It's time...

JuliaElizabeth has arrived! Born 4/10/12 at 1552 weighing in at 5 pounds 6 ounces! 19 inches (they measured length twice because 19 inches is long for a baby who is 35 weeks and 5 days!)
This is how it went down..
I went in for my weekly check up after a horrible night of contracting and coughing and what little sleep I did get I kept having dreams of an IUFD. urgh. On the NST after taking as much medicine as I could I was still contracting every 7 minutes. Of course my doctor was like "ok Megan, it's time". and I of course said "no thanks, this is a bad week for me. You see, my mom gets in tomorrow and Alex's nanny is on vacation all week! How about if my uterine scar is thinning on ultrasound I'll give up...if not send me home and I can manage these contractions because they were much worse last night!" So we had ourselves a deal. Off to ultrasound I went and lo and behold my scar was less than half want it measured the week before . :( My ultrasound tech said "Megan, It's time" urgh. So I gave up and went straight over to the hospital....and Julia Elizabeth was born...and she is beautiful.

 I've been doing a lot of thinking in the past week since Julia has been born...I was questioning if I should do this blog post at all..Then I figured there have been SO many people following this pregnancy that I should do one final post...
It's time that I finish up this blog and start diving into my real life.
It's time I stop ignoring the many many people who have reached out to me in the past 2 years.
It's time I start standing up for myself and my children.
It's time I start shaving again on a regular basis :)
It's time I start seeing my life differently...with a whole lot of normalcy.
It's time I start spending some money...because I believe  everyone could use a good therapist and housekeeper.
It's just time....

Easter Egg hunt!

Alex went on an Easter egg hunt today! He loved it! I loved being out of the house! Don't worry, I took extra medication so I wouldn't contract...I had fun even though I'm sure my heart rate was well over 110..The things I wouldn't do for that kid! He loved all the "furry animals" and this is the first year I let him actually touch them...Everything but the Easter bunny...Hopefully We"ll do that next year. The Easter egg hunt showed my what a passive kid Alex is...not a competitive bone in his body. His favorite part of the whole thing was seeing the firetruck...he is obsessed with firetrucks! He had a balloon which got away and he sobbed and sobbed as it floated out of sight. So, Feeling sad for the boy, we walked what seemed a half mile over to get another. The good news? Even after all that walking I still feel pretty darn good!
Alex has had a language explosion in the past month (I've been waiting forever for this). He went from almost no words to well over 20 in the past 2 weeks. I only "count" a word when he 1) says it on his own without prompting 2) is understandable by someone else who is not me. 3) uses it purposefully and appropriately.

2 Weeks?

2 weeks from today! I've been contacting on and off. They have added another medication to get the contractions to stop. So far, so good. It could, however, be "game over" at any point.
They have been paying close attention to my uterine wall and my classical scar. It remains a good thickness.
35 weeks! This means, born today I have a shot of having a take home baby! That's the ultimate goal: No NICU!
There are a lot of ways I've been counting down this pregnancy. One way is obviously in counting down the days and weeks. I also have been getting weekly progesterone injections. I get 20 injections from 16 weeks on. I finished my final one today! Success!
My mom is scheduled to fly in next week with an open ended ticket and the promise not to leave until I have things "under control".
My mom also asks me every week to post a pic of me pregnant. I have not one picture of my pregnant with the twins. So here goes...