Aria's Debut!

Ok...this will be the initial introduction with the basic info and then much more details to come. Aria made her greatly anticipated debut on Thursday Sept. 18, 2008 at 7:13pm. It ended up being an emergency c-section due to her heartbeat picking up too much and being irregular. It turned out she had the chord around her neck and I was not progressing past 4cm and 80% thinned out (effaced). Not to mention take a look at the stats!: Marialicia (Aria) Ellen Smith; 10 lbs. 1/2 oz. 22 inches long! Never in my life would I have thought I would have had a 10 pounder! Nonetheless, we are doing great and are hoping to go home tomm. the 21st. The following pics are just teasers I know, but there will be plenty more, do not worry about that. Thank you to all of those who were sending us your blessing and good thoughts. We would not have wanted to share this moment of our lives without all of you that mean so much! Love, the Smith family Matt, Nicole and Aria

41 weeks and 2 days

9 days past due and still here with nothing to show other than being very uncomfortable. I am resorting to the fact that she is going to be forced out on the 17th. Hope there is better news to report over the next few days!

41 weeks

41 weeks today. No baby, no signs no nuthin! There is your update. Can you tell I am starting to get over it?

40 weeks and 6 days

We are almost at 41 weeks and I have an update from my doctors appt yesterday. After much discussion and analyzing we all decided to not induce this week although the official and final deadline will be next wed. the 17th. Instead they are going to let me go one more week to see if things will start on thier own. I could not be happier about this. I just did not feel right about the induction so soon. So here we are still waiting. The good news is that I am progressing. I am finally at 2cm and she is still moving down. Please keep us in your thoughts as the anxiety and sleepless nights are starting to get old. Most seem to think I will not make it another week. Hope not!

Our due date!

Here it is!!!! The day that since your first ultrasound you count down towards. The due date. Ours was Sept. 4th, 2008. Now that it is here it is apparant she will not be and we are waiting sitting on our hands until she decides what time is best for her. Let's hope she does not decided to go on past next tues. to avoid induction. Everything seems good though. She seems to still have plenty of room to move around and her heartbeat is still sounding great so at least all is well. I am sure the posts will continue until her arrival and then there will be plenty of opportunities to show her off.

Dr. appt update

I had what will hopefully be my last dr. appt. this morning. I am still 1cm but the baby has really moved down further. So...things ARE happening just not as quickly as my midwives would like. As of today they are giving us 1 more week for her to come on her own and then we are scheduled for an induction on Wed. the 10th in the evening. If she does not come before then we officially have an induction date. That is something I never thought would happen. I knew it was a possibility but you never really believe it could be you. We are all a little nervous about it but all that matters is that she is ok now and will be ok at the induction. Please be thinking of us.

39.5 weeks

Ok...we are 39.5 weeks along. I thought for sure something would have happened by now but nothing. I have been soooo uncomfortable. On top of that we just had to deal with hurricane Gustav coming through our area with tropical storm strength winds. Luckily everything is fine except for the fact that if we get well into our 40th week my midwives want to induce! So one way or another little aria will be here within the week! We can only hope it will happen naturally. All else is going well and I am just beginning to wonder when my last "pregnant" blog will be. Stay tuned.