I'm Back & With A New Baby!

So I realize that I kind of dropped off the face o the earth for a few days there. I have good reason, I swear! On 12/17, my due date, I went into labor and had my little baby boy! We just got home Saturday afternoon and are getting adjusted to life with 4 boys. I promise to post a birth story and more information in a day or so. Right now I am trying to get caught up on everything. I also have a winner I need to pull and post, is coming shortly. For companies awaiting reviews to be posted, I am working on them and will get them up as soon as possible!

39 Weeks and Still Here

And it doesn't look like he is coming any time soon either. At my appointment this week I was still 2cm dilated (same as last week) but he was no longer engaged. So now he is back to floating around and having a grand old time in there. My bladder has now become a soccer ball and is subject to multiple head butts throughout the day.

It is exactly one week till my due date so I hope this little guy knows that he needs to come out sometime around then. This mama does NOT want to spend Christmas in the hospital! Due to swine flu worries (rolls eyes) there are absolutely no kids allowed in our hospital. I can't even imagine not seeing my boys on Christmas, so I am determined to get him out before then!

So what are your tips for getting labor going on your own? With my first I did about 4 laps around the mall and the next day he was born. However, with two broken toes that really isn't a possibility. Heck I was at the mall for just an hour on Tuesday and the pain was horrible. So what else can I do? What worked for you?

38 Weeks Pregnant with a Broken Toe

Actually, make that 2 broken toes. Because it is not hard enough waddling around here while chasing after 3 rambunctious boys, let's add some broke appendages to the mix. SWEET!

Yesterday evening was going as most evenings normally do around here. Its close to 5 and I am finishing up dinner. The boys are running around and being boys. Josh comes into the kitchen and I hear him chewing on something and it just doesn't sound right. I look down at him and he has a coin in his mouth. For fellow New England folk, you may be familiar with Big Y supermarkets and the coins they hand out. Now I shop at Stop & Shop 99.9% of the time but occasionally run into Big Y for emergency items. Every time I go in they give me one of these darn coins. Well one must have been out on the counter and he grabbed it. He never puts things in his mouth anymore, I mean he's 2.5. I freaked and lunged down at him to get the coin out, which I did. But somehow in the process, I hurt my toes on my right foot.

Initially I was fine. But a minute later the pain started to creep into my toes and slowly increased into excruciating pain. So now I am limping around trying to finish up dinner. I look down and can see that my 2 toes are now turning black and are crazy swollen. The pain gets so bad that I can no longer walk and I am in tears. I honestly have no idea how I hurt it. My only guesses are I smacked it into the floor, but I don't have any recollection of that, or when I lunged I hyper-extended my toes and they cracked.

Lucky for me my brother and sister-in-law live locally and he drove over to bring me to the ER while my husband stayed home with the boys. I wasn't really sure if they could even do anything for a broken toe, but i was in so much pain I figured I better go check. We weren't there too long actually, maybe an hour or so. When I walked I had to tell them that no, I was not in labor, just had some broken toes. No X-Rays were done, obviously since I am pregnant. The PA told me there really isn't anything they can do for a broken toe anyway unless its really deformed or dislocated. She squeezed and bent my toes (OUCH!) to confirm that they were not dislocated and then taped them together for some support. I am to keep off my feet as much as possible (yeah right), keep my foot elevated and ice the toes.

The swelling has gone down today but my toes are killing me. And since it is my right foot, I can't drive so my husband brought our oldest to preschool this morning. I'm trying my best to stay on the couch, but its a lot easier said than done with kids around. What really stinks is we were planning on getting some walking in for me over the next 2 weeks to try and get this baby moving, but that is shot now. I just hope it starts to feel better by the time he arrives.

So that was my excitement from last night. Fun times. :)

A Pregnancy Update

I realized I very rarely talk about my pregnancy here and so I thought that it was time for an update. Here I am, almost 35 weeks along already! I really can't believe how quickly it has gone, well at least once I got past the first 3 months of morning sickness. Feeling good, just tired and large.

I must say, this has been the most difficult of my 3 pregnancies. My pregnancy with the twins was even easier than this. Not because of problems or issues that arose with this pregnancy itself. It has been hard because this is the first time I've been pregnant as a SAHM and let me tell you, taking care of 3 active, rambunctious boys while you are pregnant is NOT easy. No, it is probably the most difficult thing I have ever done. Commuting to work every day was way easier.

Yesterday (November 9) was the first of my now weekly prenatal visits. I still cannot believe I am at the weekly visit point already. I also signed my VBAC consent form yesterday, which was kind of exciting. The labor and delivery of my oldest son went pretty smoothly and I had a fast vaginal birth. With the twins, I was induced at 39 weeks (I wish we waited). The first was born easily but the second was in a bad position and after an attempted internal version, I had a c-section. So now I am going for the VBAC and I am so lucky that my doctor is very much for it and also thinks I will have no problems getting it since I have delivered 2 that way already.

However, they will not induce me due to the previous c-section. So while we will hope that I go into labor before then, they do have to schedule a c-section at 41 weeks, just in case. So if all else fails, I will have a c-section on December 27. Staring in December, you will probably find me doing laps around the mall to try and get things going. The last thing I want is to be in the hospital for Christmas and away from my boys. There are no kids allowed in the hospital at all this year, which stinks, so it would be great if I actually went on or before my due date. Fingers crossed please!

So that is where I am at. If any of you stopping by have had a successful VBAC, I would love to hear about it!

Tomorrow is the big day!

Tomorrow at 2:00pm I have my "BIG" ultrasound! I am 21 weeks so they will do all the measurements and such and try to determine the sex. I am so flippin excited and a little nervous as well. Of course all we hope for is a healthy baby, but as I have 3 boys already I would just love love LOVE a little girl this time around. Of course if it is a little girl, I will have nothing for her. No clothes or anything. We'll just have to wait and see, you'll be hearing from me tomorrow night!

What do YOU think I am having? Leave a comment and let me know!