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!!!22 more days!!!

34 weeks!!!

!!!!!!!!3 MORE WEEKS!!!!!

Today we had our last ultrasound of little miss before she comes.  I got to see her little nose and her tummy, kidneys, stomach, bladder, and her heart all working.  I got to listen to her practice breathing.  As I laid down on the table watching the screen I thought about the first time I got to see her.  Before we even knew she was a girl.  Before she was a little peanut and the doctors just saw the flicker of a heartbeat.  While hubby and I just sat there watching cells multiply to create a little baby.  It was miracle to see her as a little perfect diamond circle.  It is crazy to think that in a couple of weeks I will be holding her in my arms in love all over again with another beautiful spirit from our loving Heavenly Father who has given me another chance to be a mommy to one of His children.  So the first ultrasound we got to watch the miracle of life happen with this ultrasound we got to watch a little girl flinch away from the ultrasound thing.  Her stats from this ultrasound are:

• she is in 25 percentile of her gestational age.  She is 31 weeks big instead of 33 weeks and 6 days.  But that is okay they only start to worry when babies are measuring above 90% or less than 10% so she is just a little peanut.  (that could be why I hardly look pregnant)
• she is 4 pounds 3 ounces.
• she passed the non-stress test (NST) it was perfect she did everything they needed her to do.
• her heart is beating and looks perfect.
• she is a little feisty one when she wants to be.
• and the best for last her head is still up yep that is right she is to comfortable living up near my ribs and listening to my heartbeat.

I want to share what a Non-Stress Test (NST) is like.  They hook you up to the heart monitor and the contraction monitors.  They listen to the babies heartbeat for an hour to see how well the heart does while being active.  Little miss was asleep so they used this little machine that just makes a buzzing noise and vibrates just a little bit.  They put it up by her head and pressed the button it lasted for maybe two seconds and wow did she go crazy it seemed like she was about to burst out my stomach.  But she did wake up her heartbeat was being a constant 125 because she was sleeping but as soon as she got the little buzz it went up to 154.  After that she was trying to hide from the monitors so I had to hold the heart monitor over her so that we could listen to her little heart beating.

Another big exciting thing about this appointment today was being able to set up the amino test.  It is a test to see if the lungs are fully developed.  The date is set February 21 and if her lungs are developed I will be induced.  If her lungs are not they will send me home and have me come back February 22 in the morning to be induced.
Question time how does that work only a couple of more hours to give her a chance for her lungs to develop.  Well babies develop so quickly that just a couple hours more of me carrying her she will develop.  This test could also break my water and if it does the only thing that they worry about but not really is that they will have to have her on a ventilator for just a couple of hours until her lungs develop.

Hubby and I have also moved into the house that we found last October this past weekend.  So these next three weeks are going to fly by.  Between me nesting, doctors visits, cleaning house, and unpacking boxes we will be busy.

I just can't believe that in three weeks my pregnancy will be over and there will be a new little girl in this world!

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I learned something new this week.  I was online reading support groups for people who have still born babies.  I kept on seeing "my rainbow baby..." and was very confused when I was reading it.  I did a little investigating on the internet.  I learned that a rainbow baby is for the pregnancy after having a still born. I'm happy to say this put a smile on my face not just a little one but a big one.  Our family when we see a rainbow we are reminded of our little angel.  I'm so happy that our little girl is the rainbow baby for her big sister.  It is a comfort that the term Rainbow is used for the baby after the loss.

I'm so excited to meet our little rainbow baby and have her as the reminder of her big sister.

We went to the doctor on Wednesday the heartbeat was 145 perfect and she is currently making her way down by making a pit stop... she is laying horizontally and trying to break free through my sides with all of her kicking.  In 2 weeks we will be going for our 34 week ultrasound and the first non-stress test and setting up the appointment to check her lungs to see if they are done or not.  If they are done they will induce me that day if not they will just wait one more day and than induce me.  I can't believe it time sure is starting to slow down and speed up right now.

