as of today...

My midwife predicts that Poppy won't be here for a few more weeks, even though I'm at 39 weeks right now. Dave can breath a sigh of relief since he is scheduled to take the MCAT on Jan 27th, which is her due date, but Kat thinks it will be longer then that.

After palpating my belly, Kat also predicts that our "little" girl won't be so little. She thinks she will be around 22 inches and AT LEAST 9 lbs! AHHH!!! When I told Dave, he jokingly said, "Its not too late to go to the hospital and get the drugs!" Ha ha ha, what he doesn't know is that the thought had already crossed my mind!

So I guess we'll see if Kat's years of experience also helps her predict the future!

I am feeling much better these days. Kat has changed my diet, put me on the Brewers diet, which is great for pre eclampsia, and has really been helping. I also did a 3 day magnesium flush with really helped relieve the swelling. My feet look like regular pregnant swelling instead of the gigantic boots I was wearing before. I am supposed to start walking now to help the baby drop, and now that my feet will actually fit into some shoes, I am anxious to start walking and get this baby here!!!

A Family Weekend

Look at this adorable bassinet that my awesome Ya Ya and mother in law made for us. It is a family antique. Ya Ya slept in it when she was a baby. Ya Ya bought all the fabric and had the grand vision for it. Holly was the mad seamstress up all night at the sewing machine. I think it turned out absolutely adorable!!! It is so cute and girly, I just love it and am grateful for these 2 women to put their time and talent into making this little bed. 

       

On a funnier note, this is the biggest burrito any of us have ever seen and to see cute little Ya Ya attempt to eat it was just too funny! Gotta love the portion sizes at Cheesecake Factory!

Dave's dad had a feeling that our little Poppy would be coming today! Unfortunately, now it is 10:30 pm, so I guess today is not the day! Too bad! I was really hoping he was having "grandpa intuition"

I didn't know this was possible

Seriously, this IS my foot. I did not get this picture from the internet or anything. Its 100% me! I gained 8 lbs this week! i'm sure its all water weight! I started getting really swollen yesterday, and today was like, hello feet! I tell Dave I have Renee Zellweger eyes, cause they are seriously starting to disappear, and tranny hands, cause they are so swollen and masculine, it really looks funny when my nails are painted bright pink.

  

I am now at 37 weeks. Poppy is done developing, just getting fatter every day! Her little bum sits right below my ribs and she sticks it out all the time, It used to be really bony and pokey, and now when she sticks it out,  I can feel it is really getting round and fat. SO cute!  She has been face down for about 6 weeks and she ALWAYS stays on the right side of my belly. She gets really active from about 

10ish pm-3ish am. So I am usually awake during that window of time while she gets the ants out of her pants. She has definitely started to drop. He weight is so heavy and putting a lot of pressure on my pelvis.  I talk to her all the time and tell her that we are so excited to have her be in our family and that she   will be so loved and that she can come out whenever she is ready! No need to wait till her due date if she is ready to go! Ha Ha Ha. I'm not sure if I can make it!

                                                   my view, haven't seen my toes in a while

8 months!

These should have been posted 2 weeks ago, when I was at 32 weeks. Oh well,  better late then never.  Kat came and took my vitals yesterday. Everything is pretty much the same as it was last week. I'm just approaching the boarder of the danger zone. It was actually good news to  know that nothing got worse over the week, so hopefully we can keep everything at bay for the next few weeks and everything will be fine.  

    My big ol' belly!




Just another thing to add to my list of beauty marks I've gotten since being pregnant. I am sooooo hot all the time and my body is starting to react to the heat. This is my lovely heat rash (its actually one of the better days in this picture, its not so inflamed). I have it in both inner arms and between my boobs. Between the boobs makes sense, cause there is NO breathing room between those things, but I'm not sure about the arms. I think it gets too hot when I sleep, because I usually sleep with my arms bent. The worst part is that I'm too dang hot to wear a long sleeve shirt to cover it up, so I just walk around looking like a diseased woman.

an update

An update on the pregnancy...My midwife came over last week for my monthly check up. My blood pressure was really high, especially for me. I am usually at a text book 120 over 80, but this time I was 150 over 90. There are times when I can feel my heart beating and I am really short of breath. I am retaining so much water it is starting to be a concern. So Kat put me on magnesium to bring my heart rate down and to flush out some of the extra water. My urine test showed a small amount of protein, the magnesium is to help my kidneys was well. I am basically pre pre-eclamptic. My midwife is overly cautious about my health, which I am grateful for. She came this week and retested everything, and I am still a little higher in everything then I should be, so I am continuing the magnesium and my midwife put me on bed rest! EW! Its only day two and I am going a little crazy already! What am I supposed to do all day? Especially when I'm not really feeling sick. Hopefully after this week of rest, I can get back to everyday life. Poppy is doing great, however! She grew 2 inches in the 6 days between my checkups! 2 inches! I gained 3.5 lbs as well, so she is really packing it on. I remember at Papou's memorial it was mentioned that Papou was a 13 lbs baby, and I am really starting to hope that those particular Murphy genes are not passed down! Ha Ha  I am seeing her move and kick inside me all the time. Its really
alien-ish to see a body part drag across my stomach!  She moves so hard and fast that is shakes my whole belly. She is already head down, so i get lots of kicks in the ribs. Pregnancy is such an adventure!

