Thursday: Halloween!
This was my first year ever not dressing up... kind of sad, I know. But I did make Eric take a cheesy picture with me! We set my camera up on a chair outside (I have yet to get a tripod that can hold my beast of camera) and got this! My baby bump is MUCH larger than it appears in this photo. I need to document more with the shirt I made.
After we took this picture, we carved the pumpkin Eric is holding. Well.. Eric carved it. I drew on a face and he did the rest while I watched :) We named him Jack. And we love him.
We got our candy bowl all ready for trick or treaters and watched a hockey game while we waited. and waited... Eric was SO excited to hand out candy and see all the little costumes. Every time he heard something outside he would run to the door and look through the peep hole, but no one would come up to our porch! The poor guy was so sad :( But then... around 7:30, the doorbell finally rang! And Eric was in the bathroom! I got up and handed out candy to a big group of kids while my poor husband was scurrying to get out so he could join in. He made it out in time to see them walking away... Our bell did ring a couple more times that night and each time he enthusiastically jumped up to hand out the candy. It wasn't a total disappointment. He was even super generous and nice to the teenagers who came. After our hockey game was over, we watched Sleepy Hollow (which I've never seen. That Johnny Depp did it again!) and went to bed. I felt it was a successful Halloween for staying home!
Friday: Doctor Appointment
Our usual weekly appointment routine goes like this: We check in, and get called back. We have an ultra sound (one big pro to having a high risk pregnancy!) to check on the baby and then another to check the length of my cervix. Every other week we do a Fetal Fibronectin test (Fetal Fibronectin (Ffn) is a hormone released when labor is coming soon. They say it's like the "glue" that holds the amniotic sac to your uterine lining. The test can tell if this hormone is present, which means that labor could be coming soon. If it's negative, it means you have a 90% chance or more that you won't be going into labor in the next two weeks). After those tests, I have the regular pee in a cup time, blood pressure and weight check. Then, we talk to our doctor about the results of these things, talk about what I've been doing and what we'll continue to do.
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| She's Perfect. |
This week, the baby looked great (she's seriously going to be SO cute!!) and my cervix looked awesome again! When we got in to talk to the doc he let us know that our last Ffn test came back positive.. we've had negative results since I was 26 weeks, so this freaked us out a bit. Like I said, when it's negative, it gives you at least two weeks to breathe easy knowing you won't go into to labor. But when it's positive, all that tells us is that I'm at an even more increased risk to deliver before 36 weeks. No two week timeline, just a higher risk. Which is something we've all kind of expected, but it's still scary. We still have a chance of going full term, even with releasing the hormone, so we're keeping our fingers crossed! We're more on guard now, and with each day brings a little more hope. We want our baby to keep growing inside of me where she should! The doctor did say that if we hadn't have caught my condition when we did and if he didn't put me on the medication he did (which most doctors probably wouldn't have done) then we would have had her by now for sure. We are SO grateful that we chose him and that our sweet girl has been given so much more time to grow. Each day is a blessing.
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| Our family sent us a jogging stroller for our birthdays!! It was the last thing on my list of things I wanted before she got here. Now we have everything we need!!! Yay!!! We're so excited! And I'm extra excited to get running again :) |
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| I found a promo code online and got this nursing cover for free from UdderCovers.com. It's so cute, I can't wait to use it! |
At our appointment, our doc asked if I'd received my flu and whooping cough vaccines. I got the flu vaccine couple of months ago, but haven't really given a lot of thought to the whooping cough one yet. He said that it's extremely important for me, Eric and anyone else who will be coming in contact with the baby to have this vaccine up to date because it's an illness that can be deadly to a little baby. It's more common now that more and more people are choosing to not get vaccinated. So. For people reading this who will be visiting here, or who plan on seeing us when we go to Utah in January, PLEASE get your vaccine! I definitely want people to see her and hold her, but more importantly, I want her to be healthy. Thank you!
Saturday: Eric's Pre-Birthday Celebration!
Since Eric's birthday fell on a Sunday this year (We don't believe in going out or spending money on Sundays) we had to do some fun stuff on Saturday! Earlier in the week, Eric's mom took him shopping and out to get Indian food. Saturday morning, I made him a big breakfast and he spent most of the day watching football. Eric is super into fantasy football and so every game is very important :) Since I couldn't really get up or get out with him, being able to have full control over the TV for just football was heaven to him :)
Through out the day, we were getting texts from our family in Utah saying that my sister was in labor! She's been 5 weeks ahead of me in pregnancy and it's been so much fun! According to my mom, she was a champ. She was a little early, and she had some complications during labor, but now mom and baby are doing really well! We're so excited to have a new niece!! They also let us know that it was snowing.. and it was a beautiful sunny day for us. My gratitude for California has been increased!! I can't believe we'll have a winter with no snow!
Little miss Chloe Lucy Jacobs. 5lbs 12 oz 18.5 in long. And all the weight is in her cheeks ;)
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| Mama and Chloe. |
In the evening, we went on a drive through a canyon right by our house. It was so beautiful and relaxing. Then I broke the rules to take my boy shopping (it was a VERY short trip haha but he got some great stuff) and to dinner. We went to Chili's and had a great time :) Then when we got home, we watched a hockey game (I'm learning to love hockey. It's been a process for me haha). We fell asleep on the couch and it was perfect :)
Sunday: Eric's Birthday!!!!
I love Birthdays :) We woke up and Eric went to church while I stayed home as usual on my couch. I knew I needed to take it extra easy since I was out a little bit the day before, but I still had to wrap his presents! I went with the easiest route and just threw everything in individual bags with tissue paper. I did all of his birthday shopping online and everything came just in time! I made him a birthday sign on our chalk board, and waited for him to get home.
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| Eric got a card in the mail from my brother filled with money :) |
I love him.
He loved the presentation I set up for him when he got home! We ate our leftovers from Chili's for lunch and then he opened his presents. We went and saw the movie "Captain Phillips" a few weeks ago and we both LOVED it. After seeing it, Eric mentions at least once a day how badly he wants to read the book that the movie was based off of. I got it for him, and he was pretty excited about it :) I also got him some cologne that he's been wanting since March.. (Lacoste Blanc, it smells like a dream), some shirts, sports stuff, and gave him one of my famous back/foot massages :) We started reading the book (which is awesome so far) and then FaceTimed with my family so they could see the birthday boy :)
Guys. I don't cook. I've tried.. but I'm not good. If my high school cooking class wasn't graded on participation, I would have failed. But Eric really wants me to learn and he is confident that my creative mind will figure it out! So for his birthday, I did something really special. I made a meal. This is so sad to be confessing, but I'm so proud of myself. haha and it didn't suck! In fact, Eric really liked it, and so did I! Huge confidence boost! Now I will have to venture farther into cooking once this child is here!!
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| I made cheese, spinach cresent rolls. With baked potatoes and a fruit salad :) |
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| Dinner by candle light. I'm romantic. haha |
We ended our night watching Zoolander and snuggled on the couch :)
This weekend was so much fun and it made us both so happy! I asked Eric if he had any special requests of fun things to do for the weekend, and the only thing he asked for was to relax and hang out with his wife :) He got it :)
We're hoping that nothing changes this week, but we'll let y'all know if anything does!
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