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So tomorrow is the day!!! Tuesday the 18th.
I have been stressing about the delivery of this baby forever it seems. Contractions...pains...more contractions...back aches...herniated discs...sciatica...
9 months, 10 months rather, is such a long time...especially when July and August are thrown in there. It has been a hot summer, but a super summer.
I feel so blessed that this baby came when she did. I had maternity leave just built in there. These are the hottest months of our year here in SC and the weddings just seem to naturally slow down. This year especially, and thankfully.
I am lucky enough to have my beautiful and patient sister Emily here to help me do everything from watch the kids so I can edit to pick up stuff on the floor that I drop, because I am lazy and have a basketball for an abdomen right now. She is a perfect fit right now and I thank God it worked out that she could be here right now. She starts school in a few weeks and will be able to accomplish what she needs to, and help us in more ways than she realizes. She is a super wedding assistant too...
So I went to the doctor today because the baby wasn't doing a whole lot of moving and I got worried. I was told to come in to be monitored. So I get there and lovely Dr. Latham checked me and to my surprise I was 50% effaced and 3-4 cm dilated. This baby has been LOW...I mean low for weeks...and we just felt more comfortable with the chance to be induced in the a.m. Betsy came an hour and 1/2 from the time my water broke, and I just don't want that kind of craziness again.
So I don't know if I will go "natural" this time. At this point I don't really care. I wanted to avoid the spinal headaches I got after Betsy...but the back labor I have experienced already this pregnancy is excruciating and what's 5 weeks of headaches anyway ;)
So my other babies were 5lbs 11oz and 5lbs 3 ozs...whatcha think this baby will weigh??
Any guesses?? Leave a comment with your guess. I will give a $25 Amazon gift certificate to the person who guesses correctly. (please leave an email address so I can contact the winner!)
I appreciate all the prayers and thoughts that everyone has sent our way since this started. Our friends and family make this life so much brighter and that much more worth living and living vibrantly. God Bless you all!
Here's to another Brokop!! Billy....you are officially outnumbered! Have I told you how much I love my husband today...well I do and I live to watch his face when he sees his children born. He is the man/father/provider I could have only dreamt I would marry. Okay this cheesy- almost not- pregnant -sap is heading to bed so I can be at the hospital at O-dark-30.
I have been stressing about the delivery of this baby forever it seems. Contractions...pains...more contractions...back aches...herniated discs...sciatica...
9 months, 10 months rather, is such a long time...especially when July and August are thrown in there. It has been a hot summer, but a super summer.
I feel so blessed that this baby came when she did. I had maternity leave just built in there. These are the hottest months of our year here in SC and the weddings just seem to naturally slow down. This year especially, and thankfully.
I am lucky enough to have my beautiful and patient sister Emily here to help me do everything from watch the kids so I can edit to pick up stuff on the floor that I drop, because I am lazy and have a basketball for an abdomen right now. She is a perfect fit right now and I thank God it worked out that she could be here right now. She starts school in a few weeks and will be able to accomplish what she needs to, and help us in more ways than she realizes. She is a super wedding assistant too...
So I went to the doctor today because the baby wasn't doing a whole lot of moving and I got worried. I was told to come in to be monitored. So I get there and lovely Dr. Latham checked me and to my surprise I was 50% effaced and 3-4 cm dilated. This baby has been LOW...I mean low for weeks...and we just felt more comfortable with the chance to be induced in the a.m. Betsy came an hour and 1/2 from the time my water broke, and I just don't want that kind of craziness again.
So I don't know if I will go "natural" this time. At this point I don't really care. I wanted to avoid the spinal headaches I got after Betsy...but the back labor I have experienced already this pregnancy is excruciating and what's 5 weeks of headaches anyway ;)
So my other babies were 5lbs 11oz and 5lbs 3 ozs...whatcha think this baby will weigh??
Any guesses?? Leave a comment with your guess. I will give a $25 Amazon gift certificate to the person who guesses correctly. (please leave an email address so I can contact the winner!)
I appreciate all the prayers and thoughts that everyone has sent our way since this started. Our friends and family make this life so much brighter and that much more worth living and living vibrantly. God Bless you all!
Here's to another Brokop!! Billy....you are officially outnumbered! Have I told you how much I love my husband today...well I do and I live to watch his face when he sees his children born. He is the man/father/provider I could have only dreamt I would marry. Okay this cheesy- almost not- pregnant -sap is heading to bed so I can be at the hospital at O-dark-30.
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We are enjoying a week at the beach and lucky Wesley gets to spend his bday here!!!
This is the 2nd year we have come back to Sunset Beach and I am totally in love with this place. We came to this beach when I was little, 2 years in a row and got treated by my parents again with a glorious week of sun and sand. I over-did it and used not- so- waterproof sunscreen on my growing belly and it has been red for a few days now...not as sensitive to the touch finally. I got what I deserved though. I always joke with Bill that "I don't burn, I am Jewish"....well even this Jewish descendant burnt this week....so much for that ;) Must be the preggo hormones. So I ate my words.
We are going to pick up his dinosaur cake at a local bakery and have a party this afternoon.
I can't wait to see it, and eat it ;)
29 weeks and counting....
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kristin williams says:
Happy B-day Wes Man....love you...you are getting so big & stuff!! See you soon...love kristin:)
(06.13.09 @ 09:25 PM)
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yes, today is my birthday. I am 30 something. UGH! I remember loving that show, years and years ago. Sweet, sweet Gary...anybody feel me ;)
Well I always guessed I would stay in my 20s for some reason.
I do not feel 30 at all. I look at my kids sometimes and wonder when their mother is coming home. Like I get to hang out with them for $5/hour.
I then realize....THEY ARE MINE!
How did time fly by me so fast??
Well a lot has happened in my life and I am so glad to be where I am right at this instant.
I want to thank my mom today for having me!!! I know I was a bear to get out...a pain to live with, and can be a pain now...but I love you.
I am thankful to my husband for everything he does and for being so wonderful and
keeping the kids while I was gone this week to an amazing 3 days of learning and
networking at the
Lighting and Skillset Bootcamp at Cliff's place in NJ.
This year is going to be super....it already has been. I am so excited to work with such amazing and inventive brides this year.
31 is the new 25...and that is that. I am 31 and I am fabulous ;)
Well I always guessed I would stay in my 20s for some reason.
I do not feel 30 at all. I look at my kids sometimes and wonder when their mother is coming home. Like I get to hang out with them for $5/hour.
I then realize....THEY ARE MINE!
How did time fly by me so fast??
Well a lot has happened in my life and I am so glad to be where I am right at this instant.
I want to thank my mom today for having me!!! I know I was a bear to get out...a pain to live with, and can be a pain now...but I love you.
I am thankful to my husband for everything he does and for being so wonderful and
keeping the kids while I was gone this week to an amazing 3 days of learning and
networking at the
Lighting and Skillset Bootcamp at Cliff's place in NJ.
This year is going to be super....it already has been. I am so excited to work with such amazing and inventive brides this year.
31 is the new 25...and that is that. I am 31 and I am fabulous ;)
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YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My guess is 6 lbs 1 oz :) ...ok..I cheated..haha
(08.18.09 @ 10:36 AM)Congrats....Just 1 year ago to the DAY you were shooting our wedding...now you are BLESSED with another blessing!!! :)
(08.31.09 @ 10:46 PM)