30 weeks

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28 Weeks

My midwife told me at my last appointment that I (the baby) would be going through another growth spurt soon. I think it happened the next day. I've (he's) grown a lot in the last 10 days! I'm still feeling a lot of contractions. Especially after going for a walk. The baby moves so much that he's woken Clint up during the night.
Morgan tells me she's excited now and she likes to talk to the baby. She's always rubbing my belly an asking if he's moving. Unfortunately she hasn't felt him move yet.
Jackson thinks the baby is going to come out playing football with him. So he's really excited lol.
We still have no clue what to name him. Nothing stands out to us. 12 more weeks to go!


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27ish Weeks

I am somewhere in between 26 and 27 weeks now. I've lost count through the holidays. I'm feeling gigantic but according to my midwife I'm measuring right where I should be.
We can see the baby move from the outside now, which is always fun. I've been having a lot of back, hip, knee, and ligament pain. But other than that things are going well. I have contractions several times a day which is not something I experienced with the first two. At least not this early. Hopefully that means my body is ready and things will go smoothly :)
We still don't have a name. Any suggestions? Morgan has come up with lots, Flynn Rider, Texas, President Holland, all of which have been dismissed LOL. My top picks are Tucker, Cooper, Pearson, and Logan. Clint's only opinion is Clint Junior (I'm hoping he's not serious!).


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Cake Pops!-November 20, 2012

These pictures aren't great, but they tell the story (kind of).   A friend of mine really wanted to make cake pops for us to reveal the gender.  Well, Clint and I didn't want to wait another second to know, but we made the kids, my brother's family, and all our friends wait until Areli brought over the cake.  Morgan was already tired and cranky when the night got underway.  Then the news of a boy made her even more upest.

"I'm only here for the food"

"When is the baby gonna pop out?"  Ambria thought the party was for the baby popping out of my belly.

Morgan was hesitant.

And extremely bummed when the cake inside was blue instead of pink.

BUT...it was yummy so she kept eating.

I asked her if she was excited to have a brother and she said no.  She's still (3 weeks later) not happy about it.  I admit I was a little bummed at first.  But I'm getting really excited now.  Little boys (at least Jackson) are so cuddly and loving.  And not nearly as emotional and expensive as girls :)  I'd be fine with only having 1 girl forever.  Then she and I can do all the fun girly stuff together!

20 Weeks

We are halfway there! We had an ultrasound yesterday and got some funny pictures. No profile picture though. The baby was so squirmy and wouldn't cooperate. He's measuring 4 days ahead of schedule, but my due date is still the same. April 8. Oh ya, did I mention it's a boy? Yep. He wasn't shy at all and we got a very clear shot of that fact. He's almost a whole pound. Now that we know we're having a boy I'm getting really excited. Morgan will be devastated I'm sure. Once we finally tell her. A friend of ours is making a cake for the kids to reveal the gender to them tonight.
Here's a thumbs up picture.


And a flexing picture.








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18 Weeks

This pregnancy is dragging! I'm going nuts! And I think my butt has grown more than my belly in the last two weeks LOL. Only 12 more days until we find out if its a Joe or Jane. And only 15 days until my dad gets here for thanksgiving!


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16 Weeks

Today marks 16 weeks. They say the baby will hit a growth spurt now, but I swear it already did. I feel like my belly doubled in size since 14 weeks. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am feeling movement now. The baby is the size of an avocado (I really wanted to be holding one in the picture). I can't wait to see him/her in our next ultrasound!





Jackson still thinks he has a baby in his tummy. And Morgan says if its not a girl then she doesn't want it!
The other day Jackson told Morgan he had a baby brother in his tummy and she told him, "no you don't! You have to go to the hospital to get a baby in your tummy!" It was hilarious!

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Feeling Baby #3 Kick

I've probably felt baby move before, but today I felt it for sure!  Twice.  In my opinion, there is nothing more amazing that a mortal can experience than the life of a child inside the womb.  It is one of the few things I love about being pregnant.  When the baby gets big and we can see the movement, it kind of freaks me out :) But it is really neat, nonetheless.  We are getting very excited as this pregnancy progresses.  Especially since we have several friends, 2 sisters-in-law, and a cousin who are also pregnant and due within weeks of us.  So much fun!!!

