Was pretty much all I could say when I woke up at 430 am with this unusual tight feeling in my lower stomach...I tried to relax and it went away and I went back to sleep. Around 930am I felt it again..yup my Braxton Hicks contractions have started! Guess its just one more sign we are getting closer to having a new baby Nichols with us!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Half Baked!
Our little bun in the oven is half way done baking!! I cant believe that we are already at the half way mark! I am going to upload the pics from this week and the lost ones from when I did my posts from my phone. We have decided for sure that we are going to use blues and browns for the nursery and add some guitar and music stuff in there here and there.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Atlanta Medical Center
Last night I went to tour Atlanta Medical Center and go to the meet and greet for the midwives. It was a wonderful place! Ryan ended up having to work since a client came in and need his attention. My mom said thought that she would go with me. In the end I am very glad that my mom went because when we left she had a better idea of the birth that I want and that I am not crazy in some of the things I have told her about (i.e. laboring at home, water birth, delay cord clamping etc...)
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| The Delivery Room at AMC |
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| Birthing Tub |
Thursday, October 4, 2012
**The Father and Son Bond Begins**
**Lost Post**
((Orignianlly should have came out right after I wrote the Pink Blue or maybe Two post))
Ryan and I decieded to go to a 3D Ultrasound place to find out the gender bc we were in the middle of finding a doctor and were a little unsure when we would be able to find one and then schedule the actaul u/s..plus niether one of us could wait knowing we have could just simply go right down the street and find out.
We were told, or should I say I was told to drink orange juice 30 mins before coming to help wake up the baby and get him moving around in there. Ryan took this very literally and we got into a tiff about when I could drink my mcdonalds orange juice haha. We arrived at the place and the set up was very nice they had to large(maybe 42') flat screens on the walls to see the ultrasound on. One was on my left and the other directly in front on me. It is always a blessing and a little bit of a suprise when we get to see our little baby on the screen. Ryan I could tell at this point started to get very anxious! He was walking back and forth between the two screens looking at everything and trying so hard to tell what the baby was going to be. And since we are talking about a Nichols here the little one of course took his sweet time to show what was between the legs...and as everyone knows all the sudden we saw it and learned that we were going to be proud parents of a baby BOY! What happend next though is what made my eyes tear up. Ryans face was priceles and I wish I had all this on video. He looked amazed and happy and just in what I guess was disbelief. He actaully walked out of the room and I continued to talk to the u/s tech and looked at our little baby boy. When he did come back in, I asked him where he went and he told me that he went to pray and thank God for the blessing of a son and to call his dad and tell him that it was indeed a BOY!
I cant wait for our son to be here and to watch my two boys interact. I know Ryan is going to be an amazing father!
**EDIT** Ryan got to feel Nathan's first kick!! I have felt some flutters and such but no strong kicks yet. The other morning we were laying in bed before getting up for work and Ryan had his hand on my tummy hoping to feel our son. Somewhere between Ryan talking and the morning news I feel back to sleep. Well I soon heard Ryan repeating over and over again did you feel that?! I was half a sleep and was a little confused then I realized Ryan had felt a kick and I slept through it...well looks like the bond between the boys in the house is growing stronger :)
((Orignianlly should have came out right after I wrote the Pink Blue or maybe Two post))
Ryan and I decieded to go to a 3D Ultrasound place to find out the gender bc we were in the middle of finding a doctor and were a little unsure when we would be able to find one and then schedule the actaul u/s..plus niether one of us could wait knowing we have could just simply go right down the street and find out.
We were told, or should I say I was told to drink orange juice 30 mins before coming to help wake up the baby and get him moving around in there. Ryan took this very literally and we got into a tiff about when I could drink my mcdonalds orange juice haha. We arrived at the place and the set up was very nice they had to large(maybe 42') flat screens on the walls to see the ultrasound on. One was on my left and the other directly in front on me. It is always a blessing and a little bit of a suprise when we get to see our little baby on the screen. Ryan I could tell at this point started to get very anxious! He was walking back and forth between the two screens looking at everything and trying so hard to tell what the baby was going to be. And since we are talking about a Nichols here the little one of course took his sweet time to show what was between the legs...and as everyone knows all the sudden we saw it and learned that we were going to be proud parents of a baby BOY! What happend next though is what made my eyes tear up. Ryans face was priceles and I wish I had all this on video. He looked amazed and happy and just in what I guess was disbelief. He actaully walked out of the room and I continued to talk to the u/s tech and looked at our little baby boy. When he did come back in, I asked him where he went and he told me that he went to pray and thank God for the blessing of a son and to call his dad and tell him that it was indeed a BOY!
I cant wait for our son to be here and to watch my two boys interact. I know Ryan is going to be an amazing father!
**EDIT** Ryan got to feel Nathan's first kick!! I have felt some flutters and such but no strong kicks yet. The other morning we were laying in bed before getting up for work and Ryan had his hand on my tummy hoping to feel our son. Somewhere between Ryan talking and the morning news I feel back to sleep. Well I soon heard Ryan repeating over and over again did you feel that?! I was half a sleep and was a little confused then I realized Ryan had felt a kick and I slept through it...well looks like the bond between the boys in the house is growing stronger :)
Monday, October 1, 2012
15-17 Weeks
The past few weeks have been crazy!!! Our very close friends, Sam and Dylan Driskell just moved to Washington state so most of my week 15 was taken up with helping them load up everything and say goodbye not only to them but to my godson Bentley. Hopefully him and his mama will be back soon and Ryan and I will get to celebrate his first birthday with him.
I was going to go see a midwife last during week 16, however she had 2 or 3 moms in labor and had to reschedule my appt for this coming up friday. So no real update on my dr situation yet. Ryan and I will be going to check out Intown Midwifery at thier open house this wed!! I am starting to get very excited about it since word is around the birthing community that they are the ones to go to for a natural drug free birth!
We are on week four of our Bradley Method class and it is starting to really pay off. The first 2 classes were things that I already knew either from my own reschearch or from reading Husband coached birthing. We have learned a few excrecises and habits that I need to be working on. Ryan and I are walking together in the evenings but other than that I have not been very good about sticking to a excercise routine. I did start working on my birthplan. I plan on doing a more detailed post about my bradley class but thought I would inculde a little bit of an overview on what I am trying to do right now. It is a 10 week class so we are almost half way!!! Next I will have to decide if I am going to do a waterbirth and if I am I will have to take the hospitals water birth class.
I was going to go see a midwife last during week 16, however she had 2 or 3 moms in labor and had to reschedule my appt for this coming up friday. So no real update on my dr situation yet. Ryan and I will be going to check out Intown Midwifery at thier open house this wed!! I am starting to get very excited about it since word is around the birthing community that they are the ones to go to for a natural drug free birth!
We are on week four of our Bradley Method class and it is starting to really pay off. The first 2 classes were things that I already knew either from my own reschearch or from reading Husband coached birthing. We have learned a few excrecises and habits that I need to be working on. Ryan and I are walking together in the evenings but other than that I have not been very good about sticking to a excercise routine. I did start working on my birthplan. I plan on doing a more detailed post about my bradley class but thought I would inculde a little bit of an overview on what I am trying to do right now. It is a 10 week class so we are almost half way!!! Next I will have to decide if I am going to do a waterbirth and if I am I will have to take the hospitals water birth class.
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