Clumsiness & a trip to OHSU's ER

On Wednesday July 29th I had spent my day at the office in the nice A/C. By 5pm I was finally satisfied that I had done everything that I had intended to do for my day. I packed up and grabbed my laptop, purse, notebook and a sheet of paper that I needed to do some more work when I got home. I went to exit from behind my desk and my feet got tangled up with some boxes that were awaiting UPS to pick them up. I am not exactly sure how I didn't see the two boxes stacked on top of each other on the floor set neatly next to my desk....but apparently wasn't paying an ounce of attention to the floor. I did quite the ungraceful trip and fall and landed extremely hard on the lobby floor of my office. My laptop went flying, along with my purse, keys, notebook, etc. Next thing you know I am lying on the floor trying to figure out what just happened. I at this point am of course in tears and begin trying to get myself up off the floor. I am pretty sure my boss heard the loud noise of the boxes and the profanities I am sure I yelled as I was falling to the floor. He came running up to see what happened, and found me trying to get up off the floor....talk about embarrassing!

He helped me up and said, lets go get the blood cleaned up, so of course I look down and the first thing I see is blood on the belly of my shirt and I immediately freak out (being 5 months pregnant and all, my first thought was that I hurt the baby)....my boss then assured me it was just my elbow bleeding and not to worry. But I was already worried and extremely sore from the fall. After cleaning up the blood from the floor, my elbow and wherever else I could find it....I went back up front to grab my belongings and head out. I got in my car and immediately called Jared (sobbing of course, which totally freaked him out). I wasn't sure what to do, didn't really know what I had hurt, but very worried about the baby. I couldn't find the phone number to the after hours office for the doctor and neither could Jared, so I called my mom...again sobbing who helped me find the phone number. Once I had the number, I called and asked what I should do...if they needed to check me out to make sure the baby was ok, etc.

The doctor said when you are as far along as I am in pregnancy that it was imperative for me to come in and be monitored to make sure the baby was ok. I was almost to Linnton right outside of Portland and turned around and headed to the Emergency Room at the hospital. I was feeling like everything was ok, but honestly would have been worried sick for weeks if I hadn't have gone in. Once I got to OHSU, they escorted me up to Labor & Delivery (apparently you go here if you are 20 weeks along or further to be monitored rather than ER). I didn't want Jared to have to drive all the way to town as I was sure I was fine, but had my mom meet me at the hospital since she is much closer. They put me on a contraction monitor for 4 hours (I didn't have any...thank goodness). They also checked the baby's heart rate, which was perfectly normal. They also did an ultrasound and found that the baby was moving around and everything looked just great. They did find a pretty bad bump/bruise on my hip/butt and also did an x=ray of my elbow as I think it got the brunt of the damage. After a lot of questions and being checked over, they found that I was just pretty badly bruised, no broken bones or fractures, ultimately nothing else was wrong and the baby was ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!

I guess mommy instinct was to land on my elbow and side so not to harm the little guy. I spent about 5 hours at the hospital on Wednesday night, which isn't always the most exciting experience...but overall I am glad I went in and had them check me out. Hey at least they have A/C....I would have been miserably hot at home. ;-)

5 Months Preggers

Work in Progress

Several months ago when we were enjoying a family dinner, my Aunt Linda offered to help with the baby room bedding once we found out the gender of our baby. Well, a few weeks ago we began our fabric shopping now that we know we are having a boy!

Aunt Linda, my sister Jessica and I set out for a fabric excursion, and let me tell you, searching for the perfect baby room fabric is quite a challenge. Especially for me since I don't have a great sense of vision without a picture right in front of me. After many many hours wandering in fabric store after fabric store, I found what I thought would be perfect for our little guy's room.

It wasn't until Monday afternoon this week that Aunt Linda and I began attacking our sewing project for Baby Motherway. We had one final piece missing and headed out to one last store. As we wandered into Craft Warehouse, I was hopeful that we would finally tie the room together, I wasn't sure what was missing exactly until then. We found the last and final piece of fabric to tie the whole room together, and it was PERFECT.

