More Megan Photos

 

Mindy took these tonight:

   

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Megan Update

 

Just thought I’d put up some photos of Megan taken today before she went to bed.  You can’t see anything but her eyes in her ladybug costume, and the last photos of her down below look really young!

Megan notices the camera

Megan doesn’t like the flash

Megan isn’t sure about being put down while Daddy keeps taking flashing photos.

 

She gets over it very quickly though, and attacks the camera.

Halloween Pics

We just put the girls to bed.  They had fun with Trick or Treating tonight and with handing out candy to the neighbor kids (well, Abby did- Megan just enjoyed begging Daddy to open more candy for her.)

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Halloween photos of the girls

 

(Abby anxious to get going)

Misty had her baby (Boy)

He was 7lbs and 13oz

He was born last Monday.

Healthy baby.

His name is Sam.

Megan took a few steps on her own.

Megan has been very adventures lately. She walked a few steps from one couch to the other. She has been also attempting to walk from our coffee table to me.
Also, Abby is officially potty trained with peeing but pooping is another struggle.
She now will actually take herself into the bathroom and says "No, Mom I do it by my big self". She usually just asks for the light to be turned on. Yeah!!!
We are still working on #2 though. That one is the hardest for me to deal with, but she will figure it out one day.

Megan is crawling

So today finally Megan crawled. I'll have to get a video of her, so you can see. She looks silly sometimes when she crawls. She still prefers to walk around holding my hand. In fact if I am any where near her she will just repeatedly reach for my index finger to hold so she can get the object she wants by walking. I have been forcing her to crawl, poor Megan. But, she finally did it. YEAH!!

A lot of new posts so keep scrolling down to view all

So It’s been a long time so I have  a lot of catching up to do. So keep scrolling down to view all of my latest posts. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday Elli and Laney

Abby is in the middle. They had lots of fun swinging it around and hitting each other with them.

Watching Cinderella.

My friend Hayley is a hair stylist, her daughter is Elli. She gave all the girls Princess hair. It was such a fun birthday party.

What cute hair! She kept that in for the rest of the day. She loved it! There is no way I could reproduce that or get her to sit still for me . But it makes a cute picture.

They all started to dance around it was quite cute. As you can see Cinderella and Prince Charming are dancing.

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Video of Abby dancing with Elli

Cinderella for Halloween

Abby loves her Halloween costume. She is going to be Cinderella this year. All we need now is some shoes and she is set.

Silly Megan

She loves to play with this little toy. 

This is what Megan looks like now. She is such a funny kid.

Splish Splashin’ in the Tub

These are all old pictures. I finally have time to post some pictures I have taken. Rob is now the Ward click and I have joined the Wednesday night widows club so I have time to post things on Wednesdays now.

Funny Abby

Abby just kept stacking things on her stroller until it looked like this. It kind of reminds me of a homeless person. They stack everything they can fit onto there cart , what ever it may be. Also if you look at the second picture she totally ran over her stuffed dog, OUCH!!

Rappelling Pictures

 

At the Jarman family reunion I promised a lot of people pictures from the rappelling activity on Friday.  I figure the easiest way to share them is just to put them up here on Mindy’s blog.  If anyone wants larger, printable versions of any of these just let Mindy know what photo and what your email address is and we’ll send them to you!

Here’s all the photos I took, unedited:

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Rob

Megan has a tooth

About a week and a half ago Megan got her first tooth. She was really fussy and had a fever then up came a tooth. We thought she was sick but nope she was just teething.

Abby very sick

So yesterday all day long Abby played like normal Abby then all of a sudden she just got sad and cuddly. When I held her she felt really hot to me so I checked her temperature. It was 101.6 degrees. Last night was crappy she kept throwing up and her temperature got to 102.6. I got a total of maybe 4 hours of sleep last night. 2 hours here and 2 hours there. We changed Abby clothes three times and washed her bedding twice. We finally put her in bed with us and Rob stayed up the whole night just to make sure she was okay. He just went and laid down maybe 30 minutes ago. Poor Abby she is really sick. Megan is up now so that is all the sleep I will be getting.

