Will Ady's first word be @$*&!!

Good Lord I hope not.

Building the nursery

All new babies need some place to call their own. It was finally time to build a nursery.

Baby Nursery

Baby Davis Update (June 4)

The last doctor appointment went great. We got to see her, again, and she’s growing so, so much right now. We actually got a photo of her looking at us with her eyes open and smiling. It was quite awesome (& a bit emotional, too)!!  Babycenter.com compares her to a cantaloupe and says she’s about 18 inches long. 

She weighed 4 pounds and 2 ounces last Tuesday so she may be up to 5 pounds now. I feel like she is. I’ve started noticing the Braxton Hicks contractions more and more. For my girlfriends that don’t know what those are, they are false contractions allowing my body to practice for the real ones. :-) They come are such random times and can be pretty intense. The first one scared the crap out of me because Brian was out of town.

June 17^th (Week 36) starts our weekly doctor’s appointment. I can’t believe we are to that point already. I have a co-worker that’s due the same time and we are both amazed at how quickly time has passed.  

Her nursery is 85-90% competed and we’re pretty happy with it. We are going to put her name on the wall where the changing table is. We also still have to get a mattress and put together the glider/rocker. That will go where the basinet is and the basinet will be moved into our room. 

There are a few more odds and ends we have to wrap up but if she was to arrive today we would be very comfortable bring her home. 

I got home yesterday and Brian had already put together the travel system (stroller/car seat) and was installing the new light we got for her room last weekend. 

We had such a fabulous time at each Baby Shower! We are so very blessed to have received a ton of much needed items for our little girl. We are truly blessed with caring and thoughtful family members and friends. 

With six weeks to go, I’m pretty much just hanging out around the house, playing in my flower beds or trying to plan/organize everything (which I know you can’t do) before she gets here. 

Brian has his hands full with the NCAA baseball championship. His biggest fear is that I go into labor while he’s out of town (that’s actually mine too).  

We look forward to sharing at least a couple more e-mail updates before her arrival NEXT MONTH. WOW!!!

Shush! Time to sleep, at least that's what she was doing on this doctor's visit on May 27.

Baby Davis Update (May 1)

Hello Everyone,

We are checking-in to update you on our progress as we head into the home stretch. We are now in the third trimester and ONLY 11 weeks away from her due date (July 17).

Our little girl still has a strong heart beat, is a whopping 3 pounds and looks to be a future track star as she's sporting a pair of long legs (shocker). She remains very active and tickles her daddy when he gets to feel her move around or when she has a case of hiccups.

We started our every-other-week visits to the doctor last week, which should make time go by quicker. I feel like I've been stuck with a needle more the last two weeks than I have in my lifetime... from getting blood drawn for the glucose screening and glucose tolerance tests, to getting a shot in the rear for being RH-negative. No worries, everything is fine and we are both healthy as can be.

We got to see her last week. She's MUCH, MUCH bigger than she was in March and harder to distinguish her features because she putting on fat now and starting to "blend-in" with the rest of the gray on screen.

But, she's still beautiful.

Brian and I are doing good. I take my last airplane trip this weekend, heading to Kentucky to see my folks before the big day gets here. Brian is covering baseball as well as numerous other assignments for the DMN that keeps him quite busy.

We miss and love everyone.

Baby Davis Update (March 17)

Hello Everyone, 

Just wanted to give you a quick update on our baby girl. 

We went to the doctor this morning to check out her heart and all her other “major” organs to make sure they are growing at the rate they need too. And, she passed with flying colors. She’s doing fabulous and does not have to go back to Dr. Peters (genetics specialist) any more, just my regular OB (Dr. Staud) from here on out. 

She weights 1 pound and 2 ounces and has a strong heart beat! She remains a very active baby and when she does start to fill up the space inside me, she’ll be wearing me out with all her kicks and punches she’s throwing around right now. 

Brian and I are doing good, up to our noses with basketball tournaments but that will all be over within three-four weeks. Then we’ll be able to focus on getting ready for her arrival in July. I’m 23 weeks tomorrow …  17 to go!!! 

We pray all is well with everyone.

This ultrasound photo was taken on March 17. She's pretty happy at the moment.

This ultrasound photo screams one thing -- Feed me!

Baby Davis Update (Jan. 30)

Good morning Everyone!

Just wanted to take a second to update you guys on Baby Davis. 

We went to the doctor yesterday for our 16 week checkup and thought we would find out the sex but the little one decided it wasn’t quite time for us to know. He/she wouldn’t uncross their legs for us to see ANYTHING. So, we still don’t know (but I think it’s a GIRL) and now must wait until February to find out for sure. 

We are doing great and the baby is growing like crazy but I’m not really showing. My clothes are getting tight(er) -- so maybe in a couple of weeks I’ll have a little bump. :-) 

We’re both super excited that the checkup went well and I’m still doing good, health & weight wise. Brian is still working a ton but he’s been at all my baby appointments with us. He has been fabulous!

Four down, Five to go! :-) 

Love each of you.

Trick or treat! Oh, here’s a surprise

There’s no doubt we were ready to start a family. But trying to get pregnant, actually getting pregnant and then learning you are indeed pregnant is a serious roller-coaster.

We had been trying for months with no luck. Debbie was ovulating around Halloween last year (Oct. 2007). For BD, he knew what that meant. On the morning of Nov. 8, Debbie felt compelled to try a home pregnancy test just to see if anything was cookin’. About 15 minutes later, Debbie had gone into the kitchen to start cleaning out the sink when Brian walked in and saw the pregnancy test just laying on the counter.

“Are you or aren’t you?,” BD said. “What do you think?”

Deb has a sly sense of humor, but considering this was our future and all, she wasn’t real hip to all the guessing games. One laugh and a few expletives later, she got the news she’d been waiting for. The digital (read: more expensive) test had the magic word: Pregnant.

Ady won’t want to hear this, but we traced it back to Oct. 28 or Oct. 30 as the two occasions where she might have been conceived. BD knew that the disco mirror ball and trapeze we installed would come in handy at some point. And sure enough it did. 

Never one to doubt the expert medical opinions you can find only on the shelf at Walgreen’s, we met with Dr. Jennifer Staud (a hero if there ever was one) on Nov. 27 and she confirmed the pregnancy with some simple blood tests. Life as we knew it was about to change forever. 

Hint to all couples trying to get pregnant: Stop trying so hard, and it will happen

Here's how she looked on the first sonogram taken Nov. 27.