Baby Update

Well, I don't think I have really even mentioned our new little addition in this blog much at all. It is all so surreal to me. 3 kids in 4 years WHAT? But, I love it more and more each day. There are times I doubt the fact that "all I do" is "just stay home" - sure I take advantage of it way to much, but then again I think of the fact that you know even though the hubby goes to work - he doesn't always work the whole time he is there, right? OK so Michael should get 110% credit for being an amazing husband, father and worker . . . but you see what I am saying :) It made me feel good yesterday when we were traveling behind a school bus and Landon again mentioned that "one day I can ride a bus". He is so wanting to ride a school bus and I can already see the play out of that first ride - through all his excitement, when the door opens and he has to go climb those stairs and sit alone he is not going to be so happy, but let him relish in the idea for now - right? So anyways, he ask me yesterday "Mommy, what are you going to do while I am on the bus?" I said, "Oh, well I will probably watch you get on the bus and make sure you are safe then I will go to work." "Why not home?" he asked. All this to the conclusion that he did not want me to get a job and told me he wanted me to stay at home to take care of everything. How sweet!!!! I know that I am appreciated at home by all of my family, it is just more a personal issue I seem to have :)

So anyways - today is Friday, Feb.27, 2009 - which means that my due date for Baby #3 of April 4th is only 36 days +/- away. Wow - FIVE WEEKS!!!! Where has this time gone. Today was my doctor appointment and let's just say the appointment was for 9:00 and I was in the car by 9:17, so all is going well. I truly am blessed with healthy pregnancies. Sure there always seems to be something that sneaks into each one either during pregnancy or right at the start, but I am SOOO Blessed and thankful for what God has given me. My doctor here is so laid back, almost to laid back sometimes I think but then again I am comparing her to my last doc in town who was more overprotective than a mother to her only child. :) She measured me at 33cm and got a heart rate of around 140 for baby and that is about the extent of it all. So all was well. Next time I go I get lab orders for some routine test Strep or something (I really am stupid when it comes to medical knowledge and terms) as well as a Platelet count test. That is really the only concern with this pregnancy so far is my platelet count has again dropped as it did with Zach, though not with Landon. My other doc made a huge deal out of it and I had to go to a specialist almost every week to have it tested, but the bottom line is that all of my other stats are good and I have almost perfect blood pressure (today's was 117/60 as an example) so it appears that it is simply a case in which during gestation, my platelet's are being otherwise occupied and absorbed by my body (or maybe the babies). But, I asked the doc today ok, so if the counts are still dropping - what are your thoughts. She said if it gets to low it can be a matter of whether or not they will place an epidural, but other than that unless they drop really low, like 50, there really is no medical emergency. So, we shall see - I was at 100 about a month or so ago and with Zach two weeks from his due date I was at 85ish or so.......So anyways, it takes a lot of typing to explain, but all that to say I really am not worried. The possibility of no epidural will be a "great" experience but I am not going to complain because God made us to be able to birth our children and still survive - just means not so much fun of a day for Mike, right?

Oh - I keep almost forgetting - we have had a name picked out since before Christmas, but for those who are still wondering - TYLER WILLIAM - has won our pick. Tyler - because we just like it and Landon and Zach were already taken :) and William is a family name on both sides, so we finally were able to get that in there.

Have a great day! I get to attend a women's conference for the first time at our church starting tonight and really looking forward to it - Hope for the Heart. There are going to be over 500 ladies in attendance - WOW!!! I know I will be blessed!