33 week update

Well, we have made good progress since the last blog update.  The doctors have been pleased with everything and had a meeting yesterday morning and made the decision to let me go home about 3:00 after my last hour of monitoring.  I hadn't had any bleeding in 3 days and all of the times of monitoring showed no concerns with the baby or my contractions.  So very thankful to sleep in my own bed!  Poor Mitch has been sleeping on a fold out chair next to my bed since last Tuesday when we were admitted. What a good daddy and husband to want to stay close even when it's uncomfortable.  Our family has been great about taking turns spending time with me in the hospital so that Mitch could keep working.  I will be on bedrest at home with permission to leave the house for Drs appts.  At least I will be at home where I can boss people around and still get the nursery ready :) The doctors don't want me to return to work, which is difficult for me to wrap my mind around.  I have been at Huerter Ortho for almost 17 years and had planned to work up until the baby arrived, then quit to stay home with him.  But, it seems that I'm going to be done even sooner.  I had pictured my last day at work, after so many years, being different than the way it was!  It will be an adjustment for sure!

We are so grateful for the care we received while at the hospital and thanks again for all of the texts, emails, visits, prayers  and food from friends and family.  It encouraged us so much!  Here are a few pictures from our last week at OPR.  So thankful to have made it to 33 weeks with this little guy content to still be inside!!

I had planned on having lunch with my mom and sisters last Friday to celebrate Mother's Day.  So, they decided to bring lunch to me so we could still have our celebration.  They picked up Fazoli's and we ate and exchanged presents.  Mother's Day has gotten harder for me each year of our infertility.  It was so wonderful to be able to really celebrate it this year!

 On Mother's Day the nurses and doctors were all very sweet to wish me a Happy Mother's Day.  My parents had taken Mary Lu to lunch and stopped by for a quick visit after lunch.  Mitch went to church and then had lunch with his mom at Panera.

For dinner Mitch let me pick a restaurant and I called in an order to Bo Ling's.  He came back with dinner, a flameless candle and a card that of course made me cry!  It was a special time for me and a nice treat to have a candle lit dinner.

I'm already so thankful to be this little guy's mommy!

This is a picture of our last dinner at the hospital.  We knew the doctors were planning to make a plan Wednesday morning and Mitch was allowed 1 complimentary meal during our stay.  We decided tonight was the night.  We both ordered the KC Strip dinner and it was a really good steak, considering it came from a hospital cafeteria :)

 This is the progress I've made on the baby blanket since my crochet lesson on Friday.

 Here's a picture of monitor that I've been hooked up to during my stay.  We were able to watch his heart rate in the blue section and the yellow line was tracking any contractions.  He didn't like the monitors being hooked up.  He doesn't like sharing his space.  So, he spent alot of the time kicking the monitors which got his heart rate going for sure!