Welcome Baby Baute

Quinn Elise Baute

August 23, 2011 11:51 pm

7lbs. 15 oz, 21 inches long

Due Date

Yesterday was my due date.

And today I'm still pregnant. I go in tomorrow to talk to the doctor because they scheduled me for an induction Tuesday, and I really don't want to! I don't think 3 days after due date is early enough to force her out. I'm not dilated. I don't want to sit in a hospital bed for hours on end waiting to dilate enough for them to actually start the pitocin and then be in labor. I want to give it time to be more spontaneous. Plus, I'm terrified it will end in a c-section! Wish me luck. I've been a nervous wreck ever since the dr. appointment on Wednesday when they set up the induction. BOO!

Who has 7 meals in the freezer ready to be popped in the oven or simmered for a few minutes???? This girl!!! I just spent 3 hours in the kitchen. I have two bags (well more than 2 servings per bag) of goulash, 1 bag of black bean corn wrap insides, 1 bag of some really yummy beef mix thing to go over rice, a 9x13 lasagna, a spinach cheese breakfast casserole, and some baked ziti. I figure with those and any pizzas, frozen dinners, cereal nights, spaghetti nights, hamburger (Daniel makes that), we've got dinners for at least 2 weeks after baby comes!

We have almost everything we need. We definitely have enough that, if she came today, we'd be fine. I just want to get some bins to organize her stuff in her room, maybe a couple shelves to put cute stuff on, and a bookshelf for her room. Now I just need to pack my hospital bag, and we'd be good to go!

That being said, I am due in 13 days. I don't feel like she is going to come early at all. The doctor did say she has turned head down, so that's awesome, but she hasn't dropped and I'm not dilated or anything like that. I'm quite alright with that. She's still moving up a storm. It's fun to watch my stomach do a little wave as she's adjusting herself, and I laugh when my stomach gets all funny shaped.

Sorry no pics this time. I have a pic of me last week that I took myself in the bathroom mirror, but it isn't too clear. I've wanted to get good pics the last 3 weeks, but Daniel's been making sure he catches up on his sleep before baby arrives apparently. And I have a couple pics of the crib, but they are on the other computer and I'm not rewriting all this!! Maybe I'll get some good pics up here soon. And before you know it, there will be baby pics!!!!

Pictures!

This girl has moved almost nonstop for the last 4 1/2 hours!!! She is definitely still up in my ribs. I'm just praying she makes her way to head down when it's time to come out. 90% of babies do. 

And here are some pictures, if they will finally load:

 This one was at 34 weeks, 1 day. I'm 35 weeks, 4 days today.

 We ordered our diapers this past weekend and got the first order in the mail today. That is 10 newborn sized prefolds, 6 bigger (way bigger than I thought they were going to be) prefolds, 2 newborn sized covers, 3 small covers, and 1 one-sized cover I got for free for ordering the rest. The snappis are what keep the prefolds together so we don't have to use pins. The newborn sized covers say they go up to 15 pounds and the smalls say 16. They look a lot different, but hopefully they will all work for a couple months.

 I've never used one of the prefolds, so I practiced on this stuffed dog. 

At work we designed our own reading club shirts. We got to pick the cutouts from the theme this year. I have a super cute elephant on my sleeve, and then I put the world on my belly! My belly is big enough now that I think it's pretty darn cute.

Getting Bad at Blogging!

Wow, I haven't been on here in forever. I guess that's a good thing, cause it means nothing too exciting has happened. I have just under 5 weeks left until my due date. Don't know why, but I just have a feeling she won't be coming early. She's been in there kicking up a storm, but it's been all in my ribs so I'd say she hasn't dropped at all.
Kelli threw me a baby shower yesterday with my family. It was great! I had fun, the games were fun, the food was AMAZING. I hope everyone who came had a good time too. Next weekend my wonderful friend Michelle is throwing me a shower with some friends. I wish all my friends lived close so everyone could come, but I am sure us local girls will have fun. Then, the following weekend we're having a little shower with Daniel's family after we celebrate his grandma's 92nd birthday.
Hopefully I will have some baby shower pictures to post soon. I didn't have a camera with me. I also don't have the energy to get off the couch right now to take a belly shot. I started washing some baby clothes and blankets and stuff. Aubrey gave me a bunch of clothes Wren has outgrown, so I've washed that stuff plus a few newer things. I still have that horrible fear that the doctor is wrong and she is actually a boy, and I also have no idea how big she will be when she is born, so I don't want to wash too much stuff. What if she doesn't fit into newborn stuff at all or for long? This way maybe I could exchange some clothes for different sizes.
We have most everything we need for the nursery, just a few more things I'd like to get to accent it. I hope to have the energy to put the whole room together sometime this week. I also wanna get my bags ready, just in case. We ordered the diapers we will need for when she's a newborn and then a few for once she gets bigger. I love the diapers and can't wait to get them!!!
That's bout all I can think to write about right now. Gonna go load up on fruit!

