Here she comes!

So it's the night before my scheduled C-section and I've been saying for days I would blog to review the last half of my pregnancy with Laynie but in classic Adriana style, here I am doing it the night before delivery time! I went back and read the blogs I've written about this pregnancy and laughed when I read the part where I said I wanted to blog more regularly so that I wouldn't forget anything. I should know myself much better than that! What can I say, I am who I am!! :)

The last time I blogged I was 22 weeks in March and had 17 weeks to go. I have to say, this pregnancy has seemed to take a VERY long time!! I don't remember feeling like it took this long with Rex. I think the reason I feel this way is because I got big so much quicker and started feeling uncomfortable so much quicker so that made for a longer period of time that I felt rather large :)

Laynie has continued to be a very active little girl in utero throughout the pregnancy. Every time I went to the doctor and they put the doppler on to get her heart rate, it took a few minutes to find her heart beat because she moves so much! They always ask if she has a side she prefers and my answer was always no because she is just everywhere! They would find her heartbeat for a second then she would move and they'd have to search again! She was so active that I even asked the doctor at one point if it was normal that she moved so erratically so often. They assured me it was perfectly normal! Here towards the end, she definitely did show a preference for my right side, I can always feel a foot or an elbow or something small and bony way on my right side. It's amazing to this she has taken over my body that much!! Rex preferred the right side too. She gets hiccups quite a bit also. We did the 4D ultrasound when I was 32 weeks pregnant on June 7. She gave us lots of great shots! We saw her open her eyes and suck on her hands. She got fussy a few times too! It was quite a show to see her in my belly!

At 34 weeks, I had my last ultrasound. Everything looked perfectly fine and she was weighing about 5 pounds, 4 ounces. As of my 38 week appointment, I had gained 19 pounds. 3 of those pounds had been gained between weeks 36-38! I gained 18 pounds with Rex so I'm maintaining pretty much the same numbers.

On June 22, Ashley, Jenny and my mom hosted a Luau "sprinkle" for me at Ashley's house. We had cocktails and mocktails and my step brothers famous lasagna from his restaurant in Texas City. It was the perfect sprinkle with my closest family and friends! Pretty much everyone got me clothes which is what I needed the most. We were very adamant about buying everything gender neutral when we had Rex in case we had a girl the second time so that we could re-use everything. Our plan definitely worked and pretty much everything Rex used, Laynie will be using. Laynie will definitely not have any excuse for not being the cutest kid around with all of the cute clothes she got! I had a reality check that I'm having a girl when I packed her bag for the hospital. I realized then that I had to match her bows to the outfits that I had chosen and it hit me that I will have to do this on a daily basis! If you know me, You know I'm not much of a frilly person. I rarely do anything with my hair beside flat ironing my already flat hair and my poor Rexy's hair is a hot mess most of the time. The thought of having to match this little girl's outfit and accessories and make sure her hair is done is a little intimidating!! Hopefully I come into some more girlyness so that I can make all those cute outfits look extra cute on Laynie! haha!

This last month and a half, I have been on summer vacation so it's been nice being home and being able to rest when I'm tired rather than having to be at work on my feet all day. I walk around campus all day long and I'm not sure I would have made it this far if I had been working so being on summer vacation has definitely been a blessing. Not to mention it allowed me extra quality time to spend with Rex before he becomes a big brother. We've done a lot of playing and swimming with Scarlet. Beyond that, we've spent most of our time at home or running errands or visiting with Nini and Grandpa (my mom and Eli) and Momo and my Aunt Mary Lynne. We've done a lot of wrapping up details awaiting Ms. Laynie of course. Well, I have, not so much Rex :) I've tried to stay decently busy, especially this last week. Tuesday I was out and about running errands all day and today we took the kids swimming, visited with Ashley, Scarlet and Lucy, went by Aunt Mary Lynnes for my Momo to give me a blessing before delivery, then had friends over to cook some fish. It definitely made the week go by much quicker.

I have to admit, this pregnancy has been much harder than my pregnancy with Rex (or at least what I recall of Rex's). It has been harder physically and emotionally as well, especially the last 2 months, starting with the passing of one of my closest friends from high school on May 23. Sadly about 2 weeks later, my Uncle Raymond passed away. Those two things along with some other emotional battles and just being over all much much more emotional this time has made for a lot of tears these last couple of months. Some of it was pure emotional crazyness! My favorite crazy pregnant lady story was the time Corey ate the little bit of some delicious fettucini I had left in my bowl and I broke down and cried. I literally cried and cried because he ate it!! (In his defense, there was some left in the pan that he was planning to replace what he ate with but I was so set on finishing that little bit that I was just heart broken!)What's funny is that I also knew that it was completely crazy that I was crying about that so as I was crying, I was saying "this is so stupid!! I can't wait to tell Ashley about this!!!" I have to say, my husband has handled my emotions very well and it has made me love him even more because of his patience. I'm a lucky girl to have him!!

I had hoped throughout my pregnancy that Laynie would decide to come on her own without me making it to my scheduled c-section date because I didn't like knowing when her birthday would be. Obviously, she didn't get the memo nor did God so that clearly was not His plan! And that's fine by me! Its been sort of a surreal feeling all day knowing that I will give birth to a baby tomorrow morning! I've tried not to think about it too much so that I don't get nervous about the surgery but as I'm sure anyone can imagine, it isn't so easy to not think about it! After all, it is one of the biggest days of my life!! I'm praying for a smooth and problem free delivery and surgery and also praying very hard for better success with nursing this time than I did with Rex.

I think one of the things I'm most worried about is my little Rexy, Although we've tried really hard to tell Rex that a baby is coming, he definitely has not grasped the concept. I hope and pray it's an easy adjustment for him. I think he'll do great, especially since he's gotten to see Baby Lucy. He's very sweet and gentle with her so I'm praying he will be the same with Laynie. I'd put money on it that he thinks Laynie is Lucy when he sees her tomorrow. Every baby he sees, he says is Baby Lucy! I can't wait to see what he says and how he reacts tomorrow.

I can't believe that in 7 short hours, I will be at the hospital getting prepped for surgery to deliver our baby girl! On that note, I better get as much sleep as I can! We have quite a busy day ahead of us tomorrow!

We can't wait to meet you Laynie Magdalena!! You are already loved by so so many people who just cannot wait to see you! We can't wait to see what you look like and mommy can't wait to see if you are as active outside of her belly as you have been inside!! We prayed so hard for you and you are such a blessing to us already!! See you soon baby!!