Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Izabella's birthday!!!
OK, just got back from the hospital for my weekly monitoring and they gave me my C-section date. Izzy will be born on Wednesday September 2, 2009! We are so excited and can not wait to meet her!
Monday, August 24, 2009
So behind
OK, so it's been a while and no, no baby yet. I sure some were thinking, "it's been a while since she's posted, maybe she's had her baby". I wish! But not yet.
I'm 38 week today and she has one more week to come on her own and if she doesn't, then I'll have a scheduled c-section next week. I see my doctor Friday morning and I'll have the date for that. I can't believe it's already time! It has really gone by very fast! And slow all at the same time. Bud and I are so anxious to have her. We just can't wait to hold her and love on her!
The reason for the C-section you ask? Well, here's the story. Since I have Gestational diabetes, they've been monitoring me and the baby more closely to make sure she doesn't get to big. This is also the reason they won't let me go all the way or past my due date. So 3 weeks ago I had an ultrasound to check her size. Mind you, there is no way of it being totally accurate and with EVERY mom I've talked to, the doctors have never been right and have always been way over on guessing the weight - even though ultrasound. So 3 weeks ago, they were measuring her at about 7 pound. Which on average, a 34/35 week gestational baby weighs around 5. I knew they were off. Not at all thinking my baby is average, we know she'll be a little bigger, but not that big. So just this past Thursday I had another ultrasound to check her weight again, just to see. The lady who did it this time said she was measuring around 10 lbs!!! HELLO! I don't think so. First of all, I am not that big, second, I'm not even all baby, third, you mean to tell me she has gained a pound a week since the last ultrasound? You are trippin! They don't even know what they are talking about. She also said her head and abdomen were measuring at 41 weeks. I think this lady was just a little off on her measuring. I know she'll have a bigger that average head and what not, but come on. So anyways, since the doctor has to go off of that, I was then given the option of going ahead with the original plan of being induced, or having a c-section. Bud and I decided to go ahead with the c-section because there is a very high chance that I won't be able to pass her anyways (my mom ended up with a c-section for her first because she was to small and his head was too big, and he was only a little over 8 lbs). This whole pregnancy, not once did I ever think of having a birth plan, just because I think it's stupid when you have NO IDEA what can go on in labor and delivery. I'm a "go with the flow" kind of girl, so that was pretty much my birth plan: Whatever happens, happens. My goal in the whole birth process though, is to make sure my baby is born happy and healthy as possible and also for me to also be put in as little "stress" as possible. So we decided to go with the c-section because it could take up to 3 days just to dialate enough through the induction process only to more than likely find out I need a c-section anyways. So tell me, why put myself through all that an d become totally exhausted only to more than likely end up with a c-section anyways and have to then recover from super exhaustion plus surgery. I don't think so. We'd much rather go in happy, excited and ready, have a baby and start my recovery. I perfectly aware that my recovery will be a lot longer, but I'm happy with our decision and we also prayed about it and feel very comfortable with it. We asked the Lord to provide for whatever he has in his plan. If it's meant for me to labor and deliver naturally, then I told him, "put me into labor naturally". I'm not going to get drugs to throw my body into labor when it's not ready. So anywho, that's the story and we're just a week away!!!
Onto other things that have taken me awhile.
My mom threw me a beautiful and amazing baby shower a couple weeks ago and we were so blessed with friends and family! Here are some pictures from that day. As well as some belly to belly pictures of 2 close friends. They are both tiny people so they are not as big as I am. One of them is just a week ahead of me (although we may be delivering the same week now) and the other is 2 weeks behind me. YAY for babies! I can't wait to take side by side baby pictures with our babies! It will be so interesting to see the difference in size!
I'm 38 week today and she has one more week to come on her own and if she doesn't, then I'll have a scheduled c-section next week. I see my doctor Friday morning and I'll have the date for that. I can't believe it's already time! It has really gone by very fast! And slow all at the same time. Bud and I are so anxious to have her. We just can't wait to hold her and love on her!
