A Trip to the Hospital/Baby Update

    I know I have friends and family who want to know all the fun details about baby boy right now, but I didn't really feel like putting everything on facebook for the whole world to see. So I figured I would post the link and direct people here to my blog.
     On Monday morning I went to the Dr. for my weekly appointment and for an ultrasound.  In the ultrasound we learned that the amniotic fluid was really low so the Dr. sent me straight to the hospital to pump some fluids into me to see if that could help to boost my fluids.  A safe level of fluids is somewhere around a 10.  That is safe, not necessarily good. My fluid level was a 4.5.  Pretty Scary.  After being in the hospital all day on Monday on an IV and a heartbeat monitor for the baby, the Dr. came in and checked my fluids again, they still weren't up much so he had me stay the night and then sent me for a high risk ultrasound Tuesday morning.
     Tuesday morning's ultrasound told us that my fluids were up to a 6.79, still not good, but better.  The Dr. decided it would be safest to have me stay one more night and check again in the morning.  By then we would have a better clue as to what was going on.  Wednesday morning my fluids were at a 6.9.  The Dr. consulted with a high risk specialist and determined that it would be safe for me to come home for Thanksgiving and the rest of the weekend.
    It is so nice to be home, I am on bedrest and probably will be for the rest of my pregnancy, but we are willing to do whatever it takes to bring this little guy here safely.  I have to do kick counts twice a day and if anything changes or feels funny at all I am supposed to call my Dr. right away.
     I will go in Monday morning for another ultrasound to see where things are.  There are a lot of factors that will help to determine our next plan of action, but I have complete faith and trust in my Dr. and his decisions.  If my fluids have dropped more, or if the baby is in any sort of distress than we will probably just go straight to delivery.  If they are good then we will keep baby in as long as possible!
    I can honestly say that I am so, so, soooo grateful for modern medicine.  This is the sort of thing that not too long ago would not have been detected and we most likely would have lost the baby.  I am so grateful for my OB Doctor who has helped me to feel confident, safe, and taken care of.  Just knowing that he did a lot of research, consulting, and thinking about me has helped me to feel so good about everything and I know things will be just great.  The nursing and ultrasound staff were amazing as well.  I am really excited to be delivering at that hospital.  I know I will be in good hands.
    Please keep this little guy in your prayers, as of now his heartbeat and his movement is strong and we know that he is safe.  That is the most important thing and I am sure that we are being taken care of right now.  I will be 37 weeks next Tuesday so the plan is to make at least until next Tuesday!

September!

Well...FALL CAME!  Wohoo!  I have decided that I am a huge fan of fall in St. Louis.  The leaves are just perfect here and everything is beautiful.  The weather is also great.  We are still wearing jackets outside instead of heavy coats (that never is a possibility by this point of time in Idaho.)
    September was an amazing month for us.  We seriously got to do so many cool things!  I have been meaning to blog about how awesome September was for awhile, but I just kept forgetting.  So for starters....we got to see THIS GUY (look below)...in Concert!

That's right folks!!!  Michael Buble!  I have been practically obsessed with Michael Buble since I was like 15.  I have always wanted to see him in concert and thanks to some very sweet people who are near and dear to my heart, Joe and I had the opportunity to go to his concert when he came to St. Louis in September.  It was such an awesome experience, and he sounds so good in person.  P.S. did I mention this was my first real concert that I have ever been to where an actual singing star performed!  I know...I know...life dream...fulfilled.  It was great.  Here are some more pictures from our awesome night!

This is us in our seats

The view from our seats

Together by the Michael Buble sign

This was pretty cool...not gonna lie...

On the metro on the way home!

Another great highlight of September was Hudson's birthday!  He turned two years old on the 19th and I cannot believe that he is so big already!  He is such a funny, sassy little two year old.  I just cannot get enough of him.  

     For his birthday I decided to just have a small birthday party with three kids from nursury and a little girl who lives down the street.  I was so proud of myself because I figured we could have a fun pool party and just let the kids all play together outside.  I was so excited!  But...then the Wednesday before the party we learned that the weather was not going to be very condusive to our swimming pools plans.  After thinking and thinking about it for awhile we decided to see if we could find some ball pit balls and fill up the pool downstairs in the basement.  I found some at Once Upon a Child and a big box and Goodwill and so we were really excited.  After spending two days washing the 400 something balls we had aquired we got ready for the party.  

