Another day, another update........
I have had quite an eventful week! Everything was cruising along, hunky dory, and I woke up on Saturday incredible swollen. I was sitting on the couch, got up, and the indent that was left on my leg by my heel was HUGE. Needless to say, I had a large amount of pitting edema! I figured it was all par for the course, didn't think anything of it, until I went to the doctor on tuesday.
On tuesday, still swollen, incredibly uncomfortable and tired, I went for another check up. My BP had spiked, and it was looking like I was going toxic, so the Dr. sent me for bloodwork, put me on strict bedrest, and I had to come back today to be rechecked. I have to say that the most fun part of this was telling Dan that I could no longer cook, clean, take Alex to daycare, NOTHING, but sit on the couch. I should have been doing that for the last 2 months, but hey, I have a 2 year old. Good luck with that! My house looks like a bomb went off in it! Just to give you an idea, I went into the cupboard last night to pul plates out for dinner, and none were clean............
So today, I got up, made Alex's lunch, loaded the dishwasher and had all my pre-ultrasound water (always way too much!). Dan took Alex to daycare, then we headed to the hospital for the ultrasound. According to it, baby weighs about 6lbs 15 oz (give or take a pound), and is at 38 weeks 5 days (I am currently 36 weeks 5 days). Looking at the ultrasound, there is a whole lotta baby in there! PLus, this kid has HUGE feet (although Alex did too!!!) so I guess they are going to be cute toesies like Alex's as well.
Went to the doctor, BP has come down a little, bloodwork was ok, and the swelling is a little better, so I continue on bedrest until I see him again next week (or go into labor whichever happens first). From feeling my belly, he said that his experience tells him this baby is probably closer to 8 lbs, not 7, and I actually went down in measurements, so baby has dropped. Hopefully, labor is just around the corner!!!
I know we booked a c-section for the 7th, but I have always maintained that if I go into labor on my own, then as long as baby is ok, we'll try for a VBAC. Otherwise, I have a definitive date of delivery, which in this case is good, because if I was allowed to go to term (or overdue) I could possibly have a 10 pounder on my hands!!!
I know we have had everyone crossing their fingers and praying for us during this time, and we really appreciate it! Keep on it...We are willing this baby to come and are soooooooooo ready to meet him or her!!!!!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
Pediatrician Update
Ok, we took Alex to the pediatrician for a check up today, and things are looking good. She is happy that he is making progress, and was actually a little more forthcoming with what her concerns were....
Her biggest concern is that Alex's regression in speech may be cause by seizures or a metabolic disorder. So, he has to go for an EEG and bloodwork to rule them out. Once they are ruled out, then the conclusion will be that he just needs a little help with speech. So, we have many appointments booked over the next month with developmental therapists and speech therapists to get him going, as well as getting the bloodwork done and then the EEG.
In terms of worse case scenario, I certainly wasn't thinking that a seizure would be worst case (I was thinking more like inoperable brain tumors). I can handle seizures. Seizures means meds and dietary management. Same with metabolic disorders. I'm so not as freaked out as I was.
We see her again in a month. In the meantime, we just keep plugging away!
Her biggest concern is that Alex's regression in speech may be cause by seizures or a metabolic disorder. So, he has to go for an EEG and bloodwork to rule them out. Once they are ruled out, then the conclusion will be that he just needs a little help with speech. So, we have many appointments booked over the next month with developmental therapists and speech therapists to get him going, as well as getting the bloodwork done and then the EEG.
In terms of worse case scenario, I certainly wasn't thinking that a seizure would be worst case (I was thinking more like inoperable brain tumors). I can handle seizures. Seizures means meds and dietary management. Same with metabolic disorders. I'm so not as freaked out as I was.
We see her again in a month. In the meantime, we just keep plugging away!
c-section date
We have a c-section date!!!!!
I am booked August 7th, 2009 first thing in the morning! We are sooooo excited! Actually, I am so happy that I feel a little light headed at the thought, especially since we have quite a few things to do yet. Although, here I am blogging when I could be doing some of those things!!! We also think it's cool that baby's birthday will be 7-8-9.....What a cool date!!
Ok, gotta do some baby prep.................
I am booked August 7th, 2009 first thing in the morning! We are sooooo excited! Actually, I am so happy that I feel a little light headed at the thought, especially since we have quite a few things to do yet. Although, here I am blogging when I could be doing some of those things!!! We also think it's cool that baby's birthday will be 7-8-9.....What a cool date!!
