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9 pounds, 11 ounces
22"
All is well, praise the Lord of Hosts!
Romans 15:13 KJV
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Today is the due date! On Saturday, I had Noah take my traditional Blue Shirt picture.
I'm ready to meet this baby! My hips are sore from all the pressure. I have to rest a lot, but not stay in one position for very long. I did sleep well last night, for which I am very thankful. Prayers for a smooth, healthy labor and birth are greatly appreciated.
As they say, no news is good news. Not much exciting has been going on lately. Grace is eating a fairly regular diet at meals, which has always been pretty small. Yesterday, she drank a lot, which hasn't been common for her, so we give her 600ml of water via her NG tube, 50ml every hour throughout the day. She gets 2 bottles of baby formula 50ml/hour throughout the day, which means she doesn't have to be on the pump at night, which is nice for everyone involved.
We thought she had c-diff last week, as the symptoms returned shortly after getting off the antibiotic, but the test came back negative, and her symptoms have mostly resolved, so perhaps it was just related to a switch from magnesium sulfate to magnesim oxide for a few days due to it being impossible to get from a pharmacy within an hour of us. Heather had to crush up the pills and make a solution herself, which you would have thought a pharmacy could do... But, she is back on her regular magnesium sulfate now, and we just have to remember to schedule and pickup a few medications at the Dana Farber pharmacy when we go for weekly clinic visits.
We were intentionally not posting online to allow for some in-person notifications, but we are happy to now announce that we are expecting a baby in late May!
There are various people rooting for a girl to make the statistics and/or pattern more "fair", but we don't know for now and will be thrilled either way.
12/26 - Daley Christmas. Baby cousin G gets a pretty dress. People exclaim over it. Big brother C says, "I'm not impressed."
12/28 - C, "Dad, [cousin] O says 'ellow' for 'yellow'".
Ben, "That's ok, bud."
C, "It's not ok with me."
12/30 - Joy counts to 30.
1/5 - Jeremiah gets pinworms. All family takes medicine, except Heather takes homeopathic remedy given by midwife.
1/10 - JDD, "It's Satur-awesome-day!"
1/10 - Jeremiah, picks up a tomato, exclaims, "Mah-now!".
1/10 - Jeremiah recognizes pictures of cousins, "Viv-a!", "Ow-ee!" Also, "No-ee!" and a very close rendition of "Joy".
January sometime - Jeremiah loves oatmeal, "eh-moo"
1/20 - Joy counts to 40
1/20 - Joy, "Zucchini climbed the sycamore tree."
I'm very much behind on the blog. But I have kept the pocket notes safely typed up in my email. So here goes.
In June, the kids and I made a trip to Florida to visit my parents, and my sister and her kids visited, too.
6/14 - Joy, "Mommy! I saw a dinosaur!" (It was a lizard in Grandma and Dad-o's yard.)
6/15 - Joy, "Jesus die, then froze again!"
6/17 - JPD lower right lateral incisor
June - JPD give kisses
During the Florida visit, I confirmed that I am pregnant! Due on Joy's birthday. (More)
Oh, yes. It has been half a year since my last pocket notes post...
9/6 - Joy says "yum" and "yummy", "all done/gone" (sounds like ah-doh), "where shoe?", and "mine" (sounds like my)
9/25 - Faith reading the Bible to Joy: "When you want Mommy to cuddle with you but she can't, you aren't alone because God is with you."
Faith also reminded herself of this as she went down to put tools away in the basement.
9/28 - Noah let me listen to his piano practice and I was impressed with his progress: both hands, dynamics, steady rythmn (More)
9/19 - Joy has been telling me when she needs a new diaper (patting her bottom) but this day, she got out the changing pad and wipes, set up the pad on the bathroom floor, put a new diaper on top of the wipes box, lay down on the pad, and called for me.
9/20 - Noah is definitely our hands-on guy. He asks for crafts related to what we do in school. When we read a book about archaeology, he immediately wanted to go dig in the back yard. He got a trowel and a sieve and a container to hold his treasures and happily dug and sifted for a long time.
