Ethan Daniel Mobley was born on October 18th at 9:21 am weighing 6lbs 11oz.  Sunday night my water broke and we headed to the hospital.  I still had not dilated any so I had two doses of Cytotec, a medication used to induce labor.  At 5am I was 4cm and at 7am I was 6-7cm.  Dr. Ball came in at 7 and said they would start pitocin and we would have a baby by lunch.  I decided to get the epidural then and by 8:15 I was ready to push – before they even started the pitocin.  Dr. Ball came back and he was born at 9:21!  She held him up so we could both see that he was a boy – we were so excited!  Waiting to find out was such an amazing surprise.  Jason was an amazing labor coach – my nurse told me I had to tell all my friends how great he was!

He is perfect and we are completely in love with him.  Picking his name was easy.  We have both loved the name Ethan and even wanted to use this name since before we were married.  Daniel is my dad’s first name as well as Jason’s middle name.

Here are a few pictures of our little guy.

We are down to the final week, and baby shows no signs of wanting to leave!  He/she is quite comfortable.  I guess this is what I get for being 11 days overdue myself.  My next appointment will be next Friday (1 day after my due date) when I will have a non-stress tests to make sure the baby is healthy.  If everything looks good, we will probably schedule an induction for around 41 weeks.  We are hoping I don’t have to be induced, but at least we know this baby is going to be here in less than two weeks!

I have been having a lot of (mostly painless) contractions, usually in the evening and at night.  I’ve also started to swell quite a bit in my feet and my face (though Jason says my face is not swollen – but I think he’s just being nice).  The unfortunate part of the feet swelling is that now all my shoes are too small and rub my feet and give me blisters.  I really think I should be able to wear yoga pants and flip flops to work from now on!

Jason and I are very ready and very excited to meet this baby.  We can’t wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl and see what he/she looks like.  I can’t wait to finally put the tiny onesies, hats and socks on our baby and use all of the fun baby gear we’ve accumulated over the past few months.  But until then, we are enjoying our time together, since we know things are about to change forever!

I thought it would be fun to make an official place for everyone to guess the gender, birthday, and weight of Baby Mobley.  Click on the link below to guess!

I am now officially 38 weeks so the baby could come at any time.  I will be induced if the baby doesn’t come by 41 weeks, so the latest date will likely be October 30th.  Good luck!

Our nursery is ready to go – now all we need is our little pumpkin!  We are so happy with how our nursery turned out – it is perfect!

The closet is ready for LOTS  of clothes – I have a feeling Grammy will help fill it up.

Baby Mobley is ready for Butler Basketball to start!

I am now 36 weeks and seeing the doctor every week!  We can’t believe Baby Mobley will be here in the next few weeks.  Everything looked good at my doctors appointment this week.  Baby is still head down and measuring right on track.  I have started having some Braxton Hicks contractions over the past week – the doctor even noticed I was having one when she measured me.  I am still convinced that this baby is going to stay put for a while though.  If baby comes early I will be surprised!

My belly is still really growing!  I had to buy bigger maternity shirts because the ones I have are getting too short.  I think I also need to get some long sleeved shirts since it is getting cool outside.  I think Baby is starting to run out of space.  We can usually tell exactly where baby is laying and feel and see a lot of movements.  I am starting to get a little uncomfortable, especially when baby tries to stretch out.  Overall I still feel pretty good.  I am sleeping really well, but I have been very tired the past week or so.  I have been trying to rest as much as possible, but there are still several things on my to do list.

Jason and I are trying to get some final important things done.  This weekend we packed our hospital bags and put the finishing touches on the nursery.  We have been deep cleaning a few parts of the house and stocking the pantry with easy to cook meals.  We are still trying to finalize our baby name list.  We need to make another trip to Buy Buy Baby to buy a few more things.  I feel like we are running out of time!  I have to work next weekend, but then we will (hopefully) have a few weeks to relax and finish preparing.

We have all our baby gear put together and ready to go.  Jason installed the car seat and we got our stroller and put it together.  The cats of course have had to check out everything.  We have the pack n play set up in our room and the cats have been fighting over it at night.  I haven’t got many good pictures, but here is one of Ginger checking out the highchair.

Nursery pics coming soon!

Good news at this weeks appointment – baby is head down!  I still have no idea how the doctor can really tell, but she seemed pretty confident.  I do feel like the baby has “settled” into a comfortable position, as I normally feel the baby along the right side of my body, with legs/feet up top.  Jason and I are just happy that we don’t have to worry about a breech baby anymore.  We are enjoying watching and feeling our tiny baby moving around, especially now that we have a better idea of what it is we are feeling and seeing!  Everything else was good at the appointment.  Still measuring right on track at 34 cm and the heart rate was in the 140s and my blood pressure is still normal.

I am still feeling pretty good.  I have had a cold this week that has been very slowly progressing and doesn’t seem to want to go away, so that has been annoying.  My feet and hands have also started to swell a little bit.  Last Monday (Labor day) Jason and I spent most of the day cleaning the house and my feet were very swollen at the end of the day!  My rings are starting to get pretty tight too, so I have been just wearing my wedding band in fear I won’t be able to get them off.  I am still sleeping pretty well most nights.  About once a week or so I will have a bad night of sleep, but most nights I sleep all night and only get up once to go to the bathroom.  Some nights, however, it seems as though the cats are determined to wake me up every hour and I have a hard time falling back asleep.  Overall though, I feel like I can’t complain about my sleep!

The nursery is now complete and we are buying the last few things that we need.  I had my last shower this weekend so now we are planning on making a trip to Buy Buy Baby in the next few weeks to buy a few last things.  I am so amazed by the generosity of our friends and family.  We received so many wonderful gifts, there is hardly anything else that we need!

I can’t believe I only have 6 weeks left until my due date.  I will post more pics of the showers and nursery soon!

I had my 32 week appointment yesterday and baby still looks good!  I am measuring 31.5 cm, so baby is growing right on track.  The doctor does think that the baby is breech, but wasn’t 100% sure.  She said babies tend to “get comfortable” around 32 weeks, but I’m pretty sure he/she is still spinning in circles.  I am amazed by how much movement is going on!  So if baby still appears to be breech at 36 weeks, I will have an ultrasound and go from there.  We are hoping baby Mobley will decide head down is comfortable!

We had maternity pictures taken this weekend, which can be found here.  Michelle will also be taking our newborn pictures when baby arrives.  She was so fun to work with and we love our pictures!