Ok, gotta do some baby prep.................
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Maternity photos
I had some maternity photos done a few weeks ago, and finally have them back. I didn't do them with Alex because I gained soooooo much weight with him I thought I looked hideous (and had major body image issues afterwards too), but this time I've only gained 30 lbs, so I'm a little happier with my shape :) None of the family ones turned out..Alex was waaaayyy to busy that day! Here are a couple of the good ones... Enjoy! Oh, and I was about 34 weeks when the pics were done.
Friday, July 10, 2009
OB visit
I went to the OB on Monday, and, well, not the greatest visit. I told her that I had changed my mind, that I wanted to have a planned c-section, and that my GP wanted it booked for the last week of July. She made a few comments about how I looked really worried (which I am), and then looked at our ultrasound results. Her conclusion was the following:
-a 31 week ultrasound is not indicative enough to base any decision for a planned c-section, so I have to have another ultrasound on the 23rd of July, which would be a better indicator of baby's size
-booking a planned c-section just because the baby is big is not a good enough reason to do it
-if a VBAC can be done it is better than any c-section, so she wants to continue to try and facilitate it
-the earliest she would be willing to book a section is August 10th, since she is on holidays from the 19th to the 4th, and my GP is on holidays from the 1st to the 9th.
She told me that I would have to wait until I see her on the 6th for a date for the section, and then it would still depend on OR bookings, inductions and how the ward was doing before she could give me a date. She then made another comment about me looking worried, and I burst into tears and starting blubbering about having this awful feeling that something bad was going to happen and that I couldn't handle it right now. It wasn't pretty! So, I still have to wait and see what the ultrasound says, and I see my GP for the next 3 weeks. We'll see what he has to say next week ;)
I felt really stupid afterwards about breaking down in her office, but then I didn't get a wink of sleep the night before (not an exaggeration, I literally did not sleep), and have been trying to cope with Alex and all of his issues and appointments, as well as Dan and his whole cholesterol-going-to-have-a-heart-attack-at-any-minute-need-to-lose-weight-and-take-meds issue, as well as being incredibly hormonal due to this last stage of pregnancy....Nevermind all of the normal day-to-day crap that you have to deal with! I also realize that it's not going to get better once baby is here, but most likely worse, and I just feel pretty overwhelmed at the moment.
So, I unfortunately can not give a specific date for this baby's birth (although I was really hoping to have one!!!), but I do think that the baby may have dropped in the last few days....If i sit for more than 10 minutes I have trouble getting up because of decrease movement in my pelvis, and I REALLY have a hard time getting out of bed.....I'm sure it would be a video for America's Funniest Home Videos to watch me get out of bed--I literally have to roll out and even THAT is difficult! Hopefully this baby will come soon......
-a 31 week ultrasound is not indicative enough to base any decision for a planned c-section, so I have to have another ultrasound on the 23rd of July, which would be a better indicator of baby's size
-booking a planned c-section just because the baby is big is not a good enough reason to do it
-if a VBAC can be done it is better than any c-section, so she wants to continue to try and facilitate it
-the earliest she would be willing to book a section is August 10th, since she is on holidays from the 19th to the 4th, and my GP is on holidays from the 1st to the 9th.
She told me that I would have to wait until I see her on the 6th for a date for the section, and then it would still depend on OR bookings, inductions and how the ward was doing before she could give me a date. She then made another comment about me looking worried, and I burst into tears and starting blubbering about having this awful feeling that something bad was going to happen and that I couldn't handle it right now. It wasn't pretty! So, I still have to wait and see what the ultrasound says, and I see my GP for the next 3 weeks. We'll see what he has to say next week ;)
I felt really stupid afterwards about breaking down in her office, but then I didn't get a wink of sleep the night before (not an exaggeration, I literally did not sleep), and have been trying to cope with Alex and all of his issues and appointments, as well as Dan and his whole cholesterol-going-to-have-a-heart-attack-at-any-minute-need-to-lose-weight-and-take-meds issue, as well as being incredibly hormonal due to this last stage of pregnancy....Nevermind all of the normal day-to-day crap that you have to deal with! I also realize that it's not going to get better once baby is here, but most likely worse, and I just feel pretty overwhelmed at the moment.