Best Prayer Ever

Abby just gave the most ridiculous prayer ever, all by herself.  This is it, in it's entirety:

"Dear Heavenly Father;

Thank you for food.  Thank you for Abby eat cookies.  Please bless Abby eat cookies.

Name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Mindy's new Job

So I have a new job! There is this website called savvyshopperdeals.com I have been looking at the site for a year now. It's great deals in Utah county with or without coupons. I have been saving us so much money by using coupons it's crazy. For example I bought 2 jumbo packs of diapers 2 days ago for $3 Huggies brand. For those of you who do not buy diapers they are normally $9.99 each. So I paid 1.50 each. WOW!!!
Well about two weeks ago this website I go to had a post for people who were interested in becoming a savvy shopper trainer. So I interviewed and go the job. I basically teach people how to use coupons and get at least 50% off on there groceries. They hired 10 people out of 50+. So if anyone is interested in learning how they could save money. I teach free classes. I come to homes or Enrichment meetings. Just let me know.

Mama ..... Dada

This morning at 5:30 am I woke up to a someone saying Mama. I jumped up and thought was that Megan. Sure enough she was awake and started to kick as soon as she saw me coming. I didn't know if it was just a coincidence that she happened to say Mama or not. Then later today Rob was playing the the girls, while I made dinner and at one point he came in to the kitchen to see how much longer it was going to be and Megan kept saying Dada Dada over and over again. Rob said "I think she knows what our names are because of her calling out to him Dada Dada". Coincidence or not she said Mama and Dada (Mama first, hehe).

Abby’s Cute Hair Day

 

Mindy curled Abby’s hair today and Abby loved it.  When Mindy completed the first curl and let Abby see it she immediately demanded that Mindy “do another”.  As soon as Mindy would finish another curl Abby would demand “more!” She was so proud of her pretty hair that I decided to take some pictures for posterity.  Here you go:

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Meggy’s First Solid Food

 

Yesterday Megan had her first official solid food (we’ve let her suck on popsicles a few times).  She was extremely excited to finally be offered real food(she was shaking), but she managed to restrain herself and eat pretty carefully.  Here’s some photos:

 

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Potty training frustrations!!

I absolutely dislike potty training. Abby is doing okay with peeing but she has pooped 5 times in 36 hours, all in her panties. I just throw them away because that is sick to have to clean that out. Plus it leaves stains I have yet to find anything that gets it all out. Anyhow I am just really frustrated and had to vent.

On a good note Megan sat up today for a few seconds all by her self. She still has not rolled over from her back to her front. Every day I show her how and have Abby help me. She just cries and fusses until I stop. So apparently she is content with being on her back. Also I am getting ready to start her on baby food. She has at least a couple of times grabbed Abby's food right out of her hands or mine. So that will be fun. That is our update on the kids.

We decided to go private

With me posting stuff onto Rob's website so that I can post them here, we decided to go private for security reasons. So if there is anyone that would like to keep reading the blog please send me your email address or post it here so that I can allow you access to the blog. THANKS

Megan having fun and Abby helping

Megan loving the Jump & go!

Ahhh!   Abby helping Megan have fun.

What a cutie!

Megan laughing

 

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Photos of Megan

Just some photos of Abby and Megan

I just wanted to put up some cute pictures of the girls together. These first two are of Rob and I trying to get Abby to go to sleep. We laid Megan next to her to get ready for family prayer. Megan was very happy and smiley so we took pictures.

These are just some cute photos of Abby wanted to make sure Megan didn’t fall over while in my bed. She jumped up into the bed and kept pushing her back up to a sitting position. She kept leaning in towards her. It was cute!

