Posts Tagged ‘second pregnancy’
Christmas Eve Eve
Posted on: January 6, 2015
It started on Christmas Eve Eve, December 23rd.
The entire night before, I was feeling contractions and pressure. In those last few days, I had been feeling it them a lot before bed. But that night was off and on throughout the night. Several times, I was tempted to wake Hubby up and call L&D, but the contractions would space out and the pressure would subside.
However, during the day of the 23rd, I just didn’t feel like myself. I felt heavier than usual. I was contracting during the day, even though the frequency and intensity didn’t change much. The pressure was lingering all day.
I told Hubby to try to come home as early as he could because I definitely wasn’t feeling good at all.
I decided to call L&D to ask if these feelings were normal or if I had to come in. L&D decided they wanted me to come in.
When we arrived at L&D, my contractions had stopped, but the pressure was still lingering. I still felt overall heavy and not like myself.
The OB checked my cervix and saw that I was already 3cm dialated. They kept me in the hospital for about three hours to see if anything was progressing.
I was worried. I didn’t want anything to happen that day because I didn’t want M to miss out on all the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day festivities. I was looking forward to setting a plate of cookies, brownies, or rice crispy treats near the fireplace. I was looking forward to waiting for M to fall asleep so Hubby and I could sneak downstairs and eat all the goodies to make it look like Santa showed up. I was looking forward to bringing M downstairs the next morning to see all the presents and what Santa left her. I didn’t want to give birth just yet.
Luckily, when the doctor came to check me about three hours later (yes, THREE HOURS later!!!), my cervix did not progress any further and I was allowed to go home.
We were able to do all the Christmas things with M and we were able to enjoy all the Christmas fun before K made her appearance into the world…
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She’s here!
Posted on: January 5, 2015
So I’m sure you can tell by my small and sudden absence on the blog that I gave birth to my little miracle baby.
Little Miss K was born on December 28th, 2014 at 12: 27am. She was 6lbs, 1oz and measured to be 20in long. She is healthy, fiesty and everything I dreamed she would be.
We are all adjusting to our new family dynamic, so if blog posts are not as regular as they should be, I’m sure you know why.
Thanks for all your patience while we try to find out bearings again, in life and with this blog.
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36 weeks!
Posted on: December 26, 2014
I’m writing this way ahead of time, hoping that I will actually make it to this day… if anything changes, you’ll see it in a subsequent blog post…
If all goes well, I’m 36 weeks today! It’s a big deal. It means that I don’t have to be off my feet all the time. I’m allowed to walk around more. In fact, I’m encouraged to walk around more to start regaining some of the strength I’ve lost due to being off my feet for so long..
It also means I no longer have to do nightly progesterone dosages. I’m so glad to finally be done with those!
But being on my feet again AND no more progesterone also means that this baby can literally come at any time…
My next doctor’s appointment is on Monday.. I hope I make it to then to see if I’m finally dialated…
Any moment now… I’m hoping that she can stay in until I hit 37 weeks, since at that point she won’t be considered a late preterm birth.. 38 weeks would be best.. who knows?
It’s getting super real and I’m getting super excited to finally see this little girl…
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The weight…
Posted on: December 23, 2014
During my last appointment about a week ago, my OB-GYN determined that the current weight of this little baby is about 5lbs, 10oz.
I would imagine that at this point, the baby is probably pushing 6lbs now.
When M was born, she weighed only 5lbs, 3oz.
That means that this baby is currently heavier than M ever was in my tummy. Believe me, I’m feeling every bit of that weight.
At this point, I’m quickly approaching the 36 week mark and feeling heavier and sorer (is that word?) than I’ve ever felt before.
This part of pregnancy is all new to me. Feeling very heavy, and feeling that this baby is quickly running out of room. I thought it was uncomfortable when I was pregnant with M, but this is vastly different.
There are days when I’m sluggish. I’m on bedrest and hardly getting up to do anything, yet I’m still sluggish! I can barely move, even to just roll over! Everything hurts from my back to my front and everything in between. I don’t remember being this way with M.
I’m so thankful that God has blessed this child to stay in me for as long as she is staying, but I just never realized how uncomfortable it truly is!
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False alarm…
Posted on: December 22, 2014
False labor.
When I was pregnant with M, I had my share of Braxton Hicks, but I never had false labor. When I was pregnant with M, my water broke at 36 weeks to our shock and surprise and before we knew it, we were parents.
But false labor? Nope. Never.
Until last week.
We were all in bed. Then, it started.
It started out as Braxton Hicks, nothing out of the ordinary, just the normal tightening and discomfort.
But then, it kept coming. One after another.
I did what was suggested of me to determine if it was truly preterm labor. I went to the bathroom to empty my bladder, I drank a lot of water, and I lied on my left side. Nothing was slowing it down, it felt like it was increasing everything.
I recently downloaded an app called “Full Term.” It’s an app that helps keep track of contractions. All you have to do is hit “start” when a contraction starts and “end” when it ends. The app times it and calculates the frequency.
Because the tightening started coming in intervals, I decided to use the app to keep track.
The contractions were lasting for 50 seconds to a minute long and coming in ever 2 1/2 to 3 minutes.
