Another change hopefully the last...

I got a call yesterday saying that my surgery time is now Monday at 7:30am so we have to be at the hospital at 5:30am so we will need to leave our house at 4:45am! I think I liked 2:30pm much better but I didn't get a choice. :o) At least it is still with my own doctor. :o)

Change in Plans

I got a call today saying that one of the c-sections cancelled and so I get to have my own doctor do it now and at Chandler Regional Hospital on Feb. 1st at 2:30pm instead! YEAH!!!

The only bummer is that the other hospital was newer, nicer and both kids could see the baby since they lifted the kid restriction but it was way further away. I'll stick with Dr. Carrion and love to do all of my follow up with my own doctor who I've been seeing for the past 8.5 months here in Maricopa! YEAH!!!

Quick quick update

Went to the doctor today and unfortunately she was somewhat rude and in a hurry, hopefully she was just having a busy stressed day and it was a bad first impression. I so wish my own doctor could do the surgery!!! boo hoo New doctor told me she wouldn't do the c-section on Monday unless I went back to the specialist and had another fancy ultrasound today or tomorrow even though they did an ultrasound at their clinic so I had to hurry and call and luckily Fetal Women Center worked me in today. I personally think it was a waste of $1200 bucks.

Baby Sophia's blood was even better she is only MILDLY ANEMIC at this point which is fabulous! She weights 7 lbs 14 ounces already! Little chubby girl :o) She is in the 84.2% overall for her age of babies....her belly measures in the 98% and her head is 79% so she has a big belly to match her cheeks I guess. :o) At 37 weeks and 3 days the perintologist told me she would probably be over 9 lbs if she went full term.

No pictures because yesterday she flipped and is now BREECH! Yes I felt it yesterday and thought good grief what is this baby doing to me. lol I guess after being head down for several weeks she decided to get comfy so luckily I was scheduled a c-section or would be having one due to the breech condition. ha ha

Only a few days to go & Thank you!

Only a few days to go before I get to hold this precious baby girl! I'm so excited! So nervous too about my surgery since the last two were terrible but I'm trying to be positive at least I get a darling baby out of it right! :O)

Tomorrow I go meet the doctor who will delivery her unless she can't wait that long...yes every time I move I get contractions and then sometimes even when I'm not moving I'm still getting them about every 20-30 minutes.

I have about 101 things to do before the big day and it is frustrating sometimes that I can't do it all the way I want to and when I want to but I'm being good and laying down. Will has been such a wonderful hubby and has really helped me out with so many things....too many to list and is constantly telling me to SIT OR LAY DOWN! The kids have also been pretty good helpers and pick up everything I drop or need to be picked up because it's so hard to bend over these days. :o)

I feel like this is my first baby and that everything needs to be perfect for some silly reason probably because she's our miracle baby and more than likely our final baby. We feel so blessed though to have such a great ward with such great friends! All week long friends have dropped by with treats or baby gifts etc. So many friends/family have offered help with practically everything and have been checking in on us...it is so so so nice. Thank you THANK YOU!!

I'm excited to have my Mom come for a couple of weeks, wish my sister could come but she's got to report the news. I'm so thankful that sweet Sophia has stayed put for so long and that her blood tests have been improving and she should be totally fine.....SOOOOO thankful to Heavenly Father for that!!!

Five days to go...then off to Banner Gateway on Monday, Feb. 1st with surgery start time of 5pm so delivery of baby Sophia probably 5:15pm. Can't wait well maybe cuz it's flying by!!

Feeling crafty, swollen and excited

I started feeling crafty a couple of days ago and so I began with some pastel picture frames that McKenna had in her nursery when she was a baby that I had put in a box to donate to DI found them and painted them black then thought well I should add something and these are the final products to go in baby Sophia's nursery. When she arrives we will take the picture of Calvin & Kenna together out and put her picture in it and then in March we are getting new family pictures and will probably update them all. :o)
Then I decided she needed a picture of Christ in her room so I found one of my frames that I had also in the garage and painted it black and then took white over the top and washed part of it off. The other frame on the outside was light pink and blended in with the wall so I was thinking I would paint it solid black but decided that I liked the pink showing through. This frame is new and has a cute matte and slots for a picture of her every month up to one year old.

Baby Sophia can't come home from the hospital without a head band so I decided to make a few that match some of her tiny little outfits of which I still don't know which she will wear home. :o) I guess it really depends on how big she is....but they were fun and I'll be making a lot more. It's been so long since I made any I almost forgot how. :o) I can't wait to dress her up!!! :o)
I even decided to make her cute little bear that makes all of the sounds of the womb in her crib a bow to match the bedding. I also glued a little bow on the other stuff animal in her crib but you can't see it in this picture.

