Before the Baby :)

OK, if you haven't already, you HAVE to check this out! My super cool friend Annie threw me a virtual baby shower - Annie's Virtual Baby Shower You can click there, or go to this website:
http://southasiajellybeanrocks.blogspot.com/
I'd love for you to come too :) Annie Rocks!

Well, I had a few things I wanted to post before the baby came and never got to... soooo....
I was in the hospital 4 days before Aashini was born, so we had to find ways to entertain ourselves :) Luckily lots of friends came to visit and we wern't too bored :)
My friends Preeti and Sophy came to visit... Look how HUGE I am!!!

Some great ladies here in the Capital threw Emily & I a baby shower... I was in the hospital though and totally missed it. After the shower, some of the girls came over and brought the shower to me :) Emily did a great blog post on the shower (the real one and the hospital one)- check it out: Emily's Blog on the Shower

Here's a pic of Gracey showing me a card she made me :)

And of course, Emily and I had to take a belly picture together! I'm sooooo huge! This was 2 days before Jellybean was born!

OK, so I knew that since a lot of my weight was swelling that I would lose a lot pretty fast, but in the last couple of days I have lost over 45 lbs!!! It's amazing! They say that giving birth is the only cure for pre-ecclampsia... I guess they're right!

More :)

Thought I'd post a couple of pics. We can't take pics very often, and when we do they're almost all in the ICU, so they're kinda similar looking so I'm just going to post a couple :) Don't worry, when I get her home she'll be fully photographed.
Here's a pic of Adam and Aashini in the feeding room. This is the room I have to feed her in right now - I thought it was a funny looking picture :)
This is a pic of Aashini in the little shirt they've put on her... you can also see how HUGE the diaper is on her!!! She's making a funny grumpy face in that pic :)

Visiting Aashini

Here's a few new Aashini Pics :) I can't stand up very long, so here's a pic of me visiting Aashini and stitting on a stool - it's kinda a funny pic :)

She was making these funny faces today with her mouth (she had the feeding tube out so maybe that's why) - I thought it was funny :)Here she is getting fed by her little spoon thing :) Pretty cool :)

We Got to Hold Her!!!

We got to hold Aashini for the first time today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoo hoo!! We couldn't hold her very long (I couldn't be off of the oxygen very long) but we got to hold her and it was awesome!

Here's Adam holding her :)

She's crying in this pic, but it's the first pic with her eyes open that we have and she's so cute in it (even if I do say so myself).

Here she is crying again... she doesn't get much in the way of a change of scenery, so a lot of the pics end up looking the same :)

Here she is sleeping under her oxygen dome :)

More to come :) You guys ROCK!!!!

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Rockin' Fun!

We got two fun surprises from friends far away this week!! I've been feeling pretty bad, so it totally made my week!
This cute onsie below is from Karen Walker :) It has a rockin' drumset on it and it rocks!! Thanks Karen!!!
And this one is all the way from Russia from our friends the Goodmans :) We think it ROCKS :)

So I added a couple of new polls on the right side... The first new one is to vote and see who will have babies first... me or Emily... we're only 10 days apart, so it really could be either of us :) The other poll is if I will have the baby early or late, etc :) Just some poll fun :)

Big Belly!! 33 Weeks!

That first picture is pretty funny looking... actually they all are :) I'm a little over 33 weeks now and feel like I'm ready to pop!!! This week my belly grew more - straight out!! The torpedo is coming!!! Jellybean has been moving like crazy lately and is much lower than before... I'm hoping that means JB will come early!!!!!!!!!! I sure hope so!!!
OK look at the pic below... the one on the left is from week 29... just a month ago!!!!!!!

OK and this pic below is for Emily... not my best photoshop work... I didn't really commit the time to it, but it's the belly shot without the shadow :)

32 Week Ultrasound!

So when I went to the doctor this last week, I told her about all my aches and pains and all my swelling... She was a little concerned about all the swelling (Feet, Ankles, Legs, Knees, Back, etc)... and she said (when she felt my stomach) that the baby felt a little small... SOOOOO... that means I got to take a whole bunch of tests! I did all the glucose tests, a bunch of blood tests, and I got an ultrasound (my next one wasn't supposed to be until 35 weeks, so that was a fun surprise :)

The only problem with the ultrasound was that the baby was big, and they were doing a special kind of ultrasound (where they were mostly testing the blood flow of all the major veins and the umbilical cord and things like that.... so I really couldn't tell what on earth was on the screen.... and neither could Adam...

When Adam saw the picture on the right (below) during the ultrasound, he asked the doctor: "Are those the baby's teeth"... he laughed a little and said: "No, it's the spinal cord" - then Adam said... "This is my first baby, can you tell?" and everyone started cracking up :)
OK, so the pic below isn't very easy to see or understand what's going on... BUT it shows that my placenta is in the right place!!! whoo hoo!!!! I don't have a "low-lying placenta" anymore! yeah!!!
So we got all the tests back and no signs of pre-eclampsia!! whoo hoo! So she said for the swelling, not to eat really salty foods, rest and prop up my feet :) The blood tests on the other hand said I am a little Anemic... My hemoglobin was 9 and it's supposed to be 12-14.... sooo... I'm taking more iron and eating things with more iron... The cool thing is that my doctor told me to eat this sweet (गुड) that we have here that looks like brown sugar b/c it has a lot of iron - Dude! What a cool Doctor! :)

8 Months!

I'm officially 8 months now...32 Weeks! whoo hoo! My belly is HUGE! Some days I feel like I need a strap to hold it up! haha! I went to the doc this week and I gained over 5 lbs in the last 2 weeks... I've been swelling TONS... she said it's probably just water weight, but I had to have tons of tests yesterday to make sure... I'll find out more info on Tuesday, but I did get to have an ultrasound :) The baby was so big that I could hardly make out what was what! haha! OK, if you can handle it, look at the pic below... (mom don't look :)).... First is the "BEFORE PICTURE" - It's not the best pic, but it's the only foot pic I could find that was pre-pregnancy... mine is the white foot on the bottom...And now... this is the "AFTER or CURRENT Picture" This is what my feet looked like the other day when I got home - ewwww!!!!! Ahhh the joys of pregnancy :) haha! I know it's definitely worth it, but right now it's just uncomfortable :) haha!

So Many Preg Friends :)

Emily, Kari & I were hanging out today... so we thought we'd take some belly pics :) I'm 31.5 Weeks, Kari is 35 weeks and Emily is 33 weeks :)
We started off taking some more conventional belly pics :) (my bellybutton - and belly- are totally sticking out) :)This one (below) was Adam's idea... "Everyone sit on Andrea" haha! Here's a pic of us jumping :) You should have heard the 'thud' when we all landed - haha! I'm sure our downstairs neighbors were wondering what was going on!Pregnant Belly pics are fun! :)