Happy 1 Month Bella Rose!

I know I'm backtracking but I really wanted to get on and post Bella's monthly updates. Hopefully I can get caught up to this month and be on track by the time she turns 4 months lol.

Happy ONE month beautiful! It has really been an amazing month. Of course the fist few weeks and months with a newborn are tough but I think we have done really well transitioning from one kid to two.  I give Bella all the credit. She is SUCH a good baby. Coming home from the hospital she was giving us 4-6 hour stretches of sleep. Unheard of for most newborns. In the first few weeks she would give us stretches ranging from 3-8 hours. Most of the time she averages 6 or so hours so it's WONDERFUL! Heck, Brayden was waking up every 2 maybe 3 hours forever.  I'm really fortunate, especially considering Brayden still doesn't sleep through the night.  She is an amazing nurser!! This girl LOVES to breast feed. Again i have to credit her with all of our success, she literally came out rooting for the boob and latched on right away. Bells is a marathon nurser. lol She normally eats every 2-3 hours but nurses for a minimum of 45+ minutes sometimes up to an hour and a half.  I'm not going to lie, I think my nipples were going to fall off a a few times, especially after she tore me the one time. But we haven't slowed down and she  is doing wonderful.  I can honestly say that I have not hit that "i don't think i can do this anymore" point with her, she has really made this an enjoyable experience for me overall. Considering Brayden was the opposite and i had NO supply, I'm truly grateful to get to have this time with her.

Since she's eating so well she has been gaining weight at an amazing rate.  We've had some ups and downs. She started presenting with reflux symptoms almost right away. Unfortunately we are all too familiar because of Brayden so I got her to the pedes and we started her on Prevacid.  The pedes usually likes to start with zantac but it never worked for Brayden so we skipped it.  Her pain and projectile vomiting got slightly better with the meds but she was def not feeling better. She was still having unexplained congestion, pain, mucousy stools ext. I knew exactly where this was headed. The pedes ordered an ultrasound to rule outPyloric Stenosis b/c of the excessive projectile vomiting. Fortunately that was ruled out.  In the end I knew it was time to start elimination diet if I wanted to continue to breastfeed b/c it has to be a milk allergy. The doctor recommended eliminating all dairy and soy at the same time because a lot of children have allergies to both.  Let me tell you how much dairy and soy is in EVERYTHING! It's amazing till you have to start reading labels how much is hidden in every day foods. This was and still is a hard transition for me. I LOVE dairy, milk and cheese are my BFF. lol But its definitely more important to keep breastfeeding and she is thriving. About a week in to the diet we were already seeing positive changes and two + weeks in she was doing great. So our suspicions were confirmed she definitely has milk and soy protein issues also known as MSPI.

For her one month birthday she gave us the gift of her first real big smile! She ABSOLUTELY melts my heart. I love all these milestones!  At one month she is still wearing NB clothes and diapers. At her pedes appointment she weighted in at 10lbs 1 oz (75%) and 22 1/2 inches(95%) long! She is one tall girl, and has the cutest little rolls on her thighs :)

Her demeanor is calm and relaxed. Bella always looks so serious but that face means she is happy and content. At one month you can already see her personality coming out! She is going to be my laid back and smiley one. Sounds perfect to me, since Brayden is out hyperactive high maintenance one lol

I am seriously so in love with this little girl. It's been a tough transition for Brayden but he is SO good with Bella and really loves her! I can't wait to watch them grow up together!

Speaking of Brayden and Bella it is UNCANNY how much these two look like twins. I guess you could technically say they are twins but implanted at different times since they were fertilized at the same time, but they seriously look so much alike! Here's some comparisons!

Happy 2nd Birthday Brayden Thomas!

I can't believe my little man is TWO! I seriously have no idea where time has gone! It's been a whirlwind of a year and he's growing up way too fast.  Happy Birthday Handsome!! I still see you as my little miracle baby we worked so hard for!  I love you!!!

Brayden's 2nd year appointment was postponed because of hurricane Sandy so I'll have to post those stats later.  Brayden has a wonderful birthday spent with close friends and family!  We did a Halloween theme party this year and he had a great time! The kids dressed up in costumes and we had trick or treat buckets for favors. Everyone was so generous and he was spoiled rotten. :)  

Since so much has happened in the last year here's some highlights of the ups and downs and all about Brayden!

