May 5th...just one month to go!! Crazy!! I'm still feeling pretty good. It's getting harder to pick things up off the ground, get in and out of bed (several times a night), and slip into anything other than flip flops, but overall I am still doing really well!
Last weekend I had an awesome shower thrown by my two wonderful sisters...who went all out with a "shower" theme...we had umbrellas and rain boots and flowers...it was really cute! And what made it even more fun was all the friends who were able to make it...many from quite a distance. It was a blast...and we got all sorts of awesome things for Autumn...we're getting close to having all the essentials! And with a shower tomorrow at Jacob's work and one at my work on Friday I'm sure we'll be even closer. I can't believe how amazingly generous everyone is being...and literally showering us with love. As of May 15th we will have had FIVE baby showers!! Can you believe that?!? I can't! People are so thoughtful and we are just so blessed to have so many people who care about us!! Autumn is definitely going to be surrounded by friends and family who love her...what an awesome gift!
Other highlights of the week...my wedding rings are stuck!! I had decided I was going to take them off Sunday for the rest of the pregnancy because my hands were looking a little swollen and I didn't want to risk not being able to get them off. Well apparently my hands were more swollen then I realized and therefore getting the rings off has been, well...quite a challenge. On Sunday...after my initial trial to get them off with my usual soap and cold water routine didn't work, I decided to google "how to remove a ring from a swollen finger." Several recommendations came back including soap, soaking in ice water, reducing sodium intake, drinking more water, dental floss, windex, preparation H, and on and on. Jacob and I tried a few things that day...namely just the ice water and he tried binding my finger with dental floss...both which were unsuccessful and pretty painful, but nothing compared to what I attempted to do Monday night. On my way home from work I had decided I was determined to get atleast one of these rings off TONIGHT! So I turned the air in the car down to a chilly 60 degrees and turned it on full blast! I held my hand up to the vent the whole way home to try and reduce the swelling. As soon as I got home I started with the windex. It was spray windex, twist-twist-twist, more windex, twist-twist-twist. And it appeared to be working. I had moved it further up then I had been able to before. I quickly decided I needed to lower my body temperature, so decided to get in a cool bath. At this point it had probably been about 20-30 minutes of windex and twisting...and the ring was just under my knuckle. It seemed to be stuck again...and my finger was feeling pretty numb and had turned a lovely shade of blueish-purple! I asked Jacob to run up to walgreens to get some preparation H...I had read this helped to reduce the swelling and also acts as a lubricant. He agreed and headed out....but didn't return for probably 20 minutes (and Walgreens is right around the corner). Come to find out his car broke down at walgreens and he had to walk home...preparation H in hand!! OMG...what a night! By the time he got home my finger was looking really bad...we decided I needed to use the preparation H to try and get the ring back down my finger...which is what I did. The part between the two rings was pretty swollen by this point so every twist of the ring literally felt like a knife digging in! But finally it was back to it's original starting point. The attempt was a failure and my poor finger was a mangled mess! The rest of the night we debated about going to the fire dept to have the rings cut off as the numbness and lovely shade of purple didn't go away. But slowly it did start to look a little better...so we decided to hold out. As of today...the finger is still more swollen than any of my other fingers, but it is back to its normal shade which is good. We've decided for now the rings are staying on...we are going to talk to my OB on Monday and find out if they absolutely have to come off before we head to the hospital...if they do we are hoping our jeweler will cut them off so they can make a clean cut and easily melt them back to their original form! So we should know more on Monday...which is also the day we get an ultrasound to find out approximately how big Autumn is and if she is head down! I'm excited to see her again and also to find out more about what to expect in these last few weeks!! It's going to fly by I'm sure!!
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