After wandering the fabric section I couldn't help but pass up some incredible minky fabrics to make my very first baby blanket for our little guy. I am a sucker for new projects and very cute cuddly blankets, what can I say. Plus I tend to get a bit sidetracked from the actual project at hand. So of course we left the store with some great fabrics in hand and I couldn't wait to begin.

Below is part of the blanket project (which still needs to be finalized) with some brown minky dot fabric which is currently missing on the back. Keep in mind - this blanket doesn't match the baby room - but was a must have project:

Below is the beginning of the baby room bedding. Aunt Linda and I still have to hem the baby crib skirt - but now I know that it fits the crib and how much needs to be hemmed. I am SOOOOO excited at how our first piece turned out.

Three shots of the crib skirt on the crib:

Close up of the crib skirt, and some other views, as you can see it still needs to be hemmed at the bottom - but it gives the idea of what we are doing!!!

Thank you Aunt Linda....this is such a FUN project to work on with you!

19.5 Week Ultrasound/Appointment

Today was my 19.5 week ultrasound appointment, Jared was originally scheduled to go with me, however they are short on lineman this week so his boss asked him if he could skip this appointment. It all worked out because my sister Jessica was dying to go with me to an ultrasound, so I still had good company with me.

Anyway, the appointment today was a full anatomy check of our little guy. The ultrasound tech was checking his bones, legs, arms, hands, heart, brain, facial profile, stomach, spine, etc. This was the most extensive appointment we have had thus far. It was so crazy to see all the little details that are so important. Baby Motherway was super active today (as usual) so wasn't completely cooperating for his photos, etc.

The good news for today is that my marginal placenta previa is gone and my cervical length was 4.5 centimeters which apparently is really good and what they were hoping for. I guess if my cervical length was 2.5 centimeters or less at this point they would be more concerned about pre-term delivery prior to 30 weeks. Ultimately all news was good news today. I also met with a different doctor who I haven't seen before who extensively read my ultrasound once the tech's were done, as well as did a 15 minute clinic visit. I was literally at the doctor's office from 2-5pm today a full 3 hour doctor's visit...insane!

All in all the appointment was worth the wait, as I was given a lot of good information and saw some pretty incredible photos on the ultrasound screen of our baby!

Shot of the gender - from under the butt looking up!

Facial profile:

Next appointment is on August 18th!

19 Week Belly & Columbia County Fair

Jared and I went to the Columbia County Fair & Rodeo tonight. We went to see our little nephew Oliver do a fun event for specific age groups. I didn't get any photos of him doing his relay races, but we had such a great time. One of the relay races was with the horses on a stick....the idea was that the kids were supposed to put the stick between their legs and gallop back and forth across the horse arena. Well, instead of running straight back and forth, Oliver being the ham he is decided to make a huge CIRCLE on his stick horse around the entire arena. The announcer got such a kick out of it that he had the whole crowd cheering for our nephew. It was too cute!

Our nephew Oliver:
Anyway just a quick story for the day....and of course an updated belly photo of me:

4th of July

4th of July is always a big event for my family. We spend the late afternoon through late evening at a friends property out in Aurora. Over 150 people showed up for the BBQ and then over 200 attended the actual firework show. Jared, my stepdad Ken, stepbrother Chris and family friend Brad are all licensed pyrotechnicians. They spend so much time and money preparing for the big event. The firework show definitely never disappoints. Last year I was the "donation girl" and we collected $250.00 for the 2009 firework show. This year I collected $950.00 for the 2010 firework show. We invited more friends to join the event this year and I believe they had a blast.....can't wait till next years show!

Below is a picture of me and my friend Paige's son Liam (the fireworks were a bit loud for him). Our friend Don is in the background - he can't stay away from the cameras!

Another preggo shot of me at 17 weeks: