37 Weeks! Full Term!

37 Weeks! Cooper is now 37 weeks old - and he's full term! YEA we made it this far! :)

Last weekend, we didn't do much. We did some major relaxing and it was much needed! Friday night was Stephanie's birthday and we went to Olive Garden with a couple of her friends and it was fun! Saturday and Sunday we slept in pretty late and did some cleaning and grocery shopping, but it was a wonderfully relaxing weekend!

Andrew had county tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday after school, his team won against Speedway on Tuesday and then lost yesterday against Park Tudor. They play again on Saturday, just a regular match, against Ben Davis.

Stephanie has been really busy this week, not home many evenings. She's got lots going on these days! Busy busy girl!

On Tuesday when I saw the doctor, I had the non-stress test on Cooper and he was such a good boy, kicking when he needed to and gave the nurse a good baseline heart beat, which he hadn't done in awhile. The doctor checked me and I found out that I am two cm dialated and so we could possibly go any time, but we hope that Cooper stays in there until next Friday night.

Today the wonderful people that I work with took me out to lunch. We went to Bravo! (my favorite restaurant) for lunch, and they gave me gifts! I cannot wait for Cooper to meet these fine, fine people!

Tim had a DR test today, and I guess it went pretty well, because he was back home before I made it home for this night. He usually stays at DR very late and today he was home early! That's great!

Tomorrow I will go back to the doctor for another non stress test. The rest of the weekend we'll see what happens, I hope we do a bit of cooking and cleaning, but other than that, who knows. It is our last weekend without a little baby around. I'm SO EXCITED for my baby boy to arrive! LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!! Little Cooper James, I love you already and cannot wait to hold you in my arms! :)

36 Weeks

Well, we’ve hit 36 weeks! Only one more week until Cooper is “full term” and two more weeks until we go into the hospital! I will be going into the hospital on the evening of October 2nd, and will be induced on October 3rd.

Last weekend was fun! Erica threw me a baby shower at her house for all of my close friends, I had a great time and hope they all did too! I am such a lucky girl to have such great friends, I wish that everyone could have made it, but for those who did, THANK YOU! We received many goodies from folks at the shower; I’ve got some pictures below.

This week has been pretty good, not a ton going on more than usual. Tim and I met with a potential baby-sitter on Tuesday night, we liked her and we may go with her but hope to do a bit of shopping around before we make our final decision. Wednesday night we made a trip to Sam’s club to pick up a ton of diapers, wipes and a few other things that we needed.

Tonight we are going to a consignment sale at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds; it is called the Indy Kids Consignment Sale. We get to go tonight because we are expecting a baby and they gave us a pass, so exciting! I hope we find several things at good prices!

Andrew has had tennis matches on Tuesday and also one tonight, he won on Tuesday, but the team didn’t. I hope he wins tonight too! GOOD LUCK CHUCK! Stephanie has been pretty busy this week, she had a funny dream about Cooper growing up really fast last night; I hope he doesn’t grow up that fast!

I guess that’s it for this week, Steph’s 20th birthday is tomorrow so we’re all going out to Olive Garden to celebrate! HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!!!

Week 35!!

So this week has been more than eventful, some good and some scary!

Last Friday started it all; I had an ultrasound in addition to my normal non stress test, which tests for how many kicks and movements Cooper does in a certain period of time. The ultrasound went fine as far as I knew, until Tuesday, but we’ll get there in a little bit. The ultrasound technician wanted to make sure before I left that a doctor had reviewed the results, so she reviewed them with one of the doctors and I was able to leave and go to work. The rest of the story comes later.

I learned on Friday night that my cousin Erica had been induced and had her baby Evy! My grandma called to tell me, so 4 babies down, Cooper is all that is left!

Saturday was my family baby shower in Henryville at Grandma’s church. It was lovely! Most everyone attended, Stephanie and Erica rode down with me and we helped decorate as best we can, but I tell you, my mom was on top of it, she and my grandma and brother had about everything done when we arrived an hour early! My mom, she is an amazing lady, spoils me rotten even now. The shower was just great. I had a good time and I hope that everyone else did too. It was so great to see all of the babies, well, minus Evy who was still in the hospital of course! It was my first time to meet Mr. Oliver Matthew Ramsey (my cousin Abby’s baby) and boy was he cute. Finn and Layne were cute as usual; those boys have the funniest faces!! There are a couple of pictures from the shower below. Everyone was so generous at the shower; we got so many nice gifts to help us out with our little man! J Cooper is so fortunate to have such a wonderful family!!!

Sunday came and we were all pretty pooped and pretty much just took the day off. We didn’t leave the house, didn’t even make it to church. We are BAD!!! But it was nice to spend the day relaxing at home. I did laundry and washed all of Cooper’s stuff, getting it ready to put his room together the next day.

Monday was the day we put Cooper’s room together! There are a couple of pictures below, we’ve got everything in his room except for two small tables, both will hold one of the lamps that I repainted, one will also have the baby monitor on it. Other than those though, the room is all setup. I think it looks pretty great in there and I cannot wait to bring him home!!

