22 weeks 4 days

I've realized I haven't been posting much- time just seems to get away from me. I have so much to do I don't know what to do with myself. I have finished Delilah's blanket which was a huge relief. I started Tatum's blanket as well as her babybook but have also taken on making her & Delilah matching owls (knitted of course). And my friend Ash asked me to make an owl for her son due in January. Gosh I'm exhausted thinking of it all! LoL But it'll be well worth it :-)

The shopping trip was just about a complete let down. I found a bunch of cute pages for the scrapbook but just about no stickers. So I have to order those online. I found yarn for Tatum's blanket that looks beautiful- and the best part, it was on sale! Then we went to Burling.ton Coa.t Fac.tory to look for some long-sleeved onesies but found absolutely nothing. After that we went to the Hal.lmark store to buy Delilah's Christmas ornament.

I have another appointment in a week from tomorrow and then after that I'll have the follow-up ultrasound. I also called to schedule an elective 3D-4D ultrasound. We did one with Delilah and can't wait to do one with Tatum.

22 weeks

20 weeks 3 days

Nothing much really going on- just waiting for my next appointment and getting excited to go shopping Thursday. Not so much for clothes since we have a bunch of stuff from Delilah (but I do need to check how much long sleeved stuff we have) but for scrapbook stickers for the baby book I'm going to make and yarn for Tatum's blanket. O and letters for her room as well as some wooden somethings to paint stuff on.

Speaking of rooms I am soo excited! Tatum will have her own room!! John and I were talking the other night and he said about a space heater. I wasn't too keen on the idea just because I'd rather have a continuous heat source but I was looking around and they have ones that you can set to a temperature that will turn off once it hits the set temperature. I asked my brother if he would put drywall up, replace the door, seal the other door that goes to our now totally open, unprotected balcony thinger (we'll have to put some sort of heavy duty lock on it), lay down laminate flooring, and also run laminate flooring through the upstairs hall. I hope he can get started soon but he's super busy with work so that's why I asked him now. I'm so excited I get to decorate! I want to do a ladybug theme. I'm thinking a light green for the walls. I won't be buying a bedding set but I do want a ladybug lamp, light switch plate, nightlight, and crib sheets. That's why I'm buying some wooden squares to paint ladybug stuff on for decor.

20 weeks 3 days

19 weeks 6 days

Today was our anatomy scan and prenatal appointment. We were scheduled for 12:30 but got there 10 minutes early and got called back 10 minutes early too. John was in the bathroom so I had to go run and get him before we could go back. When we got back there the tech started right away. The baby was curled up in to a ball and was nestled low down in to my uterus. I was nervous that the tech wouldn't be able to tell what the gender was but he found it. We're having another girl! We are so excited that Delilah will have a sister and I can't wait to pull out all those cute little baby girl clothes we used for Delilah. After our ultrasound we went back out in to the waiting room to wait (ha, go figure) to go back to see the doctor.

He came in shortly after we got settled in to the exam room and went over the ultrasound report. Baby is measuring 11 ounces, and the heartrate was 159 when the dr. listened to it on the doppler. I'm not sure what the tech said the heartbeat was the tech measured it- I thought I heard 149 but I could be wrong. Anyway the dr. also said that the tech couldn't get all the measurements on the heart he wanted so I have to go back for another u/s in 6 weeks. I'm not worried about it though because I know my friend had that problem with her sons and they were just fine.

I asked the dr. about him doing my c-section even if it wasn't on a Friday. He said his OR day was Fridays but said that if he was in town he could do it. Then he asked why and I said I was hoping to have it done on March 17th which is a Thursday. He said he'd have to bump the dr. out that has the OR on Thursdays for a time slot but he didn't think it'd be a problem. So my c-section is scheduled for March 17th with him. At my last appointment the midwife had said that maybe I wouldn't have to take the Glucose Tolerance Test since I'm taking such a high dosage of Metformin and could do some fasting bloodwork. She wanted me to bring it up to the dr. today so I did and thankfully I'm getting out of that test! O I could've kissed the dr. LoL! Something I've been curious about is it was put in the report he did after performing my last c-section was that I wouldn't be a good candidate for a VBAC but it never said why. I asked him today why that was and he said that when he was in there he noticed that the baby never descended in to my pelvis. I guess it's just not built properly. At least with a repeat c-section though I won't have to labor first and I know the date we'll meet our 2nd little princess.

After our appointment we headed home to wait for Delilah to wake up so we could go out to pick out an outfit as a family. We stopped at Boscov's but surprisingly they had nothing I liked. Then we went to Gymboree so I could look there before we went to Bonton. They had the cutest panda bear stuff at Gymboree but I wasn't paying $16.75 for just one onesie. So off to Bonton we went where we found a really cute elephant outfit. John wandered off and found a beanie baby Hello Kitty doll for Delilah so she could have a big sister gift.

Tatum Hannah

Her first outfit!

Delilah n her new Hello Kitty