36 weeks and almost there!!

The week started out with a Monday late night trip to Labor & Delivery after throwing up a few times and not feeling so great. We thought we'd make sure everything was ok, so we got all hooked up and sure enough nice, steady contractions a minute or so apart. I got the usual look of confusion from the nurse when she asked if I could feel them and I said "Nope!" They monitored me for about an hour and called my Dr. who graciously let me go home and follow up with him the next day if I was still sick. He figured it was the throwing up and being a little dehydrated that caused the contractions. I had an NST appointment at the Perinatolgist the next morning and the contractions had stopped, but baby's heartrate was higher than they liked so I drank some water & it came back down. I still didn't feel great so we went to see Dr. Lunt. He said anytime this week baby Camrie should make her debut. I knew this would happen just when he said I could go back to work!! Oh well how can one argue with 4 months of staying home and still getting a paycheck?? Braxton is so excited & told his teacher on Tues that if he wasn't at pre-school on Wed that meant that his baby sister was here. Well, I let him stay home with me today and teacher Kim was shocked to see me at pre-school graduation tonight still pregnant. A big shout out to Nick and Paige who have been so great to watch the boys while we have run into the hospital. We are so thankful to have them as friends and neighbors - as always, we "owe them big-time!"

Still resting...

So my 1 week of bed rest has officially turned into 4 weeks - much to my dismay, but after my next appointment on Wed. I should be good to 'do anything I want' as my dr. put it. I will be 36 weeks by then, which is usually when I deliver so we will wait and see what happens. I've also been doing Non Stress Tests 2x's a week and so far she does great, they've had to buzz her a few times to wake her up but after that she moves everywhere! We are pretty much ready for her and are so excited to meet and hold her. Tanner points to his belly now and says 'Baby' he also carries his bear around calling it baby. We wonder how he will do with a new baby around since he is such a DADDY's BOY and loves our attention. Tonight Troy and I wrote down our predictions for date, time, weight, etc.... I think May 15, he put May 22.
I've gotten a lot of scrapbooking done the past couple weeks, Braxton's is almost caught up and maybe when Tanner is 5 I'll start his too :) All I can say is thank goodness for DVR and neighbors with a great movie collection. Our receiver & DVR was on the fritz last week, & Troy kindly let the repair guy know that I was in serious need of the DVR & basically we weren't going to wait out the weekend until Monday to get it fixed. So it was working the next day...yay!
I had a couch partner today, Troy has cellulitis in his elbow and is on IV antibiotics. We don't know where it came from but it started to swell the other night & now extends from mid humerus to mid forearm. They drained about 5 ml's of fluid off it today, he's got a high white count and fever. He came home with his elbow bandaged & IV port in the other arm. They cultured it and so far we know 4 colonies have grown (apparently that means it's a pretty bad infection) but we don't know what it is yet. So needless to say we are a pathetic pair...it's not very often we are home together without kids & we can't even take advantage of the opportunity to go do something besides lay on the couch & whine!!