On the way home! She is so lost in her car seat!
I will give you a short rundown of the events that lead up to Avery's birthday. On Tuesday the 19th we had an ultrasound scheduled at 8pm. Andrew and I both came home from work and headed to the hospital to get one last sneak peak at our baby before her arrival. At the ultrasound we were met with the news that she was breach. This was a surprise to us as the past 2 doctor appointments I had I was told that "the head is low". Well, it was actually the butt! We were told to go back and wait in the waiting room and the technician was going to call the doctor to see what he wanted to do. Andrew and I were a little confused because it was 38weeks, 3 days and we still had another week and a half to go. After the doctor spoke to the technician we were told to head to the maternity ward...we thought...ok, this is weird. There, they did a stress test but we still weren't told what was going on. Andrew spoke to the doctor and it was determined that we would be spending the night. The amniotic fluid was a little low so there wasn't a likely hood that she would flip to a normal position. They were also concerned because her stomach circumference was a few weeks behind the rest of her body. With all of this information, the doctors decided to do a C-section the next morning!!! We were both shocked, scared and excited all at the same time...we were going to have a baby in less than 12 hours! Sure enough, at 7:45 we were prepped and headed into the OR and at 8:18 Avery Joy was born!
I have a lot more pictures that I will upload onto Kodak Gallery, so if you are interested in seeing them just let me know.
This is what I wrote on Oct 19th before we went to our ultrasound appointment...I was planning on posting it the 20th...10 day countdown until due date. I thought I would keep it and share what I was going to post anyway...who knew how wrong I would be and that we would see our little peanut the next day!
10 DAYS until our baby's due date?! Where has the time gone? I cannot believe Andrew and I will be parents in less than 3 weeks (I have a feeling she'll be late...maybe a November bay?). This whole experience has been surreal, so to think that we will have a little person joining us soon is just unbelievable!
September and now October have been flying by. Andrew's parents were gracious enough to throw us a baby shower the end of September in Long Island at a French Bistro (think french toast and pressed sandwiches...mmm!). The turnout was great and we had a really good time with friends and family and also received some wonderful things for Baby B.
My friends Erin and Jodi surprised me with a baby shower the first weekend in October which was fun and thoughtful! I thought we were having brunch at Agave (for those of you that know me well, know that this is one of my favorite restaurants...and they have the best margarita in the city...which of course I didn't have, but am looking forward to when I can :)). We had a wonderful brunch with all my favorites from the menu and Erin even made her special sugar cookies...my mouth is watering just thinking of them!
We each attended separate weddings on Oct 9th. Andrew's best friend Bo and his now wife, Laura got married in Savannah, GA. As much as I would have liked to have attended the wedding it was too late in the pregnancy (37 weeks) to fly and I wasn't in the mood to sit in a car for a lengthy road trip. I can't even imagine how many pit stops we would have had to make! Regardless, Andrew had a wonderful time in Savannah and unfortunately I don't have any pictures but I heard it was gorgeous! I stayed in the tri-state area and went to my friend, Emily and Darshan's wedding at a beautiful winery Upstate NY. My friend's Jodi and Jamie drove up with me and we hit some traffic on the way there, but that was the only snag in the trip...oh...except for the fact that we passed a rest stop because we thought it was too crowded. That was a big mistake...we didn't get to another bathroom until probably 30-40 min. later and I thought I was going to burst. Lesson learned, never pass up a restroom! Back to the wedding...the weather that day was perfect and the ceremony was on a hill with the fall foliage as a backdrop...just stunning (as was the bride)! Here are a few pictures of the wedding.
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I was originally going to update everyone from our ultrasound appointment here, but didn't realize that would not happen! I was going to post a picture and everything...now we know you would have only seen her little butt...ha...too cute!!!
We are thankful that everything worked out well, even if it wasn't in our original plan or thoughts. We can't wait to share and spend the rest of our lives with the most important person in the world!
I'll do my best do post more pics weekly...so stay tuned to watch Avery grow :)