Baby Webb #3

Since I'm a little over 14 weeks along, I guess it's time to tell the story of this pregnancy!  Clint came home from deployment in May of this year.  We talked about the future and decided August was the time to start trying to have another baby.  We took a trip to Utah in July and while we were there I  realized something was "not right" with my body and hadn't been for 2 months.  I took several pregnancy tests, all came up negative.  So two days after we got home I went to see a doctor and she confirmed that it was a pregnancy and that I was 11 weeks along already.  So when I was about 16 weeks I had my first ultrasound.  This is what they saw:

A 9-week-old fetus, instead of a 16-week-old fetus!  So they changed my due date to 7 weeks later than the original one and this baby should be making its debut around April 8, 2012.  I hate when mother nature plays tricks on me!  So here I am, in my 15the week, starting to poke out a little (looks more like a muffin top from eating too many donuts), and finally in my 2nd trimester.  I have suffered from afternoon sickness, headaches, and complete exhaustion from the beginning.  But I am feeling a little better now.  I am on day 3 of no headaches!  Yay!!  I lost about 8 pounds the first few weeks, but now I am up to my original weight again.  We find out on November 19th what the sex of the baby is.

Pictures From Hospital

Jackson's Birth Story

Friday, Sept. 11, 2009
9 pm-put Morgan to bed. Kept coughing and waking up so I had to keep checking on her. Intense contractions every time I got out of bed.
11 pm-contractions coming at rest as well.
12 am-began timing contractions. Started out every 4 minutes on the dot, then went down to every 2-3 mintues.
2 am-called the hospital, they said I should come in.
3 am-arrived at hospital after dropping Morgan off at friends house. They checked me out...the first nurse said I was "closed"...so another one checked me and I was actually a 4. They admitted me.
5 am-Finally got my epidural :)
530 am-Dr. broke my water to speed things up. Dialated to 5 and 90% effaced.
6 am-contractions stopped
630 am-Pitocin :(
9 am-9 cm and 100% effaced.
930 am-dilated to 10, started pushing, on first push nurse said "oh, there he is!"
943 am-Jackson Paul Webb born 8 lbs 6 oz. 19 1/2 inches long. Perfect baby. Cried immediately after coming out. Clint cut umbilical cord after the dr. got the amniotic fluid wiped off her face.

Immediately after birth

After this picture was taken the battery in the camera died and we didn't have our extra one with us. Clint went and bought a disposable, so more pictures will come later.
Morgan spent 2 nights with our friends and then came to the hospital on Sunday because we were supposed to be going home. That didn't happen, so her and Clint went home Sunday night and came back Monday morning. Clint brought the extra camera battery, so we got a few going home pictures. I love his hair. It combs very nicely into a mohawk.

Morgan missed her mommy. And mommy REALLY missed Morgan.

We weren't too impressed with the hospital. We were moved to our recovery room (or should I say corner) and pretty much forgotten about. We shared a room with another postpartum patient. This was all the room we had.

Finally going home! In case you're wondering where the adorable outfit came from, it was Clint's when he was a baby. Jackson got lots of comments on it. Oh, and he didn't like the carseat very much.

Home, sitting in the sun, so that hopefully we won't have to be admitted again for jaundice. Yes, they will admit him for it :(

We aren't sure who he looks like. In this picture, I think he looks a little like his cousin Landon.

Good News?

I went to the dr. today. I'm at "almost" 4 cm and 75% effaced. The baby is in the locked and loaded position. She stripped my membrane (holy painful!) and seemed very confident that I would go into labor within the next 48 hours. But I'm trying not to get my hopes up because I know stripping doesn't work for a lot of women. I've been having contractions since I left the office 6 hours ago, still not consistent enough though.

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Yesterday was my first day of real contractions. As apposed to Braxton Hicks contractions. They were very inconsistent, but they were there. I've had a few today, but none as intense as yesterday.

Baby Shower

Today my great friends from church threw me a baby shower. It turned out so great and we had so much fun. I especially had fun because I was childless pretty much the entire day! Thanks everyone who helped out, came, sent gifts, etc.

The cake, made by Mylinda

Jodi, Debbi, Nicole, Mylinda, Kimberly
Kathryn and Amanda-holy cow, these 2 were making me laugh!

Jodi, Shay, Nicole, Elise, Darsha...everyone guessed the size of my belly and whoever came closest won. Of course Jodi won, she wins everything!

Jodi, Shay, Nicole

Quilt made by Darsha...she's SO talented!!

Mylinda, Kathryn, Amanda, Sara, Debbie, Joanna

The party favors made by Amanda! Also VERY talented!

