2009 Pregnancy/baby thread

[beeniesmom]

Ooooh! Good luck Kari!
Hugs!

[finn's mom]

All right, it's go time! We are going into the hospital tonight at 9, first dose of meds at 10, 2nd around 4am. We'll see how it goes from there and I (or someone else) will update this thread when she gets here! Pretty exciting stuff!

The appointment today was awesome. My parents actually pulled up right when I was leaving for the doctor's, so my mother was able to be there! Our doctor did a full sonogram, when he was originally supposed to only make sure she was still head first. I know he did that for my mother, but I am so grateful for it. We actually saw her lips moving, and her tongue too! She has beautiful full lips! Doctor said she had big feet, too (lips are mine, feet are David's, haha). It was amazing, I couldn't believe how we could really see her lips and tongue like that!

But, anyway, I'm not dilated, she's not dropped. But, she's coming soon! By this time tomorrow, we'll have our daughter on the outside! YAY!

Oh, yeah, and he took measurements, and she's a little over 8 pounds!

[AdoreMyDogs]

Kari good luck! I can't wait to hear about everything and see pics of Clara!

[beeniesmom]

Oh My goodness! So you are probably holding your little one now!
Can't wait to know how momma and baby are doing.

[wolfsoul]

Just incase some haven't seen:
http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=155073
Yay, congrats to Kari!


Just a little update on us. I'm getting bigger..and she is ALL out front...You can't tell I'm pregnant from behind, or even from the front most of the time (although the belly button sticking through the shirt can give it away) -- just from the side! I've lost a bit of weight again. I think my water weight goes up and down quite a bit.
I'm considering calling all of my clients and cancelling their appointments for the remainder of the month. I feel really bad, but I'm doing very physical work with no air conditioning (and my shop gets up to 40 degrees some days (104 F), so I am just dying in this heat) and I'm starting to get quite a bit of belly pain. I think it's just from too much bending.. I'm worried I'm going to get a hernia or something. I feel bad because some of my clients booked their appointments 3 months ahead, but today was the most difficult day I've had in a while, I was so burnt out and hot and gross, I felt like I could either have a panic attack or just sob. I have a dr appt on Tues so I'm going to talk to her about the belly pain, but I can almost guarantee that over my workless weekend I will be pain-free, which will pretty much tell me it's work that is doing it to me. I'm sure with the amount of work I do I'll be physically fit enough to push a baby out, but if I get a hernia from working I guess that won't be happening LOL. Yes, I'm pushing myself too hard.

Here are a couple of pictures of my progression..

6.5 months

8 months one week (in my pjs!)


There is very little room left for her. I am not as stretchable as I would like to be. Everyone thinks she is going to be tiny but I think she's going to be a surprise giant. I have developed a very good posture over the last month, because my goodness if I slouch at all, there are limbs banging themselves into my ribcage, and it is not the most pleasant feeling. Bed time is only good if it's her bed time too. Otherwise she can keep me up, kicking, hiccuping, etc.
Anywhos, still having a good pregnancy. Not many complaints here. I had heartburn for a couple of days last week (overeating -- bad me!) but other than that I haven't had any heartburn, and haven't had braxton hicks for quite a long time now. Just finally started feeling the heat a couple weeks ago. I have a really hard time sleeping even with the air conditioning on. It's not so bad if I have a shower right before bed though. My restless leg hasn't been bothering me too badly. My feet KILL me in the morning and certainly do while I'm working, but at the end of the day they're fine. Been craving garden carrots.. I must eat 50 of them a day, and we have SO many of them in the garden. I think I have to go pick some now actually. LOL.
Oh, wanted to ask. Do any of you girls crave smells? My goodness I crave smells!! I crave the smell of car tires and underground cellars. Weird huh?!

[beeniesmom]

Wow, times flies! You are already almost there too!

[beeniesmom]

Hey Kari!!!! How are you and Clara doing? Has she made her appearance yet!?

[Moesha]

I wanna see more baby pictures!!!