Just One Week Short of Due Date

Well today not only did I turn 39 weeks, but my pumpkin turned 22 months old, and I had an appointment.

To start with my pumpkin has been acting out a lot lately. It makes me sad to see him act out the way that he is. But I keep disciplining him, he won't learn any other way. But I love on him so much! We laugh and have fun together when he's not napping or playing or acting out. People keep saying, "it's because he knows a change is coming" Well, I hope that is true, and that when the change comes he calms back down. I love him so much, and he's so smart, I hate spanking him, or putting him in time out! But, like I said he needs to learn.
He's so smart! He can count to ten, repeating me, say his ABC's, and says so many words, a few of his new words are, waffle, Buck, Bear-Monkey. I tell you he says so many things I can't keep up with him. He knows most of his body parts! Ears, Mouth, Nose, Head, Hair, Cheeks, Butt, Heart, Elbow, Shoulder, Feet, Toes, Knees, Finger, Hands, Eyes, Chin, Neck,Belly, Belly Button.... I think he has a crush on Minnie Mouse.... he adores her! He loves running around in the living room spinning in circles and then falling over! He thinks it so funny! He's using the potty more and more, now if we can get him to tell us when he has to potty, that would be great! any ideas? He loves making other people laugh! He's such a joy to be around, until he gets some wild hair, and has his moments. I can't wait to see what he learns this month!

My appointment today went ok. I've gained 26 pound overall! Which I'm sorry- to me, that sounds great! Fantastic even! He's measuring a week small, either because of low fluids, laying in an odd position, or just because he's going to be small. They aren't concerned about fluid being low, so I would rule that out, and say he's going to be small? haha! I'm still not thinned out at all, and he's still really high. She could barley touch him with a finger tip! Made me so sad. So, with that being said I couldn't get stripped today. I was really sad. I've been having contractions all week! And it doesn't seem to be helping me progress at all! His head is also positioned weird, his head is laying on my right side, instead of being in the center. I've been trying to push him over to get him to move over, he's moved a little since last week, but still mainly on my right side. :/ my blood pressure is good, always has been, no swelling! I'm still wearing my wedding ring for crying out loud! :O We did talk a little about induction today. She said if I go in where I'm sitting right now, she'd start cytotec (sp?) but if next week I haven't gone in on my own, and we set an induction date and I'm 2-3 CM she would skip cytotec and just start with pit. I told her, as much as I don't want an epidural again, if it's looking like it's going to be a long labor because my body isn't relaxing, around 6-7CM I'm getting the epidural just to let my body fully relax- but that will be decided when I'm in labor. With Pit I won't be able to get up and walk around anyways, so might as well be stuck in bed...
I've done so much natural things to get labor started it's not even funny. I'm always on my feet doing something, unless I am just down right exhausted. I relax in warm baths, I do squats, I bounce on my ball. I walk, and always more than a mile. I dance around the house. I get all these contractions, but that's it! I'm not progressing, and today when she checked me, and said 1cm I almost cried. Not because I'm super uncomfy, not because "he HAS to come out" but because I am so scared of being induced again.... I know "God is in control" or "he'll come when he's ready" but like I've asked Matthew, what about these ladies in third world countries- they don't have the medicine that we do- and they NEVER go into labor? Some women just don't go into labor on there own. It's known to happen. What if I'm one of those women?

Anyways, I cleaned the bathrooms today and when I say cleaned I mean super cleaned. I made a home cooked supper, and have been cranky all day- even before my appointment, so I think I'm just going to turn in for the night!

nighty night everyone! Keep an eye out, because God has a blessing in store for you! :)

Sorry It's Been A While

Well hello everyone, I'm so sorry it's been so long sine I've been on here. I will update about the pregnancy, our family and our little almost two year old pumpkin! :)

