I picked the date for our baby shower its March 15th!!! How exciting, it'll be so nice to be up and about kinda for a little while during the shower and seeing people I won't have seen for a while. I tell ya what though, doing the registry has been very eventful, trying to figure out which items you want and or need, and the frilly extras that you may never use but are terribly cute that you have to have them anyway. I ordered the invitations on-line from tiny*prints, kinda expensive but totally cute I can't wait to get them in, now I just have to find all the address I need lol. My sister has been totally great about wanting to plan the details about the shower. I 'll have to load a picture of it once we have the shower. My sister and mom are brilliant in the decorating and events department. Our family does alot of events, which i kinda miss being a part of but soon enough I 'll be able to do them again.
Being on bed rest gives you alot of time to think, and last night after finishing the book I was reading that i started the day b4 because I couldn't sleep, I got to thinking about the baby and feeling him move around and then I realized how hungry I was but it was after 1 am so I just wanted to go to sleep and eat in the morning. Well that wasn't working so I had to think of something else to keep my mind off the crazy pregnant woman hunger. I had already been up and down the stairs twice yesterday so I knew I shouldn't go down and get food, which by the way is a terrible feeling that you could hurt your baby if you take to many steps in one day, it's a totally helpless feeling.
Luckily I have a fantastic supportive and loving husband who woke up to me sobbing feeling bad for myself cause I couldn't go get food or really do anything else for that matter. He not only got up and made me noodles in the middle of the night but he stayed up with me till I was tiered and was ready to go to bed even though he had to be up for work and be there by 7:00am. Hes my night in shinning armor and I love him to pieces. I can only hope and pray that every girl on bed rest has someone as wonderful as him in their lives to help them get through these trying weeks.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Long Day
Today seems to be dragging on and on and i woke up at 11:30am lol. This bed rest thing has really thrown off my time clock. I've always liked sleeping in, but now i sleep in late to the hope that my day will go by faster- except that means i stay up later and can't fall asleep even when i finally make the trip back up the stairs to go to bed.
The good news is were almost to 24 weeks and as of today we have 116 days left till the due date which is May 26th 2008. But i wouldn't be surprised if he came a little earlier. I belong to a forum of moms that are due in may also and that has been fun to talk and ask questions, from sleep positioners, car seats, circumcision, breast feeding. They've made me feel a little more comfortable with new mom things. Which is nice seeing as i don't think we'll be able to take any of the parenting classes b-4 hes born since i can't leave the house, so i'm soaking up the knowledge they have and everything reputable i can find online and in books.
The good news is were almost to 24 weeks and as of today we have 116 days left till the due date which is May 26th 2008. But i wouldn't be surprised if he came a little earlier. I belong to a forum of moms that are due in may also and that has been fun to talk and ask questions, from sleep positioners, car seats, circumcision, breast feeding. They've made me feel a little more comfortable with new mom things. Which is nice seeing as i don't think we'll be able to take any of the parenting classes b-4 hes born since i can't leave the house, so i'm soaking up the knowledge they have and everything reputable i can find online and in books.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
23 Weeks pregnant
Well we are 23 weeks along now, however I think that I will start out telling you how we got at least this far. In January of 2007 my husband and I found out we were PG with our first child and were ecstatic! We however lost or first baby and found it hard to deal with but we picked up the pieces after months of healing physically and emotionally- it took the doctors 3 months for them to do a D&C on me even though I was heavily bleeding the whole time. We also found out with my first baby on one of my ultrasounds the I have a Bicornuate uterus, which means its heart shaped and can cause some late term MC or pre-term delivery,and some times C-section because the baby doesn't have enough space to grow, and some people don't end up having a problem with it and sail through there pregnancys and deliver with a regular birth at full term. So basically I was also labeled as being a high risk pregnancy.