The reason for the C-section you ask? Well, here's the story. Since I have Gestational diabetes, they've been monitoring me and the baby more closely to make sure she doesn't get to big. This is also the reason they won't let me go all the way or past my due date. So 3 weeks ago I had an ultrasound to check her size. Mind you, there is no way of it being totally accurate and with EVERY mom I've talked to, the doctors have never been right and have always been way over on guessing the weight - even though ultrasound. So 3 weeks ago, they were measuring her at about 7 pound. Which on average, a 34/35 week gestational baby weighs around 5. I knew they were off. Not at all thinking my baby is average, we know she'll be a little bigger, but not that big. So just this past Thursday I had another ultrasound to check her weight again, just to see. The lady who did it this time said she was measuring around 10 lbs!!! HELLO! I don't think so. First of all, I am not that big, second, I'm not even all baby, third, you mean to tell me she has gained a pound a week since the last ultrasound? You are trippin! They don't even know what they are talking about. She also said her head and abdomen were measuring at 41 weeks. I think this lady was just a little off on her measuring. I know she'll have a bigger that average head and what not, but come on. So anyways, since the doctor has to go off of that, I was then given the option of going ahead with the original plan of being induced, or having a c-section. Bud and I decided to go ahead with the c-section because there is a very high chance that I won't be able to pass her anyways (my mom ended up with a c-section for her first because she was to small and his head was too big, and he was only a little over 8 lbs). This whole pregnancy, not once did I ever think of having a birth plan, just because I think it's stupid when you have NO IDEA what can go on in labor and delivery. I'm a "go with the flow" kind of girl, so that was pretty much my birth plan: Whatever happens, happens. My goal in the whole birth process though, is to make sure my baby is born happy and healthy as possible and also for me to also be put in as little "stress" as possible. So we decided to go with the c-section because it could take up to 3 days just to dialate enough through the induction process only to more than likely find out I need a c-section anyways. So tell me, why put myself through all that an d become totally exhausted only to more than likely end up with a c-section anyways and have to then recover from super exhaustion plus surgery. I don't think so. We'd much rather go in happy, excited and ready, have a baby and start my recovery. I perfectly aware that my recovery will be a lot longer, but I'm happy with our decision and we also prayed about it and feel very comfortable with it. We asked the Lord to provide for whatever he has in his plan. If it's meant for me to labor and deliver naturally, then I told him, "put me into labor naturally". I'm not going to get drugs to throw my body into labor when it's not ready. So anywho, that's the story and we're just a week away!!!
Onto other things that have taken me awhile.
My mom threw me a beautiful and amazing baby shower a couple weeks ago and we were so blessed with friends and family! Here are some pictures from that day. As well as some belly to belly pictures of 2 close friends. They are both tiny people so they are not as big as I am. One of them is just a week ahead of me (although we may be delivering the same week now) and the other is 2 weeks behind me. YAY for babies! I can't wait to take side by side baby pictures with our babies! It will be so interesting to see the difference in size!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thank you Nurse Oblivious!
So yesterday I went into Martinez hospital to have my weekly fetal monitoring done (by the way, cause I've been bad at blogging lately, Since week 34 I've had to have fetal monitoring twice a week. No big deal and baby is super healthy and very silly). So I get to the hospital and all of a sudden they decide to run this "code red" drill and shut the elevators down. I thought, ok I'll just wait till the drill is over (since labor and delivery is on the 5th floor and I wasn't about to take the stairs). Well 10 minutes go by and after sitting next to some crazy person in the lobby, I decided to just take the stairs and take it one level at a time. So off I went. I made it up all 10 flights of stairs (2 flights per floor)!! Go me! Of course I was out of breath cause not only am I almost 9 months pregnant, but also totally out of shape. It was a workout, but I was proud I did it!
So I get up there and the nurse that was there wasn't the usual nurse that takes care of me. No big deal. She gets me all set up and gets me some ice water. She does the ultrasound first and then gets the monitor going. About 5 minutes later she takes my blood pressure. She didn't look at it right away and when she finally did she said, "wow, that's high! Have you been diagnosed with high blood pressure at all?" I said, "no, I just had my doctors visit on Friday and everything was perfect". I then just thought that it honestly had to do with climbing 10 flights of stairs and even though I wasn't out of breath anymore, my body was still recovering. So she runs it again...still high.
She then begins to ask me questions about any other symptoms I might be having or have experienced. Yes to some and no to others, but nothing out of the ordinary for me. So she begins to tell me about Pre-eclampsia (sp?). What it is, what it can do and how it's cured. She tells me she want to go ahead and take a urine sample to check for protein and then do some blood work to check for something else and also told me I would be there a little longer because of it.