After working all day and doing crafts all night in a sitting position this is what I got.....a bunch of swelling....mostly in my ankles but it was my calves, feet and toes. I think my skin was stretched as far as it could possibly be stretched and felt like they would pop. I get some swelling daily but this was the worst to date. This swelling didn't happen with the other two kids...probably due to my advance maternal age. ha ha

Only 11 more days to go before I get to hold and kiss our baby girl and I can hardly wait. Iam so excited!!! I love babies!!! Yesterday I started have pretty consistent contractions though and they were pretty hard ones by 3am they were about 5-10 minutes apart and I thought about waking Will up to take me to the hospital but then thought I'd wait a little longer because of the kids and school etc. I finally fell asleep around 4am and then woke up at 5am and couldn't fall back asleep. Luckily the contractions lessened as the morning progressed. I called in sick to work because I was exhausted.

When I went to the doctor this afternoon she told me that no matter what I was going on full bed rest to avoid a rupture again and that I should go straight to the hospital if the contractions are within 10 minutes for more than an hour. I convinced her to start my bed rest on Monday, January 25th so I could finish up some lose ends tomorrow at work.

I also found out today that although my doctor is on call at Chandler Regional Hospital on Feb. 1st and will be delivering babies there all day that the hospital has over booked her with c-section deliveries and unless someone goes early or cancels I will be delivering at Banner Gateway Hospital which is about 20 more miles away from Chandler which was 23 miles away from me already and with a totally different doctor! My doctor Dr. Carrion can only schedule c-sections when she is on call and so I would have to wait too many days for her to do it otherwise. So unless I go early and on a day she is on call she won't delivery baby Sophia dang it. Dr. Baum is the doctor that is scheduled to do it if Dr. Carrion can't and from what I hear she is really nice and good. I like that she got her bachelors degree from BYU also. :o)

(Me last Sunday 1-17-2010 can't tell how big my belly really is)

We are almost done with the nursery and it is looking so darling! I can't wait to hang everything up on the walls and put the finishing touches on then I'll blog about it. SO EXCITED!!!

We Have a DATE.....

Long Awaited Baby Sophia

will join the Wright family

on February 1st, 2010!

That's only 18 days from now and we are so thrilled to finally meet her, kiss her, hold her, smell the sweet smell of a baby, get to know her and fall more in love with this little chubby cheek dolly! :o)

Dinner and a Movie...well kind of..

All week we were looking forward to going to dinner with our friends to celebrate his birthday at The Melting Pot! A place we've never been and had heard so many good things about and how wonderful their cheese & chocolate fondues were. We had 6:30pm reservations for dinner and planned on going to a movie afterwards. Great date night right?

Prior to that I was trying to find out my lab results and ended it up not getting anywhere with my doctor's office. Mind you that they were supposed to tell me on Wednesday so two days later I hadn't heard anything. At about 7pm the doctor that owns the practice called me and said that I needed to go to the Hospital due to lab results on my blood and that I might have the baby over the weekend but that they needed to do a 4D ultrasound Doppler test on the baby first to see her levels.

We weren't about to rush through this wonderful meal experience (don't think you could if you wanted to because you cook your own food in the pot and there are so many courses). I have to admit I probably wasn't the BEST company due to the circumstances and made a few calls even at the table like to my Mom. That same night my Aunt Debbie was airlifted from ShowLow, AZ to St. Joseph's Hospital for emergency back surgery and told she might have bone cancer or a a bone disease. We are praying for her as she had surgery today 5 herniated disks in her back OUCH!

The food was great the company even better and the dessert was awesome!!! We've decided we needed our own melting pot to do this at home...YUMMY! Plus my husband totally looked hot and treated me so kind. :o) He was the one that got out the camera to take pictures at dinner! It was an awesome dinner.

We opted to skip the movie obviously. We went to the hospital to see Dr. Partridge who was on call and at the hospital expecting us but he was delivering a baby so we waited, waited and waited. I spoke to the head nurse who told me that they didn't have the 4D Doppler system even at the hospital and that Fetal Women Center was the only place that did and it was closed til Monday but she asked us to stay because the Dr. wanted to check out the baby. I had good baby movements going on and knew in my heart she was fine, without that Doppler test they couldn't tell me anything anyways so after waiting a little while longer, I told them we were leaving. Will and I had a lot of sugar and he left his insulin at home so we needed to leave anyways.

