Much has happened since our last post many weeks ago. Our nursery is nearly baby ready, Mals belly has continued to grow and we had a practice run to the hospital and got to spend the night.
We finally decided on a crib set and colors for our nursery and purchased the entire furnitire set. We have the crib and armoire set up and we pick up the combo tomorrow. It's funny how the unborn baby gets entirely new everything while every single thing in our own room is secondhand. She's already spoiled. We decided to entice the family and give them the first letter in the name we have chosen (it's an E) and they are racking their brains to try and figure it out (they never will). Mal's parents came last weekend to help paint the nursery and a friend of ours is going to paint a mural on the wall that you can't see in the picture next week.
After two weeks of fighting a nasty cough and sore throat, I (Mal) was finally starting to feel a bit better and could semi-swallow. We went to a friend's house for dinner last Friday for homemade pizza and RockBand. Little did we know, that they had the flu, or would be getting it the next day. Saturday night I woke up with a stomach ache and ended up hanging over the toilet the entire night. When I couldn't stop throwing up, I asked Drew to call someone to help so he called the doctor to find out what to do. She recommended heading to the ER to get some fluids since I was probably dehydrated.
When we arrived, I was having some small contractions and was pretty delusional. (Ask Drew). They sent me to the OB to check out the baby and make sure I wasn't going into labor already. After an hour or so on the baby monitor, they said the contractions weren't labor pains and that I just needed fluid. So we traveled back down to the ER through a VERY back way and waited to get a couple bags of fluid through an IV. Three bags later, I was still dehydrated and throwing up so my doctor decided to admit me to the OB to monitor the baby and get me stable enough to go home.
I don't think I've ever felt worse in my life. They had to give me potassium along with pepcid and normal saline solution. I had a complete freak out when they gave me the potassium because it hurt so much going through my veins. I was very glad to find out the next day that it bothers everyone like that and I don't just have a low pain tolerance level! I was getting very nervous for how I would handle labor if I couldn't handle the IV fluid!!
After two days in the ER and OB, they finally thought I was hydrated enough to go home. The rest of this week has been very slow moving for me because I feel like a zombie still and its taken me all week to actually eat a meal! Anyone who knows me, knows this is very unusual.
As you can see in a picture here, I actually threw up so much that I busted many blood vessels in my eyes....making me look very creepy says my family. They look much better than they did in this picture...so be thankful if you didn't see me before this.
The last update we have is a new belly picture. This is at almost 32 weeks!!! Only 59 days to go (or sooner). :) Our first baby shower is next weekend and we are so excited to start getting stuff to fill her room up with!
