Thursday, October 16, 2008

My pregnancy and Zach

Well, first Zach turned 1 a few weeks ago. Holy cow! We had a nice party with some friends and he did real well with his cake, after a while haha. Jon had to give him a fork, then he dug in- not that he ate it with the fork though lol. He's so funny. He likes to get in the trash. He usually only tries when Jon's NOT home. He is SUCH a daddy's boy. Prime example: When Jon's home from work, Zach MUST have Jon rock him and sing him to sleep. If I try, doesn't work and he cries and cries. When Jon's not home at bedtime, he goes to sleep just fine for me. He just wants daddy to rock him and sing him to sleep. Lately he's been "helping" Jon outside, as Jon's been trying to get some yardwork done before the snows start. They planted a whole bunch of tulips and daffadils along the walkway to our door. In the backyard, they've cut down a bush and put a lot of the river rock in a corner, so that we can hopefully have a small garden next year. Zach has also started "sharing". He's very good about handing us things when we ask for them, MOST OF THE TIME, and when we're eating, he really wants to give us bites. It's really cute, but sometimes annoying because he'll do it instead of eating his food. He's also kind of picky about eating. He'll eat when he wants to, not when we want him to haha. We're working on that. Other than that, he's just being all around cute, cuddley and fun. Oh yeah, he's become very cuddley, which I love. But, I'm wondering if this is going to stick around or just a phase. I told Jon I think he knows Hannah's coming and he's trying to become lovey dovey now haha.

And for the pregnancy.... ::Sigh:: this pregnancy has been much more difficult than Zach. It's not hard health wise, it's just like I'm dying trying to keep up with Zach and handle a pregnancy at the same time. But it's alright. My diabetes is doing great lately, thank God. I don't think I could handle the stress of it being really bad right now. I'm just ready for it all to be done honestly. I'm 32 1/2 weeks, but my doctors want me delivered by 37 weeks. My current prayer is that she'll come on her own on the 12th or 13th. It'd be perfect timing for us. I feel more comfortable though, as I always feel like if I can make it to 32 weeks, all will be ok even if she comes early.

We met with the doula last night and I feel a little more confident about the VBAC and having her present during labor and delivery. She had a lot of good advice and thoughts. We're also doing a lot of natural induction techniques to convince Hannah that she wants to come sooner than later haha. I've also started having a REALLY weird pain that I need to ask about. I started my BPPs and NSTs this week (biophysical profile/non-stress test) She scored a perfect 10 on the first one. Next one is tomorrow, and I get to take Zach. I'm hoping he'll behave!

Anyway, thats about it!