Baby #3 Update

I had my second visit with my MFM specialist doc on Monday.  Things went GREAT!!  James was off work so he was able to come with me to the appointment.  Isn't it funny how things change after that first baby?  He went to most of my appointments when I was pregnant with Megan and he made a few when Emily was on the way.  This was the first appointment he came to and I'm 17 weeks pregnant.  :-)  Poor 3rd child.  I had an ultrasound and it was mainly focused on the anatomy.  They measured everything and said he has "beautiful anatomy".  I was 16 weeks 5 days along and baby boy measured 17 weeks 1 one day, so right on schedule.  We got confirmation that the baby is a BOY.  There really isn't any doubt in my mind, or the doc's!!  After they scanned the anatomy of the baby, the doc checked my cervical length.  After Em came at 30 weeks we're not taking any chances that strange things are going on in there.  Also, it's possible an "incompetent cervix" caused Em's early arrival so I'm going to the MFM doc every 3 weeks for cervical checks, for now.  It was "very good" so I was relieved to hear that because a shortening cervix means bedrest and a possible cerclage.

I also started my weekly 17p shots.  It's a form of progesterone delivered to my ass in a dose of olive oil.  Sounds pleasant, right?  It's relatively new, I think, and is thought to prevent pre-term labor.  The side effects are pain and itchiness around the injection site and I'll be doing these injections weekly until 37 weeks, or maybe my scheduled c-section date.  So far, I haven't had any of the sore itchy butt other women complain about so I'm pretty excited about that.  They were willing to teach James how to do them but he chickened out.  I can't blame him because I certainly would have blamed him for any pain he would have caused.  So I'll be popping in to the doc's office to have the nurse there do them.  She was good!!

We had to change MFM doc's this time and I'm so happy we did.  The guy gives us a DVD with every ultrasound and we got to see the baby in 3D/4D.  It was SO COOL!  I would share the pics but our Fred Flintstone scanner doesn't work with our computer so I can't.  Maybe I'll take some pics of the pics and upload them.  Everyone loves a good sonogram pic.  They're always so clear, aren't they?

So after the appointment, since mom was hanging out with the girls making our date at the doc possible, we had lunch at Freebirds (YUM! ) then hit the baby store for some shopping.  We were hoping to check out this bedding we liked online and ended up buying something completely different.  I think James is itching to paint so we had to get the color scheme down.  The room is already tan so I think it's going to stay that color with some accent stripes in blue and brown.  We're also going to repaint the attached bathroom blue but we've wanted to do that for a while now.  It's yellow and white and just looks blah!  Here's the bedding we picked for our little monkey!

  

We also bought the kid a crib.  Yes, that's our 3rd crib purchase in about 3 years.  We have convertible cribs for the girls and Megan's is already a full-size bed. We plan to switch Em's to a toddler bed soon so we needed another one.  The girls' furniture is the same but we decided to go a little different with the boy.  It's the same brand but has straight lines instead of a curved top.  We thought it was a little less girly.  It will arrive in 8 weeks so the nursery should be done with about 3-4 weeks to spare IF I make it to term!!  :-)

I know I still need to post the rest of Moo's birthday and ... oh we just had Christmas too didn't we?  Looks like that will have to come at a later time because Em is starting to wake up.  It's 6:20 am.  She's back on her "early cycles" again.  Don't know why I'm up before her either.  I woke up around 5:45 am and just felt the need to get out of bed.  Check ya later!!