Love her

Introducing Tegan Clare O'Sullivan

Born October 30th.  She's amazing and we love her to pieces.

Just born - 6:58am

Getting warmed up

First Halloween

Doctor and hospital staff

Home!

39 weeks

39 long weeks.  Everything is going well, and I started my maternity leave this week.  Yesterday was full of cleaning, today I'm less inclined.  The best part of maternity leave is not figuring out what I'm going to wear to work as options have become limited.  My yoga pants are my favorite thing to wear now.

At the last doctor visit baby decided to sleep through most of the fetal monitoring, so the nurse had to come and wake her up to monitor her active heart beat.  First this meant pushing on my stomach to move her around a bit.  Unfortunately, that didn't work (she must have her dad's sleeping gene) so they brought out a thing that vibrated my stomach.  I didn't know it was coming and about jumped out of the bed.  That got her (and me!) awake and the doctor said her active heart rate looked good.

Hopefully we have some baby pictures up here soon!

38 weeks

Final count down is upon us.  Baby has decided my hip bones and rib cage are a good place to practice punching and kicking so things are getting a little uncomfortable - hanging in there though.  Everything looked good at our last appointment and we saw on the ultrasound that she has discovered how to suck her thumb.  

Time for bed - which is usually the signal for baby to start dancing :)

36 weeks

At this weeks doctor appointment we saw baby on the ultrasound (head down now), listened to her heart rate (strong) and measured for contractions (none).  

 After the doctor we went to a baby shower our friends threw for us and other couple from work.  There was so much delicious food and cute decorations:

Diaper cake

Animal themed cupcakes

Next week we will be officially full term!

35 weeks

35 weeks marks the 35 day countdown.  I think she has dropped a little, though it is still hard to breathe at times.  At almost every appointment baby girl has been breech, we will see this weekend if she has flipped.  For a long time I could tell which way she was and now I can't - it's just a big ball of kicks, punches and stretching in there.

We got a washer installed (our own laundry we take out and have done for us) and have now washed all little one's clothes and blankets.  In the last load were socks, aren't they cute hanging to dry?

As an added bonus - this is what I see on my side of our weekly photo shoot:

Until next week...

33 weeks

Feeling big.  I know, I know, I'm going to get bigger!  She can grow up to an inch this week... just this week!  She's also supposed to gain 1/2 lb each week for a few weeks now.  Whew, no wonder I'm tired!  I've read she might drop down a little this month, which be a relief to my lungs that I'm pretty sure she's using as a pillow.  She's gotten the hiccups a number of times now, and Saturday night I think she was having her own personal dance party.

I'm happy for her to bake away in there for the next 7 weeks, but boy are we excited for her to come!