Saturday, April 6, 2013

38 Weeks - Bun still in the oven

Saturday - 4.6.2013


Development: She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches long, like a leek.

Movement: Every move she makes now puts pressure on my pelvic and hurts so bad. Shes as wiggly as ever though despite the lack of room. Oh mommy you dont need your spleen right? I'll just kick it.

Weight Gain: Still just smuggling a basketball weighing in at 13 pounds.

Worst Moment: False labor! Went to the hospital Monday with constant contractions every 5 minutes for 10 hours, just to find out I'm only dilated to 1! Drug me up and send me on my way.

Sleep: Yes please! With the contractions just coming whenever they please, I get woken up a lot. Falling asleep is already a problem for me so, you can put 2 n 2 together.

Miss Anything: High heels! I haven't been able to wear my cute heels in so long, it will be like a whole new shoe wardrobe when I get to wear them again.

Food Cravings: Last coiple of days I've had no appetite, not sure what thats all about.

Labor Signs: You would think being my third kid I could tell the difference between real and false labor. But yea so far nothing, I'm trying all I can to naturally induce labor at this point.

Mood: Done!



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Friday, April 5, 2013

Friday's Fave #21

Friday - 4.5.2013



This week flew by! Spent Monday in the hospital pretending to be in labor, that was fun. Really nothing else exciting happened all week. Really trying hard to finish some projects both blog related and household stuff before the baby comes. I feel like I have so much free time on my hands now that I'm just sitting and waiting.

Gonna take my man child to the movies tonight with his friend. I'm not sure who's more excited my hubby or my son. We're gonna see Jurassic Park in IMAX. Should be pretty cool, even though I've seen it a thousand times. It should be cool on the ultra big screen, where the seat rumble and move.

If the baby doesn't come this weekend I will try to have some good post up for you guys next week, other wise if you don't hear from me, I'm celebrating the return of my body and birth of my baby girl!

Think it would be awesome to giveaway vacations to your readers without breaking the bank, check out the Make $$$ page to find out how! I'm slowing down on the number of giveaways I'm promoting right now just since I'm preparing for having a baby and all. I do have a few blogger opps I'm personal running if you want to check those out. As usual, go link up over on Tuesday's Tea Party or even better sign-up to co-host! I started a new link up on Monday's and it didn't have a great turn out. So I'll try a few more time, if it continues I guess I wont do it. I thought it would be fun, it has a music theme, go check out this weeks Music Mystery Mingle and tell me what you think.

I joined up with Dawn's Desaster for FTSF, so get over there and link up! This week's sentence...




A typical day in my life looks like... lately, boring!  My hubby leaves at 6:30 am and always say's goodbye with a kiss. Seeing as I'm hardly alive when that happens I quickly fall back asleep. Lately my mom has been living with us, so she's been taking my son to school, which has been awesome. I usually roll, by roll I mean I look like a turtle struggling to get off it shell, out of bed around 8 am. Me and the Diva Dormouse eat breakfast. Depending on the day, I either bring her to dance or preschool, unless it Friday, oh wait it is, then she's home getting into everything while I attempt to either blog or clean. The March Hare is home around 3, which usually entails me fighting with him to do his homework and chores. The Mad Hatter is next, home by 4 and stays in his cave until I finish or go get dinner. We always eat as a family at the dinner table, I believe strongly in it. Then it's bathes and bedtime, and a few minutes of peace with the hubby before he's snoring in my ear and I'm left talking to myself.




This is the Menopausal Mother and she is a riot! Her post about her son caught my eye this week because I too have a 9 live wonder, but he's only 10. I have followed her for quite some time and always love how real she keeps it. Life is what it is and were just at the plate batting at whatever curve balls come out way. She's great fun and a good read, go check her out.




Mommy, for real


What a wonderful post. I'm kinda on a mommy theme today, I guess we know where my head is. Anyway, its always nice to hear from our kids that they don't really think were as terrible as we make ourselves out to be in our own heads. And even to hear that they kinda like us. This is such a nice share about her daughter standing up for her.




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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Inducing labor naturally

Thursday - 4.4.2013

If you have followed me for any amount of time, it would be hard to escape the fact that I'm pregnant. So if you don't know, you do now, I am 37 weeks 5 days pregnant with my third child. I have had a miserable pregnancy, starting with morning sickness, more like all day sickness for the first three months, then pulling my groin muscle at about month 4, making it incredibly painful when I walk and then started having contractions at about month 6, being put on semi bed rest. So now that I could be done at any moment I'm beyond thrilled to get this baby out! Funny how she's been threatening to come for the last 4 months but now that it's time, she's being stubborn and trying to stay put. What a brat! Of course she's not making the final moments of her stay any more comfortable for mom.

Saturday I lost my plug and she started to drop. Sunday night I started to have consistent contractions every 7-8 minutes apart and by Monday morning they were still going strong (and painful), so we went to the hospital. Yep they were going strong every 5 minutes, nurse thought for sure I was in labor, until they checked me and I was only dilated to 1! They drugged me up and sent me on my way. So now I'm determined!


This baby's lease is expiring quickly and eviction is inevitable. Actually I'm started the eviction process early! So I'm keeping tract of what I'm trying and we will see what works.
Here's what I've tried:

Walking: Lot's and lot's of walking, house work and whatever else I can do.
Sex: Yes, my husband is thrilled, me not so much, kinda hurts right now.
Acupuncture: I have an awesome acupuncturist, he's a dad to three himself and he so good at what he does.
Massage: I went to one of foot massage place and had them rub the crap out of my legs and feet.
Raspberry Leaf Tea: Supposed to help shed the lining of the uterus when your on your period.

Do they work? We'll find out! I started walking Tuesday and acupuncture, massage and tea yesterday. I will keep doing as many of them as I can until she comes. Well see how much it hurries the process! Keep ya updated!



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