  

Abby Slaving in the Kitchen

OK, these last two posts have actually just been tests of new software to make this blogging easier.  But I figured it might as well be something cute, so here’s a video of Abby helping Mommy make pizza:

 

Abby Kneading Dough (Click to Play)

 

Abby Slaving over Homemade Pizza (Click to Play)

Abby Playing in St. George

Here's some photos of Abby enjoying herself at the playground in St. George.  The weather was perfect and we had a very nice weekend down there!

Sorry for not having pictures

So I am having difficulty with my computer allowing me to do things. I am not as computer literate as Rob is and he will mess around with things then I find I can't do things like post pictures on my blog. So I will see if Rob can fix that for me. Sorry again pictures will be coming soon.

Free sample!

So I found this site that gives you links to free stuff. This one I think is cool. Free hair care product. You have to do it fast because they only do it for so long. I just thought I would share with you all if you are interested you can click the link below

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enjoy

FREE CHICKEN NO JOKE!!!

So, I just have to post about my great deal. Smith's pharmacy has this deal now that if you transfer your prescription to Smith's pharmacy they give you a 25 dollar gift card to spend on groceries. Well I transferred my 4 dollar prescription and got my gift card and bought chicken with it. I got 15 lbs of chicken. If any of you have a prescription that you get regularly transfer it to Smiths and there chicken is on sale right now for 1.69 a lb. It's the Tyson brand chicken. GREAT DEAL!!!

Megan rolled over

Yesterday Megan rolled over for the first time. She rolled over from her tummy to her back.
I was so excited for her that I scared her.

Megan's blessing

I just want to thank all of you who read my blog and attended Megan's blessing. I really appreciate you for coming to both the blessing and the luncheon afterwords. It was nice to visit with everyone. Rob did a really good job blessing her. My mother made the beautiful blessing dress. Rob's Mom made Abby's and did a great job as well. They are both equally beautiful.

Megan was a good girl for the most part with just a little fussing not heard to many during the blessing. Rob's dad said that she was a little tilted head down for a portion of it and someone raised her head.

Abby wanted to go up with Rob during the blessing so I had to talk her through it and tell her what was going on. She really like her little sister Megan and wanted to see what was going on.

Again thank you for coming and for the help that was given.

I WANT IT TO BE SUMMER!

I just have to say I am so tired of it being cold. There was one day that it wasn't too bad and I was excited then it turned freezing again. I am tired of it. I want summer to come even though I am not a huge late summer fan. I just am so tired of winter. I can't wait until it's warm enough to take Megan outside to let Abby play at the park. Abby need to get her wiggles out. She has cabin fever and so do I. I know that spring is coming soon, but I wish it would come faster. OK enough complaining.

I'll update you on the kids and us. Abby is doing great she is putting whole sentences together now. It always surprises Rob how many words she can put together not only that but that she can structure a sentences together pretty well. Example: "Mom can I have some, please?" or "It's dark in here."
There is also a new development, she is afraid of dinosaurs. My nephew loves them and has several toy dinosaurs that move. She now tells me that there are dinosaurs coming, while pointing to the top of the stairs. She won't go up there with out me now. She also is afraid of the dark and will not go into a room if it is pitch black.
She picks out her own clothes and insists on it being that way. We have to some days come to an agreement that she picks out the shirt and I pick out the pants. She insists on picking out the shoes though. She hates to have me do her hair and always yells "ouch" even before I do anything. She also loves music and dancing. Last night Rob was flipping through channels and the BYU channel had dancers on it. She insisted on watching it. She would watch them for a little bit then attempt to do the dance. She actually did pretty good for a two year old. It was so cute. Rob and I would like to put her in dance someday when we can afford it. I think she would love it.

Megan is smiling good now and has on occasion giggled. She is such a well behaved baby we are so lucky. She loves her big sister Abby and continues to smile at her all the time. She is getting very big now. She is starting to move into 6-9 month clothing. She turns 3 months on Sunday. They are a little long on her but fit her better around the waist then 3-6.

