Anne Visits Her Brother

Anne came to visit her new baby brother tonight. She seems to be taking this all in stride. She knows there is a baby, but we are not sure if she knows we are taking him home at the end of the week. During her visit, she was more interested in eating pizza, apple sauce, cup cakes, cereal, and drinking juice.

Here is the Hero of the story with her new son! Can you believe Jody was carrying around almost an 11 lb baby!

Here is Owen immediately after being weighted and cleaned up. He has barely cried at all so far and seems quite content.

Ahoy Matey! Thar Be a Whale in your Belly!

Owen Stanton Reifenberger finally arrived through a scheduled c-section at 3:19pm today. Mommy and Baby are doing well. You are reading the scale right, Owen tipped in at 10 lbs 12 oz! Even if Jody had attempted a VBAC, we probably would have had a c-section in the end anyway.

Does snow shoveling bring on labor?

Guess not. At least, not so far, but I thought I would give it a try. I'm down to about 23 hours before my c-section is scheduled. I won't give up hope until the last minute, but we're starting to make plans for my stay at the hospital. Not looking forward to that, but definitely excited to meet our baby boy!

New Blinds

Well, we keep having more time to get projects done around the house. Today, Jeff's brother, Matt, was over to help him install our new blinds, which I think look great. Now, all we need is some paint on the walls and it will almost be done in the living and dining rooms.

Yes, I am still here.

As It Stands

Well, I'm still here 6d post due date. I have my next OB appointment tomorrow where they'll do a fetal stress test to check on Baby O. I think he's fine though. Moving around quite a bit still, though there doesn't seem to be much room in there left for him. You'd think he'd want to come out.

I can't actually complain too much though because I feel pretty good overall. I don't have any back pain, my hips just get sore from sleeping on my side, so I have to shift quite a bit at night.

For those of you wondering, it is not safe for me to be induced because I've had a previous c-section. If I do go into labor naturally, they could potentially give pitocin to speed things along if needed. However, I cannot receive any cervical ripening agents as that would increase my risk for uterine rupture.

If Owen decides he doesn't want to come out on his own, I am scheduled for a c-section on Monday at 2pm. So, either way, we'll have him by then for sure.

Still Counting

Well, I'm still here without baby Owen in my arms yet. Jeff and I really made the most of it yesterday though. Anne had daycare, but Jeff had the day off. So we went out to lunch, the bookstore and to see The King's Speech. Great movie, by the way. I highly recommend it. Colin Firth was great. So we had a great day together. We keep thinking, "wow, this might be our last chance to get out before the baby comes", but then another day comes and another opportunity to do something.

I've been trying to stay busy. Today we went back to the Museum of Science with Bethany and Evie, which was great fun as usual. The girls have a great time together and the mom's always enjoy catching up. Tomorrow we'll be going to playgroup in the morning and to pick up the new blinds we ordered for the living room and dining room. I'm pretty excited to get that squared away. I've had just about enough of the white pull down shades. Time to step it up!