Birth Announcement

Where is the eject button?

So we had contractions for a day that were as close as 5 minutes apart and now nothing. The hitch hiker is such a tease.

Because we are past our due date (which was February 14th) we had to go in for an ultrasound to check out fluid and anatomy of baby. The ultrasound technician, Julia, tells us that the measurements indicate a birth weight of 9 pounds 7 ounces (plus or minus a pound). We are hoping for the minus side of that :).

The waiting room was very entertaining. A woman with very loud head phones snored through her wait. A family of 6 had a gregarious girl, age 5ish, who could recite every word of the Scooby Doo episode she watched.

We also got to do a non stress test. I got a belly belt with two sensors. One to hear the heart rate and one to project some beeps at varying levels that the baby could hear. The idea was to see if the baby reacted with elevated heart rate or movement or both and when calm and not moving that the heart rate fell appropriately. We passed with flying colors and get to go back in two days to do it all again if we can't find the eject button.

Tomorrow we have a midwife appointment. It was supposed to be today but our midwife is delivering another baby today :). We sure were hoping it would be our baby that was being delivered today.

Research, which I have way too much time to do right now btw, indicates that the average first time pregnancy goes 8 days past term. To quote the grandmomster to be, 8 DAYS!!!!



We took a long walk in Inwood Hill Park hoping to encourage the baby to come out and play.

Just Married...memories and integrity signs

My brother, Elijah, rocks. He created this awesome vinyl sign to help Ray and I celebrate our wedding on Mt. Ellen in Vermont. The sign was so cool, that the pictures made it to the Sugarbush homepage! He made us some matching vinyl stickers too. His company Integrity Signs in the New River Valley does vinyl signs and stickers for all occasions for individuals and corporations.

They do really cool t-shirts too. In fact, they did some awesome family onesies for the hitch hiker to properly welcome him/her into the Feller tribe.


If you are looking into event planning (weddings, family reunions, corporate conferences) or just generally in need of t-shirts, signs, or web design services you should check out Integrity Signs because my brother is awesome (Jacob is awesome too :)).


Integrity Signs

you are sleepy, very very sleepy - hypnobirthing

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Hypnobirthing class was fun. We have been playing the practice hypnobirth meditation on our ipod at night, even though I tend to fall asleep pretty quickly I really like it. Cherith reminded me I wasn't supposed to get hypnotized, which I kind of figured out when the lady started talking about the baby in your belly and other feminine parts:).