my new man.

ok, so not having a whole lot of time with the new man in my life requiring so much of it, i wont really update everything just yet... but i wanted to let everyone know the important things.

baby ave was born on 09.18.09 at 10:18 pm, he measured 19 inches long and weighed 6 lbs 1 oz. he is perfect.




you can check out more pics of the baby on my flickr page... more will be added soon!
baby ashe flickr page

tomorrow...

so tomorrow is the big day.

its kinda crazy to think that tomorrow im gonna meet my son for the first time. to be honest, its a little overwhelming. i think we're pretty much ready for him, but never having had a baby before, i really cant be sure. i hope we are.

i had to go to the hospital yesterday to do the gel thing... it wasnt exactly what i thought it would be. they set me up with the fetal monitor to make sure he was doing ok before they actually did anything, and then once he proved he was good to go they went ahead and did an internal to see if i had dilated at all. i had not. the nurse said that she heard that i was like fort knox down there. awesome. so she decided to help me out manually which was totally not comfortable at all, but she did force my cervix to start to dilate so i got to 1 cm. woohoo! but i was kinda in some pain for the rest of the evening.

so today me and stelly have just been trying to get things ready for the baby and nans (wils mom) who is coming on saturday! finishing up laundry, putting clothes away, and changing all the linens on the beds... its kinda good that i have things to do because i think i might go crazy just waiting around for tomorrow. and i have no idea if that gel crap has any kind of hormones or anything in it, but i have been more emotional today than i think i have been throughout my entire pregnancy. i cried like 4 times watching stupid 'so you think you can dance,' who cries at that?! maybe its just crazy emotions that im gonna have a baby tomorrow... kind of a big deal...

so i probably wont update again for a bit, but i will definitely give everyone all the gory details as soon as things calm down again. i know i wont be pregnant anymore but im sure crazy things will still be happening once the little man gets here, so keep checking back, im sure im gonna get pooed on, peed on, vomitted on... all good things! and thanks for hanging out with a pregnant lady for the last 9 1/2 months!

2nd post.

i know, two posts in one day... BUT...

we're having a baby on friday!!!

went to the dr today and she thinks that the little man is probably totally ok, but since he's measuring small, why not go ahead and take him out now? and i am completely fine with that. :) so i go to the hospital the next two days to have some sort of gel put on my cervix to help the whole dilating process, then friday morning we go in, i get induced, and we do the thang!

ahhhh!!! it is so absolutely scarey and exciting and awesome all at the same time!

sleep = impossible.

38 weeks... so ready!

i woke up this morning at a little after 4 am... to be honest, im not even sure i was actually sleeping when my husbands alarm went off. i feel like my body is fighting me. i am so tired but i absolutely cannot sleep because im a stomach sleeper and clearly cant sleep on the tum tum, both of my hips ache terribly so either side is painful, and now even my boobs are hurting. not fun.

i am so ready for this little man to hurry up and make his appearance. he was pushing and kicking so hard yesterday that i literally had to stop walking to massage his little foot back down because it hurt so bad. it felt like he was going to bruise me from the inside. crazy little thing. i guess its not so comfortable for him right now either.

i go to the dr in about 6.5 hours, so hopefully ill get a little more information on the exact dates of the BPP tests, and the induction date. woohoo! lets hope im dilated at least a tiny little bit... come on ashely!!!

hospital update.

i am so sorry to keep everyone waiting for the follow up on the tests on wednesday!!!

we were at the hospital for about three hours on wednesday... not fun. they did all the initial tests which took a little over an hour, and then the tech went to show the dr all the results of everything and was gone for what felt like forever. she finally came back and said that the dr wanted her to re-do some things, what things, i have no idea, almost nothing was explained to us. she left the room again to go speak with the dr and then came back to tell me that she had to check out my cervix 'trans-labia,' she said that like twenty times until i finally had to tell her i had no idea what she was talking about. basically they didnt want to do an internal exam because they didnt want to promote any contractions.

after leaving the room for the third time, she finally came back and said that the neonatologist was in the middle of a procedure but that he wanted to speak with me. even though i wasnt getting any information from anyone, my mom and i could see the measurements the tech was taking of my little man and according to them, he had lost an ounce since my ultrasound a week ago. he was also measuring at about 33-34 weeks so they were saying i was off on my due date and my baby wasnt due until october 15th. without a doubt, i know when he was conceived... having to maintain a fertility chart and take fertility drugs, doesnt really leave much room for error. so we waited some more and were then told that i could go home... at that point it certainly seemed like there was some sort of problem since they kept asking me to wait but when i wanted information i was told that they legally couldnt tell me anything and i had to wait to hear from my ob's office.

