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Gwyndolyn Sue arrived April 2 at 5:49 PM.  She is the very best thing that has ever happened to me, and by far the greatest reward to have come from having surgery.  Not only is she a fabulous reward, but she's a great inspiration.  I want to live more for her than myself, so I take better care of myself.  
This time last year I was a little over a month out of surgery, and weighed 328 pounds.  This year?  Brand new baby, and weighing in at 239.  I can't wait to see what the NEXT year brings!

Hooray!

Had a fantastical visit to the baby dr today, and I'm glad- I needed some good news.  First of all, Ms. Thing here has decided to go ahead and start chunking up.  In the last month, I lost two pounds, and she gained them.  I like it like that   So we're now up to 4 lbs and 10 oz, which is a wonderful size for where I am.  They have "offically" decided that they are going to use my due date of April 13th.  UGH, that wasn't the one I wanted!  But as long as she's healthy when she gets here, I guess a matter of a couple of weeks won't kill anything (remind me of that about March 20th though).  Anyhow that makes me exactly 33 weeks today.  The thing is, Chris needs to go to KC in April to get us a house and for his final job interview.  The weekend he is scheduled to go is exactly two weeks from the 13th, so if I was late, that would normally be about the time she would start thinking about inducing me.  So I talked to her about that today, and she asked me if I had a time and date picked out or anything that I'd like to have the baby.  I told her no, but that I just wanted to make sure that I had enough time to have the baby with Chris here, and that if I ended up with a C-section that I'd have enough time to recover in the hospital and him bring me home before he'd have to leave.  She explained that she doesn't like to induce people if they havent already started dialating because the drugs they use don't always help START the dialating, and so sometimes they have a failed induction and have to go for an emergency C-section.  She said as long as I was dialated, she'd induce me whenever I wanted (yay!!!) but that we'll go ahead and plan that at 40 weeks wether I'm dialated or not, if she hasn't already come, she'll induce me.  Fantastical!  Also, someone decided to go ahead and cooperate for the ultrasound lady, and we still see no boy parts (yay again!), she's head down and ready to go whenever, AND we FINALLY got a decent facial picture.  I haven't scanned them yet, and they don't look as good on the paper as they did on the screen when we saw her, but we did notice one thing for certain, and Chris said it best- "I know whose cheeks THOSE are!"  Meaning my chimpunk cheeks :)