* Brayden Became a big brother!! I was a little worried about how hard the transition would be for Bray when Bella finally arrived. Of course the first month was tough with some extra meltdowns and bad behavior but overall i think he did really well. Most importantly he didn't take anything out on Bells. He was clearly upset with us but has always been great with her. When she is sad or cries he will give her hugs and kisses and rubs her head to make it better. He's really such a great big brother. I can't wait to see these two grow up together. I'm sure we will have our share of not sharing and typical kid fights but all the memories they will have together will make up for it! 

* And the diagnosis is..... PFAPA (Periodic Fever, Aphthous-somatis, Pharyngitis, Adenitis). PFAPA you are the bane of my existence! At 13 months Brayden started having un-diagnosable fevers. They were cyclic coming every 3-4 weeks, lasting 7 days with fevers running 104-106.7 degrees WITH meds. Scary stuff. In February the fevers were out of control. We were dosing him every three hours alternating tylenol and advil and nothing would keep the fever under control. We had already had strep test, urinalysis and an x-ray to rule out any kind of pneumonia. We ended up taking him to the hospital three times that week. We first tried Virtua but they weren't much help. The next night the fevers were even worse and we took him to CHOP. They did a repeat urinalysis and blood work and weren't able to find anything so they sent us home. Two days later the fever was 106.7 an hour after meds so we took him back to CHOP. This time they did a wider range of testing to include bacterial and viral panels. Since the dr.'s would always say "oh it's probably viral" they wanted to make sure. He ended up being admitted with an IV in with his "big bird" arm.

 In the end all of his tests came back clear so they set us up with the specialist because my suspicions that he had PFAPA looked much more likely. The immunologist was great, thankfully all the genetic forms of Periodic Fever they tested for all came back negative and was officially diagnosed with PFAPA. Pfapa is when the fever switch is essentially broken. Its when the body creates and inflammatory response with OUT the presence of bacteria or viruses.  We started a treatment plan that includes him being on Cimetidine 3x a day and a super dose of prednisone at the onset of fever.  Thankfully the Cimetidine treatment has been increasing the time between episodes.  he went from 3-4 weeks to 44 days, 64 days then 9 weeks.  It's great they've spread out but when he skips a fever he still seems to get the aches and is miserable.  It's tough not knowing when his never fever is coming but I'm glad they're not so close. The prednisone is suppose to break the fever and shorten it. So far it's not doing that. One of his fevers was only 5 vs the 7 days but I don't know if that was b/c of the steriods or not. At his last follow up we also started him on allergy meds. He has allergies but meds like the Singular he is on have been shown to help reduce the inflammatory response so we will see. I haven't noticed much of a difference.

 We follow up in 4-6 months which puts us to Jan-Feb so we will see. I'm praying this winter isn't so bad. Having a compromised immune system can increase the intensity and frequency in PFAPA kids even though it's not viral or bacterial related. I just feel so bad that he has to go through this. Leave it to my kid to do things difficult.  It's so hard on him to go through the episodes. His mood dramatically changes before the fever, then it's a week of fever, chills, aches and pains and then it takes him almost a week to recover.  It kills me and breaks my heart that we have no control over it. I just pray he outgrows it sooner than later. They say they usually do by 10 but I'm hoping it's well before that.  

* GO GO GO! I  think he seriously says this like 30 times a day lol Brayden is obsessed with anything with wheels, cars, trucks, diggers you name it!  I love when we are driving and he sees trucks or construction vehicles working and get gets so excited!  He's also turning in to a back seat driver lol When we are at a red light he loves to yell GO GO GO when it turns green. At least it's another chance to practice colors. lol 

Sacrificing bella to the car gods?? 

* Books are his favorite! He loves getting new books and reading. Right now he's obsessed with his "It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" book that his grandma got him for Halloween. The fact that it makes sound effects is a double win. I love watching him on the monitor "reading" books to himself in his crib. And YES he is still in the crib, but he loves it and hasn't climbed out so we haven't converted it to a toddler bed yet.  lol  But he does use his love of books to procrastinate when it's bed or nap time. He will want you to keep reading him one book after another just so he can stay up... too smart for his own good :) 