(not sure why this pic is so small)

So Saturday I was LATE to my own baby shower! I overslept and then had a ton of phone calls regarding my visit to the hospital and my Aunt's condition etc. I took McKenna and her best friend Sierra with me. We drive up to the street and it was packed with cars we had to circle around the block 3 times before I was able to park and then waddle my way to Robyn's house. :o) We walked in and all the cars must have been there for me...30 or more people! I thought it was come and go but everyone was on time except me dang it! :o) I was very embarrassed and humbled by all of their wonderful love and support. We were absolutely spoiled ROTTEN with gifts & yummy food & tons of it and beautiful pink roses with balloons! (I will post seperately because there are more pictures and I took pictures of all of the beautiful gifts we received once we got home) Thank you isn't nearly enough to say to these wonderful friends and family of mine!!! WOW!

I can't seem to get enough pretzels in this pregnancy or ice :o)

Look at all of these gifts can you say spoiled rotten?! More to come about the adorable gifts!

Beautiful family and friends (can you spot Kenna?)

More B E A U T I F UL friends and Family!

I loved the adorable outfits & dresses!! Girls do rock!!! (Hey where'd my big belly go besides the double chin I almost don't look pregnant! lol ha ha)

After the shower my ex-step-mom Sheri and her daughter Anna came over and visited and that was absolutely wonderful! I love them so so much! It was so great to visit with them for so long too!

We then had more company and then Calvin wanted to use his McDonald's gift card from Christmas to buy us dinner and wanted to spend his Walmart gift card as well so we went. So sweet! Calvin swiped his card but Will cancelled it and used his for dinner but Calvin did pay for ice creams. Sweet boy!

Unfortunately as the night progressed Will told me he was having kidney stones again. A problem he has had for about 6 years now but it got severe and at 7am he asked me to take him to the hospital after suffering all night. POOR GUY!! So off we went to back to the same hospital where they confirmed his kidney stones and a UTI. He had a rough day. Our friends The Amador's brought us a nice roast dinner over and we ate cake & ice cream for dessert with them as well. SO NICE! Kathy helped me sort through all of the baby items and remove tags etc.

FINALLY TO OUR MOVIE....well kind of....

This morning first thing I called the FWC where I've had all of these fancy ultrasounds and scheduled another one, then called my doctor's office and requested they fax over the order. The ultrasound showed that she was fine and healthy with 156 heart beats per minute, at 6 lbs 6 ounces and in the 74% percentile as far as growth goes. It also showed how cute and chubby she is! Her cheeks crack me up and I can't wait to kiss on them! They said her belly is in the 93.5% so she's trying to compete with my belly I guess. ha ha

(look at these cute chubby cheeks!)

The specialist came in and said that her anemia blood levels were less than last time which is great news! It means that her blood is getting stronger and that my blood (antibody E) isn't destroying her cells like before. Dr. Solomon said she expects this baby's blood to continue to stay where it's at or to get even better! YEAH!!! She said that she would not recommend delivery at 36 weeks as the other specialist Dr. Ponkey suggested with these results. So I began to ask her why they wouldn't give me the shots to help develop her lungs if they are worried about her lungs being developed etc and that if they did the amnio that they want to do at 36 weeks wouldn't that allow my blood to seep into her area and possibly attack her again....she said VERY GOOD POINT! See I knew I didn't want some stupid risky painful amniocentesis done!

Baby Girl Sophia

The tech and I were laughing at how chubby her cheeks were and she opened her eyes and then it looked like she started to cry and she snapped a picture. Poor baby! I explained we loved her cheeks.

And so she calmed back down and fell asleep again. So cute or at least this Momma thinks so. :O)

I'm so thankful that she is ok and they said that I don't need weekly blood work done because it doesn't matter what my blood is doing...I just need weekly Dopplers to test hers. Anyways I go to my regular Dr. Carrion this Wednesday morning and hopefully we can go ahead and schedule the c-section date between 38 -39 weeks (so like Feb 1 or 2nd) as she stated before so it was a great ending to such a wonderful Friday night beginning. :o) This movie (ultrasound) was much better than any of the others we were going to go see!

Baby Girl Update

Went to an ultrasound and doctor's appointment bright and early this morning and this baby girl is 5 lbs 12 oz already at 34.5 weeks! She was moving around and doing well according to the ultrasound but boy was she making mad faces anytime they scanned over her head. :o) The lab results with the crucial blood work which pretty much determines everything was not in yet and will take another 1-2 days so this little girl stays put. My doctor said she would call me with them.