So off I went to the bathroom and then she had moved me into a new room and hooked me all up again. She set the blood pressure thing so it would check it every ten minutes or so. The nurse came back and said my urine was just fine and that someone would be in soon to take my blood. She also said that her shift was over and "so and so" was going to be taking over. The lady came in and took my blood and was off to the lab. Mind you, I had just been to the Pittsburg health center before I came to the hospital to have have some blood taken for some routine checks, so I had to be poked in the same spot twice in one day...OUCH!
At this point, I had been there for about 2 hours. The new nurse came in (who was very nice) and said she wanted to check my blood sugar levels. So she got her crazy kit out and took my levels. Those were super high! I think I knew why, but I wasn't about to say, " oh it's probably because I ate McDonald's for lunch because I was super low and also had no time to stop anywhere else in order to be here on time." But it still was oddly high, so I told her, "let's try it on my machine". Sure enough, my numbers were still a little high, but not at all as high as hers. She had a super big and old machine. Not at all caught up with today yet. So anyways, now that was their new concern.
Another half hour goes by, the nurse comes back in and says that my blood work came back totally fine as well, but they still would like to send me home with what they call "the 24 hour urine test" just to get a more accurate reading and try and see why my blood pressure was still high.
THEN, all of a sudden, she looks over at my arm cuff (the blood pressure cuff) and says, "you know what? I think we need to find a cuff that fits a little better". She comes over to and grabs a new cuff, straps it on, runs my blood pressure and what do you know... my blood pressure is perfectly fine now! The stupid first nurse had THE WRONG CUFF ON THE WHOLE TIME!!!!
I couldn't believe that I had just spent 2 and a half hours in the hospital running all kinds of tests just to find out that goofball put the wrong size cuff on.
However, I still had to wait for a doctor to come and see me because they wanted to talk about my sugar level being so high. They were concerned. I assured them that my numbers are never like that and even showed them my chart. She thought it looked great and was ok with it. But yet, they still wanted to send me home with the 24 hour urine test just to completely cancel out any chance of Pre-eclampsia developing.
I'm glad that they are doing what they need to be doing to make sure everything is as perfect as it can be, but let me tell you, nothing makes you feel more like a 95 year old woman then having the pee in a little bowl and then have to pour it in a bucket and then "keep it on ice" as they told me! GROSS!!! And the nurse made a big point about how every drop for the next 24 hours needs to be collected. I'm so glad it's only 24 hours, but even that is such a pain!
Bud laughed when he saw the collection bucket sitting in ice next to the toilet. He asked if I felt like an old woman and I said, "heck yes I do! It's the window into our future". I hope to heck it's not. What a pain! I think it just feels like more of a pain, only because I know everything will be fine and this whole thing wouldn't have even happened if Nurse Oblivious had used the right size cuff on me!
So glad this pregnancy is almost over! HURRY IZZY!!!
So I get up there and the nurse that was there wasn't the usual nurse that takes care of me. No big deal. She gets me all set up and gets me some ice water. She does the ultrasound first and then gets the monitor going. About 5 minutes later she takes my blood pressure. She didn't look at it right away and when she finally did she said, "wow, that's high! Have you been diagnosed with high blood pressure at all?" I said, "no, I just had my doctors visit on Friday and everything was perfect". I then just thought that it honestly had to do with climbing 10 flights of stairs and even though I wasn't out of breath anymore, my body was still recovering. So she runs it again...still high.
She then begins to ask me questions about any other symptoms I might be having or have experienced. Yes to some and no to others, but nothing out of the ordinary for me. So she begins to tell me about Pre-eclampsia (sp?). What it is, what it can do and how it's cured. She tells me she want to go ahead and take a urine sample to check for protein and then do some blood work to check for something else and also told me I would be there a little longer because of it.
So off I went to the bathroom and then she had moved me into a new room and hooked me all up again. She set the blood pressure thing so it would check it every ten minutes or so. The nurse came back and said my urine was just fine and that someone would be in soon to take my blood. She also said that her shift was over and "so and so" was going to be taking over. The lady came in and took my blood and was off to the lab. Mind you, I had just been to the Pittsburg health center before I came to the hospital to have have some blood taken for some routine checks, so I had to be poked in the same spot twice in one day...OUCH!
