33weeks

Well let the countdown begin. We have our official delivery/surgery date: Wednesday December 11th.

. I hope and pray that we are going to make it to that day. I have been having a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions in the last couple of days but so far no bleeding. 

They took me off the Magnesium drip on Monday which was great. That stuff definately works to stop preterm labor but it just made me feel so sleepy and drowsy. 

My parents finally got here from Germany and it was great seeing them again today (for the first time in a year). 

 I'm glad that Micah will finally have some help at home too.

Mom made me (and my two girls) an awesome strawberry hat 

Birthday

Well despite everything that has gone on in the last 24 hours or so I had a great birthday thanks to my husband. 

I started bleeding quite a bit on Friday morning and it continued throughout the day and night. 

Since on Saturday morning I was also having contractions they put me on a magnesium sulfate drip. The good news is that the contractions and bleeding have stopped the bad news is that the magnesium sulfate makes me very foggy and tired. 

Hopefully I will only need to be on it for tel days but I better prefer myself in case my doctors decide to keep me on it until 34 weeks. 

So the good part of the day was my kids bursting into my room early morning yelling "Happy Birthday Mama".

Of course since I was a bit emotional I just started crying. 

But seeing how excited my kids were made me feel a lot better. We unpacked my presents together and my awesome husband made me a great breakfast. I really have the best husbsnd. He has just been so fantastic trough this. 

The rest of the morning and early afternoon we spent relaxing in my room. 

Feeling good tonight. It was a really nice birthday 

32weeks

We are really getting close. Delivery will be around 35 weeks. I had an ultrasound today and everything looks great. The baby weighs about 4.7 lbs which is great. 

I am so ready to meet this baby girl. Trying to keep my self occupied over the next few weeks but I am starting to run out of patients.

Got two great ultrasound pictures. In one of them you can see her profile with the tongue sticking out and in the other one she is trying to put her foot into her mouth 

31 weeks

Day 53 in the hospital!

I can't believe how long I have been here already. But we are finally on the other end of the mountain. 3-4 weeks from now we will get to meet our little baby girl and I just can't wait for that. 

Hopefully everything will go well during my surgery and I won't have to be sedated and intubated for to long. 

I've had a pretty quiet week. Completed my first throw blanket and it turned out pretty well. Thanks to my mother-in-law for sending me awesome yarn. 

I've just ordered a ton of yarn so I can make a huge blanket for my husband.

The only excitement I had this week was loosing my crown from my tooth. Since there is no dentist here in the hospital I thought my husband could just drive me to the dentist to take care of it. 

Well that wasn't the case. The insurance insisted on an ambulance so I got my first ambulance ride ever. I thought it was quite embarrassing but a experience for sure. 

Everything outside looked so pretty. The sunshine, the trees with the yellow leaves, the hills in the background even people and their cars. LOL

I was so tempted to run away and go home since I was so close. 

Being outside made me realize that I miss being home more than I thought. 

I'm trying not to dwell on that to much for now though. Time will go by and soon me and my baby girl will be home and it will be my favorite holiday of them all: Christmas

30 weeks

We have finally made it to 30 weeks. I am so excited and happy about that. 

I am now counting down the weeks till I will meet my little girl. I can not wait to wake up from the surgery and see and hold her. 

My doctor will schedule the surgery next week so then we will have an actual date to look forward to. It will be sometime between week 34-35. 

Obviously that's still quite a ways off but there's a light at the end of the tunnel. 

I've had a few quiet days again with no events. 

Halloween threw a curve ball at me I didn't want. I was waiting all day for my kids to get here so that we could go trick or treating across the unit but of course I started bleeding an hour before they came. So much for that plan. Of course I was confined to bed for the rest of the day. 

For some reason that just really brought me down. 

But the kids were adorable as Dracula and a bat and they didn't care where the candy came from ( daddy ran into the Candy fairy in the hallway)

So it turned out to be a nice afternoon with me and und kids cuddling in my bed, eating candy and watching movies.

There's always next year to be out and about.

My husband did great dressing the kids up. He's been so amazing throughout this journey and I have to say I really believe it has strengthend us and our family. 

Can't wait to get out if here though and continue this journey with him 

Btw I found the time to color my hair :)