What will William look like?

I'm pretty partial to brown eyes (obviously biased as I have brown eyes) and I always tell Matt that I hope William has my brown eyes. Everything else... happy to relinquish Matt's boyish good looks to William. Well, no reason to wait any further to find out what he'll look like because morphthing.com already knows!

TA-DA!

His eyes look grey/blue here though! Ok, maybe he won't look like this at all -- but it was pretty funny to give it a whirl.

We are having a 3D/4D ultrasound next month and will be able to see some actual facial features prior to D-Day. Keep you posted on who William looks more like!    

Handyman Strikes Again!

It was a gloriously rainy and overcast weekend in Orlando. I never see a full day of rain around here and I really do love the type of day where you're just content to stay home in your pajamas! It was also the perfect weekend for the handyman to strike again! Matt tackled another item on the "to do" list -- William's closet!

Maggie wondering what fool would go out in this weather

A couple years ago I was out of town for a friend's bachelorette party and upon my return home Matt surprised me with a completely redesigned master closet completed all by himself -- so I knew this would be a simple task in comparison. We went to Ikea and got all the supplies on Sunday afternoon then by Sunday evening he finished the most difficult part of the job. Basically, I was looking to divide the closet into two sides -- one side having a small hamper and drawers then the other side having a few rows to hang clothing. The rows are the easy part and he needed a couple more items from Home Depot to finish it up, so the closet is 95% done here. Great job, handyman Matt! 



The nearly finished product



Hard at work

Also new this week... it has become more obvious that I am pregnant (instead of maybe she needs to do some sit-ups). Yesterday at the grocery store I was wearing a pretty loose gym shirt and the cashier at check-out asked, "You got a bump under there?" No fooling anyone anymore! A picture from this past weekend on my way to my friends, Katie and Alan's engagement party. 24 weeks / 6 months along!



24 weeks / 6 months



Drinkin' Champagne, Feelin' No Pain

I have only told a handful of people, since the situation only became a situation recently... but even prior to getting pregnant, my blood platelets levels have been lower than the norm. Not a big deal though because I have never had any symptoms of low blood platelets (bloody nose, bruising easily, etc). It is very possible to have low blood platelets and function completely normally. The only problem is with pregnancy the blood platelet level may drop more than usual, which is exactly what happened to me a couple weeks ago. My ob/gyn called to let me know they had dropped from the 120-ish range to 85 (ideal being 145+) at my last appointment. Not happy. See, the problem is... when blood platelets drop below 100 then the ob/gyn group I see will not administer an epidural! As in -- you're going to be delivering the natural way!  

AHHHHHH!!!

Now I know epidurals have not been around forever and bazillions of women before me have delivered naturally -- some even CHOOSE to do so today. I on the other hand would rather be feelin' no pain. 

As a result of the drop to 85 my ob/gyn referred me to a hematologist, who Matt and I met with today. Good news! Blood platelets are back up and higher than they were before. Now in the 130-ish range. The hematologist was really great and she said there is absolutely no cause for concern at this time. She recommended that we continue to draw blood to check the platelet count every 4 weeks for the next 8 weeks then after 8 weeks we will determine whether I should be back in the office having my blood drawn weekly or bi-weekly leading up to D-Day. Such a relief because already I was stressing out thinking... now I need to find one of these ladies called a doula and take natural birth classes and see a specialist more often... but for now, I am in the clear and I am definitely crossing my fingers that everything remains status quo. 

I'll leave you with my theme song for (hopefully) DELIVERY DAY as sung by one of my absolute favorites -- Willie Nelson. The title of the song being more appropriate than the actual context of the song.