing 45 F degrees. (No I'm not laughing at you guys with snow days....okay, kinda I am!) I put my time in Alaska so I have the right to giggle!

Bee has FINALLY pushed his left molar through. We are still waiting on the right...there isn't even a tip of it yet.

Chris is busy at work. He works swing shift...5-1am. It's nice for doctor's appointments but crazy for Bee's schedule. We'll get it worked out one day. We have also found that Chris doesn't do milk anymore. We have switched to Lactose Free and it's made a world of difference in his tummy! So simple a change but wonderful!!

I got my schooling approved. My books should be here Monday. It will be so nice to be able to work from home. A little extra money won't hurt either! :) (We miss COLA!)

I will be induced March 11 at 7:30pm. So we will have a baby shortly after that!! It's exciting to have a date. To see the end! This pregnancy has definitely been tough. I can't wait to see this little guy!

We have a new puppy, Diesel. He is a black lab and is 12 weeks old. He is already potty trained in 5 days. He LOVES Bee and plays well with Hooch. He has a sweet face that always looks like he is smiling. I'll try and post pictures soon.

NEWS!!

So I finally get to add one of these to my blog!!!

We are prego!

It's probably 99% of the reason I haven't been posting. I've been puking my brains out.

My due date is March 22, 2010.

I had an ultrasound at 7.5 weeks and saw a heartbeat. I have to have another ultrasound when we get to New Mexico to double check.

I have already lost 19 lbs in the 7 weeks I've been barfing.

I'm almost 12 weeks.

We are soooooo excited!!!

So excuse me if I'm not on here cuz I'm hanging around our toliet. I hope it settles down soon but with Bee..I was still throwing up until 7.5 months.

Does anyone have any Tums?

Spilling my guts: part 1

So Chris is gone tonight, doing a Suicide run to the Kenai river to fish. (It's called a Suicide run cuz they leave right after work (10pm) and drive 2 hours to the river, fish and then drive back in the early morning. Then get up and go to work at 2pm.) Silly boy!

So you get to hear all my stuff that I have to say! YAY!

So today MUST be "Announce that you are Pregnant to Krista day." Seriously! I had three friends tell me they were el prego! Congrats to all of them! Great job on the baby making!

Then I turn on MY show, The Real Desperate Housewives of New Jersey, and both Jacqueline and Teresa are el prego!!! Congrats to them both!

Seriously though, Jacqueline was my broken buddy. She's was why I really, really got into the show. We were broken moms trying to have another. Trying not to sound ungrateful for what we have. Now she's all knocked up. You go girl! I guess I gotta find another buddy.

Speaking of getting knocked up. I'm still peeing on sticks that aren't changing. (I bought a package with 7 sticks, which I guess is how many most people need to tell when they release an egg, or ovulate.) Not Kritta. I'm on day 7 tomorrow.

I don't know why I'm getting so disappointed. I guess I thought I wouldn't need all the sticks. For some reason, my head thought I would have ovulated by now. That we would be on our way to baby making. I'm not sure why I expected this. I know that I have a longer cycle... usually 35-39 days. If this was a normal cycle without drugs, I wouldn't ovulate for another week, at least.

I am thinking that I thought this was going to be a miracle drug that would just fix things right away. That I would ovulate the first day and already know if I was pregnant. Today seems to be the day that I realize, it might take a few times on this medicine, Clomid, to get prego.

To tell you how much faith I had in this medicine, I already have the due date figured out. (March 14, so you don't have to figure it out.) Sad huh?

PLEASE everybody, tell me when you are pregnant! I am so excited for you! REALLY, REALLY! Two of my friends were scared to tell me. Just because I'm broken, doesn't mean I can't love that fact that you can make babies! That I get to kiss and hug them and steal them at church. (Just ask Bobbi!!)

So don't be afraid.

I won't bite you.

Or kick you.

Probably.

:)

Day 2-3

This is Bee and Louie, our cat. The picture was taken when Bee was about 5 months old. Bee loves Louie to this day.

When I was pregnant with Bee, I worked at a doctor's office. I was on my feet all day. So when I got home I had to put my feet up on the wall, and lay on the bed. Louie would come over and want to be pet.

I would lay him on my tummy and Louie would purr. I felt my first kick with Louie on my tummy. Every time after that I pet Louie, Bee would kick.

When Bee was just a few weeks old, we were having a tough night of sleeping. I went and got Louie, held Bee and rocked us all. Within 5 minutes of getting Louie, Bee was out. (Why didn't I think of that an hour before?)

Even today, Bee was having a kinda sick day. He was really cuddly so we laid on the couch, most of the day (with my new cable!!!!!!). Louie came up to lay with us and Bee just pet him softly and just laid there.

It's so cool to watch animals and kids interact. I love it.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers for Chris and his grandpa. We really appreciate it.