Tuesday is when the drama starts….. I had my normal Tuesday morning NST (non stress test), and I was supposed to meet with a new different doctor that day as well. So, I arrived for the NST alone, as usually Tim doesn’t go with me to these because these visits are so routine and this way he doesn’t have to miss as much work. Well he was running late so he decided to stop by and meet the new doctor. When he arrived, I was still waiting in the waiting room and I was thrilled to see him. I have learned that going to the doctor the day after a holiday isn’t a great idea, lots of waiting!

Anyway, I had my NST, and Cooper was a busy busy man. He didn’t stop kicking and moving around in the 25+ minutes that we were in for the test. They couldn’t even get a baseline heart rate for the little guy…. Finally they decided that he wasn’t going to calm down and they let me get up and so we headed over to visit with the doctor. The doctor came in after a long wait and told us that I had low amniotic fluid. He seemed very concerned about this and said that there were many options for what we could do, but that he thought that Cooper would come earlier than 38 weeks. This was hard news to hear, I held off the crying until after we left the office, but I was very emotional and cried nearly the entire way to work. Tim decided to leave our expedition at the office and drive me to work because I wasn’t going to be fit enough to drive myself. We scheduled another ultrasound and doctor visit and did that on Wednesday.

Wednesday during our ultrasound, Praise God, there was an excellent amount of fluid. I had a different technician doing the ultrasound this time, and she seemed concerned that she wasn’t finding the same results as the other tech, but she seemed pleased that I had plenty of fluid. When we met with the doctor, he said he was thrilled with the results and didn’t think we had anything to worry about. We are scheduled for another ultrasound next week, just to make sure that everything is ok, but we are also being scheduled to enter the hospital on October 2^nd for preparation for induction which should happen on Saturday morning October 3^rd. Cooper should arrive sometime later that day!

Today was uneventful, thank goodness. It has been a busy week, and I’m so thankful that today was calm! I needed it. Tomorrow I go in for another NST, Saturday is my baby shower at Erica’s house for my Indianapolis friends. It should be fun!

3 weeks & 1 day before we go into the hospital!!!

Week 34!

Week 34! Cooper will arrive in 4-5 weeks! Wow! It won’t be long now! Since I started the twice weekly appointments last week, I’ve had one and the doctor visit and then I have my second Friday along with another ultrasound to measure Cooper’s growth. Tuesday’s appointment was pretty low key – I had the baby monitoring for 15 minutes or so, which is pretty relaxing and cool to see his heart rate fluctuate and to know that he is doing well and kicking so much even with an audience! J The doctor thinks that he’s doing wonderful. I saw Dr. Gates this week, he is a super cool doctor, says that Cooper is measuring really well as far as growth, but is glad we’re doing another ultrasound on Friday just to make sure all is well.

Sleep has become harder this week - I didn't sleep well on Tuesday night or Wednesday night - was sick on Sunday night - so I'm really hoping that I can get a good night's rest tonight! I'm exhausted and being this tired doesn't bode well for working all day long! I'm so glad we do not have many activities tonight - dinner and picking up around the house is probably all I'll do!

Last Friday’s appointment for the baby monitoring went well too, we were in and out quickly – Cooper is a good kicker! I see soccer in his future! (Even if his daddy opposes =] )

Saturday my Dad came up and he and Tim did a lot of trim work around the house – Erica came over and she and I painted the dresser for Cooper’s room and also assembled a side table to sit beside the rocking chair. Erica got a coat of paint on that as well. That morning I went down to the south side of town to buy the breast pump from my friend Shannon (Thanks Shan!) and visited with her and Jackson for a little while. That boy is such a cutie, and a squirmy one too! Then I went to Andrew’s tennis tourney to check in on him, back home to go and fetch supplies for Dad and Tim, as well as get everyone lunch. I came home to eat then to Andrew’s second match. It was a super super busy day that day! Dad stayed until around 10pm and we finally made him make his trek home for the night!


Sunday Tim and I went to church and when we arrived home, it was to a crowd of neighbors and family and friends to surprise me with a baby shower! Stephanie put the entire thing together, she’s such a sweetheart! We had a great time visiting with everyone and are so thankful to have such great people surrounding us! The remainder of Sunday was spent doing very little except laundry. We were just pooped!


Monday we did our running around town, grocery shopping, haircuts, dropping my ring off at the jewelers for re-dipping and polishing to make it look brand new for when it fits me again! It was a busy night!


Tuesday night Andrew had a tennis match at Lawrence Central, Tim made it for some of the match and I headed home to get dinner going.


Wednesday night was our last child birthing class, so we “graduated” from that and we are glad to have our Wednesday nights free again!

Thursday – Today Andrew goes to Bloomington for another tennis match and that should be a late night for him. Good luck!

Tomorrow is the ultrasound and baby monitoring, Saturday I have my family baby shower and then hopefully some relaxation on Sunday! Busy Busy Busy! Have a great weekend and upcoming week everyone!!!