We waited the recommended time b-4 we became PG again, and then we got PG our first month available lol : ). This was September 07. We are so excited with this one also and I had all the great Morning sickness which was really wake up sick and go to bed sick kind of sickness but that was ok- I didn't mind it to much after all the baby was growing and we were doing well I couldn't complain. My regular OB referred us to see some high risk Dr's. because of my uterus, even though everything was still going well and it continued to go easy until Jan. 2, 2008. We had our regular monthly check up and they did the ultrasound to find out the babies sex, and we found out were having a BOY!!!!! what a blessing : ) but at the same time the found out that my cervix was funneling. Which means it was opening from the inside, and i was again referred to the high risk Docs. They too agreed that my cervix was funneling but the weren't convinced that i defiantly had an incompetent cervix. So he put me on bed rest and i was told to come back in a week to check on whether or not my cervix had shortened anymore. He also went ahead and scheduled a surgery for me called a cerclage i think just to make me feel better cause i don't think he thought i needed it. Well it turns out that i did. My cervix had shortened even more and the doc had a change in heart and felt that the surgery would be the best thing we could do to save the baby. So i went into surgery a few short hours later. I was put to sleep during the surgery and he stitched my cervix closed and woke up about an hour later and went home to heal. Had some cramping that day and some light bleeding for the next 4 or 5 days and haven't had any challenges since. I've been feeling him move since about 14 weeks PG but during the 20th week i started feeling him move alot and during week 22 i have been feeling him occasionally on the outside of my tummy with my hand! So exciting! We went back to the the doctor on the 28th and he said everything was looking great baby had plenty of fluid around him a nice strong heartbeat at 155 but also said i was to remain on bed rest only getting up to go to the bathroom some meals and showering stairs maybe once or twice a day at most. Its been almost a month on bed rest and it looks like we have alot more to go, but thats ok as long as the babies healthy and strong anything to keep him in a little longer.
We go back to the docs in three weeks for an update, we also told him at this last appt. that we only want to see him or the people at his practice since there all high risk doctors instead of my reg. OB . I just feel more comfortable with them taking care of us. We have to deliver at a different hospital but the upside to that is its right next to our children's hospital so if he does come earlier than we would like he would've been transferred there anyhow so over all this seems to be the safest decision.
We waited the recommended time b-4 we became PG again, and then we got PG our first month available lol : ). This was September 07. We are so excited with this one also and I had all the great Morning sickness which was really wake up sick and go to bed sick kind of sickness but that was ok- I didn't mind it to much after all the baby was growing and we were doing well I couldn't complain. My regular OB referred us to see some high risk Dr's. because of my uterus, even though everything was still going well and it continued to go easy until Jan. 2, 2008. We had our regular monthly check up and they did the ultrasound to find out the babies sex, and we found out were having a BOY!!!!! what a blessing : ) but at the same time the found out that my cervix was funneling. Which means it was opening from the inside, and i was again referred to the high risk Docs. They too agreed that my cervix was funneling but the weren't convinced that i defiantly had an incompetent cervix. So he put me on bed rest and i was told to come back in a week to check on whether or not my cervix had shortened anymore. He also went ahead and scheduled a surgery for me called a cerclage i think just to make me feel better cause i don't think he thought i needed it. Well it turns out that i did. My cervix had shortened even more and the doc had a change in heart and felt that the surgery would be the best thing we could do to save the baby. So i went into surgery a few short hours later. I was put to sleep during the surgery and he stitched my cervix closed and woke up about an hour later and went home to heal. Had some cramping that day and some light bleeding for the next 4 or 5 days and haven't had any challenges since. I've been feeling him move since about 14 weeks PG but during the 20th week i started feeling him move alot and during week 22 i have been feeling him occasionally on the outside of my tummy with my hand! So exciting! We went back to the the doctor on the 28th and he said everything was looking great baby had plenty of fluid around him a nice strong heartbeat at 155 but also said i was to remain on bed rest only getting up to go to the bathroom some meals and showering stairs maybe once or twice a day at most. Its been almost a month on bed rest and it looks like we have alot more to go, but thats ok as long as the babies healthy and strong anything to keep him in a little longer.
We go back to the docs in three weeks for an update, we also told him at this last appt. that we only want to see him or the people at his practice since there all high risk doctors instead of my reg. OB . I just feel more comfortable with them taking care of us. We have to deliver at a different hospital but the upside to that is its right next to our children's hospital so if he does come earlier than we would like he would've been transferred there anyhow so over all this seems to be the safest decision.
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