30 Week Ultrasound

I know I said I would post a belly picture but I can't seem to remember to take one. So it might have to come later.

Yesterday we were able to see our "well nourished" baby girl Paige. Her head is down towards my left hip and her bum is snuggled by my right rib cage. She gave the ultrasound tech a few nudges during the whole process. I was amazed at how clear the ultrasound was and that we could see her big chubby cheeks. According to the ultrasound estimate she is weighing in at 3.7 lbs. this would put her at a week early if not two weeks. The guys at my office are going to start a pool on how much she is going to weigh. Also you can already see that Paige has some hair on her head, now the question is will it be blond or brown?

We met with Dr. B so she could go over the ultrasound with us. Dr. B has a few questions about some of the pictures, so she is sending us to a specialist to get a better look at baby Paige. Paige's head in one picture was round and in another it was not as round it had a few angles. I tried to tell Dr. B that square heads run in my family, just look at my dad, brother, niece and nephew, they all have square heads and I guess I kind of do too. Dr. B just laughed at my comment and then shared it with the nurses later to give them a good laugh too. Dr. B also said that it looks as though Paige could have clubbed feet, but won't know for sure till we go to the specialist. A few other things she added in there was that my glucose levels were really low that I'm almost hypoglycemic and that I'm on the verge of having too much amniotic fluid.

So we will be seeing the specialist on Monday in hopes to find out that everything is either ok or an easy fix. So please be praying for baby Paige and Corey and I. Corey has been completely encouraging and positive and I can't imagine going through this with anyone else. I know he worries, but he tries to be the strong one cause he knows I might crumble at any given moment.

Seeing Paige in the ultrasound makes me so excited to meet her in person!! She truly is a gift to us.

Week 28 and Glucose Testing

I have waiting to post this because I was waiting to hear my results from the Glucose testing but I'm just going to assume no news is good news.

The glucose drink isn't as bad as people say it is. What was bad was how I felt afterwards. I was thankful that I was in a room waiting on the doctor instead of the waiting waiting room. There were times I thought I was going to pass out or throw up. I'm not a big sugar person. I might have a piece of chocolate once a week if that. Don't get me wrong I love dessert, but I just don't crave it. So after drinking basically 8 oz. of sugar, I'm not surprised I felt the way I did. Paige was going crazy, I thought she was going to punch a hole in my tummy like on an alien movie. It took the nurse about 3 minuets to finally corner Paige in order to get a good heartbeat reading. She was very active which makes me excited to see her in the ultrasound we have on the 27th.

Paige's heartbeat was at 145 and the doctor said she was a well nourished baby. When we did my weigh in at the beginning of my appointment I asked the nurse to not write my weight down because I didn't want to get gripped out by Dr. B again, she just laughed and said not to worry about it. I'm assuming that the "well nourished baby" comment was her way of saying I'm eating well or eating too much. So as we walked out of the room I thanked Dr. B for not making any comments about my weight gain and nurses in the hall way just laughed. I like Dr. B and am grateful that she is always upfront and honest with me.

No belly picture this week, because I don't feel as though I look any different than the last one two weeks ago, but I will take one when I have my next appointment at 30 weeks.

We've Moved

We are officially moved and unpacked!!!

Moving was an ordeal, but after a few bumps in the road we got it all moved in and unpacked. The only painting that has and will be done before Paige gets here is her room and the guest bedroom, the rest can wait until I can help. Poor Corey hates painting, but he was a trooper and did a great job painting both rooms.

So here is Paige's room before (prior to the people moving out)



Here is her room after Corey painted and we assembled her furniture.



In the chair is the baby doll my grandmother made me swaddled up. I was showing Corey how to swaddle using a receiving blanket. Next I will show him how to put a diaper on. I know they demonstrate these things in the birth class, but I don't want Corey going in blind.



This is Paige's dresser and changing station, her closet is to the right.



Next thing to do is decorate. I have been looking for bedding and a diaper bag for over a year now. After finding out Paige was a girl we decided that we were no longer going to do neutral bedding that we would go with something a little more girl. This made the decision even more difficult. We have now purchased and returned one set of bedding and are hoping this weekend will be the final and correct purchase. Now the diaper bag has finally been purchased after several conversations with some experienced moms and with Corey's help. I'm realizing that I'm not in the state of mind to be making decisions, Corey is waiting for me to return the diaper bag, but after carrying it around and putting a few things in it I love it more and more each day and I feel pretty confident about it.

Baby bedding and a diaper bag are for some reason two things that were important to me. Baby bedding is something that sets the tone for all the decorating in the room. I'm not a great decorator so if I could find something that lets me go any direction, I will be happy. Now a diaper bag is important to me because it's like an emergency/survival kit for babies and mommies. It will carry a change of clothes, diapers, wipes, a bottle or 3, pacifiers, 5 burp cloths, aspirin for mommy, mommies wallet, books, toys and anything else you might need. It's something that you will carry till your child is out of diapers. A diaper bag is something I want to last through all of our kids or at least through 2 kids.

Blog post to come: Progress on Paige's room and the spare bedroom, our 30 week ultrasound, and our 3D ultrasound.

26 Weeks

I can't believe we are at 26 weeks. I have been feeling Paige kick a lot lately. Corey felt her kick for the first time at the end of 22 weeks. This past week Paige was kicking after dinner one time and Corey put is hand on my belly and she kicked so hard his hand moved with my belly. I think he was shocked how intense her kicks were. She is kind of on a retinue of kicking the most and hardest right before lunch and right after dinner. I wonder is this pattern will continue after she is born. Did anyone else have a baby with a pattern in the womb that resembled a pattern after they were born?

