Life Update

Wow!  It's hard to believe I haven't updated this since December!  Time has sure flown!  I am now 31-33 weeks pregnant (depending on the day as the doctor moved my due date up to June 25th), have one less organ (after having emergency gallbladder surgery a month ago), and trying to get things ready for our little guy's arrival.  So much going on!  So little time to get everything else completed!

So as I said, I had emergency gallbladder surgery on March 28th after having my first gallIbladder "attack" that weekend.  After lots of discussion, Michael and I decided we didn't want to postpone removing my gallbladder until after I had our baby boy, as it could get worse and the best time to have surgery was during the second trimester.  We're so glad we did it when we did cause the surgeon said I wouldn't have made it through the rest of my pregnancy based off the condition my gallbladder was in.  Because I was pregnant, I didn't get to have the easy laproscopic surgery.  I had open surgery, which gave me this:

Sexy, right!?

I got my staples out a week after surgery and the following week had the incision rip open.  It was a very interesting experience as it wasn't what I expected.  I would have expected it to hurt and be bleeding, but it wasn't.  I didn't even realize it had reopened for several minutes.  Luckily Michael was with me at the time and we headed back to the surgeon where he then put in stitches (which I had in for 2 weeks) and it seems to have finally sealed together.  Even the surgeon was surprised it reopened!

Things I learned with this pregnancy:

*I shouldn't have taken the first 25 weeks for granted!  I didn't have any issues or problems and thought this pregnancy would be easy!  Little did I know what the next 4 weeks had in store for me!

*Our little guy is very modest!  It took 4 ultrasounds over the last 3 months to get confirmation that he is indeed a HE!  

*Due dates change constantly!  I've gone from having a due date of July 5th to July 16th to July 10th to now JUNE 25th!  

*Our little guy is not going to be little for too long!  He's all ready measuring over 4 pounds and was told he has LONNNNNNGGGGGGGGG legs!

*Baby boy Bishop does NOT like loud noises!  (Just like his mommy!)

*I'm not one of those who doesn't get headaches during pregnancy.  In fact, I had my first migraine in years a couple of weeks ago that ended me up in the hospital!

*Shopping for boys is FUN!!!  Up until a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't get excited to shop for him cause it didn't seem like there was anything "cute" out there for boys like there are for girls.  I just couldn't get into it.  Little did I know a monkey baby blanket would change everything!

I can't wait to meet our little guy!  Both his daddy and mommy are anxiously awaiting his arrival!  Until he makes his appearance we'll just have to do with this:

Now, if only we could come up with a name for him!