It's Almost Time

My due date is officially in 1 month! How fantastic is that?! We are soooo ready to meet little miss Ava Marie!!
After my doctor's appointment on Thurs. Nov 12, the doctor said she will definitely be born no later that Dec. 12th because of my gestational diabetes. So PRAISE THE LORD we know she will be here in less than 4 weeks! As any pregnant woman knows, the last month is the worst and the longest and you can't wait for the baby to be born. You can't sleep, can't get comfortable, you've got cankles and hideous stretch marks, you go to the bathroom what seems like every 30 minutes and you just feel like people look at you and think " What is Shamu doing waddling around here?"
But anyways at the doctors appointment they measured Ava by ultrasound and she is weighing in at about 5lbs 8oz-which is in the 27th percentile. Small but still healthy. Our doctor is not concerned about her small size one bit. He says that it seems that she has more of my genes than Jason's and is just genetically a smaller baby. As long as she is healthy thats perfectly fine with me! Not having to squeeze out another 8 pound baby is A-OK with me :-)
The doctor also checked to see if I was dilated any and I am dilated 1 cm but still not thinned out at all and baby is still very high. I've not had very many contractions but I am hoping I start getting more so that if I do have to be induced that I can have a pretty good head start and not be in labor for 16 hours again like I was with Addison.
Well as we get updates we will continue to post! Hopefully we will be meeting Ava very soon! Please keep our family in your prayers for a happy and healthy rest of the pregnancy and delivery!

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Less than 6 weeks to go!

Saturday marked the 6 week countdown until Ava's due date and that realization really made my stomach tie in knots! I cannot believe that in 6 weeks or less Ava will be here! We are SOOO EXCITED and cannot wait but I still feel like I have a million things to do around the house and such to get ready for her arrival. Hopefully the nesting will kick in real good real soon and I can get the stuff done!

I have been going to the doctor every week for weekly monitoring of Ava to make sure we are both doing good because of the gestational diabetes. Every week we go and they do an ultrasound to check my amniotic fluid and they also do a non stress test (just hooking me up to a fetal heart monitor for 20 minutes to evaluate Ava's heartbeat and to see if I am having any contractions). They measured her a couple of weeks ago and she was almost 4lbs. That was in the 30th percentile for her age but doctor said that was just fine and perfectly healthy. She will get another measurement at around 36 weeks. Her heart rate is looking fantastic according to the heart monitor and the doctor is really pleased at how well we are doing.

I am also going to a nutritionist every week or two so they can keep a good check on my diabetes and blood sugar readings. So far I am just having to take one insulin shot a day at breakfast but its getting harder and harder to control my sugar at random times with just diet. My body is just not doing well with this pregnancy as far as that goes. I go back to the nutritionist Monday and we will see if they up my insulin or just fuss at me for my diet lol. Either way Im fine with it. Less than 6 weeks and this whole diabetes thing will be over with! I am so ready for some REAL food! Like greasy cheeseburgers and fries, brownies and ice cream, and eating anything I want!!! :-)

Also with getting ready for a newborn we are planning Addison's 2nd birthday party and getting ready for Christmas. Addison has decided she wants to have a Yo Gabba Gabba birthday and is getting really excited about it.
We also just had her 2 year pictures made and they turned out AMAZING!!
Click HERE to see them! We were so pleased at how they turned out.

So thats it for now. We are staying extremely busy with baby prep, birthday prep and getting geared up for the holidays! Hope to post again real soon!

4D Ultrasound Pictures of Ava

Our family finally got to see the 4D ultrasound of Miss Ava Marie so now I can post the pictures on the blog. Ava really cooperated and we got some really great pictures and a great DVD.
Today our family came over to watch the DVD and everyone really seemed to enjoy it. It really did give us a glimpse at Ava's personality and to see how beautiful she is!
We are truly truly blessed to have another child to love and adore. I cannot wait to hold my new daughter in my arms!

If you want to see all the pictures please click HERE.

6 month Doctor Appointment

Thursday, August 20th, we had our monthly check up at the OB/GYN. Everything is PERFECT with Ava and myself. This was the first month that they measured my belly and it was actually measuring a week ahead at almost 25 weeks but this is totally normal. With Addison at one visit I may measure a week ahead and go back the next visit and measure right on schedule. Ava's heartbeat is perfect at around 150 bpm. The NP that listened to the heartbeat said miss Ava is a very active little girl and we are gonna have our hands full(she has been since we found out we were pregnant! LOL! *see previous posts!) because every time she would track her down and listen to the heartbeat Ava would move around. It was hilarious!! Ava is a pretty active baby and I love it! Everyone asks if she is more active than Addison was and at this point I think its about the same. Addison was active too.
Speaking of big sister Addison, she got to feel her little sister move the other night and thought it was the neatest thing. Addison just giggled and would say "Again?!" LOL It was so precious!!
We go back in about a month and I will have to do the 1 hour sugar test-YUCK YUCK YUCK!! I am not looking forward to it because with Addison I failed the first sugar test-barely- and then had to go back for the 3 hour test, which turned out just fine. But this appointment is first thing in the morning so HOPEFULLY it will be fine. AND after that appointment in September for my sugar test and regular check up I start going to the doctor EVERY 2 WEEKS!! OH MY GOSH how in the world are we already at that stage in the pregnancy?!! Time has flown by SOOOOO FAST!! We are very excited about meeting Ava face to face and can't wait to see how exciting, crazy, fun, scary, thrilling, and awesome its going to be to have 2 kids in the house!!

23 weeks down 17 to go!

This is me at 23 weeks. Everything is going just great and Ava is very active. She is big enough and kicking hard enough for you to feel on the outside which is very exciting. Jason has got to feel her a few times but usually she quits when he puts his hand on my belly. Typical right? But anyways not a whole lot to tell right now. We go to the doctor on the 20th for our regular monthly check up. Can't wait to hear her heartbeat! Thats my favorite part!

I also wanted to post a picture of me at 25 weeks pregnant with Addison in 2007 to compare.

Its Food Networks Fault

It has become about a nightly ritual for me to turn on The Food Network and watch it as I am getting Addison to sleep. A few nights ago I was watching one of my favorite shows
Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and Guy went to a hot dog place in Connecticut and OH....MY....GOSH!!!! They had THE BEST looking hot dogs I have EVER seen! (Ok so the pregnancy probably had a little bit to do with how good they looked but still...) I was almost drooling over those silly hot dogs I wanted one SOOO BAD! After the show went off and Addison was in bed I told Jason I was driving to Connecticut to get me a hot dog! LOL

Anyways after practically dreaming about the wonderful hot dogs I decided to try to make my own version of the Food Network ones and here is how it turned out:
The wonderful creations have bacon, cheese, mustard, pickles, chili and onions on them. SO YUMMY AND SO VERY MUCH a pregnant girls hot dog! LOL

And either that same night or the next night I got a craving for some No Bake Oatmeal Cookies and they were delish! They were so good that I had to make them again today!
So finally I've had a couple of cravings! This pregnancy has been pretty easy on the cravings and not wanted a whole lot but boy oh boy the hot dogs and cookies sure were GREAT cravings!!