Week 39

Week 39

Here's the picture for today. We've now officially reached 9 and 3/4 months for this pregnancy.

We are looking forward to our little one arriving soon, but not too soon!

Here's a photo from a month before (35 weeks) to show the difference.

Baby Shower with MOPS Moms

As many of you know I worked with MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) for the last 5 years and then back in college for 2 years also. I coordinated the MOPPETS (kid's program) and then last year was just the adult in charge of the babies - 2.5 year olds room. I've already attended 2 meetings as a "mom" and have very much enjoyed it. Some of the ladies wanted to have a shower for me to "love on me" as I have "loved on their kids." It was so nice to enjoy a few hours on a Sunday with the ladies chatting, listening to their labor/delivery stories, and lots of yummy food.

Here are a few snapshots my mom took.




Jenny & Anna hosted the shower.


Measuring the belly - Celeste, Ruby's daughter was the closest! (I had her in the MOPPETS program a couple years ago.) 46 inches in case you were wondering.


Jenny "Barker" as we played The Price is Right game.

I love these MOPS mommies!

9 1/2 Months

Can you believe we have reached the 9 1/2 month pregnant mark?! I am so happy this baby is deciding to stay in and develop as long as possible. (Of course, as long as that doesn't include getting to be HUGE!)

Here are the last 4 weeks of photos in a collage.



I've had people tell me that it looks like belly is dropping down some. I think I can definitely feel the difference since the heartburn at night doesn't happen nearly as much and I can eat a pretty decent portion of food for a meal. I've also had people say that each time they see me from week to week that I look bigger. Thankfully that doesn't bother me, since I do know my weight is not changing the last few visits to the doctor.

Baby does like to practice his/her kickboxing moves, mainly at night, so that hasn't been much fun. Sleeping is starting to become a pretty big issue, but I try to sleep as much as I can when I have the time.

We toured the labor/delivery and postpartum floors at our hospital (Valley Baptist Brownsville) yesterday. That was very nice to get to see more of the rooms and meet some of the people around there. The lactation consultant was the one that showed us around and she was very helpful!! I'm looking forward to using her services while there. She's only there on Mon-Fri so I'm hoping baby decides Sunday is a good time to be born and I can have help all day Monday before going home. We do know we will have to be very assertive when it comes to breastfeeding and what we want done with baby for rooming-in and medications/procedures, so please pray that the staff is open to listening and following our wishes. We don't need the stress of that along with trying to be relaxed and bonding with baby.


Good luck to all of you that put a guess in on http://pregpool.com/online/baby_straub/

Player	Relation	Boy or Girl	Baby's Birthdate	Baby's Weight	Score
Shelley Crawford	Relative	Boy	7 October 2010	8 lbs/8 ozs	?
Nezette Rydell	NWS	Girl	24 October 2009	8 lbs/3 ozs	?
Geoff Bogorad	NWS	Girl	22 October 2009	8 lbs/1 ozs	?
Lizette Fleming ie: Marmie	Relative	Boy	21 October 2009	8 lbs/4 ozs	?

Special thanks for guessing lower birth weights! I appreciate that!

Family Gathering

Here's a few photos from our family get together in San Antonio the weekend of September 12-13th.

Poppy (my dad) and Cameron watching NASCAR


My mom and cousin Pierce chatting


Cheyanne & Cameron chatting with Uncle Charlie (my dad's brother).


Cameron eating his "puffs"


Lizette, Erin, Cheyanne, Clint, and Jeff (cousin)


Aunt Peggi feeding her grandson and my niece Aery checking out his teeny, but LONG feet.


Jason resting his back while Cameron and Pierce (P3) play.



Belly picture with my sister.


Lizzy messing around with Marmie's shirt.


My mom wanted to take Cameron home, so he is "hidden" from sight.

(He's behind suitcase w/ just legs sticking out.)

My dad and Cameron hanging out waiting for everyone to be ready to leave to drive back home.

Baby Clint

It's a Boy!



No...this one's not ours! Ours still needs a little more "baking" time. :-)


This past Saturday we rode up with my parents to San Antonio to celebrate my grandfather's 90th birthday that is this week. Sadly, he was diagnosed with full blown pnemonia right before so he was unable to attend the party. We still got to see a majority of the family that decided to come anyway.

I was super excited to see my cousin Erin's new baby, Clint. You'll remember that she was 6 weeks ahead of me for her pregnancy. Clint was born on August 26th. Here's a few pictures we took.

Jason was happy to hold Clint for a little bit and even got him to go to sleep. His response to seeing Clint, "I want one of those!" Everyone else said, "You will soon enough!"



You'll remember my cousin and I took belly pictures together during our pregnancies, well here's one of the last ones we'll take.


My belly is now MUCH bigger than her's!



My sister, Cheyanne, and I were able to take a belly picture before we all had to head back home. (She is due Feb. 2nd)




Don't forget you can cast your vote HERE for your chance to win the pool if you're closest to the right info for baby Straub!! (Or click on the link to the left here on the blog.)