Baby bump pics

Purple shirt day of the delivery 39 weeks 2 days. Bare belly was around 38 weeks

Today is the DAY!

Baby Hannah today is your birthday day! Mommy is sitting in the living room with your brother Andrew sitting on my lap at 5:43am. They (Ava and Andrew) "sneaked" into my room at 3:30 this morning. They are so excited for your arrival.

Yesterday was super emotional for me. I made the final decision on getting the planned c-section for today. This means I can never have another baby vaginally. I am coming to terms with this and the very real adjustment that I am making today. You will NO LONGER be inside of me. I get to SEE you! I cried a lot yesterday. The anxiety was very bad...not because you will soon join our family, but working through the emotions of my last pregnancy with the triplets and the birth that I missed. I panicked when they were cutting me to have them and I ended up being put to sleep. I don't want to miss your birth.

Once I see your beautiful full term baby face  and cry I'm sure all my anxieties will settle. I can't wait to meet you today. C-section is scheduled for 9:30 this morning. Mommy is going to be REALLY tired since I have hardly slept! Oh and I'm STARVING and can't eat until after you are born! See you soon sweet girl!

4 More Days!

Hard to believe where all this time has gone. Mommy went to the doctor for her 38 week check up yesterday and an ultrasound to see how big you are. You are estimated at 8lbs 11oz!!! Though from my experience you are probably a pound less than that. You are head down, but face up. Mommy considered vaginal delivery, but I have yet to forget the trauma your sister caused being born face up!!! So, unless I go into labor before the 8th we will be delivering you via c section on Tuesday May 8, 2012. Out side of cleaning and organizing we got everything we need for you. Mommy went out and got you a really awesome looking baby swing today. Hope you like it! Daddy and I also finally decided on a name for you. We decided a few days ago, but we are not telling anyone until we announce your birth. Unless something changes in the next 4 days your name will be Hannah Rose Hunter. I hope you like it. It was really hard for us to determine a name for you and has taken MONTHS for us to decide! I will miss you being inside me. You have been by far the easiest pregnancy I have ever had. We will see how the next 2 days go. I can tell you are getting lower and lower in my pelvis and this weekend will be my last 2 days working at LRMC ER. I'm going to miss not working, but trusting in God to make it through this delivery and financially stay afloat. Love you baby Hannah.

35 weeks.

Went to the doctor again this morning. My blood pressure is elevated, but apparently they are not to worried about. I will keep monitoring it at home. We still have not officially decided on a name for you. I have, but daddy has not...we will decide when we see you I guess. The plan for now is to go for a vaginal delivery under "ideal" circumstances if I go into labor before 39 weeks...if not we will plan a scheduled c-section to be scheduled at my 38 week appointment. The tentative birthday for you is May 8th unless you decide to come sooner. I love feeling you move around in there. I will miss you being there once you are out, but can't wait to hold you and see what you look like. I think you have been the easiest pregnancy out of the 3. Love you so much. :-)

34 Weeks

Today you are 34 weeks. The time is getting closer and closer to the time we will meet finally. Your daddy and I are still discussing names. This is way harder than it was with your brothers and sister...and it was pretty hard to come up with 6 names. I just want your name to be beautiful and special. You are moving around a lot. At my last doctor appointment about 2 weeks ago...which I think I forgot to write about they pretty much crushed my dreams of having a "planned" vaginal delivery. I was told since I had a c-section with your brothers that I could either wait to go into natural labor and have a vaginal delivery after c-section or a planned c-section. With you brother Jacob's special needs I feel the need to have some control over when you come. Your sister was induced and delivered vaginally. The triplets were born by a somewhat planned emergency c-section. I was told the morning of 28 weeks gestation that that was the day they would be born before 1 of them was in severe distress and it became a true emergency. I was told they could not induce after c-section deliveries due to risk of a ruptures uterus. So tomorrow I get to the doctor and will hopefully find out when you will be born. I have been thinking about it a lot. I have decided on a planned c-section which they will probably do around 39 weeks which would make your birthday sometime around May 6th which is a Sunday so I assume it will be a little over 39 weeks that you will be born.

Mommy is definitely starting to feel the discomfort of you being in there. I was taken down to 8 hour shifts at my job (currently been working in LRMC ER for 6 years) from 12. Lots of pain and pressure. Feels like I have been exercise and doing squats. Hurts to pick up my legs. I would not trade it for the world. I truly enjoy you being with me all the time. You have healed my heart. You have given me the perfect pregnancy that I craved after the traumatic birth and pregnancy with your brothers. I may not get that perfect delivery that I planned in my head, but I feel that it is safest for both of us to have you born via c-section. I love you and plan on seeing you in about 5 weeks.

30 weeks.

Went to 30 week visit today. We had an ultrasound and a none stress test. You look good and you are moving around alot. I go back again in 2 weeks. We still have not decided on a name for you and I forgot to ask the doctor about a birthing plan due to the shock of a rather large bill I had to pay today at the doctor. I was upset and actually yelled at the doctor. I was embarassed after, but best thing is all is okay and I have to do another 3 hour glucose test next week..not sure if I mentioned that I got a call saying I failed the last 1. This will be the 4th glucose test I have had to do.

29 weeks

So last Friday I called the doctor to ask about fetal movement. You had not moved a lot over the past few days. Mommy listens to your heart beat every day so I knew you had a nice strong heart beat, but just wanted to make sure it was okay not to feel you move that often as long as you had a good strong heart beat. They told me at my 28 week appointment that I should feel you move 10 times an hour. I was not feeling you move more than 6 times a day!

So I went in and long story short they did an ultrasound.  I got to see you yawning and moving around. At that point I was 28 weeks and 5 days. You are nearly 3 pounds now. After the ultrasound I was told everything was fine.

Yesterday we had a really long day of appointments we were driving home last night from Orlando and daddy finally got to feel you kick. He jerked his hand off initially and put it back. You kicked him hard. LOL.