01/18/2009, Baby Shower at Jackie's House

Where Braydn will sleep his first few months.... This will be in Mommie and Daddy's room.

My sister had a baby shower for us at her house on Sunday, Jan 18th. Braydn got so many cool things!!! We had a great time and I'm so thankful for all the nice gifts that were given to us. Bear, Braydn, and I, will get lots of good use of these items and we really appreciate all the help! I will post some more pictures from the shower soon. Here are a couple, showing some of the goodies that we received.

1/19/2008, 32 week check up

This is a shot of the crib with the bedding that we got for him.

Here we are, the proud parents-to-be, at 32 1/2 weeks!

We had to include Ame, can't forget about her...she seems to be REAL excited, too! :)

So, today we went for our check up with Dr. Gilliam. It was really an uneventful appointment. We listened to Braydn's heart beat, which sounded great. Dr. Gilliam mashed my tummy to try to figure out his position, and she believes he is headed in the downward position. My blood pressure was good, 112/64. Weight gain is HEALTHY at 4 more pounds since last visit. So we are at a total of 25 lbs. I didn't realize how much bigger we had gotten until I looked at the above photos myself. We have come quite a long way!!!

Thanks for checking in. Our next appointment will be February 2nd. That will be our 34 week visit and then at 36 weeks, we will have another ultrasound to confirm his position.

OH, one more thing. Dr. G says that if we make it 3 more weeks, we are in the clear and she will not stop labor. She said at 35-36 weeks the baby should be fine. She said they won't help me along at that point, but they also won't stop it........

32 weeks, prenatal classes begin...

We started our prenatal classes last night at Parkway Medical Center. As it turns out, one of my good friends, Misty Coker is the instructor. Misty is an RN on the Labor & Delivery floor. So, I think it's great that she will hopefully get to be our nurse! She did a great job last night. We just covered a lot of the basics about the stages of labor and answered lots of questions/concerns that we all had. We will continue the classes over the next 3 Thursday nights. Also, we did have a check-up on January 5th that I never posted on. Everything was fine, we listened to Braydn's heartbeat, still great! Also, checked weight gain, blood pressure, urine, etc. All the usual. Everything is still going well! As of that day, we were up to 21 lbs total weight gain. Our next appointment will be Monday, January 19th. We are currently going for check-ups every 2 weeks. I will post again after our appt Monday to let you all know how things are going. Thanks for checking in and TGIF!!!