We Have a "Birth" Day!!

Well...here I am at 9 months, I can't even believe its here. One minute I was sharing the news with everyone, and now I am making all of the final preparations for this little girl to make her debut into the world!

I feel extremely blessed that I have had such a great pregnancy (so far;), and that things have gone well. To catch you up to speed if you are not aware of the one dilemma I have faced, I'll help you out. When I went in for my first appt. they noticed the I might have a cyst and asked that I come back for a full ultrasound. When I went back at 12 weeks they diagnosed it as a uterine fibroid and said they would keep a watch on it. At my 20 week ultrasound they measured it only to find that it was the size of an orange, which is very big for a fibroid and blocking the birth canal. Fibroids are actually really common, but they usually form on the sides of the uterus, not at the bottom. So, my doctor explained then that there was 1. a chance the baby would not be able to turn out of her breech position and 2. that she would not be able to drop below the fibroid to be born, if she did turn out of the position. The only option in these 2 scenarios was of course a c-section. While I hoped to be able to have that "perfect" birth story, I know what is supposed to happen will. I feel so grateful that I live in a time where there are options for patients like me who have these risky situations. Fast forward to 33 weeks and my appt. little baby girl turned around! She wasn't breech and the possibility of no c-section was re-born. But now today at about 36 weeks I had one last full ultrasound where everything could be evaluated. We figured she was just trying to be a good girl for doctor and she turned back to her breech postion. The doctor feels that the size of the fibroid is keeping her from staying in that position. After doing an exam, it became apparent that the fibroid is very much in the way and a c-section is the only option. After reviewing ultrasound results and dates ect. it looks like this little girl will be in my arms on May 8th around 9:30am. I am so excited, scared, anxious and a million other things. They weren't able to get any pics of her today because her head faces downs, so we can only see the back of her head. But ultrasound measurements show she is currently weighing in at 6 lbs 6oz. So I plan to eat a lot of icecream over the next few weeks to keep her fattening up! It is amazing already how strong her little spirit is, I am so excited for her to be here.

Here are some pics from my ward shower that these cute ladies threw for me. It was so much fun! The poopy diaper has a melted candy bar in it, we had 11 of those to guess, I think I got one of the worst scores!