Oakley kate Pedersen

Oakley is here:) She was born on Sunday July 26 2009 @ 9:58pm. She was 4 weeks early, but is amazing! Here is a pic from when we took her home. I love this girl So much!

Labor Pains

On Sunday night I woke up to having some lovely contractions every 5-7 minutes, but thought I was crazy and tried not to wake Jason up or worry too much. After spending most of the night up I finally got up to get ready for work and went in. My contractions by this point were getting more intense and closer together so I called my doc and she told me to go into Labor and Delivery to get checked out. I went in and got monitored for a few hours and I was having the contractions at this point every 2-3 minutes lasting about a minute to a minute and a half. I am such a WUSS because I thought I was going to die! lol I have no idea how women do it:) They decided Oakley needed to cook a little longer and gave me some meds to stop it all. I am having contractions now every 10-15 minutes which is better, but still not lots of fun:) This is kinda gross, but I lost my "plug" yesterday morning as well so my doc said I am well on my way to getting Oakley here:) She said it could be anywhere from hours to a couple weeks! Its so crazy to me that she could be here anyday! I have had some good advice and help from friends that have had babies that I appreciate SO MUCH! I think I would be freaking out much more if it weren't for them. I will keep our blog posted on any updates or if Oakley decides she is ready to come:)

Crazy week

It has been a crazy week! Jasons dad has been in and out of the hospital since September and they could never figure out what was wrong. In early June he went into the hospital for emergency sx and got a lot of his intestine taken out. They told him recovery would be about a week... Over a month later he was still in the hospital because his body was not getting any better. They did another sx about 2 weeks ago and found out his intestine was all mushy and dying and there was nothing they could do about it. The family on Thursday decided to take out his breathing tubes and let him just have medication and oxygen to ease the pain and to let him pass when he was ready because the docs said he would have no quality of life if they kept him on the support. He survived the night Thursday and passed peacefully in the hospital with family at his side around 11:45 Friday. We had the viewing Monday night and the funeral on Tuesday. It has been very hard to watch just because he was only 49 years old. I wish my husbands family the best and want them to know I love them:)
On a lighter note Jason FINALLY decided on Oakleys middle name!!!! Yay!!! Her full name is going to be Oakley Kate Pedersen:) I am so excited and think Jas did a really good job on picking it out. We are getting so excited to meet her and so nervous at the same time! It is hard to believe Jas and I will have another life to look after. I went into the doc's today and I am measuring a little big, but right on track and she also informed me im border line of having preclamsia... I knew it all along! I have been swelling like crazy for a few months now and I am glad she is finally thinking it could be an issue. She just said she will keep watching me week by week and if she thinks taking Oakley early is necessary we will discuss it at that point. Only 29 more days though!!!! Yay!

4th of July weekend

Jason and I decided to get away for our last time before Oakley came into our lives.... My family always goes to St.George every 4th of July so we spent a few days with them. We just relaxed, went swimming, bought WAY 2 much for Oakley, and ate tons of food:) It was nice to get away.
I finally found the perfect curtains for the nursery and a couple other odds and ends so I am hoping to get it all done by this weekend:) It is hard to believe there is only like 35 days left until we get to meet our baby girl:) I love her so much and am so greatful that she was brought into our lives!