As for the rest of the family, Rob will most likely be starting his freelance business full time in a month or so. We are a little nervous about it, but he has wanted to for some time now. As for me, I am just working on keeping my house somewhat in order and trying to loose my baby fat plus some extra added pounds I don't like. I also have this new hobby if you can call it a hobby. Coupon clipping and finding great deals. I have been cutting our food budget by almost half recently by using coupons and only buying what is on sale. Makes sense to others but I wasn't very good at it. I also buy large quantities when they have really good sales and just freeze it or store it. Anyways that's about it for now

Nicole's Baby shower

So my sister Nicole just had her 4th child it is a boy and they named him Alex. The gap between her first boy and her second boy is almost eight years so my sister Tahnee and my Mother decided to throw Nicole a shower to help with things that she may not have for a little boy. Plus she has miss placed a lot of her boy items.
We had fun! Abby stayed in the room and watched. She was very interested in what was going on in her house. We played a game called name that poop. My sister Tahnee melted about 8 candy bars and smashed them into diapers. Then we are suppose to name that candy bar that is in it. We can smell it, taste it and even eat it to determine what the candy bar was.
Well for some reason the images will not upload so here is a link to my sisters blog she has them on hers

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Abby and Megan

I put together a collection of photos that are similar of Abby and Megan. Some of them they look a lot a like. Some of them not so much. Sorry about the scale ones, you can't even see Megan's face. Rob tried to get in there but it was crowded. You'll have to just click on the ones that look similar it wouldn't let me organize them they way I wanted them to be, or at least I couldn't figure it out.

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More photos of Megan smiling

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Megan is smiling

So Megan has been smiling the last couple of days. Here are some cute pictures. We tried really hard to get her to do a cute one but we only got one

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Abby is now 2 years old

Abby's birthday was on Sunday the 11th. I know I am way late posting this. We had a family birthday party for her. Thank you to all who came on such a short notice. Life has been crazy after having Megan. I am a little unorganized. Anyways it was great and Abby loved seeing everyone. Here are some cute photos of the occasion.

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Christmas Pictures

Ok so here are the promised photos of Christmas.
The first link is to pictures of Christmas morning and the Sunday after when we went to Grandma and Grandpa Fields for dinner and to open and exchange gifts

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The second link is to pictures of the gifts that Abby received from the Nielsen side of the family.

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Abby had a great Christmas this year. My parents gave her a new handmade by my Mom Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls and night gown. Which Abby loves very much. She asks to wear the night gown a lot. She calls them rough rough jammies. As you can see in the pictures they have dogs on them.
Tahnee gave her a play microwave, that she plays with a lot. Also a shopping cart, she loves them both.
We also did grandchildren gift exchange were each child had another child to buy a gift for. Keili had Abby and she got her a cute Disney princess camera.
Brad and Misty and Sarabeth gave her a Barbie Christmas ornament for the tree.
It was a lot of fun to see her open presents this year.

New Years in St. George

We headed down to St. George for New Years. It was nice and warm. Abby was able to play outside again and not have snow on the ground. Here are some pictures of the fun we had.

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Megan is 4 weeks old! Can you believe it?

Christmas

We had an interesting Christmas this year. We had planned to go to Rob's family in the morning then go to mine later that day. We ended up not going to ether because of bad weather. It was a Christmas at home this year. Yesturday we went to Rob's family and had a late Christmas dinner and opened and exchanged gifts. It was fun.
Abby had a fun Christmas she got a little mommy set that comes with a stroller , a car seat, and a bassinet for her baby. It also came with a new baby and diaper bag. She played with her new toys all day. Santa Claus also gave her Sleeping Beauty for Christmas.
Grandma and Grandpa field gave Abby a little people doll house. She loves it by the way. She carries the baby around and plays with the furniture in the doll house. She also got a new very cute sweater and shirt that match Megan's new sweater and shirt. Rob and I got some great gifts to all of which we love. It was a good Christmas for us. I'll put up pictures later.

The girls

Rob took some pictures of me with my two girls so I thought I would show you all.

