It's a........?!?

GIRL!!!!

Savannah Grace will hopefully make her debut sometime in December. All is well with her and she is just perfect. Her heartrate was 146 and she was moving around like crazy. I felt and saw her push at the ultrasound probe a few times. She is still measuring almost a week ahead of time.

As far as the placental tear it appears to have healed completely. They could see no separation at all. The doc said that I could get off of bedrest but I needed to take it easy. No bending or lifting of any kind. I am not to get overheated. He said I could take showers and I can go to church and even shopping some but if I am going to be out for an extended period of time It need to be in a wheel chair. I still have to be monitored by ultrasound at every visit to check on things and I am still at a high risk of the baby coming early and also having to have a c-section but over all things are great!! We were so pleased with this appt. I will still probably stay on alot of bedrest when at home and take extra precautions when out. I refuse to over do it, we've come too far this time. But we are so excited to bring this precious little girl into the world. She is already loved more than she will ever know. I go back to the doc on Aug. 1st for a visit and another ultrasound. We are praying hard that things will stay on track for us this time. Thank you for all your prayers. You will never know how much we appreciate him. We know that God does answer prayers and it is through his will that all of this is possible. Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

Here are some photos from today. Once again the gestational age is wrong on the picture. They put it up based on when my cycle started instead of my ovulation date based on our fertility medication. So it should say 19 wks 6 days.

This next one is her face.

This next one she was waving at us. :-)

And Finally She's a girl!! You can tell better in the second photo.

Bedrest is a challenge.

I know since I am on bed rest I should be updating my blog more often but I hate typing alot on this laptop. Anyway, things are still going pretty good. Still no bleeding. We have an appt. Tues. to check on things and to hopefully find out the sex. I am completely bored. I have a laptop, magazines, books, TV, movies, video games, telephone, and I am learning to crochet yet I still get really bored. Being in bed 24/7 seems like an eternity. Most days feel like 3. Poor Daniel, bless his heart, gets no rest when he gets home from work. He's gotta feed me, bathe me, wash my hair, sometimes he shaves my legs, and pretty much does anything I need him to. He is such a wonderful man!! He hasn't complained once! We are very thankful for our church family who has been bringing us dinner on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday's. That has helped so much. My mom cooks on Tues. and Wed. and then Daniel only has to cook on the weekend. I am praying so hard that I will be allowed to start taking showers when I go back to the doc. I am sooooo looking forward to that shower.
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As far as the pregnancy I have definitely been feeling the baby although I feel like its not enough. (But of course I worry about EVERYTHING!). I started feeling movement in the hospital at around 16 1/2 weeks but they were flutters that were pretty consistent when they happened but were few and far between. Now I feel slight kicks here and there with a few flutters but its usually only once a day. I feel like I should be able to feel movement all day long since all I am doing is laying anyway. There have even been a few days where I didn't feel anything at all and of course freaked out. Daniel was able to feel some flutters last night but no kicks yet. This was after eating a ton of Skittles. :) Is this normal at 19 weeks to not have consistent kicking?

Also my appetite is not that huge. I eat pretty much the same as pre pregnancy. By my scales I have gained about 4 lbs. since my 13 week appt. which puts me at 7lbs total but still 6 lbs less than pre pregnancy. Well I will update Tues. and will hopefully have a definite sex.

news from the doc!

So I went to the doctor this afternoon and got some good news. First we heard the heartbeat. The baby was moving around so much that it was hard to find at first. In the hoslital they had been finding they had been finding the heartbeat low. And that was just 4 days ago but today she found it right at my belly button. Also the baby kept kicking the doppler. The rate was in the 160's. We talked to the doctor and he said that things seemed to be going really well and that we didn't need an ultrasound and that we didn't need to come back for 2 weeks. But I begged him for an ultrasound and he said that it would be ok. So we had one. The baby looked great! The baby was standing on it's head with bottom in the air. lol So we couldn't tell the sex once again. We go back on August 4th and have our 20 week ultrasound and doc's appt. And we are really excited because we were able to switch doctor's. So overall a good day. We feel at ease some because apparently the bed rest is working. Here is a pic we got today. Like I said the baby is on it's head...lol

