Finally... our big news... and Nursery Pictures!

Well, we found out at the dr.'s appointment on Monday that Baby Dunn is breech... This leaves us with 2 options, they could attempt to turn the baby externally, but the success rate is only 50% and with my shorter torso, the odds would not be in my favor. The other option was to schedule a Cesarean. We decided that a Cesarean would be best for us. The dr. said it is possible that the baby would turn on their own, but not to expect it, especially since she says the butt has already planted itself in my pelvis. I will continue to go to the dr every Monday from now until I deliver and they will check every time. They will even do a last minute ultrasound the morning of the c-section to double verify that the procedure is still necessary. If anything changes, then I will go back to a regular delivery and be sent back home to wait. There is also the possibility that I could go into labor before my c-section date, in which case, they would perform the c-section at that time.

So... now the big news is.. when is baby coming??? Well, the Cesarean has been scheduled for February 20th!!!! This is still very close to my due date, so there is the strong possibility that I could go into labor before this date.

What happens to the baby pool?? Well, since we did not get the luxury of picking the date (the hospital did from a provided range of dates given by my dr), we will keep the pool on. So... from the looks of it, we have 3 really strong players who would be in the running for the first place prize!!!! Sue Holland has the date right on the nose, but if she is wrong about the sex, it could jump over to the closest Boy guesses which are from Donnie Tolen and Jen Pinnell both on 2/21... it may come down to how much Baby Dunn weighs... It's still anybody's game since we still have 3 weeks until the 20th, you never know what Baby Dunn will do!!!

And Finally... we are unveiling the grand opening of Baby Dunn's Nursery... Ryan and I are both very pleased with how it turned out and thanks to a little assistance from both sets of Grandparents... we have a gorgeous furniture set that we plan to use for many, many, years.. The crib does convert to toddler bed and then to an adult bed. We hope you enjoy!!!

Baby's Nursery

Pictures from Baby Dunn's Shower

It was a great shower.. Ryan and I were so happy to see everyone!! We hope you enjoy the pictures. We got so many great things, everyone was very generous.

The baby furniture is being delivered on Monday... I'm very excited because then I can start to put the room together... Finally!!! Those will be the next set of pictures.

I'm going to the Dr weekly now... another sign that this is the home stretch!!! I did have an elevated blood pressure, but they said it could be due to the swelling. I go again on Monday so we will be able to keep an eye on it.

Baby Dunn Shower

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Well, January is flying by for us!!! Ryan's new job is going good. He is getting spoiled with free lunch every Friday and today even got a free massage!!! We have been very busy with all the baby classes. We attended Baby Basics, where we learned to give baby a bath, change diapers, take temperatures and install car seats... We also attended an Art of Breast-feeding class and we are half way done with Lamaze!!! We have a great teacher and she definitely knows Ryan on a first name basis... He is the official question asker of the group. Ryan told her that she better be our delivery nurse after all the time we have spent with her.

We asked my boss's husband to take some pregnancy pictures of us. Our favorite 2 are on the website... Ryan and I may try to take few more, just for fun. We continue to update the "Watch Baby Grow" video. We usually take pictures every other weekend. I think Ryan's favorite part of this pregnancy has been the looking for "Expecting Mothers" parking spots at all the places we go. He's been dying to park in these spots.

This weekend we will be down in Paris for Christmas with my side of the family and my baby shower on Sunday which I have been very excited to attend. I haven't seen much of my family since Thanksgiving so they will get to see first hand how big my belly has grown.

Next Dr. appointment is on Monday. Ryan has the day off and I'm playing hooky so we can spend the day together. We figure days like this are dwindling fast so we better take advantage of them.

Don't forget, we are still taking guesses for the baby pool!! We'll send out another post when we have pictures from the shower... Love Ryan and Jessica