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02-8-2008 - Pregnancy updates moved to blog

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May 6th-Hey ladies! Thank you for ALL your support while I was in the hospital. I'm back still very pregnant. I just posted a new blog under my blogs about the ordeal. Hope everyone had a great weekend. April 25th....! Let's see...well today I was really sick. I spent the day in a violent cycle. Tried to keep my nausea medications down and was throwing up, tried to calm the contractions and drink and then would throw up and have more contractions. ACKK! BUT~my appointment went well. There was no further dilaton and the terbutaline has stopped the contractions many time. They told me that I should take the medication this next week. At 36 weeks they will no longer stop the labor. They don't do steriod shots after 34 weeks for the lungs. I need to still stay in bed and take this medication for the contractions at least this next week. The following week I don't have to take the medication...but I need to take it easy. They really want me to get to week 38! I MAY take the medication two more weeks and then see what happens. So....here I am back in bed. I just need to do this whole bed arrest thing for at least one more week then in two weeks I will be off ALL restrictions:) APRIL 19th- Just got back from L&D. Went into pre-term labor again. This time contractions were 6 minutes apart. They put me on terb medication and sent me home on the medication. My cervix was closed Wednesday and was about 1cm dilated today. Back home on bed rest...AGAIN. April 16th....What a day! I added a new blog about my day and added three new pictures of Baby King. Overall, I am still dealing with the hypermesis. I lost my plug at 30 weeks and randomly started bleeding today. Yet another day in this very INTERESTING yet blessed pregnancy. I am just so happy that he is ok! I am very excited to meet him but NOT YET! (Baby King with his foot on his face lol) November 28th-Just got back from our 1st trimester screening:) It was so amazing to see the baby on the ultra sound! It was dancing around, turning and moving constantly:) Here is one of the pictures:) IT'S A BOY!!!! JAN 10th...Had my 20 week scan today. EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT! The baby was about 10.5 ounces and 9inches:) We looked at every part of his sleeping body and everything was just as it should be. The cyst in my placenta had vanished. My cervix is measuring great. The doctor took me off bed rest. I'm still very sick the hyperemesis, but I can at least be free:) I'm very happy! Here is a 3D picture of our sleepy little man... Feb 10th-Well I am still really sick. I felt better at 21 weeks and had hoped that the hyperemesis had eased up. I was very wrong. It's not as bad as it used to be, but I am still nauseated almost every minute of everyday. I am still throwing up, but have managed to gain weight. I have been stuck in bed a lot because of cramping/contractions. This has not been an easy pregnancy AT ALL. But, each day is one day closer to holding my little man. I am keeping my head up...and praying for spring:) Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. It is generally described as unrelenting, excessive pregnancy-related nausea and/or vomiting that prevents adequate intake of food and fluids. If severe and/or inadequately treated, it is typically associated with: loss of greater than 5% of pre-pregnancy body weight (usually over 10%) dehydration and production of ketones nutritional deficiencies metabolic imbalances difficulty with daily activities HG usually extends beyond the first trimester and may resolve by 21 weeks; however, it can last the entire pregnancy in less than half of these women. Complications of vomiting (e.g. gastric ulcers, esophageal bleeding, malnutrition, etc.) may also contribute to and worsen ongoing nausea. Here is a video on youtube about it.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=VJDJDHuX4Xo Feb. 18th- Well..this has NOT been an easy pregnancy! I am still sick with the hyperemesis. I don't throw up nearly as much, but I am nauseated most of time which is even harder. I started having bad cramping/contractions and was sent in to to the fFN test last week to see if I would be having the baby in the next two weeks. Luckily it was negative. I am on strict bed rest-only to get up for bathroom breaks. It's very difficult not being able to do anything on your own. But..I am hanging in there...one day at a time...."To fill the hour, and leave no crevice... that is happiness.. (Be happy!) Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."

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