previous blog continued

Soon after my regular doc comes in and doesn't say much of anything. Tues. morning was the last time I had any blood. So that day went pretty well. Wednesday morning my reg doc came in again and said that he was going to be out of the country for 2 weeks. He said that if I had no more bleeding that I could go home the next morning. He thought that it would be perfectly fine for me to wait 2 1/2 weeks for him to come back before seeing him. We werent comfortable with this but what other option did we have. Up to this point I was also not allowed to get up to take a shower and he was like oh you can definately do that. He leaves and although frustrated we had a pretty good rest of the day. The next morning another doc came to see us. This doc is the top doc in the group and is the one over all the others. He comes in and says absolutely no showers, and that I was not going to wait 2 weeks to be seen. He also was not going to let me come home unless someone was with me at all times. So now we have 4 docs contradicting what our reg. doc is saying. Anyway I was released on Thursday and am on complete bedrest and am only allowed up to potty. I have an appt. today to check on things with one of the docs that we saw in the hospital. We have plans to switch doctors today to the admitting doctor we had and we are hoping that he is accepting new patients. We just can't stay with our regular doc. We are not comfortable with him at all any longer and we don't trust his judgment for our pregnancy any longer. We used to love him and thought he was a great doctor but he just has way too many patients and doesnt have time for a high risk pregnancy. So we will see what today brings. Will update more later.

Change in Plans (A little graphic)

On July 9th I was having a pretty good day. I had been feeling really good for the past couple of days. Daniel and I had even gone to a play that evening in Millbrook. We got home around 10:15 or so and things were going fine. We ate dinner, I used the potty, I took my prenatal vitamin and we got in the bed. About 10 minutes after laying down I felt wet so I pulled the covers back and was covered in blood. Of course we panicked. I ran to the bathroom, put a pad on, threw some clothes on and called the doctor. Daniel threw some clothes on, threw Trixie in her cage and began to shake uncontrollably. I of course could not panic yet cause I knew I needed to to talk to the doctor. We left to rush to the ER before the doctor even called back. I have no idea how Daniel could drive at that point. Soon the doctor called and explained to me that it was rare to have a miscarriage after 13 weeks so since I was 16 weeks 1 day I needed to come into the ER for evaluation. At that point Daniel called my parents to let them know what was going on. They decided to meet us there. At that point I began to panic. We were both crying and praying and I began to shake uncontrollably. To the point were I thought I was going into shock. I literally looked like I was having a seizure. We made it to ER in 15 min. (this is usually a 30 min. drive). Once there, Daniel dropped me off at the door so he park and i went in with blood soaked pants. I walked in a explained to the girl at the desk what was going on. She told me to take a seat because their computer was down. I was still shivering and people were staring at me. Daniel walks in and questions them and soon after they let him come to the window to check us in. Not long after I am called to triage and taken to a room. Right before this my parents got there. They put us in a room and no one comes in. So we are just sitting there all panicked fearing the worst. Daniel walks out to the nurses station and tells them to get someone in there now! Soon a guy walks in to hand me a gown and stuff and shortly after that a nurse comes in. My mom was able to come back then too. At this point I have to stand up to put on my gown and when I do blood gushes to the floor. I lost it at this point. I just knew it was over. Daniel was crying and even my mom at this point. I laid down in the bed and soon the nurse came in to do my IV and the tech came in to do my ultrasound. I couldn't tell a thing about what she was doing with the IV. I was so focused on the ultrasound. I know now that I was stuck 3 times before they got it. My mom stepped out of the room because she was so scared about the ultrasound. As soon as she started the ultrasound we could see the baby's heart beating and moving around. She looked around for a while saying everything looks fine so we were starting to feel a little better. But then she asked me if I had injured myself. I said no and she said I had a small placental abruption (this is where the placenta tears away from the uterus a little). She tried to see the sex but the legs were closed. Well I was admitted that night and was in a room by 2am. The doctor would come around the next morning and we would find out more. By this time I was in a lot of pain from cramping so they gave me a Lortab which of course did not touch it. I could not sleep until the doc came. Daniel slept in 10 min. intervals for a couple hours. The doctor came around 6:30. Not my reg. doctor but a different doctor who is in the same group. He explained to us that I had a 2cm tear and that I would be in the hospital for a while. He explained that the baby was doing very well and that with bedrest we should be able to deliver a healthy baby. He prescribed me low dose Demerol for the cramps and said he would see me in the morning. Daniel and I slept most of that day. That night was pretty stressful. The nurses were suppose to be doing the fetal heart monitor twice a day so our night nurse decided to try. She apparently had no experience with this. She tried for 20 min. to find it and could not so our minds started to flash back to when we found out about Zachary. So they had to order an ultrasound. We waited for over an hour for the ultrasound guy to come which was pure torture. He came in and we saw the heartbeat right away and the baby was moving all around. We asked if he could tell the sex and he would not even try because he said he is quite often wrong this early. So after all that of course we didn't sleep well that night either. The doc, a different one, came by the next morning and said that things were going ok but I would still need to be in the hospital for a while. Sat. went pretty good except for the night time. I started to pass large clots which our nurse for the night scared us to death by saying that they looked like pieces of placenta. So of course we didn't sleep well that night either. Sunday morning another doctor we have never seen before came by. He said that passing clots is completely normal while on bedrest. What happens is when you are laying down the blood pools and when you get up to use the restroom it comes out that way. He said that was a small improvement from constant heavy bleeding. We had a better day that day and then slept pretty good that night. On Monday morning the first doc came to see us. He was optimistic and ordered an ultrasound to check on things. About an hour later the girl came in to do the ultrasound. I was not happy with this lady at all. Every other u/s we have ever had they always show us the heart first and give us the rate. She didn't say anything at first so I asked if there was a heartbeat. She said "We aren't suppose to tell you anything." We of course started to freak out thinking that meant something was wrong. 20 minutes later she saw how panicked we were and finally showed and told us the heartrate. She pushed so hard on my stomach and it was soooo painful. It took forever for her to finish. That night I started to have horrible pains that were different from what I had been feeling. Also my uterus would tighten for a few min. at a time. They thought of was having contractions so they called to on call doc which happened to be my regular doc. He was horrible! It took him over an hour to even call back and then another hour to come by. And it just got worse from there. He walked in the door and everything he said was gloomy. He brings in a small ultrasound machine for our piece of mind he says, which he does not even know how to use. He does a very short scan just to show us the heartbeat but has no idea how to measure the rate. He then sits on my bed and says "I don't know what to do". He then proceeds to tell us that there is nothing that he can do and bedrest isnt going to save my baby and that if he had seen me Thurs. he would have sent me home. All this after 3 other docs have said the exact opposite. He wanted to send me home the next day but we protested. The next morning the admitting doctor came by and said that we were absolutely not going home yet and would not until I had no bleeding for 24 hours. (continued in next blog).