This is our last belly picture in this house. I can't believe we move tomorrow!!


Our 26 week appointment was this morning. Paige's heartbeat was at 154!! I got a little bit of a butt chewing about how much weight I gained from Dr. B. I think I'm either going to have a 9 pound baby or all the weight is going to my ankles, or should I say my now developed kankles. I tried to blame it on water weight but she didn't believe that either. Am I really eating that much??

22 Week Check up and other news

I was so excited to be able to hear Paige this morning. I'm thankful that I'm able to share her heartbeat with family. This morning my dad and Mauri we able to come and hear Paige's heartbeat. I know that a heartbeat is just that a heartbeat, but to me it's the most comforting sound ever. Dr. B said that everything is going fine and she still has a strong heartbeat of 153!!

Some people have been asking why my stomach is so flat in the front and I decided to ask Dr. B. She said that things should be filled out in another month. It's most likely because not all my fabulous stomach muscle have relaxed yet, but they will. Other great news is I can ride in the boat, the driver just needs to take it easy. And since I don't like being helpless, the other great news is I can lift as much as I feel comfortable lifting. Which this piece of information is use full for our news.

WE'RE MOVING out of our first house and into another house in Edmond. Every time I think of our house and leaving it I get sad. I always pictured us bring our first child home to this house, but now Paige will have plenty of room to play and grow in. This is how our house looked when we moved in. This is our house now. New windows, paint, roof, landscaping... We love our house, but we look forward to having a house we can grow in.

22 Weeks

Here is Paige and I at 22 weeks.



She is getting bigger and stronger, I have actually started to feel her kick a little in the evenings around 10. Please excuse my belly but here is a picture of Bella trying to feel Paige kick. I had sat next to Corey after feeling Miss Paige kick and he tried to feel her kick but gave up after a couple of minuets. Bella is a lady and sits most of the time with her legs crossed, I didn't pose her this way.



There are a lot of changes going on in our household lately I will post one of those changes here next.

18 Weeks & Mother's Day

Here is my belly at 18 weeks, sorry for the shadow. As you can see my normal shirts aren't quite fitting like they use to.

So I'm posting two weeks late but better late than never.

We went to our 18 week appointment on Tuesday May 4th, to find out if we were having a boy or a girl. A couple of days before any doctors visit I start to getting nervous and excited at the same time. This time I was counting down the days and hours before our appointment. We both took the afternoon off to enjoy our exciting new news. Our ultrasound tech was extremely nice and went over everything she was doing and measuring. I think they wait to tell us the sex till the end on purpose.

Well we are having a baby girl, Paige McKenzie Bolding. She is still measuring for our due date of October 3rd and everything is looking good from what they can tell. We were informed that my Placenta is on the front and not in the back towards my spine. They said it was fine because it was high, but it will just take me longer to feel Paige move and kick. Knowing this helps me not panic because I haven't felt her kick yet. On a side note, my friend Sami also goes to Dr. Barki and told Rhonda our nurse to hand me the pink envelope if it was a girl and the blue one if it was a boy. Her sweet note made me cry, she was so thoughtful to surprise us with a note.

Let me just say I was shocked, I had no clue Paige was a girl, but we could not be more excited. All I could say to Corey when we got in the car was, "What do you do with a girl?" I was a total tomboy growing up because I had an older brother, I just hope I do a great job of raising a girl. She will be well coordinated (thanks to Corey) and will be able to throw a football better than any boy. I just can't wait to meet her.



Here is Miss Paige!

How we told our parents we were having a girl:
Corey and I (mainly me) wanted to wait to tell our parents what were having until Mother's Day, I thought it would be a great gift for our mom's. Well Corey's parents couldn't do Sunday so we went over there Saturday night. Corey passed out their mother's day cards from Paige before we ate dinner. They were all very excited and shocked that it wasn't a boy. My dad and Mauri were the only one of our parents that thought it was going to be a girl.

After dinner and on our way home we called my mom. I mailed her a card that you can record your voice in. I recorded my voice saying "Happy Mothers Day, we are having a .... I'll call you tonight to tell you" but she didn't get the card til Monday. Out of everyone reactions I thought my mom would be the most dramatic and it kind of was. We told her she was having a grand-daugther and we heard silence. She asked if we were kidding and then there was more silence. I called her later to find out what the deal was and I think for the first time in a long time we made her speechless. My mom kept saying she had Mother intuition and just knew it was a boy. So she was definitely shocked at the time, but couldn't be more excited to have a healthy grand-daugther.

Sunday has now arrived and we went to my parents for lunch and to tell them the news. We were going to do the same things we did for Corey's parents but I left not only the cards at our house, but also my dad's birthday gift. I think it worked out for the better. Mauri was finishing up cooking and everyone was in the kitchen so we just told them. They were really excited.

Now for my Mother's Day! This was the best mother's day ever for me. I actually thought Corey had forgotten about me. I got up to go to the bathroom and Corey said that while I'm up, he thinks Paige left me a note in her rocking chair in her room. Paige's (aka Corey's) letter to me was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better Mother's day note. Paige talked about how much she appreciated me taking care of her and giving her the nutrition that she needed and how my giggles tickle her. Thinking about everything that was written right now is making me tear up. I always knew that Corey was going to make a amazing dad, but this letter just proved it to me even more. At the bottom of the note it said P.S. I know this day is about you, but dad said it would be ok if you went shopping for me today if it's ok with you. I was totally excited to go shopping for Miss Paige. I love to buy girl clothes. So that evening we did just that, we went shop'n!