Hobie and Mario Meet a Baby

Hobie and Mario met their first baby this week. Baby Lucas visited with his parents and slept the whole time he was here. The cats did not take their eyes off of him. It was pretty funny. They are in for quite a lifestyle change in just a couple months. I am happy that they did not try to touch or bat at the baby.

New Due Date: Feb 7th

It looks like baby Holmes will be a February baby after all. My doctor has changed his due date to be February 7th. Before, the doctors were concerned about his size because he was measuring so small at every appointment. They did not want to change the due date at my last appointment, but after he reviewed all the information, he realized that one of the techs had made a mistake at our first appointment, so the baby has been normal size all along! I am thankful that our baby is growing great!

28 Weeks and Hospital Trip

Baby Holmes had an eventful weekend last weekend, but everything is looking good now. I did most of my Christmas shopping on Saturday morning and wore myself out. I woke up at 2am on Saturday night in a little pain but did not think much of it. After tossing and turning for another hour I got up and tried to make the pains go away by drinking water, sitting on the couch and walking around. I finally realized that these pains were coming in waves from my back to my abdomen and were hardening my belly. I googled to see if maybe it was braxton hicks contractions, but the information I read pointed to labor contractions. By this point I got in the shower to see if that may stop the contractions, it did not. John woke up at this point and started timing them and found that they were between 4 and 2 minutes apart!

We were in no way prepared for any of this so we had to look through tons of papers to even find the doctor's emergency number. We called and waited 10 minutes with no answer! We finally called the hospital to see what they thought we should do and got the "why didn't you come in 2 hours ago! Come straight to ER answer."

We got to the hospital and went to labor and delivery where we were hooked up to the monitor for several hours. The good news is that I was not dilated. The doctors there gave me a shot to stop the contractions and then monitored me for another hour or so. The shot worked and the contractions stopped. They put me on modified bed rest until I could see my doctor on Wed.

My doctor said everything looked good on Wednesday and that I need to take it easy and not do too much at this point in the pregnancy. He also advised that I drink a gallon of water every day! I am glad that everything is looking good!

Nursery closet

We made some little wooden closet organizers to separate the sizes of clothes in the babies closet. John cut out little hangers and we painted them and put little animals to match the room.

26 and 27 week belly pictures

27 Weeks

26 Weeks

The belly is really starting to grow now! Here are my 26 and 27 week belly pictures. I can't believe that he will be here in less than 3 months now!