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Christmas dresses

We finally took pictures of Abby and Megan in there Christmas dresses. Abby did not cooperate very well for us to get a really good picture of her and Megan together. She wouldn't even sit alone for us to get one of just her. We are going to attempt it again though. We did get some very cute ones of Megan. At least we think so.

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we did get some prints for the grandparents and great grandparents and they will be on there way soon. Hopefully shortly after Christmas. Hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas.

Megan's 2 week well child check

Megan had her two week check up yesterday and I just had to make a post about it. I have been concerned for 2 weeks now about her eating enough. She eats every 3 to 4 hours because I wake her up. Sometimes she will not wake up until 6 hours and does not eat for very long. So basically I was worried that she was going to be less then her birth weight. Well they weighed her and she is 11 lbs 14 ozs. Wow! I don't need to worry anymore. She has well exceded her birth weight. So now I have just been letting her eat when she tells me. She only wakes up once at night to eat. I feel so blessed to have such great kids.

Megan was born on Dec. 1st

Well, I was scheduled to be induced on Monday morning and at about 1:30am I was laying in bed and all of a sudden I felt pressure then a pop and water started to leak out. Well to make this short my water did break I had to go to sit on the toilet for a while before I could get dressed. I finally had to just get dressed and wear a pad to catch some of it leaking out. The funny part of this story is that Rob had just climbed into bed at about 1:00 pm ( he's a night owl ).

We headed to the hospital and they tested it and sure enough it was my water. So they called my doctor and he wanted them to wait and see if my body would dilate on it's own. On the way to the hospital I started to have contractions. Well I did dilate but it was slow about 1 cm an hour. I did ask for an epidural right away. I did not want to have to suffer through the contractions, I am a big baby. I finally got to almost a ten and stopped progressing. I had what they called a lip all the way around my cervix. At this point I could feel my contractions. They started to get painful, tolerable but still hurting. They would not give me another dose of the epidural because I was almost a ten. Well, three hours later and after putting me on pitocin and continually increasing it. I finally made it to a ten. By this point I could feel all of the pain, well I think I did because it hurt so bad. As soon as I started to push it felt so much better. Megan was facing the wrong was so my doctor had to turn her. I have never pushed so hard in my life. Finally at 1:14 pm she was born. My very last push was the last strength I had left in me. She did come out vaginally and was healthy and no broken bones on delivery. I only had a level one episiotemy as well.
Well, she weighted 9 pounds 13 ounces. She was 21 inches long. She is beautiful and we love her so very much.

Here is a link to the pictures that we have of her when she was born
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Thanksgiving

This year we went to Thanksgiving at Rob's parents house. It was nice to see everyone and they all helped out so much with Abby. I appreciate all of your help with this pregnancy. It has been a rough ride, but it will be over soon. Anyway back to Thanksgiving, We had delicious food and pies. I have been wanting pumpkin pie for a while now and I have finally had some. It was great too!! Rob took some pictures while we were at his parents house.

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Rob's Father also gave us a tour of Kathleen's store and there shop were he will have his business. It all likes very nice. Kathleen store is beautiful, Rob and I saw a lot of things that we would like to own for our house. Anyways, it was a very nice Thanksgiving.

Pregnancy update

Well they scheduled an induce date for Monday, December 1st.
We had another episode of false labor Thanksgiving morning. I was having contractions 5 minutes apart while at the hospital and measuring pretty intense. They checked me twice and I didn't dilate at all, I was still 1 centimeter. So of course as soon as I heard that I started to cry. These contractions are super painful. I know that labor hurts but it's just frustrating that it starts and nothing happens. At least they stop and go away for a few days. This time they gave me a shot of morphine and sent me home. I was out of it the whole day on Thanksgiving. I felt so week and disoriented. Hopefully I don't have to go through that again with out it being real labor. My mucus plug did fall out. I keep getting chunks of it. I had some Yesterday and today. Well that is all for the update.

What???