   His party was a great success and I think he had quite a bit of fun just getting to run around a play with the other kids.  He had a bit of a grumpy moment, but I think we'll allow him a bit of crankiness on his birthday.  Here are some fun pictures!

This was Hudson's cake that I made for him.  It was actually pretty easy, and a ton of fun!

Our sweet ball pit.  (We have since found about 500 more balls at some garage sales for really cheap so it is now the ultimate awesome ball pit!)

All of Hudson's friends eating a snack

Hudson was way more interested in the dump truck than he was in eating the cake.  I guess I picked a good cake huh?

Blowing out the candles.

I watched a little girl for a few weeks in September while her mom started a new job.  It was a lot of fun and really good for Hudson to have someone to play with and teach him to be a little more like a typical two year old.  Emmaline is such a sweetie and they look for eachother at church most Sundays.  It is super cute.

Hudson got a sweet Jello Jigglers kit from my mom for his birthday so we made Jello and played with it one afternoon.

Another really amazing thing that we got to do in September was go see a Ram's game!  It was amazing.  Joe was in class one day and his teacher had two Ram's tickets in his shirt pocket, so Joe asked him if  he was going to the game that night and he teacher said "Actually, no.  My wife and I have season passes so we try to give the tickets away when we can't go...are you interested?"  Of course Joe said yes, and so his teacher said he needed to check with the first person he offered them to, but if that person didn't want to go, Joe could have them.  Well, luckily for us, the other person didn't want to go, so we got the tickets!  Our seats were awesome!  We were thirteen rows back from the field.  It was crazy.  The Ram's got slaughtered, but it was still such a great experience to have such amazing seats and actually get to go to a professional football game!  

This is how close we were to the field

Starting to look a little pregnant!  (I know, not a whole lot, but for a lady who never gets very big this is a huge step for me!)

As the players were being introduced

Some really famous football dudes.  The one that the lady is talking to is Marshall Faulk.  He was a very famous player for the Rams some years ago.  Funny story time...a whole bunch of men walked right in front of us looking very proffessional in their best suits.  I turned to the couple sitting next to me and said "do you know who that is that just walked in front of us?" And the guy replied "I think it was Kurt Warner" Being from Idaho, and not the biggest football fan (c'mon I'm a music major...) I gave him a blank stare and said "who's that?"  In which he and his wife both looked at me like I was the craziest person they had ever seen in their lives.  The guy pointed to the hall of fame sign up above the stadium and said "Kurt Warner?  That guy up there..." Turns out his was a great QB for the Rams.  Then the guy's wife said "I just really hope that we get to see Marshall Faulk tonight."  Once again I gave a blank stare and said..."I really don't know football, who is that?" The people then looked out me like I was from outer space, how could I not know about Marshall Faulk!?!?!???  Turns out he is another really famous player for the Rams, and I got to see what he looked like in person!  Lucky me!  p.s.  the couple didn't really talk to me very much after that...

We didn't even have to zoom in to take this picture we were that close!  This is as the Ram's were making their one and only touchdown of the game.  (It was in the last 5 minutes of the 4th quater and most of the stadium was empty by that point.  Except for the fans of the other team...)

Here are some other great highlights of September!

     -I started working in the Family History Library.  It has been a lot of fun, not a lot of action, but fun.  It is wonderful to be able to get some time to be able to do my Family History and get to know a lot more about the many different ways to do Family History.

     -Hudson started going potty on the potty!  He even started telling me when he wanted to go.  We tried putting on underwear, but he kind of freaked out about the whole idea and would have a panic attack every time we tried to put them on.  We decided he probably just wasn't ready yet and we are just content to have him go in the potty when he wants to.  I was honestly amazed that he started taking an interest in it this early!

    -Hudson also got a big boy bed!  Wohoo!  My sister-in-law gave us her little boy's old toddler bed and it is shaped like a racecar!  Hudson loves it.  He got a Cars blanket for his birthday a few days after I took this picture and he is so good about bedtime.  He thinks it is so neat to sleep in his "race car" bed. 

The morning after his first night in his big boy bed!

Loving the new bed!

We started making his bed the very first day he slept in it.  He thinks it is so fun to tuck in the blanket and then put his animals to "sleep."  He always says "tuck, tuck, tuck...goodnight animals!"

Well, I think that about sums up our great month of September!  Hopefully I will be able to update about October and November soon!