This coming Thursday May 19th is our official due date for Baby girl #2. The past 40 weeks have been long espcially the last 12 weeks when I was developed gestational diabetes. I was lucky enough to be able to control it with diet and exercise and didn't need insulin. Thank goodness because poking my finger 4 times a day was hard enough that I can't imagine if I had to give myself shots.
So here we are 2 days away from our due date. Will the baby come on time? Probably not espcially after my doctor appointment yesterday. I have barely started dilating so the doctor thinks its still going to be awhile. She also said that it might be another slow, long labor like I had with Emilia once I finally start having contractions. I was in labor with Emilia for about 43 hours so it will be interesting to see if this one follows the same route. I really hope not!
It is likely that I am going to go overdue with this kid and even with gestational diabetes the doctors are going to let me. My original due date was May 26th but they moved it forward a week after I had an early ultrasound at 12 weeks since I was measuring bigger and I was still measuring a week ahead at my 22 week ultrasound so I was trying to be hopeful that she would come around the May 19th date. So now its just a wait and see when she wants to make her appearance into the world.
We have been working hard on our house for the past month and a half or so. It took us awhile to determine where we were going to put the new baby. We could have either let the girls share a room, move Emilia downstairs, move both of them downstairs, or give up our master bedroom and we move downstairs. After some long thinking we decided to move downstairs and keep the girls upstairs. So Herm and I are living in a tiny room downstairs where both girls have bigger rooms then us, but our basement is only partially finished with no bathroom. So it seemed to be the most logical for us to move.
We bought a full size mattress for Emilia's bed and finally converted it from the toddler bed to the full size option with the bed rails that Grandma and Grandpa Siegel bought her for 2nd birthday. She loves her big girl bed and picked out Tinker Bell bedding. All of the baby Mickey and Friends came down off the walls in their place went Tink and her fairy friends. We moved the rocking chair, changing table and dresser across the hall to Sister's room which freed up a lot of space in Emilia's room to play. Does she play in there not really but maybe someday.
It took me awhile to decide on a theme for sister's room. Originally I was trying to find crib bedding to match our old ocean blue walls so I didn't have to paint again but I never did find anything that I liked so I went with the girly princess decor. It was nice finding out the sex of the baby this time so I could go girly with the nursery instead of netural like I had to with Emilia's room. We bought a brand new convertible crib since we converted Emilia's bed for her. We priced both options on buying a new crib vs. buying Emilia a new bed and it came out to be about the same. We decided to go the crib route so at least sister could have something new instead of getting everything used.
Here is a shot of the rest of the nursery with the changing table and dresser and better look at the princess border. So we are ready for sister to come. The room is finally complete after Herm hung the window blinds last night, the car seat is installed in both of our cars and the girls bags are packed for when she does make her appearance. I am hoping to finally get around to packing my hospital bag today.
Here is our brand new double stroller! A Baby Jogger City Mini! I debated for months on if I needed a double. First I bought stroller links to hook together 2 graco umbrella style strollers but realized that is going to be a pain when I am by myself to hook and unhook the strollers when I am done. I was limited on options as the stroller had to fit in the trunk of my G6. This stroller fits in my trunk with a lot of room to spare. The only bad thing about it is there is not much storage space. I like a stroller with lots of space for things which is probably why my Graco Quattro Travel System was my favorite stroller with Emilia even though it was heavy and took up all of my trunk. I looked at the double version of this stroller but there was no way it would fit in my trunk. So I think I made a good choice with my City Mini. It is lightweight at 26 lbs, folds easy, and is the number one stroller from the offsite rental companies at Disney World. Plus I got a steal of a deal on it by buying the 2010 model for 25% off then buying a 2011 model. This stroller is always excluded from discounts at Babies R Us so when I saw it clearanced out on AlbeeBaby.com I had to jump on it.
Well that is where we are at here in the Siegel House. Emilia is growing like a weed and will be 3 in less than a month. It is amazing how time flies. We are hoping that Emilia will show some more interest in potty training after her birthday so she can go to preschool this fall and we don't lose our deposit but we'll see. She hasn't fully grasped the concept yet. She knows sometimes after she goes but never tells us before she goes. We have one sticker on the potty chart and hope to get down to business and start adding to it after she turns 3 and sister has been here for a little bit.
Well I have rambled on long enough for now. Here's to hoping that I can update this again soon when sister makes her appearance in the world!
Such precious little feet! We are adjusting to our new life as a family of four instead of a family of three. It is definately different trying to get two kids out the door instead of just one.
Here are some pictures of Sabrina Kennedy for the non facebook people in our lives. She is 4 days old in these pictures and currently has blue eyes. I hope that they stay that way :) She weighed 7 lbs 8 oz at the doctor that morning and is only 20.25 inches long now instead of the 21.5 inches they measured her at the hospital. Emilia shunk too when we went to the doctor but I don't think quite as much and Emilia had more a cone head than Sabrina since she was in the birth canal longer. So I can't explain why she is shorter.
I know babies aren't suppose to smile this early but I don't think you can deny this one. Sabrina is a pretty happy baby and I have gotten quite a few smiles out of her so I don't think they are facial expressions responding to gas.
Its not all about Sabrina so here's a picture of Miss Emilia. This was after we have given sister a sponge bath. Emilia wanted to take a bath in the blue tub but we convinced her to give Ariel a bath instead. Emilia is adjusting fairly well. There are times that she says that she is a baby but for the most part is doing good. She wanted to be swaddled the other night when I was trying to figure out how to swaddle again. I gave away my "moms on call" book which had the best instructions on how to swaddle and Emilia never broke free until she was bigger so I am back to trying to remember since I don't want to go buy the book for just a few pages.
Here we are leaving the hospital on Sunday Morning. We were definately ready to get out of there as we were pretty bored on Saturday. Emilia shorted us time in the hospital since she was born just before midnight and this one gave us extra time. Since Sabrina was born so early in the day all of our visitors came on Friday at the same time so that left my aunt and uncle to come see the baby on Saturday and of course Mema and Emilia.