As the tightening continued to come and go, the intensity started increasing. It started getting harder to talk through. I started using breathing techniques that we learned three years ago during our Lamaze classes we took when pregnant with M.
I decided that I needed to that the anti-contraction medicine I was given back in October when my cervix first shrunk. I had been hesitant to take it because I hate taking any sort of medicine while pregnant. However, the app was showing that I had at least 10 contractions within the past hour, so I had to take it. I figured that if I didn’t take it and I went to the hospital, the doctors might give me something stronger to stop the contractions and I didn’t want that at all.
So I took the medicine and called Labor and Delivery to ask how long it would take the medicine to kick in and slow the contractions down.
By then, the contractions were hurting. Not only were they hard to talk through, they were hard to breathe through because they were hurting. I kept concentrating on the breathing exercises to try to calm myself down, but I was obviously very nervous. Was this it? Were we going in? Were we going to have this baby at 34 weeks?
Labor and Delivery told me that it would take about half an hour for the medicine to kick in and to wait about an hour to determine if we needed to really come to the hospital or not. So I got off the phone with them and continued to try to relax and concentrate on breathing, hoping the medicine could kick in soon.
Within half an hour, I noticed the intensity of the contractions were decreasing. Then as the hour progressed, the contractions also started to space themselves farther apart and decreased into just a mere uncomfortable tightening. By the time the hour passed, everything was done.
If I didn’t have that medicine, who knows what could have happened.
I’m hoping that the episode didn’t cause my cervix to dialate. I’m hoping that I can still last the week and have this baby AFTER Christmas…
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Any day now?
Posted on: December 12, 2014
I’m having laptop issues at the moment so I’m writing using my mobile app. Please excuse any and all typos I may overlook…
My doctors appointment last week showed that my cervix shrunk again. I guess it’s somewhat normal, since I was 33 weeks pregnant at the time of the appointment. (I’m 34 weeks today.)
Doctor also said that I’m starting to open, which means I’m starting to dilate. It’s not big enough to give an actual measurement to, but it’s still a start.
So basically, my doctor is thinking that in about two to three weeks, this baby could be born. With that prediction, she will come out at about the same gestational age as M.
This past week, I’ve really taken it easy. I’m trying everything to slow down what’s going on down there.
At the appointment, the baby weighed about 4lbs. That means in about two weeks from then, she could weigh about 5lbs. I just want her to weigh between 5 to 6lbs and be strong enough to not go into the NICU.
So now we are trying to get everything as ready as possible. My bags are packed, everything we can remember to clean has been cleaned… Labor & Delivery is on speed dial…
I guess we just wait….
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I have another OB-GYN appointment today. Nothing out of the ordinary, just one of my check ups.
I’m nervous. I’m always nervous during these appointments. I wish I wasn’t, but I am.
So far, things have been looking great. My cervix has been at a stable length for the whole month of November. My OB-GYN has been very optimistic.
But I’m 33 weeks today. When I was pregnant with M, we discovered that I was dialated 2cm at 35 weeks. That’s not too far away… who knows what’s happening in my body right now?!
I’m praying that things are still stable enough to take me to full-term this time around.
The unshower baby shower is tomorrow. I hope that everything is ok so I can make it!
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Tum, ta-tum, tum…. TUMS!!!
Posted on: December 4, 2014
The bottle of Tums is now on my night stand. Every night, it seems like I’ve needed to take it because the minute I try to lie in bed, the acid seems to come back up.
Not fun.
Not something I experienced when pregnant with M either.
I try to lie down on two pillows. It doesn’t help.
I try to slightly sit up in bed. It doesn’t help.
The only thing that helps is Tums. Chalky, icky Tums.
I’ll be 33 weeks tomorrow… this kid is really running out of room if she’s starting to push up my stomach contents..
Ah, the glamorous life of pregnancy…
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The harder it is to bend over, the more your first child will spill liquids and drop objects on the ground.
True story.
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I love pregnancy
Posted on: November 29, 2014
Hubby asked me, despite everything that has been going on, if I still love being pregnant. Here’s my answer:
I love being pregnant. I love feeling the baby move around. I love knowing that I’m not alone at the moment, that there is always someone with me, even when I’m up at night while all of you are asleep. I love trying to figure out what body part is poking out of my tummy. I love trying to figure out what kind of personality this little person in me is going to have based on her movements and how she interacts when I rub my belly. I love imagining what she’s going to look like when she comes out.
I don’t like the constant aches and pains. I really don’t like the first trimester of constant nausea. I really don’t like the third trimester of constant discomfort. I don’t like that I waddle. I don’t like that I gain too much weight during each pregnancy. I don’t like that this pregnancy had way too many complications. I don’t like being confined to a wheelchair when we go places. I don’t like that I’m not allowed to do too much stuff. I don’t like the sore abdomen muscles. I don’t like the sore groin muscles. I don’t like it has to hurt to give birth. I don’t like the healing process after giving birth. I don’t like, even though labor is practically a routine thing, that there is always a chance of complication. I don’t like that I get so irritated so quickly when my hormones go all haywire.
Hubby says that it seems that the dislikes outnumber the likes.
While it may seem so, the truth of the matter is, I really do love being pregnant and all those dislikes are nothing comparent to the feeling of holding my sweet newborn when all is said and done.
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Living life in the carpool lane.. 