Our Last Pre-Kid Vacation!

As our last vacation before the baby, we spent a very relaxing week with our friends Kathy & Rob in Wellfleet, MA, on Cape Cod. It was a perfect week - we had a super-cute cottage, ate like kings, spent time at the beach, went kayaking, and had a fantastic time! Here are a few photos from our trip!

On the beach - just barely covering up my belly!

Our home cooked seafood feast - we had stuffed clams, lobsters, and corn on the cob one night. It was amazing!

Our little cottage had an outdoor firepit, so we spent every night relaxing around the fire. We would run inside to watch the important Olympic events, and then come back to our fire. This is definitely what we miss by living in the city - we LOVED having the outdoor space for relaxing.

Our cottage - it was tiny, but nice! We'd definitely go back to this place...maybe next year with Baby Abely!

Our last day at the beach. What a perfect vacation!

A Scare...

I have lots to post about - our Cape Cod vacation and my weeks 32 and 33 pictures - but I thought I'd post quickly about our little scare from last night first.

Around 9pm Sunday night I started having contractions every four to five minutes. They were very quick, and not painful, but their frequency started to worry me. So, around midnight, we headed into the hospital so the midwives could observe me for a few hours.

They did lots of tests, and the most important one - the fetal fibronectin test - came back negative. I guess a negative result on this test is a 99% predictor that you won't go into labor in the next two weeks (it's measures a chemical that is secreted before labor starts). I had contractions the whole time I was there, but they determined that the contractions weren't making me dilate, so I could go home. The crazy thing is that since I'm almost 34 weeks, they probably wouldn't have stopped my labor at all if it had been the real thing!

We got home at 4:30 in the morning, and I have been resting at home all day today. Amazingly, Bill has been at work all day, on very little sleep (it was sad in the hospital - I could sleep in bed, but Bill had to try to sleep in a chair, leaning his head against the wall). I imagine he'll go to bed early tonight!

It was a bit of a scare - we aren't ready to have the baby yet, and she's got 6 more weeks to grow! Hopefully this is the last we'll see of the hospital for the next few weeks - but I'm going to take it easy and be careful just in case.

I thought I might escape my family's curse of preterm labor - I guess not! I also guess that I need to pack the hospital bag and make sure my cases at work are ready to transition to someone else - just in case!

Tyrrell Baby Shower

Bill's mom's side of the family threw us a wonderful baby shower last week! Everyone was there - all of Ann's siblings and most of their kids. We had a great time seeing the whole family!





The Future Babysitters

Weeks 29 to 31 - Bigger Every Day!

29 Weeks - A butternut squash

30 Weeks - A head of cabbage

31 Weeks - Four Navel Oranges

I think babycenter is running out of fruit! But the important thing is that she weighs about 3.3 pounds and is over 16 inches long. Supposedly she's heading into a growth spurt - from the looks of my belly in these three weeks, she's already hit that growth spurt!