Pregnancy to begin with: It's been a pretty good pregnancy so far. I've had my ups and downs this time, just like with Elijah, but nothing horrible. My feet are no where near as swollen as they were with Elijah, which makes me super happy! I can walk and do a lot of thingsthat I want to. Bending over, and changing diapers are a bit of a challenge, but that's to be expected- I'm 38 weeks pregnant... if I was comfortable I would be questioning myself. I've gained 25 pounds so far, which I'm in love with! Since my 20 week appointment Baby G has been measuring a week ahead, and the last two appointments he's been measuring a week behind, which I found weird... my midwife said he could just be smaller than Elijah. At first she thought it was because he was going further down into my pelvis, but he's not. He's still really high. :/ Also at 37 weeks I got checked and got my strep B test done, when I got checked I was 1cm, thick and high.... kinda sad, so I worked all week to try everything to get him to go down, and to get more dilated, and thinned out, go back at 38 weeks and my test came back negative, wooo hooo!! he's measuring 37 weeks, and she couldn't tell if he was head down or not, but went ahead and checked me, and I was still the same. :/ And... she couldn't feel his head... AT ALL so she decided to do a quick ultrasound to make sure he was head down, and he is, but he's on the right side of my pelvis instead of the middle. So, now I'm doing squats like crazy, rubbing my lower belly from right to left, to try to get him to move over. It gets painful at points. I've been bouncing on my ball, and I sometimes bounce for hours! I stay on my feet most of the time during the day cleaning, playing with Elijah, playing with Buck, and walking... the other day, before my appointment I was folding clothes on my ball, then I got up to put the clothes up and had Pandora on and some nice fast songs came on, and I started like bouncing, dancing around... It was pretty funny slightly uncomfortable, and it still didn't help, but I'm going to keep it up! I have too! At least I can say I tried to help things along. I can never get in the mood for sex anymore, which sucks, and hubby wont let me buy some Evening Primrose Oil Pills. Only because he does math and says that it wouldn't be worth the money to spend, because I'll have left over pills. BOO!! He's such a meanie. But, who knows if they would actually help or not.... Oh-- one other thing, my blood pressure was amazing at my last appointment! It was like 101/67! I was so excited! It hasn't been high or abnormal, it just hasn't been that low for a while. :).... If y'all have any other questions about Baby G or my pregnancy feel free to ask :)

32 weeks with Baby G

27 weeks with E

                                                      



36 Weeks with G

We/as a family have been doing pretty good. I think it's dawning on all of us that we are adding another little Flippen to our mixture! Matthew has started a part time job at Dollar General, just to get some extra money on the side, to try to put some into savings, and to try to pay off some debt sooner, and it's helping- I think/hope. It's hard for me to really get into the swing of things on the weekends though. He doesn't work on the weekends hes on standby. So, he was off this weekend- which was a nice change! We went to the fair, and had a nice time walking around, and looking at the animals. Elijah enjoyed it. We also have a nice new family friend, who happens to go to the same church as us. Her and her husband are a joy to be around! She's great with Elijah! And she's helped me with the nursery so much! She's helping with Elijah so much, helping potty train him, helping him with words, teaching him so much! She's like a second mom to him, which I'm ok with! She has a hard time getting on to him, but since he's starting to disobey her more and more, she's starting to put him into time out- which I'm ok

Elijah is growing up really fast! It's starting to hit me. He's almost two- he was running a fever of 102.7 the other day, which really scared me, because he never ran a fever that high before, but we think we know why now! Matthew checked his mouth today- noticed his top two, two year molars have popped through! And his bottom two are about to cut through! He didn't get his one year molars until around 14-15 months! haha! These are the first teeth he's ever gotten "on time" or "before time" He's talking so well! He plays ok with others.. In the nursery he plays awesome with others, but here at home, not so much. But, he's learning so much! I need to start putting him on the potty more. He's so short! His 24 month pants are way to big on him because of his legs! His waist isn't big either. He just has chubby cheeks. I'm trying to teach him not to tear down his blinds. He's messing them up so bad. I have to get his curtain rod back up, he tore it down. We had to take his toys out of his room,because when we would put him in his room for time out, he would play with his toys, so they are all in his closest! Which he can open the door, but at least he can't see them when he goes in there. He was weighed the other day- 30.6 pounds! He's so strong, and muscular!