40 weeks!

It seems like some great accomplishment to make it to 40 weeks...until you just keep going another day past the due date:). Well, I think these pictures describe how I feel. Actually, I feel great most days, but this day I actually felt quite miserable. I slept half the day away and was pretty achey the rest of the day. We went in for our final doctors appointment this morning. I am 1cm dialated and 60% effaced. Unless I go beforehand, I am getting admitted into the hospital on Sunday evening to try some natural inducing procedures. If I haven't started labor by Monday morning than they will officially induce me. WE CANNOT WAIT! The doc thinks the baby is in the 7lb. range right now. Please keep praying for baby Frazer. LORD willing, the next time I post we will have a baby! Thanks for all your prayers. P.S. sorry for the belly shot, but this "journal" is also for the baby to get to see someday.

OB Update

Well, good news today from my OB, Dr. Christensen. We had our weekly checkup this morning and my blood pressure has gone down. I am praising the LORD for the way He has been taking care of myself and this baby. It was a good time for me to get some forced rest (not something I am very good at when I know there is work to be done), and has really been a reminder that I need to keep getting rest as I get the chance so that I can take care of this baby now and when s/he is born. We got to have an ultrasound today, which was wonderful. It wasn't scheduled, but our Doc couldn't quite tell if the baby was head down or breech. S/he is head down, thank the LORD, but it's face up. So if it doesn't turn between now and labor we could have some added pain in the equation, or need to have a c-section. She gave me some ideas that could help turn the baby over. I am trusting the LORD and asking Him to turn this baby, but there are certainly worse things than a face up baby. It was fun to see the baby so developed and made me even more "anxious" for this sweet little baby to come into our lives. The doc said I was only dialated to the size of the tip of her finger, so she thinks I have a while still. It's good that the Creator of the universe and the Giver of life is in control of when this baby arrives. Thanks again for all your prayers!

37 Weeks

We are in the home stretch...just 3 weeks away from our due date. We are going to our weekly appointments now. The past two weeks my blood pressure has been up...I sympathize with you, Dawn...and if it continues to I might have to be on some form of bed rest. However, I still feel pretty good. Just swollen hands and my body feels extremely heavy. Its a bit challenging to roll over in bed at night and lots of late night trips to the bathroom. I am so thankful for how easy this pregnancy has been. Though I have officially hit the point where labor seems really great. LORD willing this baby will be here within the next few weeks and we will get to see if we have a son or a daughter. Thanks for all your prayers!

YEAH!! The crib is finished! Drew did an incredible job. I love it so much and find myself just standing in the baby's room staring at the crib. I can't wait for a little person to be sleeping in it. Also, my bedding came from some Nav women at CU Boulder. I had a baby shower in February and one Bible study pooled all their money together and bought me the entire set. That was what brought me to tears that day. So sweet and generous!