Well, for three days now, my sister in law has been battling miscarrying. Unfortunately today was not good..the doctor gave grim news and she has to have a D &C tomorrow. It is the most painful thing to experience and I HATE that she has to feel it for a second time. I'm grieving the loss of my niece and grieving for the emotions that my sister in law has to go through. I prayed that Ava and Mackenzie would be there to greet Madison when she arrives.
This morning I fainted..two episodes. I've never fainted in my life! It was the craziest feeling to me. I disliked it very much. I got hot/cold with sweat dripping in a matter of seconds. I was super panicky. Luckily my appointment was at 1 so I went in an hour early to see if they would take me. Turns out all the horrible sharp radiating pains are just harmless round ligaments (didn't feel these with the girls which is surprising) and the fainting is common and normal. She said that I had hypoglycemia with low blood pressure and the combination won. If they get worse she will do an EKG but she thinks they're fine. The baby measures about 9 oz which is 6 tenths less than Ava so basically Ava's size. He showed off his boy parts again as I embarrassingly laughed when she said, "And now that I've checked he won't stop showing it to us". She increased my heparin amount and said she will increase it one more time at about 28 weeks. I finally asked how the heparin would work for labor and delivery and she said that heparin has a great half life so it's about 12 hours. I should be fine and she hasn't had to use this one type of drug that counteracts the heparin in like 12 years so I should be set. And not to worry if we have to do an unplanned C-section. The baby is super cute and I brought my cd but didn't remember to take it out of my purse so I don't have them to easily show you. I can only take pictures of the pictures and those never turn out well. He moved to a head down position (also known as vertex- I learn something new every day!) from the breech position last week and she seemed excited about that. Honestly it kind of makes me nervous because that's ready position so I think I need him to move to transverse because that's hey let's chill out in here position to me. lol It made me nervous when he was breech because I could feel his feet kicking me so low and now I feel hands! I hate that low feeling because I think of having Ava there for 2 weeks and the dreaded feeling of it. As long as it doesn't turn into pressure I think I can be more than happy with the tiny beatings I receive. Other than that I have nothing new to report. Pray that I'm not taking the new fainting pregnancy symptom to crucial places like the vehicle or while walking the dog...etc and that I don't harm the baby when I fall. She said my sugar was really low last time they checked and that I should be constantly eating throughout the day. Oh yeah, I lost that nice pound and a half that I had gained, what's going on? I figure since I'm overweight now, I fall into the category of only having to gain 15-20lbs and so once I get to 20 weeks I should be gaining a lb. a week...hopefully. I don't know that it's so healthy to not gain a single pound during pregnancy. At this point last pregnancy I had gained 7 pounds. Oh well...baby measures great so I'm happy...it's okay that he's stealing my food. I'll wish I had someone in there stealing food once he's out.lol Oh, and his happy little heart beat was 145bpm.
So to all 3 or so people that read this..please be in prayer first and foremost for my sister in law and brother in law as they face that all to familiar grieving process of baby Madison. Please pray for their continued faith in God and the things He has planned for their lives. Pray for the fainting and continued prayer for baby Maddox. Thanks in advance!
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