It's Time!

The time is finally here. Can you believe it!?! Its crazy to think just 39 weeks ago we were sitting in shock that we were expecting once again. We are going to officially be a family of 7 by Wednesday night. Crazy! Me with 5 kids? Who would of thunk it! We've been thinking of a few things lately like...

• What this little one is going to weigh, is he going to outweigh the others? Is he going to tip the scales at over 8lbs? Is his newborn clothes going to fit or are we going to have to start out in 0-3mos?? LOL
• What time is he getting here? I vote for about 9:30am tomorrow and Adam says not til 3ish in the afternoon (HE'S CRAZY!) How fast will I go with already being 3cm?
• Who's he gonna look like? I say like Zach, and Im hoping the same temperment!! LOL Zach was such an easy baby besides the terrible jaundice at the beginning and the scare w/ the state tests, well and the reflux but other than that, he was a dream lol
• How is Zach going to take to the new baby? How is he going to do with Adam's mom watching him for a few days...Im sure I will be a total emotional mess when the kids come to visit us in the hospital but I'll try to suck it up the best I can. UGH.

We are set to be induced at 12:01am (tues night/wed am) so the plan is to just relax for the day, rest when I can, go to my doc appt at 2:45p, make dinner, and get the kids to bed, and then try to lay down w/ adam for a few hrs before getting up and heading out. His mom will be here at 11:30pm so we can finish up and head out. We cant check in til 12:01 so we dont get charged for Tuesday. Good thinkin doc!

My next post will be photos and info about baby so make sure you keep in touch! "Piglet" is so excited to come out and see his new family! Thanks to everyone for putting up w/ my prego brains and roller coaster emotions!

We love you all!!

Still Pregnant

Well here I sit....still very large, round, & massive. The whole contractions saga the other day, ended up being from dehydration. Go Figure. Its just a waiting game here. My water broke w/ Zach at 37 weeks, which is this week. I am just waiting for it to happen. I've had a few more "pre-labor" signs....so we'll see what those bring. Baby feels very heavy and out there. It is impossible to get up off the couch, especially from a laying down position. Its quite commical Im sure to most folks, but I dont think its very funny. LOL

We have changed the name....AAAAAGAIN.....but im not going to throw it out there quite just yet. Im thinking maybe we need to just keep it quiet for now, and see what he looks like. We have a few that are on the list now.

My brain cells are gone. I have no memory left. My 4 other kids has sucked the majority of them out of me, and this last baby has taken what was remaining. I cannot remember appts, meetings, dates, days, times, nothing. I feel lost everyday, and sometimes get some place and wonder why I am there. The other day I walked into walmart w/ Zach and stopped as soon as I got in the door and couldnt remember why I was there. I had to stand there for a few, and then call Adam and ask him if he knew why I was there. I think it had dawned on me why I was there, but right now I cant recall why. Hmmm.

Well I will post as soon as I know something more about "piglet"!!

Labor??

So, I've been dealing w/ contractions all day today. Been about 20 mins apart since sometime this am. Nothing to "write home about" but there. I've done laundry, picked up the house, etc, finding things to do to distract myself. Some of you may know, I ended up visiting the dr office on Tues w/ ctx and was checked. I was FT (fingertip) and baby was high, and thick. Okey Dokey. Well, since this is baby #5 and doc didnt want me to deliver at home LOL we were admitted and they were stopped w/ meds since I was just shy of 36 wks according to their dates. I was on bedrest so to speak til the next day, was rechecked in the early morning and was still FT, and we got dismissed late morning. I was told to go to the office at about 230 to be rechecked. I was then 1cm and she could feel the top of baby's head, still thick. She told me I had the go ahead now to deliver and that they wouldnt stop them now. So that was Wednesday.

Here it is Friday. I lost a large amt of plug this am (sorry all you non-children bearing folks for the whole labor talk LOL) and have been losing a fair amt for most of the day. Ive had pressure in my leg sockets most of the day and back aches. Its now 6pm and the ctx are now coming closer and stronger together so I do think this is a good sign. Once I get to about 5 cm I can go from 5-10 in about 20 mins flat and have always pushed twice, so its important that I dont screw around too long at home. I dont feel that they are strong enough yet to go in, and I am not going in to be sent home. Sorry. This is baby #5 and Im not going to look like a doofus and be told, you arent in labor!?! or having contractions?!? what are you thinking?? LOL Especially since I know every single nurse on that floor and have known some of them for at least 13 yrs.

One good thing about popping out a baby this weekend is the doc that has yet to deliver one of our children is on call. See we have 5 doc's in our practice, and we have 4 kids now, which each doc has delivered one of them, except one lady doc that has yet to deliver, and she just so happens to be on call. Perfect. So help me they better never add more staff to that practice!!

Let's just hope that the Easter Bunny brings us a baby this year!!! :) We will update you as soon as we can!

Love My Family to yours!

The name is.....

I think we have finally come up with a name for this little boy. There has been many arguments over what to name him from Lucas to Lucius and Bennett to Desmond (can you tell who wanted what? LOL) but we have decided on.....for the moment anyway.......

Landon Joseph G.


We are going to see the doc every week now, and are just about to 36 wks. I have been told that if I do by chance go into labor before 37 wks they will stop it and not let him arrive til then. I was having a hard time w/ that at first because I am so uncomfortable and so ready for him to be here, but lately, I have been terrified that something will go wrong or that he will not be as healthy as he should be. I have been so blessed to have 4 beautiful, strong, healthy babies, who says this one will be too? Have we taken too many chances for having one more and nothing being wrong with him? This has bothered me since we found out we were expecting once again. I am sure its just that normal feeling that something will be wrong, and Im sure everything will be fine, but that thought is always in the back of your mind that something will not be just right.

As for everything else, he is still measuring ahead, and if he is not here by 39 wks the plan is still to go ahead and induce. We have never had to induce so we'll see how that pans out. The bag is packed, the house is clean, and the baby clothes have been washed. Ive been on my diet for almost a month now, it seems to be going quite well, and I have just fallin back into my old routines like when I was nursing Zach.

Nate has started flag football and baseball this week, and Abbie is doing Zoe thru the Luthern Church. She is debating on quitting gymnastics, and Im not too happy about that at all, but we'll see if it will blow over. She really wants to go for cheerleading come HS and I think she needs to stay in gym until then so she doesnt loose her skills.

For those of you who are not from around here, we are dealing with Tornado Warnings to our south and blizzard warnings to our north....ONLY IN NEBRASKA.....Im so sick of this weather!! We are in for around 3-6 inches starting tonight into tomorrow. ICK. Hopefully this is our last snow fall so we can get some yard work done sometime this year!!!

Hope all is doing well and staying warm or cool depending on where your reading this from!!!

Sending love from my family to yours!!