Diapers, belly shot, and doggies

It's been awhile.
Not much to blog about, but I got a few pictures tonight so I could update something.
First, I'm pretty excited that we got our first cloth diaper purchase in the mail a couple weeks ago. I got 4 Rumparooz Lil Joeys newborn size. They are super cute, and they are all in one diapers, so they should be easy too, if they work. We are probably doing prefolds to start and see how we like them. Gonna get mostly all in ones and all in twos or pockets that we can have all ready for Jill (the woman who will be watching the baby once I go back to work). These will be the easiest. But here's the pictures of the diapers!

And here's my lovely picture of me from tonight, at 29 weeks, 4 days.

And this one is a pretty funny shot of me looking down at Cooper.

So of course now I need to post pictures of the doggies!

Ignore the carpet. Who puts carpet in a kitchen!!!
I went to the doctor last Wednesday. Everything is measuring absolutely right on track and normal still. I actually lost a pound and a half since 4 weeks before, so I am now up about 3 total. I had to take my glucose test too, where you drink the super sugary drink then they take your blood and test the sugar. Guess how I did?! I failed miserably!!! I go in tomorrow morning for the 3 hour one. No food after midnight, go in bright and early at 8. They will take my blood and test the fasting sugar level, then drink more of the nasty sugar drink and test my blood every hour for 3 hours. I will be using that time to catch up on some reading. Boo hiss!!!

What's Been Happening the Last Month

It's been too long, so I'm gonna blog!
I don't have a lot of pictures to post. I have my 24 week picture I posted on Facebook, and that's it. So here it is:

Whew, I'm getting quite the belly. 

So we got our house 2 1/2 weeks ago, and that's why I haven't had time. Between life and moving, that's about it. We have everything critical in the house. We are starting to try to get all the little things out of the old house so we can put it for sale ASAP as possible (who got that reference???) I had Daniel take lots of pictures of before, and as soon as we get them on a computer, I'll post those. This house is still a work in progress, and it sure will be until we get the other house sold. There are a lot of things we want/need to do. 

One big project is the kitchen. This one was pretty small, and there was no dishwasher. Just today, Daniel moved some cabinets and put in the dishwasher. It gave us more room. Once we can afford the countertop and some new floor, we will have more counter space and everything. Our long term goal is to make it super fancy with an island and expanding into most of the room, but that won't be a possibility until we add another room onto the house, which is many years down the road.

The dogs seem to be adjusting to the new house. Maggie loves the extra room to run outside. Cooper is doing very very well with his invisible fence. He can run in the front and back yard. When we take his collar off of him and try to get him to come into the rest of the yard, he won't go past his normal border. That's a good thing! We need a rug or something in our bedroom, cause Maggie is having a hard time jumping onto the bed. Poor old doggie. She does love all the weird hiding places in the house though.

Let's see, I went to the doctor Thursday. Everything is pretty boring at this point. Her heartbeat was 157. The doctor measured my belly for the first time and said it's measuring right at 25 weeks. Everything has been remarkably boring and right on schedule (knock on wood). 

We are getting a few things here and there for the baby's room. Right now the big thing we need is a crib. We registered at Target and found some super cute girlie safari stuff, making the gender neutral safari theme work for the little girl! Then, if we have more kids and have a boy, we can just replace the pink stuff with blue stuff. I went online to Target and found a lot more stuff that goes with it, like a lamp, a clothes bin, and a rug. I really like that stuff!!!! Oh, and we're going to cloth diaper (scary!) and that can be pretty expensive. I've been trying to win free stuff on Facebook a lot lately, so if you've seen me liking all kinds of crazy pages, that's why. I registered for a lot of cloth diaper stuff on amazon.com registry. I really hope people that decide to buy us stuff are willing to go online and get stuff that way, cause that's the stuff we really need.

Don't ask us what our baby's name will be! We can't figure it out, and we plan on telling no one once we do. It will be the only surprise once she's born. Daniel and I have found one first name we both like. We can't even agree on a middle name to go with it. I so bad want to have at least 2 or 3 names that we like and decide when she's born what her name will be. It's so hard with all of the names that Daniel shoots down so fast. I'm sure she will eventually have a name, even if she's 2 years old. It took us a week or more to agree on a name for Cooper.

So this was a lot of writing. I hope I told everything important. I plan to blog some pictures of the house soon. I'm going to go eat one of my wonderful White Chocolate with Raspberry Filling and Cream Cheese Icing cupcakes that I got from Party Mart for my birthday!