Update

Nicole was checked at 10am and was 4 centimeters dilated. Started to get some painful contractions around 11 and went ahead with an epidermal. Epidermal put in 15 minutes ago, just checked again and is 9cm dialated!

8:15 am

At the hospital - dr just came in and broke Nicole's water. Dilated to a 3, contractions are getting bigger but not too bad yet.

39 Weeks!

I had my doctor's appointment today and we scheduled an induction for tomorrow morning. He's going to break my water and hope that will bring on my contrations so we can hopefully have a better chance at a VBAC then continuing to wait and let the baby get bigger and bigger. I'll have Ryan try to keep the blog updated tomorrow with the progress. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers! We are very excited to finally get to meet this little guy!

38 weeks

I had my doctor's appt today and was 2+ cm dialated and 80% effaced so making some progress! We also had an ultrasound and the baby was measuring 7 lbs 13 ozs so a big baby but not as big as i was afraid he was going to be. I have another appointment in a week and since the baby wasn't measuring over 8 lbs they thought i was ok to go another week. So if i don't go into labor before my next appt. i'm thinking then we might pick a date for sometime that week to possibly induce. We'll see! I'm going to try and do lots of walking to see if that might help put me in labor sooner rather than later :).

37 weeks!

I reached 37 weeks on Wednesday and am finally full term, yay! I had my doctor's appointment on Tuesday and it went really well. We had a good discussion around what my options would and I felt much better. I was still measuring a little ahead so we are going to have an ultrasound next week to check on the baby's size so that we can have a better idea of what we're dealing with. I have been about 1 1/2 cent. dialated and 50% effaced for the last two weeks so i'm really hoping i've made more progress by my appointment next week so that i will be favorable for a possible induction the following week if the baby is measuring large and i haven't gone into labor yet. I guess we'll see but send labor vibes my way :). I'm really hoping i can just go into labor on my own sometime soon since it's pretty likely this will be another big baby. Here is a new belly pic.. it's getting pretty big!

Happy Birthday Gavin!!!

We had a great time celebrating with family last weekend and Gavin got lots of great gifts that will keep him entertained this winter and busy while we are preoccupied with the baby! He had so much fun playing with Avrie and did a great job with all of the commotion especially since he decided he didn’t want to take a nap that day. We had his 2 year check up this morning and he is still in the 90-95 % for height and weight and was 31 ½ pounds and 36 ½ inches tall. He is such a big boy now! It just amazes me how much he is saying and how much he actually comprehends what you say and will remember or respond appropriately days or weeks later if you are talking about the same topic. He has developed quite the personality and will definitely let you know his opinion if there is something that he likes or doesn’t like and wants to try and do everything himself if he can. He is quite the little helper and loves helping with laundry, dishes or watching us make dinner. He still loves reading books, dancing, playing with his blocks, legos, dinosaurs and cars and really loves Toy Story 3 and all the characters. He also loves Elmo and Sesame Street so we did an Elmo theme for his birthday and then for his present got him tickets to go see Sesame Street live tomorrow at the Sprint Center. It will be interesting to see how he does. We’re hoping the interaction and songs will keep his attention but we’ll see! He transitioned to his big boy bed after Christmas and so far it’s gone really well. It definitely takes him longer to get situated and fall asleep at night then it did in his crib but once he’s asleep he’s out all night and hasn’t once tried to get out of bed in the middle of the night so that’s good. Enjoy the pictures below from Christmas and his birthday.

34 week update

So I had my doctor’s appointment on Monday and somehow all of the sudden I am measuring 2 weeks ahead! Not sure how that happened since I have been right on track or behind up to this point but they were a little concerned with that and had me do a quick ultrasound to check the size of the baby. From the ultrasound the baby was measuring 10 days ahead which is in the 72nd percentile which the ultrasound tech didn’t think was too abnormal but since I’m hoping for a VBAC it did raise some red flags since it looks like I’m going to have a bigger baby. She said that we will definitely want to keep an eye on the baby’s size and recheck around 38 weeks. If I go into labor before then I’ll be fine but if at 38 weeks it looks like I’m going to have another big baby we will probably have to reevaluate the plan :(. I don’t know what it is about me and big babies but now I’m really hoping I go into labor early so I can hopefully avoid another c-section. I guess only time will tell!! On a positive note, the ultrasound was really quick but she did get a close up of the babies face and switched it to 4D which I have never seen before so we did get a few quick pictures of our little (or should I say big) guy :). I think he looks like Ryan. What do you think???