Kaily Grant

My baby girl not only made it full term, but they finally had to induce me on Wednesday, June 13th the day after my 32nd birthday!

Family traits

On Thursday I had yet another ultrasound and the technician took a few great 3D pictures of the baby girl. I just can't get over how much she looks like Henry. Here's the latest pic of baby girl beside one of Henry when he was about 20 days old - same little nose and lips!

Pregnancy Update

We've been chugging through this pregnancy with just a few hiccups along the way.

At the end of March, I noticed one evening that I had been having quite a few contractions and by morning I was still noticing them. So I called the doc and they wanted to see me that day.

After a visit and a Non-Stress Test, they agreed that I was indeed having contractions and sent me over to the hospital. I went over around 5 in the afternoon and was there until 10:30 that night. While there I was given Procardia, a blood-pressure medicine that also happens to reduce contractions and was ordered to continue taking it every 6 hours. They also gave me a dose of steroids to help the baby's lungs develop, just in case I did go into labor anytime soon.

After the hospital trip, I was also put on modified bed rest which means to stay off my feet whenever possible, while still being able to get up to take a shower or make some lunch.

Luckily my job allows me to work from home when needed, so I began working from home the first week of April. It actually wasn't too big of a change, since I work remotely with the Chicago office most of the time. It is however, lonely and it didn't take long to realize that Stoli wasn't much for conversation. ;)

At this point, I got to start going into the office weekly and was getting ultrasounds every couple weeks to measure baby's progress, growth, oxygen levels, amniotic fluid and blood flow.

After this, we were going pretty good for a while and so excited to be hitting the weeks in the 30's.

At one of our many ultrasounds, baby's abdomen was measuring small and we realized that my placenta had started to mature and was not working as well as it should be. But as long as baby was still growing and not distressed, they wanted to leave her in there. So we were now seeing the doc twice a week, doing ultrasounds and NSTs just to keep an eye on the baby. My Dad joked that I need some kind of punch card to get every 10th ultrasound free. :D
 
On May 21st, week 35 and 5 days, I was having more then 4-6 contractions an hour, which was the cut off point for calling the doc. So yet again we found ourselves at the hospital. I stayed the night and was having consistent contractions 3 min apart all night, and knowing that this was the same week that we had Henry, we were just sure that we would be having a baby that next morning.

They upped my dose of meds to double the amount every 4 hours and somehow that managed to slow the contractions down. And we were able to go home by midday the following day.

So now we've made it to 36 weeks and would love to make it to 37, which is no longer considered pre-term. I'm still having contractions, but all the meds are slowing everything down. At this point, I'm kinda ready to have this baby and I'm more then thrilled to have even made it this far!

So here's hoping that we'll make it at least to May 30th, which marks our 37th week!

Baby on Board

Henry in his Big Brother shirt

As usual, I am so far behind on updating my blog that it is just ridiculous! As it turns out, we have some exciting news! We are expecting baby #2!

This time around I was definitely more sick and generally "pukey" feeling during the first trimester. And because Henry was early, I have all kinds of warning signs for having another preterm baby, so the pregnancy hasn't been perfect. However, I am feeling fantastic (except for an aching back and my tendency to catch every single cold and bug around). And baby seems to be doing well!

According to Henry, he also has a baby in his tummy and has been stuck on this notion for quite some time now. We thought for sure he would forget about it, but now we are hitting that point where we've had to start delivering the hard truth that boys can't have babies. I feel bad crushing his dreams like that, and especially because it's so darn cute to hear his progress reports. At one point, his baby was the size of a donut! (with pink frosting)  :)

Because of all my "high risk" issues, we've had several ultrasounds and decided that it would be fun to know this time around if we were good to go with baby products, or if I could start buying pink! As it turns out, it seems Hahn and I have broken the "Ainsworth Y chromosome curse!" because it's been confirmed at THREE separate ultrasounds, we are having a girl! I always hoped I would be lucky enough to get one of each and it seems my dream has come true. I just know this little girl is going to love and get along with her brother just like I did with Grant!

The due date is June 20th and this photo marks me at the 100 day countdown. I feel gigantic already and I still have a ways to go! We are taking weekly progesterone shots and doing other things to hopefully keep this baby in there for as long as we can. So hopefully my next big update will be sometime in June when baby arrives and I can share her photos!

Train Museum

Sam and Ed's little guy Jack is obsessed with trains! Henry has a love of them too, but not like Jack. So when Sam had heard about the Greeley Freight Station Museum and invited us to go along, we figured why not!

I really had no idea what to expect, but it was actually the coolest thing! A gigantic warehouse with the biggest collection of model trains I've ever seen! There must have been a dozen volunteers that ran the trains and the displays. They also had a collection of train memorabilia; signs, lights, tools, hard hat, etc. as well as an actual train car you could walk around in.

To add a little fun, they have a list of things to find in the displays as well as 5 dinosaurs that are hidden throughout as well. We had so much fun finding everything and exploring the museum!