So I wasn't going to post a blog about this until we find out what the Doctor has decided to do but I am still shocked about what happened.
So I had another ultrasound on Wednesday, because a Parinatologist has to be the one to say yes induce her (sense I am 2 and a half weeks before my due date). The ultrasound went great other then being in horrible pain because Megan was fighting back, pushing her but up as far as she could. When she finished Rob asked the ultrasound tech how much the baby is weighting. She said, " This is give our take a pound, she weights 9 and a half pounds." my heart sunk. That is a huge baby for being still 2 and a half weeks before my due date.
I thought for sure they will induce me as soon as they can because of how big she is already. We had to wait for the Parinatologist to come in and talk to us. Basically, after asking her what she was going to recomend to my Doctor. She said that she was going to tell him to do a cervix test and basically see if I can go into laber on my own. That is all I know right now. I am a little concerned because babies grow a half a pound a week. So she is only going to get bigger. My dr just said after an email I sent him that we will discuss it on Monday. So we wait again.

SURPRISE!

So some of my friends in my ward had a surprise baby shower for me. They did it while my sister Misty was in town. We had planned to go and walk around the mall on Thursday morning. So Misty offered to do my hair for me. I thought, oh how nice that is that she would be willing to do that. Really what was going on was I was going to be late for a baby shower that I didn't know was happening. I ended up being 20 minutes late to it because I drug my feet getting ready. Well here are some pictures of the shower. I appreciate Haylee Shurter for doing this for me. Also for all those who came. It was a very nice surprise. Thank You!

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Abby and Sarabeth

Abby has been having so much fun with little Sarabeth. Here are some pictures of them playing together. I have also enjoyed having Misty here. I miss her so much and have had a great time seeing her. They will be here for Saturday and then they will be heading home on Sunday. I will miss her very much and so will Abby.

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Pregnancy update

Well, I had my ultrasound today and baby Megan is measuring 2 and a half weeks farther along then my due date says. I will not know what they will do about my due date until next Tuesday because they have to have a radiologist look at it and those results wont be back until Friday. Then my appointment with my Dr is on Tuesday. Well that is about all for the update

Misc. Pictures of Abby

These are just some fun photos that I have taken over the past month of Abby. I am just finally getting the chance to put them up.

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Breakdown of the pictures in the slide show:

• 3 pictures of Abby very pleased with the art work she had created.

• A picture of me reading to Abby.

• A picture of Abby reading a book that I had just put down. She grabbed it and read it inside of a broken piece of furniture.

• 3 pictures of Abby helping me clean the house.

• One of her sleeping under her bed. Rob went and checked on her one night after we had put her to bed and he couldn't find her. So he started looking in our room and other rooms upstairs. He finally found her sleeping under her bed. How that happened, we have no idea.

• There are some of her playing with her friend Ellie.

• A picture of Abby's new snow hat. Now that it is actually cold enough for her to need one she will let me put one on her.

Trick or Treat

I was having trouble just posting these pictures so I put them on Rob's website.

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I took Abby around on Halloween to go trick or treating. It was fun! For the most part she just stared in confusion as people would hand her candy. Then I friend of mine started to trick or treat with her kids so Abby did a few doors with one of her friends Ellie. Abby now wants to be a princess every day. she says "Abby princess?" It is very cute.

Pregnancy update

Well I had my first weekly appointment yesterday and he is measuring me almost three weeks farther along. So next Tuesday they are doing an ultrasound to see if I am farther along. If so they will be moving my due date up. I was super excited when he told me that. This same thing happened at the end of my pregnancy with Abby. When I was 38 weeks she was measuring 41 weeks. They did an ultrasound and it actually said that she was not as far along and that she weighed around 6 pounds. I delivered Abby ab
out 5 days later and she was 8 pounds 6 ounces. She also didn't have any of the white stuff, I can't remember what it is called, that babies have on them when they are first born. My doctor told me that it was a sign of being overdue for her to not have that anymore. So it will be interesting to see what happens this time. I am just hoping they move my due date up. I am so tired of being pregnant right now. But I only want to have if she will be fine coming out sooner then later.