I was 33 weeks on Wednesday, so we're getting closer to the end of bedrest (and closer to having Baby here)! I had my 33 week appointment yesterday and I've progressed a bit, but since I'm 33 weeks, I'm not too far off from full term thankfully. It'd be so great to have this baby close to full term and be able to take it home from the hospital with us (probably around 35/36 weeks it could come home with us if it was doing okay)! I'm dilated to a 1 1/2 and 50% effaced. So hopefully with staying on bedrest, I can keep baby in at least a few more weeks (or longer!). I have Procardia now to take when my contractions get worse (I've always had some and sometimes it's hard for me to know what "a lot" is since I've always had some stretches during the day where they're 5 minutes apart, but my dr said if they're that close for over an hour, I should take a pill). I'll get my last shot aroun 35 1/2 weeks since that is when I will run out of my current vile of Progesterone. Joe has it pretty down pat now:). One thing kind of funny that we discovered at my appointment yesterday is that I've been using 3in needles instead of 1in (in length). Apparently Meijer gave us the wrong ones. My doctor said that 1 inchers would be fine for me, so apparently Joe's been stabbing into me further than need be:). From what I can find online it seems that the Progesterone stays in you for at least a week after you stop that shots, so if our last one is at 35 1/2 weeks, that would mean having the Progesterone in me until 36 1/2-37 weeks. My doctor said he'll probably take me off of bedrest around 35 weeks, only 2 more weeks! This baby has just been so uncomfortable how it's positioned or something, that I constantly have pain in the side of my uterus, that mixed with contractions makes it very uncomfortable to sit or stand. So I'll be happy to be able to get out and do things and clean my house (and get ready for baby!), yet I'm not sure how much out and about I'll love doing either being in pain. But it will still be nice to be able to have the option:). My doctor is very happy to have made it now almost to 34 weeks, but we'll obviously try for further as that would be even better for the little guy/girl! Oh, and the heartbeat was I think 153 which the doctor said it has been in the 150s about every appointment. That is what some would say is a girl heartbeat, but I think that both my kids have had heartbeats around there, so who knows! :) I really haven't had a feeling with this one like I had with the others. I was right with both of them, so I feel like I should know this time too. But with both of them, I guessed what I wanted them to be and this time I really don't care what it is. I think I would guess it's a girl. Joe says girl too, but he was also wrong with both of our other kids:). I THINK we have names now, so that's one less thing to worry about:). I told Joe I was going to order shirts with all the kids' initials on them, but he wasn't quite that sure on them:).
Yesterday, the kids were both looking at our Disney pics (from this past Spring) on our blog and Layla mentioned something about going again and how the baby would be in my tummy and I told her that by the time we go to Disney again (b/c I don't even know when that will be!) the baby will not be in my tummy and that the baby will come with us. She was so excited that the baby would be out of my tummy by then--I guess all this talk about praying to keep the baby in made her think it was still going to be a really long time before baby was out:). She also right away started trying to think of what strollers we would bring:). She's just like her mom:). She said we'd take the double one we used last time for Gibs and the baby and she'd ride in the gravy one. I didn't understand what she meant by "gravy one", but in the garage later when leaving for my appointment she pointed out the "gravy one"--she meant gray:). Oh, one other word she mixed up the other day was that she was looking for the porkupine in the backyard and I didn't know what she was talking about, then she said something about it cutting the corn and I figured out that she meant the COMbine, not porkupine:). Also, I found it cute that at lunch yesterday, after looking at Disney pictures, she added in her lunch prayer that she prayed that God be with us in Disney World in a few months. I said I was sorry, but it'll probably be a few years, not months:). Gibs is also starting to love Disney and loves some of the characters and really loves the little Disney busses (like matchbox cars) that we have. They also both still like watching Mickey, so hopefully Gibs will enjoy his upcoming Mickey birthday party.
We also finally got Gibs' new room ready for him. It needs some more decorations, but it's at least ready enough for him to sleep in (it was our playroom/office). We aren't going to move him down there until I'm off of bedrest, since that would be more work for me having to go down to get him for naps and bedtime, but at least it's ready! Hopefully he adjusts well to sleeping in his new room. Speaking of adjusting, I'm surprised how well Layla has done with the whole bedrest thing. I thought that maybe she'd be annoyed with the fact that Mommy can't go out and do things with her, but she's done really well with it and understands that I need to rest as much as I can. Auntie Em is on bedrest also, so I think she maybe thinks it's normal for all pregnant people to be on bedrest. Someone else recently stopped by to drop off some groceries for us (which we SO appreciate). She's pregnant too, and when she left Layla asked why Paula wasn't on bedrest if she has a baby in her tummy too:).
