gtt redo

candace (my favorite nurse) called with news this morning...surprise surprise - i DID NOT pass the glucose challenge screening. so not only do i have to drink the very gross drink again, i have to drink DOUBLE the amount and sit at the hospital for 3 hours...i also have to go on an empty stomach. they will also draw blood three times to check for abnormalities. this will be done on thursday...
i have my appointment with dr. pandipati tomorrow at 10:00am. i am praying for good news for at least this appointment.

eeeee...can't wait!!

scott says to at least let halloween pass us by before i get excited for CHRISTMAS...but this is my blog and i couldn't resist this picture to get me in the spirit:

* update *

i went in yesterday for my doctor's appointment. i first had to drink this really icky glucose drink that tasted like SUPER flat SUPER syrupy orange crush. you not only have to drink this but they give you a time limit (5 minutes!). i was a champ and downed it with a quickness!! then scott and i waited in the waiting area for an hour. they need the time to pass to see how my body reacts to all the sugar. i started to feel pretty sick but passed the time by playing my recent passion on the iphone: solitaire. then miguel called me back and drew my blood (he is always the one who takes my blood...i wince every time i see him...hehee). i get the results monday...

then, it was time to see dr. stewart. we started off with the routine check up stuff: urine sample, weight (i didn't gain a pound during the week where i was beached like a whale...shocking!!), measuring my belly and my favorite...listening to my baby's heartbeat! he said the little guy is a good size just by the measurment of my belly - this is good in my mind in case he decides to come early. then he checked my cervix...the same. he said it's pre-term thinning...some women truck along past their due date with a thinning cervix. others, end up having baby early. if this is the path that they think i'm on, they'll give me a steroid shot that will boost baby's lung development. so, the next step is seeing a perinatal specialist and until then, more bed rest. dr. stewart wanted a second opinion so i have an appointment on tuesday. leaving the appointment yesterday i was pretty bummed...i feel like i am not able to take care of scott, our home and especially our baby. it's been a wave of emotions but i know He is walking with me every step of this journey...

...i'm hoping for good news both monday and tuesday...

so far...

this is what we have for the baby's room so far:

{paint color: devine reef}

{bedding: all creatures great & small...from land of nod. just the quilt & bumper}

{crib: bonavita hudson classic crib}
{side table: sleigh side table...from pottery barn kids in white}* we also ordered my chair & glider from the good night room...couldn't find a picture of it but it's like a little piece of heaven. can't wait to get it.

things yet to purchase:

{dresser/changing table: hemnes dresser...from ikea}
{storage/bookcase: from the land of nod...in white. i'm not sure if the bookcase part of this will work because i've got a TON of books...my hope is that our baby boy will be a reader!}

in a previous post i also said i wanted this for the baby's room. i don't know what exactly i want for decoratives but i really liked this piece. i also want this big silver beaded mirror from ikea that i have been eying for years now...i also need to find drapes and material for a bed skirt. i also had the ambition to make a tree for the room. this task has been put on hold for now...but i do have a vision!!

little memories...

baby boy...

* i LOVE feeling you kick/punch/stretch...i wish i could see your acrobatic moves right now.
* i think it's funny when daddy tries to feel your moves & you immediately stop.
* you've given me a few scares...two prenatal non stress tests. both have told me you are a happy boy...i will try my best to give you the best little home - just stay in my belly a few more months.
* dad & i are having a HARD time to find the perfect name for you. so far, I like: matthew, jacob, max & joshua.
* your brother charlie, likes to keep you warm by wrapping himself around my belly...hope you two get along.
* you are surrounded by an AMAZING community of people that love you already. i can't wait for you to meet each & every one of them. you are one lucky duck!
* you seem to have a little party inside every time i drink juice...especially the super yummy unfiltered apple juice from the pumpkin patch this year.

see you in a few months!! love you beyond words - already.

love,
momma

bed ridden...

today is the first full day of being on bed rest. early wednesday morning at 1:15am i was woken up to sharp abdominal pains. i could barely roll over and i had to concentrate on breathing. first i thought it was gas (tee heeee!) so i went back to bed. this happened again at 2:45am...almost worse than the first time. i was in a lot of pain and i definitely was a bit alarmed but i also was super tired from the lack of sleep from the previous night. i finally fell back asleep and didn't have anymore of those "episodes." with a lot of going back and forth i finally decided to call the doctor and they wanted me to come in for another NST (fetal non-stress test). {i did this one other time because i didn't feel the little guy move around for a few days...turned out, he was just fine!} anyways, i went in and got to hear his little heartbeat again for a good 20 minutes and thought i'd be well on my way home with nothing to worry about. however, dr. stewart wanted to check a few other things and basically found out that my cervix is soft and thinner than he'd like. he also took another test to see if i'd be more susceptible for pre-term labor but thankfully that came back negative. however, for the next week i need to take this bed rest seriously because we don't want this little one to come early...i am as of today, 28 weeks.

needless to say, i am bored. dr. stewart literally wants me horizontal most of the day...my sweet husband cooked me dinner last night and rented me a few movies. i know that the Lord is teaching us something through this...we are on our knees. i was pretty much a wreck when i left the doctor's yesterday afternoon but i feel much more at peace today. i am also so thankful to have the best doctor in town...

{too bad i couldn't be here on bed rest}

i want to own this...

so i actually saw this on miss olivia's blog...and she sent me the link to the blogger who owns this piece: it's the alphabet hanging that i adore...i would love it for our baby's room. i love that it's not so baby-ish and the texture of the piece. so i read the blog and found that it came from this place in canada: bookhou. the link below is the blogger who owns this piece for her nursery...

{via http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/my-room/my-room-sagetoronto-ca-128406}

when i was up in seattle buying the bedding...i came across this piece that i also loved:

{land of nod}

but again, i love the alphabet wood piece from above a bit more only because it can grow with our baby...thoughts are welcome.