So, I unfortunately can not give a specific date for this baby's birth (although I was really hoping to have one!!!), but I do think that the baby may have dropped in the last few days....If i sit for more than 10 minutes I have trouble getting up because of decrease movement in my pelvis, and I REALLY have a hard time getting out of bed.....I'm sure it would be a video for America's Funniest Home Videos to watch me get out of bed--I literally have to roll out and even THAT is difficult! Hopefully this baby will come soon......
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Quicky update
Thought I would just post a little progress in our busy lives...
Alex is doing really good right now. We started the 1,2,3 Magic program of discipline with him, and it is working really well. As more time goes by, he is having less and less time outs, and I'm having to count past 1 a lot less often. He has also improved at daycare, and is back to sleeping and eating normally (he was waking at all hours wanting to get up or having screaming fits, and in general would not eat anything but junk...). In terms of his talking, he has learned 2 more words, duck and show, and he started saying some of his old words again; shoe, pee, poop, ready, set, go and I heard Mom and Mommy for the first time in months yesterday. What is funny is that every morning Alex wakes up, and the first thing he does once he gives me his bottle to fill up with milk (I know, I know, we'll wean him soon) is ask to put a show on, since this is normal morning routine. He follows me around saying "show? show? show?" until I put a disney movie on for him. As for the word duck, Dan taught him that last night, and it's so cute, he doesn't say "duck", he says "daaaa-cuck"!! If I can get it on video then I'll post it so you can see what I mean.
We were supposed to go to Osoyoos this weekend to visit my Dad since we hadn't been up there since before christmas, but the trip was vetoed by my doctor. I was willing to take the chance, but Dan wouldn't have it, and I can't drive that far and that long with my belly the size that it is. When I saw the doctor on Tuesday, my ultrasound results came back from 2 weeks ago...At 31 weeks 4 days (which was how far along I was at the time of the ultrasound) the baby was measuring 33 weeks 2 days and in the 90th percentile for a 33 week baby....Translation (as per my doctor)---at 31 weeks for days I was carrying a baby about the size of a 35 week baby, which meant that at my visit (where I was 33 weeks 4 days) I was carrying a 37 week size baby!! My doctors big concern is that with the baby being so big I could go into labor at anytime, and, while there is a hospital not too far from Osoyoos, we would have been horribly unprepared for delivery up there. I should also mention that we checked and double checked, and my dates are not off...I'm 100% sure of my last menstrual period (I remember it because I was so mad I wasn't pregnant!!!) and it is consistent with my first ultrasound which would be the most accurate for dates. I see the OB tomorrow, and we are going to pick a day for surgery. My doctor is hoping that we will get booked the last week of July, just because of the baby's size and the risk of going into labor (which wouldn't be a bad thing, but I really, really, really do not want to go through a long labor just to end up with another c-section anyways).
So, this weekend was spent getting things all ready for baby, since I am horribly anal retentive about being organized. The crib has been put back together at the right height for baby, we bought a new crib mattress, I've packed for the hospital (minus a few things that can't be put in until last minute anyways), got our phone list ready, and the car seat is by the door waiting patiently for Dan to put it in the car. I've pulled out all the receiving blankets, stocked up on diapers and wipes, some new bottles, bought a small case of formula just in case, bought new nipples for all the old bottles (although I can never seem to find the ones that are currently in circulation with Alex, so I keep having to buy more) and I even pulled out the very few girl things I do have to take to the hospital with me just in case (*wink *wink) including a dress that my great-grandma made for me when I was born--I thought that it would be great for the baby to wear in it's first photo (if it is a girl). Dan and I are frantically hashing out a boy's name (we already have a girl's name picked from my last pregnancy) and we aren't any closer than we were to picking a name 6 months ago. At least we're having the discussion---a month ago Dan wouldn't even talk about it!!
There is, of course still a lot of things that haven't been done...I have to pick up a dresser for Alex and move his clothes out of the nursery and put them in his room, his closet needs to be cleaned out so that he can actually use it (right now it's full of blankets, I've made and all our photos we never rehung after we painted), I have a book shelf in the nursery that needs to be put together, we need to steam clean the carpets, I need to organize all of Alex's 12-24 months clothes and move them downstairs, and I need to go through all of our toys and find the infant stuff, wash it and have it ready for baby (right now it's all mixed in with Alex's big boy toys).