of course i didnt hear anything back that day.

yesterday my mom finally gets a call, probably around 5:30, and its from my actual dr, not the nurse that normally calls back. i guess my doctor really went through my medical history because she brought up several things that i was prepared to point out. she told us to ignore the due date the hospital was trying to give me because they were 100% going to go by my dates because of everything we had to do to get pregnant. she also told us that he got a perfect score on his BPP tests, but because we are still high risk, they want me to have the BPP every week until we have him just to keep an eye on his growth. his measurements are pretty small for how far along we are, all except for his legs... they measure at 37 weeks, 5 days, so theyre thinking we are just gonna have a little man with long legs which is exactly how i was when i was born. so everything is pretty good. :) she did tell my mom that everytime i go in for the BPP i have to bring my hospital bag because if they see anything that looks off in any way, they will take me straight to surgery to get the little man out, but we will only have two weeks of that because she said theyre going to schedule an induction in two weeks.

so were gonna have a baby in two weeks!!!

17 days & another ultrasound.

yay! 17 days... hopefully. i went for a check up yesterday and i am not dilated at all! ugh. i was so hoping to hear that i was dialted at least a centimeter or two but no, we got nothin. i was even thinking that the little man has finally dropped but the dr didnt fully agree to that either. but i am not feeling nearly as much pressure up underneath my ribs as i was before so im gonna keep on thinking that he either dropped or is definitely in the process of doing so.

ok so i have to complain about the snotty little nurse at the office yesterday... in my experience, all the nurses in an ob office are pretty nice and really try to make the hormonal pregnant women happy. i believed this until yesterday. my name gets called and i go back to be weighed, which of course is everyones favorite part, and she immediately starts it out at the 200 lb mark. not even cool. she couldve at least pretended that she didnt think i was that heavy... but poo poo on her, she had to adjust back down to the 150 mark. ha! but then when she wrote down my actual weight for my chart, she added two extra pounds! what was up with that lady?! i thought i might hit her. then she mumbled the rest of the time and i could barely hear/understand her. all i know is she better watch herself next time!..

and after all the talk about him being little and no one really having a problem with it, other than the sono tech, i got a call yesterday afternoon telling me that now they are concerned... so my ob's office made an appointment for me to go to the hospital today to have another ultrasound and some other tests (a biophysical profile) run to see how the little man is doing.

www.webmd.com/biophysicalprofile

i guess they are hoping to determine whether or not hes small just because hes small or if there is some sort of problem. and if there is a problem, it will also dictate when he comes, and whether or not i have to deliver by c-section. at this point, im just hoping hes alright in there...

ill try to update again later when i get all the results of the tests, but who knows if theyll tell me anything today. doctors are awesome at being vague.

a very little man.

almost to 37 weeks...

i went to the dr yesterday... twice. i thought i was getting strep throat, ironically this was two days after i had my strep test at the ob in my downtown. awesome, right? ha ha! so anyway, thought i was getting sick so i went to my regular dr, shes thinking possibly a sinus infection so i have antibiotics, woohoo! i was trying to hold off on taking them but i have some awesomely green boogs this morning so i think im gonna go ahead and take the plunge.

a couple hours after the first dr visit, i went to the ob to have one more sonogram before the big day! of course i was super excited to get to see my little man again, its been about 15 weeks since my last one. i dont know why i get all excited, i have not left a single ultrasound feeling all warm and fuzzy... i guess i was just hoping this one would be different. but no, after measuring his torso, head, and legs, the tech determined that my little man is indeed a very little man. hes measuring at about 34ish weeks when he shouldve been closer to 37, they estimate hes weighing about 5 lbs, 10 oz. but that isnt even one full pound less than what my hubs weighed when he was born so im hoping everything is ok. and the spot is still in his heart, but i kinda knew it still would be so no big change there. i think i just wouldve like to have left with someone saying 'ok ms. persons, everything looks great!' instead i get, 'please wait right here while i show these pictures to the dr, im not sure if shes going to want to come in here herself.' bah.

oh, but that tech really pissed avery off. ha ha! she was pushing down so hard on my belly it was an absolute rebellion on his part. he was completely uncooperative and proceeded to be unhappy for the rest of the day. he pushed and kicked on me so hard all day long, i was in some serious pain. crazy little man, he seems much happier today, thank goodness.