January-May 2010

I'm SO behind so I'm just going to recap whatever I can remember of 2010 so far.

January

Around the 10th I felt Adilee move for the first time! It was awesome! I was convinced it was going to be twins because most women don't feel movement with their first pregnancy until like 17 weeks or something and I was only at 14 weeks.

My parents celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on the 28th. I don't know if any of my other siblings realized it, and my parents didn't make a big deal out of it. It was a big deal to me. I'm so grateful that my parents stuck out the hard times and worked together for 30 years! That's a very big accomplishment and I'm very proud of them.

February

The olympics were February 12-28th. Paul and I spent WAY too much time watching different events. Each night we would watch one or two events together and usually ended up going to bed around midnight or later. It was a blast though! I had my second ultrasound I think on the 22nd and we found out we were having a darling baby girl (we didn't know just HOW darling until she was born, of course). She was folded in half during the ultrasound and her feet were touching her forehead! We also found out that I had a very short cervix. I think it was about 1.5 cm at the time and it was supposed to be anywhere from 2-4 cm. I went to the specialists at Maternal Fetal Medicine the next day. They told me that I could go to work, but I had to be on what they called a "modified bed rest". Basically I couldn't get up and walk around a lot, I had to take the elevator whenever possible, and I couldn't take Kostya out for walks or do household chores anymore. I was heartbroken that I couldn't do dishes anymore (haha!!). Paul was such a good sport. He took care of SO much while I just laid around and did nothing. We also had SO much help from family!!! I honestly don't know what we would have done without our Mom's coming over about once a week to vacuum or do dishes (with no dishwasher! Our Mom's are SAINTS!!) and bring us food. And my sister Tia also brought us several HUGE amazing dinners that always lasted us a couple of days. I know many other people helped us out, but because I put off writing this for so long I can't remember specifics. I really am so grateful for all the help though!!

March

The 18th was my birthday. I can't remember what we did, but I'm sure it was AWESOME. My birthdays usually are.

Every week or every other week throughout March, April, and into May I went to Maternal Fetal Medicine to have the length of my cervix checked with an intravaginal ultrasound. Now doesn't that sound like fun? :S I think at 25 weeks they gave me steroids to speed up lung development just in case she came too early.

April

I usually love to do April Fool's Day jokes, but the only thing I could think of was to tell people I was in labor, but because it could've actually happened it didn't seem very funny.

We celebrated when we reached 27 weeks because Adilee had a 90% chance of survival. I think we even went out to dinner!

On April 23rd I was put on strict bed rest and could no longer go to work. It was very hard to see it at the time, but this was a blessing from Heavenly Father. I was planning on going back to work for a little bit after having Adi. Going on bed rest helped us to realize that 1) she would need her Mommy there to take care of her especially if she was premature, and 2) we could make it financially without me working, 3) we have such amazing families (that description doesn't do them justice, but words can't describe how great our families really are). I think we might have known these things, but they didn't seem as real or important to us as they did after I had been on bed rest for a bit.

It feels weird to put Adilee's name in when I'm talking about being pregnant, because she wasn't really Adilee yet.

May

I don't remember much from May except that I finally got sick of being on bed rest on Memorial Day weekend and all I wanted to do was be outside on the grass eating a roasted hot dog and potato chips and drinking an Icee/Slurpee. Paul, the great husband that he is, brought me back a hot dog and some chips from our ward party. And a couple of times he ran down to Maverick to get me Icees. I remember spending a lot of time on baby registries. I really don't know why I didn't take a few hours to update my blog. :D I also crocheted a bunch of blankets.