Sunday, August 31, 2008
Lazy Sunday
We monitor contractions, the baby's heartbeat and movement two times a day up here. For a while now, nothing has been showing up on the contraction monitor, so the doctor decided it would be a good chance to try and lower the dose of magnesium sulfate. This morning they dropped it from 2 grams an hour to just one. So far so good, I haven't felt anything unusual. The nurse will be back in soon and we'll see how the monitoring goes.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Pants!
I'm wearing pants! Talked to Dr. F this morning, and since there's been a whole lot of nothing going on, they're all okay with me getting up to go to the bathroom and take a shower! Really, the things you get excited about up here! The other day, everyone was excited that I shaved my legs. THAT was fun. They changed the dressing on my PICC line and managed to tear off a pretty good chunk of my skin... that was painful and gross.
Baby is moving -- he HATES it when I lay on my right side. Starts kicking my kidneys or something.
Other than that, I guess I'm a little disappointed that I can't watch the Husker game, but I think I'll survive.
No news is good news, two days til 28 weeks. 53 bags of magnesium sulfate, 46 days on bedrest, 23 days in the hospital straight.... (My mom asked how much each bag of magnesium cost... I wish she hadn't because that's all I think about whenever they put up a new bag! But, it's all much cheaper than the NICU, and we'll see how much insurance covers.)
Baby is moving -- he HATES it when I lay on my right side. Starts kicking my kidneys or something.
Other than that, I guess I'm a little disappointed that I can't watch the Husker game, but I think I'll survive.
No news is good news, two days til 28 weeks. 53 bags of magnesium sulfate, 46 days on bedrest, 23 days in the hospital straight.... (My mom asked how much each bag of magnesium cost... I wish she hadn't because that's all I think about whenever they put up a new bag! But, it's all much cheaper than the NICU, and we'll see how much insurance covers.)
Friday, August 29, 2008
First Post
Hello everyone!
I've been asked by a few people if we were going to start a blog like we had for Will, and I finally got around to doing it. I decided not to use the Carepages or the Caring Bridge website because I like the flexibility of Blogger better. I like the idea of being able to put pictures with each update, and I wasn't able to do that as well with Will's site.
I guess I'll just summarize what's happened so far.
On July 16, I went to Methodist Hospital hoping that I wasn't in preterm labor. But I was. I think I've officially been diagnosed with an incompetent cervix, and that was the same issue we had with Will. I was only 21 weeks at the time, and the doctors were able to push the amniotic sac back in and stitch it up. I went home on bedrest for about two weeks, and we were hoping that the stitch would do the trick, but when we had a follow up appointment, it looked like everything had pushed through again. Since August 8, I have been on strict bedrest trying not to have this kid.
Last night, they took out the catheter so I have some bathroom priveledges right now. The ultrasound yesterday showed the baby to be about 2 lbs 6 oz, and we'll hit 28 weeks on Monday! Everyone is counting down to that day now, and the staff up here couldn't be happier that I'm still pregnant.
Not much to tell today... hopefully there won't be much to say! Thanks for checking in!
I've been asked by a few people if we were going to start a blog like we had for Will, and I finally got around to doing it. I decided not to use the Carepages or the Caring Bridge website because I like the flexibility of Blogger better. I like the idea of being able to put pictures with each update, and I wasn't able to do that as well with Will's site.
I guess I'll just summarize what's happened so far.
On July 16, I went to Methodist Hospital hoping that I wasn't in preterm labor. But I was. I think I've officially been diagnosed with an incompetent cervix, and that was the same issue we had with Will. I was only 21 weeks at the time, and the doctors were able to push the amniotic sac back in and stitch it up. I went home on bedrest for about two weeks, and we were hoping that the stitch would do the trick, but when we had a follow up appointment, it looked like everything had pushed through again. Since August 8, I have been on strict bedrest trying not to have this kid.
Last night, they took out the catheter so I have some bathroom priveledges right now. The ultrasound yesterday showed the baby to be about 2 lbs 6 oz, and we'll hit 28 weeks on Monday! Everyone is counting down to that day now, and the staff up here couldn't be happier that I'm still pregnant.
Not much to tell today... hopefully there won't be much to say! Thanks for checking in!
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