* Brayden sucks as sleeping. I know that sounds harsh but he seriously still wakes up at night. He has probably MAYBE slept through the night 25-30 times in 2 years.  And when I say he wakes up I mean most nights he is in hysterics and crying. Most nights its only once but on the nights when it's more than one time it's tough.   I think we are kinds use to not sleeping but adding a newborn to the mix made it tough. Honestly we REALLY lucked out b/c bella came home from the hospital sleeping 4-6 hour stretches and then even longer in the weeks after. She must of known we needed a little bit of a break.  So for now we spit kid duty, jason takes care of Brayden if/when he wakes up and I take care of bella since we are still breast feeding.  I really don't know why he wakes up and hysterics break my heart! A lot of the time he does ask for milk and honestly it's just easier to give him some and he calms and goes to sleep. I'm sure that's not helping but during fever episode times we encourage him to drink even if it's 3x at night just to keep him hydrated so it's kind of become a catch 22. Fortunately he is a good napper most days so I'm hoping we can break his habit and get him sleeping better. 

* Bray had the most contagious smile and laughter. You can't help but laugh and be goofy with him, he is so much fun.   He has such a tender heart. He will occasionally jump up and hug and cuddle with you, even though he is always on the go. Its those moments that really make your day and make the tough times more than worth it.  He loves to run up to you and "tickle tickle" or growl and try and scare you. He cracks me up! how can you NOT love that face!  Speaking of that "face" he is such a manipulator. Apparently he's just like me as a child, he will intentionally give you the face to see if he can get what he wants... such a little stinker!

* Brayden LOVES music and dancing! He loves "dance" and pop music the most but will rock out to anything from Linkin Park to Michael Jackon.  He has some of the funniest and cutest dance moves. I love it!! Right now his current obsession is "Gangnam Style" He even tries to the do the dance.  It is PRICELESS!  

* Tantrum king! I love my son but man he throws the most EPIC tantrums. He is a very strong willed and independent and emotional person, which is great at times but when it comes to toddler tantrums it makes them 10 fold! I have tried EVERY approach to how to deal with them. Needless to say some times he really can test your patience.  I know it's the age and everyone says 3 is way worse so please wish us luck lol.  His latest thing is the word NO! And he's been saying it for everything and its in that nasty obnoxious way that every parent just LOVES lol. We are working on that one! We definitely don't let him walk all over us and he will learn to be respectful even if he doesn't like it ;) 

* Brayden loves being outdoors, well i don't know many kids that don't but he really loves being outside, running around and discovering his world. We've had all kinds of fun little trips this year to the parks, farms, beach ext, hence the million pics I post lol.  I felt awful while I was pregnant and was stuck on bed rest but we managed to get by. You can definitely see a difference when he doesn't get to run around and play and get all of his energy out.  He definitely keeps me on my toes! I think I'm in trouble when both kids are mobile!! 

I could seriously go on all day with memories and all the little quirks and things I absolutely love about Brayden and his personality. But I think this has been long enough so here's to another amazing year filled with love, hugs, kisses and memories! 

Playing Catch up!

I have seriously dropped off the face of the blogging world. Ever since Bella has been born I have been struggling to find time to actually sit down, open the lap top and write. I usually have time after Brayden is in bed but lets face it I have been tired and just plain lazy to sit down and try and articulate something that sounds even somewhat coherent. lol Okay I think I'm being a little dramatic since the transition from 1 to 2 kids has been fairly smooth. We've been really luck with how great of a baby Bella is. So i promise I will catch up on the last month, I really want to sit down and they Bella's birth story written and update on all the little things that have been going on.  In the mean time here's some cute pictures to hold you over :)

39 weeks! Only a few more days!

Whew we made it another week. I know I keep saying it but after 15 weeks of pre-term labor, 12 weeks of bed rest, 8 l&d trips I am floored that this little girl is determined to stay in. But in saying that I know better than to expect anything less from my body and my kids! lol We apparently LOVE to do things difficult. I had my weekly OB appt on Tuesday. I was REALLY excited for this appt b/c my regular OB was finally back from a month long overseas mission to Vietnam. Of course I knew he was going to laugh when he saw me still pregnant but be thrilled we made it this far. He had also promised me that if we made it this far they would induce me after 39 weeks so I don't have to keep waiting around in pain contracting wondering when this little girl would arrive. At my check I am still the same for effacement (70-80% depending on who does it) and am now 3cm. I was a little disappointed to not have progressed more with how I have been feeling but ANY progression is better than none at this point, and it's less I'll have to do while in labor, so i'll take it! 


