Samye's Space: November 2006

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Pregnancy Update

Well, things are getting sort of interesting around here for those who are interested. I had a dr's appointment yesterday. But let me start earlier than that. I got a voicemail yesterday afternoon before my dr's appointment from Covenant saying that I need to register since i'm scheduled to have my baby 11/28! What?! That was a big surprise and the first I'd heard about it. So i called them back to basically tell them I had no idea what they were talking about and as far as i know I am NOT scheduled to have my baby on the 28th. They said the dr's office is who scheduled the appointment. So I told them I would get it straightened out, seeing as how I have a dr's appointment late that afternoon. So needless to say I was a little bit anxious and freaked out about it and proceeded to tell the nurse girl tht while she was taking my blood pressure. No one ever said why we had the mix-up so I guess we'll never know what happened. But it was probably not the best state of mind to be in while your blood pressure is being taken. It came out pretty high. I've also had quite a bit of swelling, so the doctor was a little concerned. He said "I went ahead and changed your induction date to the 8th, but after looking at your blood pressure, I was ready to check you into the hospital tonight and take the baby tomorrow." Wow - I was blown away. So he thinks I may be preeclamptic, which is characterized by three major signs: high blood pressure, swelling and protein in the urine. He wanted to check my urine, only problem this time I accidentally emptied my bladder without using a cup. I just wasn't thinking, even though EVERY appointment they want me to pee in a cup. So I had to drink some water and wait a little bit. In the mean time he took my blood pressure 2 more times and it had gone down considerably, and usually with preeclampsia it stays high. So that was a good sign, but my urine came back positive for protein. He said my urine has had a little protein in it this whole pregnancy, but now with the other signs it's better to be safe than sorry.

So, what did all of this mean? I have to stay home for two days and rest (which sucks!) I really want to work some more this week and next week so my check will have something on it for beginning of December! Oh well. I have another dr's appointment on Thursday morning so they are going to look at me again then. Meanwhile, I have to pee in a jug for 24 hours (fun fun) and today go in for a biophysical profile of the baby (I think it is a fancy type of ultrasound). Which I am kind of excited about because it has been a long time since we've had a sonogram, but a little nervous too. I think the baby's fine though. He/She keeps moving around so that's always a good sign.

As you can tell I'm very bored being at home with nothing to do! I hope to get some nursery pics taken and posted. I should be able to, there's nothing else to do around here! I will try and keep everyone posted after Thursday's appointment. We may be having our baby sooner than we thought! If everything goes well though hopefully the doctor will say I can return to work. I plan on working until the 6th, then taking the 7th off and getting induced the 8th! It seems way too soon, but also like we've been waiting forever! Thanks for all your love and support. We'll see what happens. Love to you all

Sunday, November 19, 2006

A couple more

Here are a few more pics from the shower.
If you haven't seen the other pictures, look at those first.

My mother-in-law Marlene (soon-to-be Grandma)

You can see how swollen my ankles are in this picture!

By the way...
I COULD NOT get these to upload on my other post! I was pulling my hair out practically. It said the pictures had uploaded, but they would never appear on my screen. I finally was able to get them up on a new post. Other bloggers out there, have you had problems like this? If so how did you fix it?

That's it for me! It is exactly 3 weeks till my due date from today. We don't have a dr's appt this week due to Thanksgiving. Our next appt is Nov 27th. Then we will have one more the week after that. I'm hoping at that appt we can pick a day to induce if everything is still going well. If so I was thinking about Dec 8th, since it is a Friday, right before the weekend. I think that would be good for everyone. We will see! I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and if I don't talk to you, a great Christmas! I am going to try and get pics up of the nursery this week sometime, but I'm not making any promises! Love you all!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Baby Shower

Wow, I can't believe it has been 3 weeks since my last post. It does not seem that long! I'm not doing a very good job of keeping up with this! It's getting crazy at work right now and I'm really tired whenever I finally get home. I didn't get home until 6:30 the other night. And I got to work at 8:15. That was a long day! Anyway, everything is going great other than the being tired and the backaches. I'm having a hard time sleeping right now and my hands nd feet are so swollen! Oh I hate that! But all this means is that the time is getting close so it's really all a very good thing. I haven't really had time to be nervous yet. There is still so much to do! I hope to get a lot accomplished this weekend (in the nursery). I want to at least have about a week or two to just relax and wait for the baby.

Here are some pictures from the shower. We had such a good time! It was so fun. We got a lot of really practical gifts, which was great. Not a lot of clothes, I think because neutral clothes aren't as cute as gender-specific clothes. That was fine with me though. It will be really fun shopping for clothes after the baby is here! I already have quite a bit.

My big ol' belly!