| | Well, not a lot has gone on with me lately. Thursday night we had our
Thanksgiving dinner since my uncle was in town from Nashville. It was
great to get everyone together and just catch up, although it was wierd
since usually Thanksgiving is an all day event and this was just
dinner. Everyone is doing great, Brook and Sheri were in town, which
was awesome since I felt like I hadn't seen them in forever. Java is
doing great, recovering really quickly, and the vet even talked about
taking the splint off of her leg this week! She will be such a happy
pup! Mom has a new surprise, but I can't reveal it since some members
of the family don't know yet. You should call her and bug her til she
tells you! Just ask about the new black thing at her house.  Here is what went on with me in the last two weeks.
Friday, October 27th I had an appointment.
She
checked me because I had some strong contractions for over an hour on
Wednesday
that eventually died out, and I was 50% and at least 1cm. So that was
great news. Did the Group B Strep test, results would be in at my next
appointment. The following week was pretty uneventful, then I had
another appointment last Friday, November 3rd. Here's what happened...
I went in to my appointment at 9:30. I was actually a bit early, so
they got me in around 9:15. I sat in the little room until after 10.. I
think my dr was at the hospital with a woman in labor. So anyway, after
she walked in, the first thing she did was measure my tummy, then she
went straight to the doplar. At first everything sounded fine. The
heartbeat was a bit faster than usual, but level. Then all of a sudden
it started racing, my guess would be in the 170-180bpm range. Then it
dropped down to what sounded lower than an adult heartbeat. I looked at my dr
and she had a worried look on her face. I said "That sounds really
slow.." And she said, "Yeah, it does." So she sent me over to the
hospital (which is luckily only a block away, so I didn't have to drive
very far.. I was a mess!) and I headed up to Labor & Delivery. They hooked me up
to the monitor in the nonstress test room, and left. My dr said they
would monitor me for about 20 minutes. Well, the hb ended up being
super erratic, at one point it topped 200 bpm and there were gaps in
the printout, like the heart was stopping all together, and then the hb
would bottom out around 60 bpm. I was bawling just sitting there
watching the screen. They had me documenting her movements, which were
very regular, as usual. I was hooked up to the machine for over an hour
before her hb started to level out in the 150's. After about 10 minutes
of that range, they said "Okay, you can go now." I'm thinking, what the crap?
They didn't tell me what was going on or why it was doing that. They
just said to go home, rest, monitor movements, no caffiene, excessive
sugars, or stimulants. I asked if I needed to go back over to my dr's
office (we hadn't finished my appointment) and they said "No, we've
already talked to your dr." So home I went. I don't think I got off of
the couch except to go to the bathroom and refill my water pitcher (lol, the one they
gave me during my monitoring, it's huge!) all day Friday.
Well, now I'm freaked out about everything I do and how it affects
Jeslynn's hb, so we decided since it is a full moon on Sunday, we are
going to get things rolling.
Saturday Eric and I got up and went to breakfast, and spent the day
shopping for last minute baby stuff. We eneded up walking for over 6
hours Saturday. Still no labor.
Sunday we got up and went to church, watched Eric's little 4 year old
cousin Josie get baptised, had a huge lunch at Charlie's house. Still no labor.
Ran a few more errands, went home and watched a movie, did some stuff
around the house, and went to bed around 10.
Well, I started getting some contractions, but very light and not nearly as
painful as last week's, so I was pretty sure it wasn't going to
progress. We went to sleep, woke up, no labor.
So here I am today. Somewhat achy abdomen, not really crampy, just
uncomfortable. My boss is predicting tonight at 9pm to be the magic
time, but we'll see. I told Eric that at one point last week, I could
have put money on having her in the next week, now I feel like it could
be another 6. My dr didn't check me on Friday, and I had lots of ?'s
still, so I just called her. I asked about the hb and what was going
on. She said she spoke with a perinatologist and showed him the
printout of the hb. The Dr said that they had had several women who's
babies' hbs have done that lately, and they have no clue why it's
happening. All he could say was that all the babies were born healthy
and had no heart problems after birth. So that is positive. As far as
limitations, still just the caffiene and sugars. I'm still supposed to
monitor her movement, but she is such an active little booger, it's
more like I'm monitoring her nap times. lol And my GBS test came back
negative, so I don't have to worry about getting antibiotics when I go
into labor. So that was great news. I'm still super paranoid about
everything I do and how it could be affecting the baby's hb, but she
said that if I had any problems or concerns that made me really nervous
this week before my appointment, to call her and she would see me right
away. I'm so glad that I have such a great ob.
So now I'm just waiting to see if she's ever going to come
out. I know it's still 2 weeks 'til my due date, but I'm so anxious and
ready to hold her. Plus I don't want to worry constantly about what I'm
doing and how it's affecting her.
Okay, so that's all I really have for now. Brook, you should be proud,
that's one of the longer posts I've made in a while! Have a great day!
God Bless and BOOMER SOONER!!!
Oh, and here are some of the maternity pics Eric and I had done a couple weeks ago.
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