Tucker Update

I had a Dr.'s appointment today and all is well. Tucker is still breach, and most likely he is still Frank Breach (head, arms and legs up) like he was in the ultra sound two weeks ago. The Dr. made it sound like if he is still breach when it comes closer to my due date, that he would give me the option of whether or not I want to try and turn him. My sister-in-law, Tory, had a frank breach baby and she said that if she could do it again she would just take the C-section. She wound up having a C-section anyway because Lexy turned head down, and then flipped right back to breach. I think it was a sign of her little stubbornness now. But we love her. :) I am measuring at 36 1/2 weeks, and technically I am only 33 1/2. So probably in another month if I am still measuring big I will have another ultra sound. YAY! That will also tell us if he is breach and whatnot as well. My BP is great, it's actually 4 points lower than it was before...YAY! The Dr. gave me permission to exercise again, so my goal is to make it to the gym for 20 minutes or so on the treadmill at least 4 days a week from now until delivery.

This is what a Frank Breach baby supposedly looks like. I'm sure Tucker is in there with his legs in a perfectly straight position like that. If so, he's going to be a gold medalist in the Olympics some day! :)

It is so strange to think that next month Tucker will be joining our family. I won't lie and say it's been easy, but it has seemed to go by fast. I'm sure this next month will go by slow, but we seem to have something going on every weekend, so that should help. I am so excited to meet this little man. David and I were talking tonight about how we want to be selfish for the first few hours after he is born and not share him with anyone. At our hospital tour last week they told us that the baby is normally most alert for the first 2-3 hrs. after delivery and then he just sleeps a lot. So we will most likely be taking those couple of hours as our own. David said this evening, "Don't lie, you don't want to share him with anyone at that point, even me." I laughed and said, "It's true, but since you're the Dad you get to be there." He knows me to well!
These last couple of days my mind has been wandering all over the place with everything that is going on in the world. I lie awake at night and sometimes think to myself, "How could I bring an innocent baby into this madness. What am I getting him in to?" But then I am so comforted by my knowledge of the gospel. How grateful I am in these perilous times to know that there is a greater plan, even greater than we can imagine. What a wonderful thing! I'm not bringing this baby into a world of peril and turmoil, I am giving a spirit the chance to come into this world and fulfill the Plan of Salvation as it pertains to him. I am allowing a Son of our Heavenly Father the opportunity to come down to grow and learn so that one day he and our family can return to live with our Heavenly Father again. What an amazing responsibility I feel as his mother to teach him in the correct way. To teach him that although things in the world may be contrary to what we believe, our testimony of the gospel and of our Savior Jesus Christ can carry us through these times. What a comforting thing it is to know that David and I aren't completely on our own in raising this little boy and his future siblings, but that we have the guidance of our Heavenly Father every step of the way. I am so grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ in my life.