Needless to say, we have a busy couple of weeks ahead of us, especially if I'm booked for a c-section the last week of July. The doctor did say he would be happy with a date anytime after my birthday, so we'll see what happens tomorrow!!
Alex is doing really good right now. We started the 1,2,3 Magic program of discipline with him, and it is working really well. As more time goes by, he is having less and less time outs, and I'm having to count past 1 a lot less often. He has also improved at daycare, and is back to sleeping and eating normally (he was waking at all hours wanting to get up or having screaming fits, and in general would not eat anything but junk...). In terms of his talking, he has learned 2 more words, duck and show, and he started saying some of his old words again; shoe, pee, poop, ready, set, go and I heard Mom and Mommy for the first time in months yesterday. What is funny is that every morning Alex wakes up, and the first thing he does once he gives me his bottle to fill up with milk (I know, I know, we'll wean him soon) is ask to put a show on, since this is normal morning routine. He follows me around saying "show? show? show?" until I put a disney movie on for him. As for the word duck, Dan taught him that last night, and it's so cute, he doesn't say "duck", he says "daaaa-cuck"!! If I can get it on video then I'll post it so you can see what I mean.
We were supposed to go to Osoyoos this weekend to visit my Dad since we hadn't been up there since before christmas, but the trip was vetoed by my doctor. I was willing to take the chance, but Dan wouldn't have it, and I can't drive that far and that long with my belly the size that it is. When I saw the doctor on Tuesday, my ultrasound results came back from 2 weeks ago...At 31 weeks 4 days (which was how far along I was at the time of the ultrasound) the baby was measuring 33 weeks 2 days and in the 90th percentile for a 33 week baby....Translation (as per my doctor)---at 31 weeks for days I was carrying a baby about the size of a 35 week baby, which meant that at my visit (where I was 33 weeks 4 days) I was carrying a 37 week size baby!! My doctors big concern is that with the baby being so big I could go into labor at anytime, and, while there is a hospital not too far from Osoyoos, we would have been horribly unprepared for delivery up there. I should also mention that we checked and double checked, and my dates are not off...I'm 100% sure of my last menstrual period (I remember it because I was so mad I wasn't pregnant!!!) and it is consistent with my first ultrasound which would be the most accurate for dates. I see the OB tomorrow, and we are going to pick a day for surgery. My doctor is hoping that we will get booked the last week of July, just because of the baby's size and the risk of going into labor (which wouldn't be a bad thing, but I really, really, really do not want to go through a long labor just to end up with another c-section anyways).
So, this weekend was spent getting things all ready for baby, since I am horribly anal retentive about being organized. The crib has been put back together at the right height for baby, we bought a new crib mattress, I've packed for the hospital (minus a few things that can't be put in until last minute anyways), got our phone list ready, and the car seat is by the door waiting patiently for Dan to put it in the car. I've pulled out all the receiving blankets, stocked up on diapers and wipes, some new bottles, bought a small case of formula just in case, bought new nipples for all the old bottles (although I can never seem to find the ones that are currently in circulation with Alex, so I keep having to buy more) and I even pulled out the very few girl things I do have to take to the hospital with me just in case (*wink *wink) including a dress that my great-grandma made for me when I was born--I thought that it would be great for the baby to wear in it's first photo (if it is a girl). Dan and I are frantically hashing out a boy's name (we already have a girl's name picked from my last pregnancy) and we aren't any closer than we were to picking a name 6 months ago. At least we're having the discussion---a month ago Dan wouldn't even talk about it!!
There is, of course still a lot of things that haven't been done...I have to pick up a dresser for Alex and move his clothes out of the nursery and put them in his room, his closet needs to be cleaned out so that he can actually use it (right now it's full of blankets, I've made and all our photos we never rehung after we painted), I have a book shelf in the nursery that needs to be put together, we need to steam clean the carpets, I need to organize all of Alex's 12-24 months clothes and move them downstairs, and I need to go through all of our toys and find the infant stuff, wash it and have it ready for baby (right now it's all mixed in with Alex's big boy toys).
Needless to say, we have a busy couple of weeks ahead of us, especially if I'm booked for a c-section the last week of July. The doctor did say he would be happy with a date anytime after my birthday, so we'll see what happens tomorrow!!
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