Fortunes

Hubby and I play a game when we go to Panda Express for dinner.  We ask each other what our fortune  cookie is going to be about.

Last night I asked him what my fortune was going to be?  Hubby said about the baby...

this is the fortune...

6 weeks...

Crazy to think that in 6 weeks I will no longer be pregnant and instead have a baby.  I was thinking of my journey and how I still have anxiety, yes I'm still having anxiety.  My little girls sleeping patterns are just like mine.  She is awake during most of the night in fact she is kicking me right now.  She is asleep during the morning when I'm asleep with a few kicks every once in awhile.  But than her longest sleeping stretch to me is 3-7pm.  I don't feel any little movements or kicks.  I know she is sleeping she will wiggle if I drink something but I don't feel her kick and I feel her kick enough until 10pm when she goes back to a nap and than she wakes up again at 11:30 and stays active all night.  I love her moving it makes me smile every time I feel a little movement.

Our journey for babies by the end of this one has given me 80 weeks.  That is a total of 2 normal pregnancies.  But the 80 weeks is actually THREE babies.
The first time we found out we were pregnant was in July of 2009 and I was 5 weeks along when I had the miscarriage.
The second time we found out we were pregnant was in January of 2010 and my heart broke at 38 weeks when I delivered our still born daughter.
The third time we found out we were pregnant was on July 7, 2011 and with this pregnancy.  I'm being closely monitored by my doctor and the perinatologist.  Which gives me the biggest comfort.  Our next appointment with the perinatologist is on January 27 and we will have another ultrasound and start the non-stress tests.  We will also be setting up the date for when this little girl will join the world.

Everyday that I'm pregnant is a great blessing... I know I said I wanted to keep a week to week update with this pregnancy and document how I was feeling and I have not really done that but instead I have been enjoying every minute of being another mommy to another baby.  So far in the third trimester I have had heartburn galore.  Tums are my best friend I have a bottle I just carry around.

The New Year!

I had an exciting weekend starting on Friday.  I woke up at 10:00am after working all night to watch a Bowl game with my hubby and friends.  I wasn't feeling all that great... I thought I had morning sickness.  I threw up (sorry for that little detail) and at first I thought it was just my stomach just hurting... but than my back started to hurt.  I waited a couple of seconds and the pain went away.  I was going to go join my husband when I felt the tightening happen all again.  I was thinking oh this is just a braxton hicks contraction nothing to worry about.  It wasn't until feeling it for the third time I started to worry.  I called my sister to ask her the pregnancy question of which one I was having... She just told me to call the doctor.  I set up an appointment with the doctor.  I than went to sit out on the couch grabbed a glass full of water so I could drink some water and than go lay down.  When I took a swallow of the water I had to run to the bathroom.  My friend came with me to the doctors so that hubby could continue watching the football game.  We got to the doctors we went and sat in the little room for not even 5 minutes and the doctor was there to check me out.  I had got a viral infection which was playing with all my insides and starting the contractions because I was becoming dehydrated.  I called the hubby because I was being sent to the Labor/Delivery at the hospital to get the monitors hooked up to my belly and to get IV fluid.  Hubby came and got me and we walked into the room that my husband pointed out is where we found out the news of our daughter being a still born.  He asked if I wanted to be moved I said no, I can't be afraid of just a little room.  I got on the bed and than the nurse came into the room to do the routine reading of questions and me answering.  Than the monitors were placed on my belly and for a full hour I got to hear my little girls heartbeat while my hubby watched the rest of the football game.  We laughed the first time we heard the thunk over the heart monitor and than a couple more she was going to town trying to kick it off.  I wasn't registering has having any contractions because my uterus is still small.  The nurse didn't say that I couldn't be having them she said I probably was because dehydration brings contractions on.  They sent me home and had me rest.  I rested over this weekend taking everything easy.  I went to work the next night and I was still having little contractions off and on.  I haven't felt one for the last couple of days.


But in less than 7 weeks we will have our little girl with us and I can't wait to kiss those cheeks.  Also we bought her coming home outfit yesterday and it is so cute!