~9/20 - Joy can say, "ow".
9/25 - Joy put on her own socks all by herself. Before this, she had successfully put on mine.
9/27 - Joy says "please" to go with her sign. It sounds like "wee".
9/27 - Sounding the same, but in a different context. When she plays with the abacus, she says, "wee, wee, wee" as she movs the beads. 9/28 - She also "counted" "wee, wee, wee" when playing with the corners cards.
9/28 - Faith really wanted to play Corners with me, so I made up a version she can do. (The "real" game involves finding numbers that add up to 5, 10, 15, or 20.) We played where we had to match the color and the numeral. Faith loved it! (More)
I thought this deserved its own post. I am pregnant! The baby is due right around Joy's second birthday, the end of February.
So far, I've been feeling pretty well. I get a bit queasy if I don't eat something every couple of hours, and I do get tired a lot (especially when Joy wakes me up a lot in the night, but that's a different story...) We are excited, but not sparing much time to think about it much so far.
I do prefer moving at this stage of pregnancy than later. I can still lift boxes and go up and down stairs reasonably and ride my bike.
Well, now I really have to get the baths started. Good night!
P.S. Faith thinks it's a boy.
I think Heather generally does a good job (though I think she might not be taking as many naps as she should be at the moment) of getting rest, and happy to have people come cook and clean for her, but it is always a good reminder to make sure we get enough rest.
1/20 - Jonathan, as usual, singing while he plays and works. This time it was, "Come, Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadil. Come, Tom Bombadil..."
1/22 - When boys have a tea party: Noah, Faith and I were playing with Faith's tea set. Noah said he couldn't eat his soup because the bad guys had poisoned it. It was such a deadly poison we couldn't even touch it and I had him call 911 to send a squad out to take it away. I never remember anything like this happening at other tea parties... (More)
12/23 - Noah: "Tomorrow's tomorrow is Christmas!"
Both Jonathan and Noah were sick in the car on the way to New Hampshire. Blessedly, they both managed to get everything in the bowls and nothing on anyplace else in the car. By the time we arrived, they were fine and the rest of the visit was sick-free.
12/27 - Jonathan and Mommy were discussing dollar amounts of Christmas presents and what was even thinkable to ask about. I had said that a $200 set was out of the question. He then said, "[A particular lego set] is in the question."
12/30 - We went to the Boston Children's Museum with Grammy and I was with Faith at the bubbles section. She played a long time there and I got to observe other kids as well. This note is a quote from a young girl next to us, with obvious glee in her voice, "Science is messy!" (More)
12/16 - Headed up in the snow for another midwife appointment. I gained more weight this time, but Thanksgiving was in between visits... My iron was low again, despite diligently eating that horrible molasses, but she was suspicious that her hemoglobin tester is off calibration. All other stats are on track. The one concern was that the baby was head up, which I had suspected for about a week before. Since this one and Isaac were the only ones to be head up at this stage, I was tempted to worry and imagine scenarios. But I kept repeating to myself, "Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and petition make your requests known unto God and the peace of God that passes all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus."
C gave us some ideas for turning that I had not heard before. The one we tried a few days later was placing an ice pack up on top of where his head is and a nice warm compress down low where it should be. Our baby definitely moved a lot in response to the ice but did not seem to turn all the way, we think he liked his feet warm. Then yesterday we prepared to try it again and as I was feeling around, it seemed that he had turned! This morning, I definitely felt little feet kicking on top. Praise God! Those who pray for us, we would appreciate if you continue to pray that this little guy stays head down.
Actually, the only thing written in my pocket notes from all this time is that on 11/16, Jon solved the mirror cube with his eyes closed.
Jonathan's 7th birthday was a very fun time. He got a lot of cool presents and had a lot of cool people over to play. Grandma and Dad-o were there for the occasion and the next few days were also busy with fun. (More)