Today we celebrated Thanksgiving at Katie's parents house with both of them and her grandfather. We got so stuffed it hurt. Good thing we only do this once a year.
We'd planned to do these updates often, but never posted again since the first photos in early August. Thought it was a good time to throw an update up (but really I need a break at 1 am working on an essay.)
We've been diligently taking belly photos every week, so here's a batch of recent pics and a comparison to earlier photos.
Just a few weeks lapsed from the time my parents put their house on the market until it sold and they (and my little brother Garin) moved out. The time went incredibly fast, and I can't even believe yet that they're gone. I was there for a couple hours helping them load up the moving van on Monday, but eventually had to go to work, leaving the job to the army of friends and church members to help them finish the task. We missed out on the last evening together with the family before they left, so Katie and I decided to go a couple nights later to see the empty house. Oh, and not only was it empty, but the power was already turned off. It was a lifeless, empty, sad little house.
I was on bed rest all last week and was still having contractions whenever I would sit or stand, so Ryan and my mom finally convinced me to call my doctor Friday night. I was told to go to the hospital, so Ryan and I went and hung out at the hospital from about 10:30pm to 2:30am. Once they took me back and hooked me up to the monitors, the contractions pretty much stopped because I was lying down but the lab tests came back showing that I had some type of bacteria and needed an IV with antibiotics.
Today I went in to see my doctor and she did some more tests to check for infection and put me on bed rest for another two weeks. I was bored enough with just one week! Hopefully these contractions stop soon because she said I need to be on bed rest as long as I still have them.
Our little guy is doing fine. We're just hoping he cooperates and stays in there for a while longer!
Well, yesterday was quite an adventure. I had been having contractions off and on over the weekend and was having contractions Monday morning, so I called my doctor's office and they told me to go to the hospital. My blood pressure was really low and I felt like I was going to pass out, so they put me on an IV. They gave me a shot to stop the contractions and my doctor has me on bed rest for a week (she had originally said a few weeks, but I convinced her to let me go to work next week).
So, after being in the hospital for about eight hours, I was finally able to go home. The baby was doing fine the whole time and I'm feeling a lot better. Unfortunately, my doctor won't let me travel so we had to cancel our trip to England next week. We're really sad, but we have to do what's best for our little guy.
The ultrasound technician that did the 20 week ultrasound thought something in the baby's brain was a little larger than normal, so I was sent to a specialist last week to have another ultrasound done. They measured the area and said it was perfectly normal. The doctor said the baby weighs 2 pounds 3 ounces.
