Month: January 2010

So I had a routine doctor’s appointment today. She decided that since Jillian came early she should check the baby with an ultrasound. We were not supposed to have one for 2 weeks so Adrian wasn’t with me. 🙁

Well it turns out that the baby has a new due date of February 7th and not the 19th. Gosh, I’m not ready at all. Less than a month away. How will I ever survive? I know that millions of women do it with 2 under 2 but it’s still scary! I even have a plethora of support at home since we’re living with my parents.

The doctor also informed me that the baby is not head down like she should be but is in a Transverse Lie. Which means that she is laying sideways with her head on my right side and her butt on my left.  This explains why I have been having trouble sleeping. I can’t get comfortable with the baby in a strange position. If she doesn’t flip I’ll be having a C-section. This is another thing I’m scared of! I hated the recovery part of giving birth and now I may have to recover from surgery. AGHHH! Thank God I’ll have my mom around all the time. Poor Jillian, It’s a good thing that Adrian is an amazing dad!!! I know that she’ll get the attention she deserves with him around for his 2 weeks paternity leave.

I now have my doctor’s appointments weekly so I’m hoping that next time she will be in the correct position. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

So on New Year’s Day  we wanted to go see the snow! This was my last weekend to travel because the baby is due in February. We loaded up the car and Jillian and headed to the snow.

Unfortunately we were not the only ones with this idea 🙁 We hit major traffic at the base of the mountain. Luckily Jillian fell asleep a few minutes into the mountain drive. It took us at least 3 hours to get from the base of the mountain to the cabin. Thank goodness Jillian didn’t wake up until we were almost at the cabin!! So we spent a total of 4 hours in the car at this point. Aghh

When we arrive at the cabin we find that it is occupied. My mom had said that there may be people going up but they never confirmed it with her.  We figured even if they were there, they had said it was only going to be 4 or 5 people. Our cabin can easily accommodate more than that, so we were not worried. Boy were we WRONG! Every inch of space was occupied by someone!  So we decided on playing in the snow, getting dinner, and heading home. Surely no one would be going down the mountain tonight!

Again the joke was on us! The traffic was unbelievable. After sitting for 10 minutes and my pregnancy bladder yelling at me, Adrian decided on turning around and going home via the backside of the mountain. We knew it would take almost as long, but at least we’d be moving.

I think we were in the car for almost 9 hours that day ! My feet had swollen up so much that my toes hurt. I had to sleep with my feet propped up for 2 days.

Here are some pictures of our snow adventure. Jillian was so cute in her snow outfit.  She did not like the gloves (no use of fingers). Adrian and Jillian built a snowman. I loved watching them interact. Next year we’ll be less spontaneous and make sure that we can stay the night (and not go up on a holiday!!)

Our Snow Angel