Baby Shower time!

Well, we had our 1st baby shower this weekend and it was AWESOME! Bryan's family threw it and we had a great time. We got lots of great stuff for Baby D...our car seat, a video monitor, lots of blankets, a stroller, bath time supplies, some ADORABLE baby flip flops, the list could go on! We feel much more prepared to bring a child into this world now!!! It's just amazing to me how much stuff one little person requires. Thank God someone invented baby showers!

I also went to the doctor last Friday and apparently I'm a really boring/easy patient because the doctor spent about 30 seconds with me! Things are just chugging along with everything being very normal. I go in a week and 1/2 for the hospital ultrasound to see how big our little man is and then back to the doctor on May 1st. I'll definetly update after that!

So I'm seriously running out of room for my uterus to grow anymore. The top of it is hitting right under my bra and it is SO irritating. It stings and itches like all the time on the left side. Oh, the joys of pregnancy :)

Some good news is that I still have not gotten stretch marks. YAY!!! They run in my family, so I was sure I was going to end up with lots. But, I have been using this lotion from Origins, Precipitation Extra, that my friend Lisa highly suggested. And apparently it's working! Thank you Lisa!!! I know I shouldn't jinx myself though because I have a couple friends that got stretch marks in the final days of their pregnancy. Yikes! I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Well, I guess that's it. Just getting more and more excited as the count down continues!

In the home stretch!

As the days go by Bryan and I are getting more and more EXCITED!!! I just can't believe we will meet our little boy next month! YAY! I have a feeling that the next few weeks are just going to fly by. Since my last post, we went to an all day childbirth preparation class at the hospital I'll be delivering at (Memorial Hermann in the Med Center). It was very informative and got us even more excited for the big day. Now I feel a little more ready to go into this whole labor thing. I know now more than ever that I DEFINETLY want an epidural! We saw videos of au natural child birth and the epidural way and I personally think it's a no brainer. In the class of 9 couples I, however, was the only 1 planning on getting one. I don't know what those other ladies were thinking! And Bryan is VERY grateful I'm getting one as well...he knows I'll be cranky enough with the less intense contractions :)

I've also been contacting other child care options but I think we're gonna stick with the Y by our house. We both felt comfortable with it and it's within our budget. So I feel good that that big decision is settled because it was kinda stressin' me out trying to find the "perfect" place. And we all know where the "perfect" place would be...with me! But that's just not gonna happen yet, so we have to settle for 2nd best.

Well, we went to the doctor on Friday and everything is going great with the pregnancy. Our doctor even gave us an ultrasound (after we kind of begged...what?...we just miss seeing our baby!) It was kind of hard to figure out what everything was b/c the little guy is so scwunched up in there. What I was most interested in seeing was what position he was in. I just never know what I'm feeling...it's it a butt, a knee, a shoulder? I was so excited to learn that he was head down, in launch position. I'm hoping he stays in that way! Bryan, on the other hand, was most interested in finding the part that makes our boy a boy. So the doctor was searching and searching and...finally! The testicles! He even took a picture for Bryan to keep. Good Lord! It was seriously like being in a room with a couple of 12 year old boys...they just loving checking out their "stuff."

The next ultrasound will be in 4 weeks. We'll go back to the hospital and they'll do measurements and figure out how big he is. And since he was measuring large at the last hospital ultrasound, I'm hoping they tell me he's big enough to induce a little early. We'll see!!! I just think it would be great to have him in mid-May...but that's not really my decision :)

I also found out about a month ago that I'm anemic from the pregnancy. I've been taking a perscription iron supplemement that has really helped a lot but I still get super run down sometimes. That's probably just being pregnant though. It's all worth it!

Well, that's all the updates I can think of. More to come!