goldenpallooza comes to an end

My golden birthday has come and gone, but it will always be a memorable one for sure! David spoils me waaay too much, and this year was no exception. I continued to draw my "gift"every day and every day it was a surprise! Among my favorites are (still) the foot rubs! He has no idea how much I love them! My feet ache so much, I couldn't ask for anything more then a foot rub! By the end of the month, he has gotten REALLY good at them! One morning I drew "Dave the poet" he wrote a poem about me and read it to me. It was so sweet and mushy-gushy! It had me in tears.  My new christmas cd is also among my favorites! Of course I can't forget the body pillow, with the snuggly cover, either. This thing is awesome and really helps me sleep better at night. I keep it on my side of the bed, cause if it was in the middle, I would be fighting him for it all night! ha ha  For my actually birthday, Dave brought me breakfast in bed. Actually it was more like brunch in bed ha ha cause all I want to do is sleep these days. French toast made with Texas toast (seriously the best french toast I have ever had!) and turkey sausage with orange juice! My favorite breakfast foods. It was delish! My day was casual, more like dragging,(which included a nap. Thats right I said a nap, even though I woke up around 10, I was ready for a nap by 1 ha ha) and before I knew it Dave was home from school. While I went to the store, Dave cooked me dinner. I don't know why he has been hiding this secret talent of his, but it is time for it to come out! He made us rosemary lemon cornish game hens, artichokes and yummy Italian garlic bread. Every thing was cooked to perfection! It was like I was at a 5 star restaurant. The flavors blended perfectly together. Seriously, soooo good! And for dessert, my absolute favorite, a sonyo from Carrabbas! Layers of brownie cake, chocolate mouse and whipped cream with chocolate sauce drizzled on top. MMMmmmm!  He really out did him self! I choose to stay home for the rest of the night. We watched a movie at home, instead of going out. It was perfect! I felt like a queen being waited on hand and foot. Thanks Boo for such a great birthday and a way fun birthday month!

While I am talking about how awesome Dave is, I might as well keep going. He would probably never tell anyone this, cause he just isn't like that, so I guess that is what wives are for right? To totally brag about their husbands when ever they get the chance. Despite his little freak out right after blocks, Dave is doing awesome at school! He is going to pass all his classes! Which we are finding out is not the case for most of his classmates. Many of them are going to have to remediate a class or two. These classes are tough, and Dave makes it look easy! He just told me that in Anatomy, he only missed 3 or 4 questions on the final! That is pretty amazing in and of itself, but then he told me that there were only 6 people in the entire class that even passed the test, and of course he is one of them! Dang boy! So proud of my man!

After re-reading this post, I realize that when Dave reads this he is going to get a big head about how awesome he is, as we can't have that now can we? Ha Ha, so to include a minor and freaking funny detail I left out earlier, Dave practically burt the house down while cooking my birthday dinner! Ha Ha Seriously I had to evacuate the premises because the smoke was SO thick I could NOT breath. He had steamed one artichoke and just put the second one in. He didn't check to see if there was enough water left in the bottom pan for the second one, and unfortunately there wasn't.  He just plopped it in and went on cooking. He was putting a few things away in the fridge and in 2 seconds it was pure smoke in the kitchen. The pan basically started cooking itself. Ha Ha Ha Ha. It was the funkiest smell ever! Burnt artichoke with teflon. Ha Ha. We opened every window and door and took the pan outside. We were coughing so hard cause the smoke was so thick. Fire alarms were going off like crazy and our neighbor even came to check on us it was so bad. The bottom off the pan was bubbling and completely ruined.  The smell was not going away and there was no saving the pan. I didn't want to be eating the bottom of the pan for the next few meals. Ha Ha. Man+Kitchen=Adventure=Yummy food despite the adventure!!! Ha Ha. Still proud of him though, and he is still just as awesome!

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Well, another weird and annoying side effect of being pregnant has been discovered. I have started SNORING! I'm not talking about a little snort hear or there. I mean full blown, wake my self up 20 times  a night, sounds that could wake the dead, need to get breathing strips, I think I am taking after my dad cause you can hear me through out the house, I am so embarrassed I can't even believe I am writing about this, snoring!  I have never snored in my life! Maybe the occasional cute little girl snore would come our every now and then, but that is not what is happening now. I really think its because of all the extra fat I have on my neck and chest (you know all big fat dudes snore!)  Poor Dave wakes me up every night to get me to stop or to roll over, but as you can see in the video, I even snore on my side ha ha ha ha so there is no rolling me over to get me to stop! I am snoring like an old grandpa! Dave has heard me snore while he is in the other room studying, with both doors closed. He was in the other room when he heard me the other day and decided to get it on video. I do sleep with a fan blowing on my face and unfortunately you will hear the fan in the video. Just imagine how loud it would be without the fan!