36 Weeks - August 29th!

Doctor's Update - August 25th

We have moved on to weekly visits with Dr. Pohl. At our visit on August 25th the baby was perfectly fine and his heartbeat was strong. However, Dr. Pohl had suspicions that I might develop preclampsia. He said we will know more next week and there isn't anything I can do about it. My belly was measuring 42 weeks even though I am only 35 weeks!! That was a HUGE increase!

35 Weeks - August 22nd!

Doctor's Update - August 20th

We had our second growth scan on August 20th. They were estimating that Hunter weighs around 6 lbs 12 ounces. Everyone in the office was talking about our "big baby" before we could leave. I told Brian it isn't a good sign when even the nurses are surprised! My belly was measuring 36 weeks and I am almost 35 weeks so that has evened out again. Dr. Pohl wasn't too happy with my blood pressure so he put me on a very low dose of blood pressure medicine and I have to start coming to the office twice a week for non-stress tests on the baby.

Bagwell Family Baby Shower - August 16th

Carole, Fran, Jan and Nicole threw me a baby shower for the family on August 16th.

Bagwell Family Shower

34 Weeks - August 15th!

We forgot to take pictures again on the 15th so these are from the 17th.

Finishing the Nursery - August 9th & 10th

The weekend of August 9th and 10th we spent all day Saturday and all day Sunday working on the nursery and trying to get it done. My parents came over and helped several times because I had a hard time deciding where I wanted the furniture to go so Dad and Brian kept having to move it around. My mom also helped with some of the decorating because she would get mad every time I even thought about getting on the ladder!

Working on the Nursery

Nursery is Complete!

Here are some pictures of the nursery, we'll add some better ones soon but in the meantime enjoy these taken with my iPhone!

Nursery - Hunter's Room!

33 Weeks - August 8th!

Furniture Delivery - August 6th

We were SO excited for Hunter's furniture to finally arrive. We purchased it on May 17th so the wait seemed to be forever!

Furniture Delivery

4D Ultrasound Pictures - August 6th

Here are some of the still shots of the 4D. After our ultrasound we saw Dr. Pohl for our regular visit. What was amazing is the during the ultrasound Hunter was transverse or sideways in my belly. Between the ultrasound and when we saw Dr. Pohl (while we were in the waiting room) Hunter turned head down! We were excited to find out that news and Dr. Pohl was pleased that he was head down. Maybe the caffeine I had on the way to the ultrasound to try to get better pictures helped because in the waiting room Hunter was going crazy. I have had very little caffeine the whole pregnancy so he really reacted to it! My belly was measuring 36 weeks although I was not quite 33 weeks yet. My blood pressure was fine and Hunter's heartbeat sounded great according to Dr. Pohl. He said he still plans to induce between 37 and 39 weeks.

4d Ultrasound

4D Ultrasound - August 6th

Here is the video from our 4D Ultrasound, it's pretty long and she switches back and forth from 2D to 4D a lot. Hunter had his hand in front of his face the whole time and she was trying to get better shots of him!

Working on the Nursery - August 2nd

I guess these aren't technically pictures of us working on the nursery but we were working on organizing and storing all of the "stuff" that we had received for Hunter. It was a daunting task that took many weekends but we are so grateful to have wonderful friends and family who have given us all of the things we need to welcome a new baby!

Working on the Nursery

32 Weeks - August 1st!

31 Weeks - July 25th!

We forgot to actually take pictures on July 25th but here is one from July 28th for my 31 week picture.

Growth Scan - July 23rd

We had our growth scan on July 23rd. I was just shy of 31 weeks and they were estimating that Hunter is about 2 weeks ahead and weighing 4 lbs, 4 ounces. This would be the 72nd percentile. When Dr. Pohl took my belly measurement it was at 35. He decided we will do another growth scan in 3 to 4 weeks and said he plans to induce between 37 and 38 1/2 weeks.

Jennifer & Miss Ellie Baby Shower

Jennifer and Miss Ellie threw me a wonderful baby shower on July 20th for our Oak Hill friends, the McTier family and my other friends!

Jennifer & Miss Ellie Baby Shower

Grandma Crissman Baby Shower - July 19th

Nancy threw us a baby shower and invited all of her friends from church and her reunion group plus a few others. It was a lot of fun and we played some fun games!

Nancy's Baby Shower

30 Weeks - July 18th!

Here is a picture of me at 30 weeks.

Doctor's Update - July 17th

We saw Dr. Pohl on July 17th. The baby's heartbeat was great and my measurement was starting to even out. I was almost 30 weeks and still measuring 32 weeks. Even though it seemed that things were starting to even out Dr. Pohl still wanted to schedule a growth scan (ultrasound) to see how big the baby actually is. We scheduled the growth scan for July 23rd.