And all the wonderful stuff I came home with! Thanks again everyone! Words can't express how grateful I am to all of you!

(see the quilt on the bed? turned out cute huh?)

Baby Update

I went to the dr. today. Clint actually got to go with me! Which was nice. I'm 36 weeks measuring 35 weeks. No change in due date. Still September 21st. Baby is head down, thank heavens. The doc felt like doing an ultrasound, just for fun, and it was good to see the little guy again. He wouldn't open his legs for us, so we're not sure if he's still a boy, but we're hopeful :) I was under the impression that the doctor would "check" me today, but she didn't. Which was disapointing. At this point with Morgan I was already dialating, so I would just like to know if anything is happening, but oh well. I have a feeling I'm going to go late with this one. I'm not sure why, I just have a feeling.

I'm feeling good for the most part. Besides having a hard time sleeping and the normal aches and pains, everything is going great. Jackson still moves a lot, is always bulging out my right side, and testing to see how far he can spread my rib cage! I love feeling him move around. Its fun. But I'm definitely ready to carry him outside my body :) Just can't wait for the big day.

Lots O' Pictures

Most of these pictures are just shots I took messing around with my new camera (its a Nikon Coolpix S630, nothing fancy). Its taken me a while, but I'm figuring it out.

Here I am at 32 weeks pregnant. My feet permanently look like rising bread dough, I can't get the swelling down (its not that I don't know HOW to, its just that they won't go down). I've been in a lot of pain from about my lower back down to my feet lately. I got a belly support thing from my dr. to lift the baby up and take pressure off my back and pelvic bones, but I don't like the way it fits, so I don't wear it. They haven't started "checking" me yet, so I don't know if I'm dilating or any of that fun stuff. 42 days to go!

A couple days before Clint got home from his trip to the states, our car broke down on me. So Morgan and I took the bus to an appointment last week. Of all the places she could have sat down to wait, she chose the dirt. She will always chose dirt and rocks over grass.

Also while Clint was gone, our TV stopped working (possbily from a lighting storm that took out our internet and cable also). So we were looking at TV's at the PX a couple of weekends ago and Morgan was really into The Bee Movie.

Heading to the commissary.

Can you tell I like sleeping pictures?

Daddy works late sometimes, okay, a lot of times, so this particular night Morgan was laying in bed with me reading cause I had absolutely no energy to be anywhere but my bed.

Morgan discovered her belly button. I find it funny that kids discover things like that regardless of whether or not we ever show them. She points to it now and says "be-ye". It sounds very similar to "bye". Anyway, she loves to point out mine and Clint's belly buttons too.

I was trying to get some much needed rest the other day when I realized Morgan was being unusually quiet. Of course I found her doing something she's not supposed to :)

Licking the spoon after making No Bake cookies

Chillin with her polar bear.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Clint was called to be the 2nd counselor in the Young Men's Presidency at church. Every Thursday they have activities. Last week they went swimming, so Morgan and I tagged along.

Morgan absolutely HAS to feed herself these days. She refused to let me even touch her spoon. If I do it turns into an all out temper tantrum, tears and all! I wouldn't mind so much, I mean, I'm LOVING having a toddler who wants to be independent, but the mess I have to clean up afterwards is never fun!

We finally found a good deal on a TV that was within our price range. 3 weeks without one was pretty rough!

Oh, and we got our household goods, which means Morgan has her real bed, which she LOVES, and lots of baby toys to play with. I can't keep her away from them.

In other news: I was given the wrong calling at church last week and I am actually supposed to be the compassionate service leader. I think Heavenly Father is trying to teach me something, because I was in the same calling when we lived in Alabama. And I have a difficult time feeling like I have the talents and abilities neccessary to serve others. So this will be a good "job" for me.

Anyway, Morgan is growing fast and will be 2 in less than 4 months! I love, love, love having a toddler. A lot of people say they miss their kids being babies and that I shouldn't wish Morgan could walk and talk cause I would miss the times when she couldn't do those things. But nope, not me. I'm loving it. As challenging as it is. I love interacting with her and watching her learn and making her walk everywhere so she burns off more energy. I love that she can feed herself (for the most part) and that she likes to "help" clean and cook. I think these are the days I'm going to miss.

PS. Morgan doesn't ALWAYS have that stupid pacifier in her mouth. Only at bedtime and when mom is too tired to deal with the whining. The last couple of months she's been really clingy, but I think we're at the tail end of that phase...at least until Jackson is born.