Well Brett and I had the baby!! What an adventure it was, and in the end we got the biggest surprise of our life...IT'S A GIRL!! We were almost 100% sure we were having a boy and wow, did this news throw us off, the suspense of keeping it a surprise for 9 months i guess : )

We went into the hospital May 18th 2009 at 7am to get induced (they predicted a bigger baby as i was diabetic through the pregnancy) by 6 pm that evening i had only dialated 1 cm... the induction went on through the night and the next morning i thought i was going to die, the epidural didn't work, i experienced more back labor than imaginable, and after 50+ hours of complete misery i went in for an emergency c-section (sorry but my labor story couldn't be dressed up to sound any better if i tried, it SUCKED! thank god i had Brett at my side the whole time (he even witnessed the whole surgery) I couldn't of done it without him!

So long story short I delivered our little girl wed. may 20th 2009 at 1am
Jade Madison Heinze
7lb. 14oz. 21 inches long


so bottom line, my baby wasn't as large as they predicted and I probably could have waited til my actual due date of May 29th to have the baby naturally and avoid getting induced...but seeing her in the end made it all worthwhile!!
Thanks to UIC for such a horrific experience, it won't be forgotten!


More pictures to come!

T-Minus 11 days

Well the countdown has begun, we are due in less than 2 weeks and we finally got the nursery together (minus the painted walls) which will have to wait til after the baby arrives, we tried to get it done but just not enough time and we didn't want to paint it yellow... we still have to hang some pictures on the wall and little stuff here and there but all the big stuff is assembled and moved in!

We did our last ultrasound on wed. and the baby is already 7lb 6 oz. so god help me and let this baby be under 9lbs..oh please let it be under 9 lbs..lol... I am getting induced later next week so hopefully this baby comes on it's own before that! Soon enough we will meet the little one and finally get our surprise although i am still thinking this is a boy...a girl would definatley make the surprise a real "surprise" as we don't even have a girls name picked out ( we have the name book packed in our bag tho) so i can't wait for you all to mee him/her!!