New Camera!

Daniel and I have been talking about buying a new camera for a while. We wanted something fancier than a point and shoot for when the baby came. We originally were going to buy a video camera but decided that a camera would be used more often. So we went Friday and bought our new camera. We are really really pleased with it. It's a Canon EOS Rebel XS. Hopefully lots of good photos coming soon!

Busy Busy!

It's been a while. We've been so busy. Daniel had his surgery this today a week ago. Things went well with the surgery. He did have to get an extra procedure done called Turbine reduction in his nose, supposedly to help his breathing. The first 4 days went surprisingly great for him. He was in some pain but as long as he took his pain meds and kept his throat moist he did really well. We even went Friday night to pick up our baby furniture from JCPenney. Of course he couldn't lift or drive so my parents and grandparents went and helped. My dad and granddad had to bring the things up the stairs into our apartment. I felt bad because each piece was over 200 lbs. But we were so excited to get it. To tell you how well Daniel was doing at that point, he put all the furniture together that night. I intended to help but I ended up sitting and watching him due to sciatic nerve pain. Of course the dresser and changing table had come pretty much fully assembled so he really only had to put the crib together and it only took about 20 or so minutes. So that's up and there will be pictures to come later.
Daniel ended up going back to work on Monday because we need him to save the rest of his vacation days for when the baby is born. I had to take him and pick him up since he is still on medication and can't drive. Well of course he was really tired that night but he woke up in the middle of the night in excruciating pain. I felt so bad for him. I thought he was gonna be one of the lucky ones to get by without pain. ( I spent 5 days in the hospital with mine and still could not get my pain under control). But apparently his has just come late. The last couple days have been painful for him but he still has had to go to work. I've been driving every day and probably will do so again tomorrow so that he can stay on his meds til Sunday. We read online where some people do really well at first and then have their bad pain once things start to heal, mostly due to everything shrinking back to normal size while still having scabs. So hopefully in a few days he will be feeling better. I wish he would have had his pain while he was at home instead of when he went back to work. He goes back to the doc next Tuesday so we will see.

As far as the pregnancy, things seem to be going well. I am 15 weeks today and I promise to post pics soon. I have had some flutters that I am not sure if its the baby moving or if its just gas. :) They are getting more frequent so I hope they are the baby but who knows. My morning sickness is pretty much gone except for the occasional random throw up. I'm still waiting for that 2ND trimester energy to kick in though. I'm waiting for my stomach to stop looking fat and start looking pregnant. When I wear maternity clothes I look very pregnant but when looking in the mirror I think I still just look fat. I mean my tummy is rounding a bit and is a bit harder but still just looks fat to me. Hopefully soon though. I think my appetite is going to get me into trouble. I had lost 13lbs. in the first trimester. By my calculations I have gained about 3lbs. of that back in the past 2 weeks! Hopefully it is just because I started to eat again and will slow down. Hopefully! I am convinced that we are having a girl and really want to start buying things. My mom already has. I have nothing picked out for a little boy, its all girl so if we go in and its a boy I will be very busy. lol