He did schedule induction. We were hoping for Friday(at 39 weeks exactly) but he needs to be on when the do it, since he can't pawn me off on one of the other drs. Which I totally understand, but being told it was another week definitely hurt a little.  So we are all set for induction on Tuesday!  I still have my weekly appt that afternoon and we head over to Cooper to get things going at 4pm. Hopefully by the time we register and get set up they can get the cervadil in by 6. I was hoping that we could skip that part since it goes in for 12 hours since i'm already fairly thinned out and 3cm dilated, but the dr said that he would rather do it in hopes that it'll dilate me more and get me fully effaced before we start Pitocin Wednesday morning. In other words in hopes that it'll minimize the amount of Pitocin that is needed to get things going and get me fully dilated. Although I'm not looking forward to an extra night in the hospital if there is a chance that we can minimize Pitocin I am all for it. After my labor/birth experience with Brayden and having 2 non working epidurals, I can honestly say i am TERRIFIED of the Pitocin. Here's hoping this time my epidural works and we will be golden! Plus the 'condition' of my cervix is the opposite of when  I was induced with Brayden so we have that in our favor!


So we are hoping Bella makes her big debut on Wednesday!! I am beyond excited and anxious to meet her. I can't wait for Brayden to meet his little sister, he is going to be great with her. We did get him some presents as a big brother gift to give him at the hospital from Bella so i'm sure he will be excited for that too! I am still nervous about how Brayden is going to do with this big adjustment in the long run.  He is very mommy-centric and I'm sure once Jason goes back to work we are going to have to deal with some major jealousy issues. Not that I'm happy he's currently going through a fever episode but I'm glad its out of the way RIGHT before Bella arrives so that we don't have to worry about one for at least a few weeks. The episodes are hard enough on him let alone throwing a new sibling on top of it.  This will actually be the first time I have been away from him overnight. I think I will have a harder time than he will! lol  Fortunately my mom is going to be taking care of him and is going to bring him to our house to sleep so that he isn't even more disrupted by things with us not being around. Once Bella is born Jason is going to come home at night to be with him.  


In the mean time I am hoping and praying that this girl decides to make her appearance on her own. Mentally I think i have resolved myself to the fact that we WILL be induced, to make the wait a little easier. I feel bad being so impatient about things. I felt like I had so much more patience when I was pregnant with Brayden but I wasn't in pain for 15 weeks contracting like this time, so I think I'm entitled to be "done" lol  

How far along? 39 weeks!  I still can't believe after everything we made it this far :) 

Total weight gain/loss: lost 10, gained 25- shes head down

Sleep: not sleeping well b/c of the contractions and cramping, lovely pregnancy insomnia, tossing and turning, sciatic pain, hot flashes and having to pee a lot, restless leg pain

How big is baby? prob about 7.5+ lbs: about the size of a watermelon

Movement: she is head down and tends to favor laying on her left side, so i'm always getting kicked and punched on my right side, this little girls is STRONG :) The last few days her movement has dramatically decreased, hopefully it means good things to come, Bray was giant and he never slowed down with his movement so who knows! 

Symptoms: preterm contractions, menstral like cramps, exhausted, intense cervical pressure, restless legs, vericose vein pain, sciatica pain, reflux even with meds

Symptoms I DON'T have: nausea

Food cravings: chocolate milk, cherries

Food aversions: none this week

Gender:GIRL! * ~ Bella ~ *

Labor Signs:  LOTS of contractions, menstrual like cramps, and intense cervical pressure, 80% effaced and 3 cm dilated

Belly Button in or out?  in 

What I miss: not making 100 bathroom trips lol 

What I am looking forward to: meeting this little girl!!! 

DIY Coat Rack!

Our home is older and just plain sucks with the lack of closets and other places to put things and keep things organized. With 2 kids we definitely need more closet space for coats, hats and anything you can imagine.  I saw some really cute inspiration pieces on Pinterest and decided to make my own wall mounted coat rack to put behind the door in the kids room. The door opens in to a corner type cubby so I figured it would be the perfect pace to make a useful space.  Now that the coat rack is finished, I'm not sure if I want to put it behind the door b/c it is SO cute! lol It was actually pretty easy over all, I took some basic pics as I went for guidance if you feel inspired to make your own. After making this I really want to make a mini fabric covered hook thing for the front door to hang keys and all. Especially since we don't have an entry way, I think it would be cute to hang under the light switches.