My doctor who is very nice and whom I really like said because I am basically "refusing" the amnio that they will not schedule the c-section until 38 weeks because she has to follow the specialists instructions. So I said isn't that better for her anyways?! :o) The weird part is this....they won't give me steroid shots to help develop her lungs because I'm more than 34 weeks and they won't stop labor either....the specialists wants my doctor to perform an amnio at 36 weeks to see if her lungs are developed and if so do the c-section same day if they aren't developed enough then wait one week and do c-section. So why not schedule it at 37 weeks without a risky and painful amnio? But they will NOT schedule the c-section before 38 weeks without an amnio in case the lungs AREN'T developed. Am I the only one that doesn't think that makes any sense????

If the blood work comes back elevated at all they won't care about her lungs and will do the c-section immediately anyways so what's the difference??? They will continue to perform weekly blood work on me and weekly ultrasounds on her. So basically I don't know a thing. I just keep taking my iron supplements and eating as much iron to try and get rid of the anemia we both have.

So we are hoping that this baby girl will be born Feb. 1 or 2 instead of anytime in January and if the ultrasounds are anywhere near correct on her weight she will be an 8 plus pound baby even being 2 weeks early! :o)

Still undecided on her name.....terrible I know! I was praying though one evening a couple of weeks ago and Chanell popped into my head and I really like that name also so basically I can't decide and everyone has an opinion in my immediate family also. We'll know for sure when we see her or at least before we leave the hospital. :O)

How I Feel....LOL

Out with 2009 and In with 2010

If this is blurry to you...you might have had a little too much sparkling cider last night! :o)

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! I can't believe it is already 2010 time surely flies! 2009 was an overall good year for our family and we have been very blessed! Here's a brief run down of 2009....

Will

Continues to be extremely busy doing real estate, bpo's (broker price opinions which is basically a mini appraisal for banks prior to foreclosure on a house), REO's repo'd houses, Short Sales as he is an expert in this field and working with investors. He is always adjusting to this ever changing economy and market. He puts his family first in every way and we truly love and appreciate him! With the exception of his busted hand and wrist he has had a healthy year and that is great for a diabetic. He loves hunting but seemed to be a little too busy to do much of it in 2009 but is starting 2010 off doing what he loves hunting javalina! I hope he gets one today so he can finish sanding the crib and start all of the painting for this baby. :o)

McKenna

Continues to grow everyday and is 5 foot 4 inches tall at 11.5 years old. She is a wonderful and caring girl! Her church teachers, leaders and school teachers always tell me what a nice and good girl she is...and we are so proud of her. She is becoming a great little baker and cook! She's in 6th grade already and doing very well in school! She kept busy with volleyball, 4H sewing and ceramics class and piano off and on. She is extremely excited to finally get the baby sister she has wanted since she was 3 years old and I know will be a great help.

Calvin

Also continues to grow everyday and for some reason I can't recall his height but he is over 4 feet tall I think right at 4.5 feet tall. He is a typical little boy always wants to play, ride his scooter, play his DS, loves music, dancing especially break dancing and singing but most of all this little boy LOVES to do anything and everything with his Daddy! He only wants to eat what his Dad eats, he wants to go everywhere with his Dad and loves hunting with his Dad and will walk for 8-9 miles without complaint tracking! Calvin is in 2nd grade and is doing well. He still plays piano and is doing some 4H. In 2010 he wants to do some football and karate. He too is excited for a baby sister although he would have preferred a brother.

Me

I received a promotion at the school district and continue to work full time. It keeps me extremely busy and sometimes stressed with all of the responsibilities, but I'm so grateful to have a job where I don't have to commute more than 3 miles a day. I'm still loving the whole blog thing and am grateful it counts as my journal which I was NEVER good at. 2009 was a miracle year for me personally with the blessing of this pregnancy! I love being a Mommy and love babies did I mention that I love babies?!!! We were ready to submit all of our paperwork to LDS Family Services to adopt when I found out I was expecting. Although this pregnancy has been a bit of a struggle, it is also a huge blessing and miracle that we are so excited for! We have a wonderful family, extended family, ward family and many wonderful friends we consider family that have made a big impact in our lives. We feel truly blessed to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and appreciate all of it's teachings that Family Comes First and that Families are Forever! Without God our Heavenly Father, his beloved son our Saviour Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost...2009 wouldn't have been possible, we love them and know that they bless our lives daily and pray they continue to bless each of us in 2010!

From our Family to Yours....

2010 brings our family a new year of opportunities and a brand new baby girl that we have longed many years for!

We anticipate on 2010 being a great year and we wish each of you a JOYOUS and PROSPEROUS 2010!

Let's make it a great!!!