When you aren't a parent, you find yourself snickering to yourself when you see new parents posting about their children's bowel movements. You truly do not understand what would bring a person to want to post about that stuff, and why would you ever think that other people would want to hear about it. LOL!! Well I have become one of those people so if you don't want to read about it, skip down about two paragraphs haha
We decided we were not going to "potty train" Amden.. especially with the upcoming births of his brother and sister. He has already become extra clingy and even more so a mamma's boy (if that is even possible) as he sees my stomach grow and the nursery being worked on. He has done pretty good with all the changes. He knows that mamma goes to the doctor to see the babies and that they are in my tummy. He knows that we are turning the study into the babies room and that the little clothes and new blankets are for them. He has even found a few of his toys that we have tagged as "baby's toys" and he will come and set them on my belly. LOL! I am very proud of him so far.
Well we bought a potty chair for Amden several months ago. I think it was actually almost a year ago. We let him sit on it and would read him stories etc. He would use it occasionally when he was younger and then went through a HUGE phase where he didn't even want to be naked. I know- CRAZY! What lil boy doesn't like to run around the house naked? It was even a struggle to get him to take a bath. It was very odd to say the least. The last few weeks he has really taken off though. The other day he used the potty 4 times and the following morning he even went #2! He ALWAYS uses it before bed at night and the last few days it has become much easier. Before it would take him up to 15 minutes to go and the last few nights he goes right away. And he gets so excited and yells "I DID IT!!!" and claps his hands and dances around lol. We still aren't technically potty training him but we are definitely not going to discourage this new found joy of his haha. I think I am going to make him a potty board where he can put stickers every time he uses it. I am hoping this will help encourage him to use the potty at school and at grandma's since he does love his stickers. haha
Had an ultrasound yesterday to check on the growth of the babies. It had been almost 2.5 weeks since my last one. Audrina weighed in at 2 pounds 13 ounces and Adrian weighed in at 1 pound 14 ounces. He has fallen to a full pound behind his sister but he put on 10 ounces in just over 2 weeks. That was great news! Unfortunately they did think they may have found something else wrong with his heart but I will wait until the echo before going into detail on that, so I am sure to fully understand what it means. They also saw a little extra fluid around one of his kidneys. Of course all these things are typical of a T-18 baby, but the more problems they find, the less of a chance he will have once he is born. I was really hoping we were just looking at a small VSD but unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case. Either way they are both growing very well and Adrian even turned head down for the first time this pregnancy! Since he has sooo much fluid, that could change at any moment. He does flip around a lot, but it was the first time we have seen him in that position so far. The non stress tests continue to go really well and I keep getting comments on how well they are doing for how young they are. This is always very comforting.
Now that I am in my 3rd trimester things are starting to move fast! I have to get prepared to do my amnio in a few weeks (and hope and pray it goes well and doesn't put me into labor!) and we still need to finish the dang nursery. LOL! I finally bought a sewing machine so that I could start working on all these projects I keep signing myself up for, and I have bought a TON of memorabilia stuff for Adrian's birth. I have a bunch of 3D mold kits, hand/foot print kits, different color inks etc so that everyone in the family that wants something will have one they can take home. KC's mom is helping us with the funeral and burial planning which is a HUGE help. We have decided to purchase a few family plots so that we don't have to worry about who he will be buried with. We decided on the Redwood Memorial location which is beautiful and close to home. Of course we hope we don't have to use it for quite some time, but I am glad to know we won't have to worry about it right after he is born if we do.
At this time I am still hoping to make it to at least 34 weeks which is December 30th. I would love it if they would stick around in there till even 36 weeks but with all of Adrian's extra fluid, I know that that is mostly wishful thinking. I am hoping that we will be able to pull out enough fluid during the amnio to give them a better chance at baking longer, but the amnio also runs the risk of starting labor or even causing my water to break. I guess everything has it's risks, sometimes you have to decide which risk is the lesser of the evils.
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