I chose damask fabric (big surprise). Which doesn't exactly match either of the kids themes but I figured it's the colors I needed and it'll look cute and "eclectic" if anything. lol The room is mainly turquoise. The wood is a espresso so I thought the two would pop on the walls. Brayden's wall still needs to be painted. His wall will have the turquoise with white and darker turquoise horizontal stripes. It'll be cute when it's finished. Just finding a time to paint so his room can air out has been harder than we anticipated. 

I started with a long piece of wood. You can do different shapes, widths ext. to fit what you're looking for. I needed something about 20-24 inches wide that was narrower and wanted 4 knobs. I drew on my wood (since I was covering it) to figure out the spacing for the hooks. We did the 6" standard spacing b/w knobs and 2.5" extra space on the sides.  

You'll also need:

- saw to cut the wood to length

- sandpaper to soften the edges

- dill with bits to pre-drill screw holes

- fabric in desired print to fit wood size you selected 

- modge podge or spray ahdesive (i prefer modge podge b/c i have more control over it vs a spray)

- screw driver

- # knobs or hooks to fit the look you're going for (I did 2 girly and 2 boyish knobs)

- Optional* construction staple gun. ( i found it was easier to wrap and finish off the ends with the stapler and secure the fabric after it was glued around the edges on the back to make sure it wasn't going anywhere)

- mountable triangle hooks for the back to hang it on the wall. ( i still need to do this part)

- exacto knife or blade

Pre-drill the holes for the knobs or screw holes for your hooks so you won't ruin your fabric when you attach them.  

Next, cut fabric to the size needed, allowing extra to wrap around to the back and to be able to fold over the edges.  I then spread a thin layer of modge podge on the front of the coat rack and laid out my fabric. If you're using a pattern fabric it can be a little tricky to make sure the pattern is straight. That's why i only use a thin coat of the glue so its just sticky and you can pull the fabric up and reposition it as needed.  

Follow the same procedure of glueing and laying the fabric over the edges and on to the back.  For the ends, I messed around with folding the fabric to get the look I desired. I then used the staple gun to tack it down since glue would of been a pain. I also took the staple gun and did a few staples close to the edge, down the wood to make sure the fabric wouldn't go anywhere.  Make sure when u wrap the fabric you don't cover the holes on the BACK if you're using knobs so u can feed the screw through. 

After everything was glues and tacked in to place I used my exacto knife to poke thru the fabric where I pre-drilled my screw holes. This way I could feed the screws through the back to the front to screw the knobs on.  

All that is left to do is put your mounting hooks on. Depending on what you are hanging on here you could still use wall anchor screws or just nails to hang it when you're done.  Mount your triangle hooks toward the ends of your rack  on the back. Make sure you put them far enough down so that you don't see them when the rack is hanging on the wall.  I still need to do this part so I don't have pictures but hopefully you get the point.  

You can embellish and decorate your rack any way you like at this point! Enjoy! 

38 weeks! Almost there!

Its been another intense weeks of crazy contractions, back labor and pain. I'm definitely exhausted mentally and physically at his point and can't wait to meet this little girl! We have been trying EVERYTHING to get my contractions to stay regular. On their own they will get in to labor patterns and then after hours slow back down. I'm still on EPO (evening primrose oil) to keep my cervix ripe, red raspberry leaf (to help contractions stay effective), I keep walking, having sex, birthing ball, marathon nipple stimulation sessions with the pump and even castor oil. Apparently my body just isn't ready for full fledge labor but the least it could do it give me a break then and stop the pain for a little bit. I did dilate a little bit more this week. Anything is better than nothing, and she had been fully engaged hard wedged in my cervix for some time. I'll ask the ob what station she is at on Tuesday but i thought it was -1 last wed.  The ob told me they would induce at 39 weeks on the day which is next Friday so i am hoping and praying that it won't be an issue getting us in when I see him on tues! wish us luck! 

How far along? 3/ weeks!  One more week to go! 

