Beach baby!

Adelaide saw the ocean for the first time and she LOVED it! The sound of the ocean, the humidity, and the warm air was a winning combo as far as she was concerned. Anytime she was fussy, we just took her out on the balconey and she was asleep in almost no time. Ryan and I joked that we will be relocating ocean front asap :-)

You can see all of the photos from our trip here:
Beach trip

Here is one of my favorite pics of me and Ade hanging out on the beach:


We had a great time staying at the Sea Watch Resort with Mike, Briana, and Carter. The trip started with Ade being an angel on the drive down and sleeping without making a peep for the first 110 miles. She drank a little of her bottle, and probably only spent 30 out of 3:30 hours crying. Then, while we were there, she was pleasant and sweet almost the whole time. She had a few crying bouts - her worst was when my Uncle Tommy and his family came to visit her for the first time of course! - but mostly she was like what I imagine a normal baby is like. We still had to hold her the whole time, naturally, but she was a real champ. She came down to the beach two mornings and slept on my chest. We took her to the outlets and shopped with her in the Bjorn, and she was good for over an hour. Going in and out of the air conditioning bothered her, and eventually she would tolerate it no more. We even went to breakfast at the hotel restaurant two mornings and she slept on me while we ate. Another first for Ade - we went to Barefoot Landing and ate at Joe's Crab Shack - it was her first meal out! (Yes, Ade ate too hidden under my Bebe Au Lait.) I had a margarita and ordered food that I could eat without utensils. We also bought a Christmas ornament to commemorate the trip, as is our tradition anytime we travel. One night she slept a 4-hour stretch! Okay, we won't talk about the last night when she didn't want to sleep at all... She ended the trip by sleeping nearly the entire drive home. Whew!

Good job, my sweet beach baby!

Who can sleep?

It is 2:53am. I took one of the pills the dr gave me last week, and I still can't sleep. Sigh.

Updates... (warning: don't read on if you don't want to know disgusting physical details)

• I gave gained about 32lbs now. That's enough, thaks.
• The baby dropped a full station from Thu-Mon to -2. I think she has dropped more since then. I feel like she is going to come out my urethra - ouch, painful bladder!
• I lost my mucus plug yesterday (at least part of it).

Every day I wake up and wonder, "Is today the day?" It has gotten to the point where I look at my work calendar and think, "I don't want to go to that 2pm meeting; I hope I go into labor before then."

I want to have the baby now. Or at least I want to be able to get some sleep! Come on out, Tuna Unit!

Gestating like an elephant

I really don't know how those poor elephants do it. They have to go through 22 months of gestation!
Some updates on my experience...

• I had a scare a few weeks ago with some night-time contractions. Turns out I had a UTI, which can cause contractions. I got to sit on the fetal monitor for a while though as a precaution, and baby was SO busy. She kept trying to keep the monitor off my belly.


• My speech is impaired. Words don't come out of my mouth the way I mean them to. I guess this part of the "Baby Brain"


• I have gained about 22 lbs at this point.


• There is no more room. My ribs hurt SO badly.


• Baby is big enough I can kind of tell where she is at in my belly now. She hates if I poke her.


• I have many nights where I wake up around 4:30am and just can't sleep anymore.


• I had to do a glucose test last week where I drank some sugary lemon-lime water and then they did a blood test. Results were normal.

I have another check-up on Monday, so I hope everything goes well. I think I will schedule another elective ultrasound. I want to see her again!!!