Hoping this is the last picture because this is just ridiculous!  We are leaving for an OB appointment this morning, feel like this baby will never come at this point :(

I ordered blinds for baby's room for darkening/privacy... I think they look pretty good!  Now we are just waiting for this little one to arrive :)

Before & After...

Decided to get walking to help things along.  We got 6 inches of snow from the storm yesterday!

My labour started this morning at 4am, we left for the hospital at 7am. Contractions were about 5-7 minutes apart and extremely painful!!  I also had a lot of bloody show.  We get to the hospital and I'm checked and am 3-4cm's dialated. The nurse put me on the monitor and it was picking up my contractions for a while at 6-7 mins apart.  However, after a couple hours I had no cervical change so the decision was to send me home and see if it gets more intense.  After 6 hours of painful contractions they peter out :(  We live 65km's from the hospital so I guess it was better safe than sorry... I don't want this baby coming at home!

Some more belly pics!  Yes I'm still preggers!

The boys and I met up with Grandma & Grandpa for a little afternoon of sledding!

Found a cute fleece bunting outfit at Old Navy and matching sleeper :)

Today I had a Fetal Non-Stress Test (NST) at Labour & Delivery and baby is doing good... she's just quiet! It was neat to watch every movement she made and her little heart just beating away. Of course while I'm there I got a few good thumps and kicks... so much for this baby I *never feel*!!! I was so looking forward to not having any false labor trips to L&D with this pregnancy and still I manage to get up there and there's nothing wrong. It's good to know all is well though of course!

At one point I had a strong braxton hicks and the monitor lost her heartrate and the contraction number climbed from 14 to 31 so Chris could actually see that a monitor picks up those nasty contractions. I think it surprised him a bit that these things are *actually* happening and something can detect them! If you look on the sheet you can see where I had the little contraction (squiggly line) and the heartrate is lost.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Little black squares are fetal movement (as you can see there are some I don't feel).
Little black lines under squares are when I *felt* movement and pushed the button.
Bottom line is baby's heartrate (which should increase with baby's movements).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


Stretch marks from my twin pregnancy over 9 years ago!  I haven't had any stretch marks with this pregnancy though! :)

The boys favourite past time is jumping on Chris. They weren't too impressed in the last picture and were squealing to get away...

What I have packed for going home outfits... guess it will depend on what she fits best!  (Notice I now also have a pink bonnet from Oma!)

Well I finally got my diaper bag packed for the hospital! 

Chris and I have decided to name our daughter after his maternal and paternal grandmothers.  So, her name will be Clara Lena (Lena pronounced "Layna") Heinrich.