We called his Mom and she was beside herself. Then my Dad to tell them the news. I remember feeling very nervous to tell my father.. I'm his little girl and I didn't know if he would be excited or if he would start lecturing me that I wasn't ready. I was way wrong, he was so happy that he would be a Grandaddy and happy for James and me to be parents.
Pregnancy overall was a great experience for me. In the first trimester I never had any kind of nausea or morning sickness. However I had a constant "icky" feeling that would get worse if I was hungry.. which was most of the time! The worst part I have to say was my heightened sense of smell. I could smell everything, and things that I used to love I hated the smell of.. like my favorite foods, candles, perfumes and soaps. The second trimester was so much better. I basically felt normal. It was awesome watching my belly grow and getting pictures of the baby and of course finding out the sex!! I was 20 weeks along the day we went to find out. It was the most nerve wracking experience waiting in the waiting room at my OB's office. I wanted a girl SO badly!! I was even thinking to myself I might be a little more then bummed if it was a boy. I was thrilled when I found out my wish came true. "See.. there are her girly parts right there." Said the technician doing my sonogram. "REALLY!? Are you sure??" I said as I burst into tears. It felt amazing to know what SHE was and it made me feel instantly closer to the little life growing in my belly. James and I only had a girl named picked out.. so that was a plus! Ada Rayne would be her name and I couldn't wait to start decorating her room.
Start the nesting!! Preparing for a baby is a lot of work.. everyone tells you this.. but BOY is if FUN! I decided instead of painting the walls in her nursery I would get decals. I wanted a nature theme. I found fantastic deals on personalized vinyl decals on Etsy.com. I would order some here an there and every time one arrived I would put it on the walls. We got furniture from James's father and a rocking chair from my parents. All the other decor came from lots of other family and friends at my showers. Here is the finished room.
On to the third trimester.. Ok for me the third trimester had so many ups and downs! I was getting huge and already gained way more weight then I thought I would. It started to take a toll on my hips and I was having really bad pains in my groin and my lower abdomen. I went to a physical therapist and prenatal yoga and did some exercises to strengthen my muscles and ease the pain. Around 32 weeks my Midwife noticed that Ada's head was still at the top of my belly and got a little concerned that she wasn't going to turn down. She told me that technically I had plenty of time but that most babies would have already started making there way around by now. I had a sonogram at a specialist office at 35 weeks.. she was still head up with her foot on her forehead. They were still telling me that she had time, I didn't really worry about it too much.. I tried a few exercises to make her turn, like laying inclined for a while, I did some yoga poses, I even tried playing music at the bottom of my belly. I went to a chiropractor for a few weeks for the Webster technique. Nothing worked! I kept having sonograms over the next month to check her placement but I always knew she was breech.. her head was a big ball in my ribs!! Also she was constantly kicking me in the bladder! :) At 37 weeks I saw the OB at the practice I had been going to. My midwife had to hand me over to her because there was nothing she could really do for me having a breech baby. The doc looked over my file and talked to me about the position of the baby. She told me we could try to do an External Version to turn her. If I didn't do the version I would have to schedule a C-Section a week before my due date because they didn't want me going into labor. She told me I had about a 30% chance of being able to turn the baby and that just wasn't enough to convince me. I already had a bad feeling about it and even though I wanted to go through giving birth to my baby the natural way, I just felt in my gut it would be better for both of us to have the C-Section. So I scheduled my surgery for Wednesday December 16th at 11am. I was super nervous at first about the surgery, I had never even been in the hospital. I read online EVERYTHING I could about Cesarean Sections and I felt very educated on the entire process. This made me feel loads better and I was able to look forward to it without being so scared. In two weeks I would meet my baby!!
Next comes the birth story...