At this point, I had been there for about 2 hours. The new nurse came in (who was very nice) and said she wanted to check my blood sugar levels. So she got her crazy kit out and took my levels. Those were super high! I think I knew why, but I wasn't about to say, " oh it's probably because I ate McDonald's for lunch because I was super low and also had no time to stop anywhere else in order to be here on time." But it still was oddly high, so I told her, "let's try it on my machine". Sure enough, my numbers were still a little high, but not at all as high as hers. She had a super big and old machine. Not at all caught up with today yet. So anyways, now that was their new concern.
Another half hour goes by, the nurse comes back in and says that my blood work came back totally fine as well, but they still would like to send me home with what they call "the 24 hour urine test" just to get a more accurate reading and try and see why my blood pressure was still high.
THEN, all of a sudden, she looks over at my arm cuff (the blood pressure cuff) and says, "you know what? I think we need to find a cuff that fits a little better". She comes over to and grabs a new cuff, straps it on, runs my blood pressure and what do you know... my blood pressure is perfectly fine now! The stupid first nurse had THE WRONG CUFF ON THE WHOLE TIME!!!!
I couldn't believe that I had just spent 2 and a half hours in the hospital running all kinds of tests just to find out that goofball put the wrong size cuff on.
However, I still had to wait for a doctor to come and see me because they wanted to talk about my sugar level being so high. They were concerned. I assured them that my numbers are never like that and even showed them my chart. She thought it looked great and was ok with it. But yet, they still wanted to send me home with the 24 hour urine test just to completely cancel out any chance of Pre-eclampsia developing.
I'm glad that they are doing what they need to be doing to make sure everything is as perfect as it can be, but let me tell you, nothing makes you feel more like a 95 year old woman then having the pee in a little bowl and then have to pour it in a bucket and then "keep it on ice" as they told me! GROSS!!! And the nurse made a big point about how every drop for the next 24 hours needs to be collected. I'm so glad it's only 24 hours, but even that is such a pain!
Bud laughed when he saw the collection bucket sitting in ice next to the toilet. He asked if I felt like an old woman and I said, "heck yes I do! It's the window into our future". I hope to heck it's not. What a pain! I think it just feels like more of a pain, only because I know everything will be fine and this whole thing wouldn't have even happened if Nurse Oblivious had used the right size cuff on me!
So glad this pregnancy is almost over! HURRY IZZY!!!
Monday, August 3, 2009
Baby Shower #1 and Izzy's room!
So Bud and I had our first baby shower this past Friday and it was so wonderful. Our church through us a co-ed baby shower and it was such a blessing and so much fun. We were able to hang out with lots of good friends and we also received many gifts. Most of which were clothes, blankets and towels. So hopefully at my next baby shower, we receive most necessity things. You know, things off our registery. I don't want to sound ungrateful. We were so very blessed. We are just thinking about all the things we still NEED before she comes and I just hope we're able to receive some of those things. That or gift cards or something. We'l see, either way, we're so grateful and blessed for everything and everyone who is so thoughtful and kind to give! Here are some pictures from the shower. Including one with my friend Emmy who is just a few weeks ahead of me. My dress isn't flat against my back, so it makes me look so much bigger! More pregnant friend pictures to come at the next shower!
And here is Izzy's updated room. It's pretty much all done. All that's left is I have to get the white organza that is going over her window, I'm going to paint a cute little design and saying in pink on the brown wall, I have to hang the white round paper lamps and also hang her curtain for the closet door. Other than that, it's all done!
And yes, we have 3 outfits out to take with us to the hospital for her take home outfit, because we're not quite sure what she'll fit in. There is a newborn outfit as well two 0-3 month outfits that look like 2 different sizes. So one of these has got to fit her!
And here is Izzy's updated room. It's pretty much all done. All that's left is I have to get the white organza that is going over her window, I'm going to paint a cute little design and saying in pink on the brown wall, I have to hang the white round paper lamps and also hang her curtain for the closet door. Other than that, it's all done!
And yes, we have 3 outfits out to take with us to the hospital for her take home outfit, because we're not quite sure what she'll fit in. There is a newborn outfit as well two 0-3 month outfits that look like 2 different sizes. So one of these has got to fit her!
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