My Friday Update

On Friday my mom and I went to the Perinatologist for the NST.  My hubby had some volunteer work at school the same time as the appointment.  I was all hooked up listening to her heartbeat when they came in and told me I had to go for another test using an ultrasound.  They needed to see her diaphragm move consistently for 30 also other little movement that test for muscle tones.  Miss Z passed all 8 but they wanted me to check into the hospital because of my history for a 24 hour time period.  Friday they had me get the steroid shot in my bum to help her lungs develop faster if they were going to have to induce me.  We were still talking about me getting induced on Saturday morning.  But Saturday morning came and went and when the afternoon showed up after my very painful shot they had decided that little Miss Z was healthy and was doing everything she needed to do.  Plus she is NO LONGER HEAD DOWN meaning they would have to give me a c-section.  NO THANK YOU.  (I think the reason why she is head down is because they were playing cat and mouse with that monitor and that she has enough wiggle room she went back to being sideways.  She better go head down or I'm going to give her a new name.

My emotional health I have been a basket case.  I'm not trying to worry about something going wrong which I don't think there will be anything go wrong.  I know that my Heavenly Father and my little angel are watching over us.  Our plan is for me to stay in the hospital for the next week until I can get induced and be monitored twice each day more if I'm stressing about not feeling her move.  I can't wait to meet this little girl and hold her.

So all I'm really asking for is prayers of comfort and help with my emotional strength.  My mind keeps going back to her older sister.  Which I miss daily and even more now that she would have been a big sister to a stubborn little girl. 

Sneak Peak

We have a sneak peak at the walls of her room!  We moved into our house at the end of January and now we are on a time crunch to get everything done before she comes.  This week hubby worked hard on painting her room when he wasn't at school.  I love how the colors turned out.  I love gray it is one of my favorite colors.  I love how the pink makes it look girly.  I was just going to do gray at first but than we decided to add a color from her bedding to the walls.  I'm so glad that we did.  We have got the crib together and now it is just the finishing touches of putting things away and I finding things to decorate the walls with.

On Friday we had another non-stress test she passed it off perfectly within a half hour!  The perinatologist called her an Amazing baby!  This makes this mama proud.  We got to see a sneak peak of her also.  I mean literally a sneak peak she had her hands up covering her face when they were checking my fluid and to see where they would put the heart monitor.  She has FINALLY decided to put her head down!  I have her back up in my ribs on my left side and her little bum is on the right side of my ribs.

We have also decided on a name before Christmas and I thought I would let you know she is little miss Z.  That is how I will be referring to her on this blog.

!!!17 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!

The First Appointment

My first appointment with the Perinatologist was on July 19...

I'm not as far along as I expected... I think we found out we were pregnant when we were only two or three weeks along CRAZY!!!

They did a ultrasound and guess what I have a tipped uterus which I think I knew that from my 2 previous pregnancies.  So they had to do the other one...  and when we were expecting to see a little peanut we saw no peanut but a little yolk sack yep that is right we got to see our little baby before it is a peanut.  The Perinatologist and the nurse said that they could see the heart flicker.  We couldn't.  The good news Herm looks like a healthy pregnancy the Dr. said something about it being a diamond pregnancy because Herm is so perfectly round.  So in another couple weeks my hubby and I will be doing another ultrasound to see the peanut.

When it comes time for the 20th week ultrasound it will be up to my doctor if he sends me to the Perinatologist or someone at his office.  The doctor told us when we would be seeing her more frequently around the 35th week.  I will start going to her and my other doctor weekly.  The Perinatologist will be running the stress test on Herm.  At 37 weeks we can make the decision to do a test to see if Herm's lungs are fully developed if they are they will induce me the next day.  They also said that if I was feeling good I could go up to 39 weeks and they would induce me a week early.  We will see when the time comes what will happen.  Mind you that I had my stillborn at 38 weeks so I don't think I will want to go past 38 weeks.

They said they just saw one yolk sac and one flicker of a heartbeat YEPEE!!! I HAVE A BABY GROWING IN ME!!!

and the followup with our regular doctor:

Before the First Visit

I'm so nervous... about the doctors appointment on Tuesday.  I am still kind of in shock that I'm pregnant.  We have been trying for 6+ months and I can't believe that we finally are pregnant.  I don't know what to expect with the Perinatologist visit.  I know that my normal Dr. were going to call him Dr. W. how the visits go.  I just don't know how it is going to go with the Perinatologist. What I'm hoping is that they will do an ultrasound and that we will see a little peanut and a heartbeat.  I am also hoping that we will have a healthy pregnancy.  I had my first miscarriage in the month of July so my mind is worried about seeing it happen all over again.  I'm staying positive but my mind does wander to the dreadful day when I found out that we were pregnant and than less than a week later I went through a miscarriage.  I have been starving and extremely tired so I think that is a good sign with the pregnancy.  I just wanted to write down my thoughts about going to the Perinatologist because I don't want it going around and around in my head and getting me all stressed out.

*There will be another post at noon today

Our Little Poppy Seed

WEEK 4:

(July 10-17)

I think for right now my weeks are changing on Saturdays but I won't really be sure until the 19th of July.  I still don't know what really to expect at the Perinatologist doctors appointment.  Hubs and I are getting quite excited about the visit.  We are hoping that this visit we get to see our little lentil on the ultrasound machine and see the heart beat.  We are also wondering if there is a possibility I could be pregnant with twins.  If we are that is great!  If we are only pregnant with one baby that is also great!  We are just so excited to be pregnant.  You know how I said this pregnancy will be x2 the doctors visits.  Well we have the Perinatologist on Tuesday and on Wednesday we have a followup appointment with our normal Dr.  The craziness of two doctors has already started.

Pregnancy Symptoms I have this week:

• Frequent trips to the bathroom
• Food Cravings- I wake up starving I have a bag of saltine crackers right to the side of my bed.
• Heartburn
• Sleeping...
• and the new one Nausea is kicking in... I have yet to throw up just the butterflies are in my tummy.

So to look forward to this week:

• The Perinatologist Visit
• Dr. W's visit.

we are all quite excited!!!

The baby this week is as big as a poppy seed.  As you could tell by the blog title.

What is helping the baby live right now:
Also present now are the amniotic sac, which will house your baby; the amniotic fluid, which will cushion her as she grows; and the yolk sac, which produces your baby's red blood cells and helps deliver nutrients to her until the placenta has developed and is ready to take over this duty. (source)