Total weight gain/loss: lost 10, gained 23- shes head down

Sleep: not sleeping well b/c of the contractions and cramping, tossing and turning, sciatic pain, hot flashes and having to pee a lot, restless leg pain

How big is baby? prob about 7+ lbs: about the size of a pumpkin

Movement: she is head down and tends to favor laying on her left side, so i'm always getting kicked and punched on my right side, this little girls is STRONG :) 

Symptoms: preterm contractions, menstral like cramps, exhausted, intense cervical pressure, restless legs, vericose vein pain, sciatica pain, reflux even with meds

Symptoms I DON'T have: nausea

Food cravings: my home made decaf ice tea, cherries

Food aversions: none this week

Gender:GIRL! * ~ Bella ~ *

Labor Signs:  LOTS of contractions, menstral like cramps, and intense cervical pressure, 80% effaced and 2 cm dilated

Belly Button in or out?  in 

What I miss: not making 100 bathroom trips lol 

What I am looking forward to: meeting this little girl!!! 

37 weeks! I can't believe we made it full term!

I seriously can't believe we have made it to full term. Its awesome but when we started all this preterm labor stuff at 24.5 weeks I seriously thought she would have arrived by now. It's bittersweet because I want her to stay in as long as possible but the amount of pain I continue to be in with the contractions is really intense.  I think that I had prepared myself mentally that there was a chance she was going to come early so with everything I am more than ready for her arrival.  She dropped a LOT in the last week. The pressure is really intense b/c she is hard pressed against my cervix and it's making my pelvic bone a little sore. It definitely doesn't stop her from her usual punches, kicks and rolls. 

This weeks has been another roller coaster.  On Tuesday her movement dropped dramatically, to the point where I wasn't getting much if any movement from her no matter what  I did. I had a really rough day of contractions so I was chalking it up to that, but by late night (her usual beat mommy session) didn't happen I started to get worried. I woke up around 6am on wed and still wasn't feeling her move. I drank 16oz of orange juice and was poking and prodding her and barely got 3 movements. I called the on call dr and they sent me up to triage to get her checked out. Her heart rate was great, she's always in the 150's and her accelerations were good. For a little while her heart rate was really high, that said it was too high b/c it was staying b/w 190 and 200. So they kept me on the monitor to play is safe and her HR came back down.  She did start moving a little while I was there. Thank god, and they did an ultrasound and her fluid levels looked perfect.  The rest of that day she moved some but not her regular strength or pattern but she was fortunately back to normal as of yesterday.  While I was in triage the one nurse was trying to give me the "its the end of your pregnancy and sometimes movement slows b/c they're loosing space" lecture. Okay lady I know that, this is not my first child and there is a HUGE difference b/w a pattern change and slowed movement versus feeling nothing.  She wasn't rude about it but I hate when they talk to you like you're a moron. I waited almost 24 hrs to see if things changed before I even went in.  

Otherwise things have been okay. I keep having stretches where it seems like labor is starting. The contractions are timeable, consistent and getting closer over time.  But after 4-6 hrs they start to spread back out. SO frustrating. I try to not get my hopes up when it happens anymore, i think when/if I go in to labor I'm prob not going to believe it. Hopefully my water breaks b/c at least then I know it's go time.  It broke on it's on with Brayden during induction, but I guess it's wishful thinking.  


So we only have 2 more weeks to go at the most.  I am hoping and praying that I will be able to avoid induction (39 weeks) but so far nothing we have done has helped things to progress. Seems kinda backwards since we've been trying so hard to keep her in, but we all know I do things difficult. lol Guess we will see what she has in store for us! Even the ob told her that once I hit 37 weeks it's time to make her debut! Hopefully she gets the message :) 

How far along? 37 weeks!  We made it to FULL TERM! 

Total weight gain/loss: lost 10, gained 21- shes head down

Sleep: not sleeping well b/c of the contractions and cramping, tossing and turning, sciatic pain, hot flashes and having to pee a lot, restless leg pain

How big is baby? prob about 6.5-7 lbs: about the size of a little watermelon

Best moment this week: making it to full term! 

Movement: she is head down and tends to favor laying on her left side, so i'm always getting kicked and punched on my right side, this little girls is STRONG :) 

Symptoms: preterm contractions, menstral like cramps, exhausted, intense cervical pressure, restless legs, vericose vein pain, sciatica pain, reflux even with meds

Symptoms I DON'T have: nausea

Food cravings: my home made decaf ice tea, brownies

Food aversions: none this week

Gender:GIRL! * ~ Bella ~ *

Labor Signs:  LOTS of contractions, menstral like cramps, and intense cervical pressure, 80% effaced and 2 cm dilated

Belly Button in or out?  in 

What I miss: not making 100 bathroom trips lol 

What I am looking forward to: meeting this little girl!!!