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02-5-2008 - Lucy-Ann's Story

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Hey...IT'S A GIRL!!!! We are naming her Lucy-Ann Vivian ! My due date is Jan. 29th 2008! I can't wait to meet her! I measure 3 weeks bigger than I should, and I've had quite a few complications, I just can't wait to get her here!

Jan 2nd 2008(36 weeks 1 day)-

Not too much longer to go, but I don't think I could be anymore anxious! I really want to meet my daughter! I have had some complications being, I am severly anemic and the docs don't know what is causing it, I have heart palpatations/racing heart rate, extreme breathlessness, and I am measuring bigger than I should. I'm just really worried that little Lucy isn't getting enough oxygen. I'm extremly low on red blood cells and they are the ones that carry oxygen to all your major organs(and the baby)! I am also worried that I won't be able to deliver her because she will be too big! I have another U/S this friday and they will be able to tell me about how much she weighs and about how big she is! Everyone in my family thinks I will go early...I'm not so sure. I feel like She has dropped quite a bit and about 3 days ago I lost what looked to be part of my mucus plug...(not sure what one should look like this is my 1st pregnancy). I have braxton hicks contractions all the time! I hope she comes a little early just for reassurance that she is ok and that way she doesn't get too BIG!! If I ask my drs to do an internal to check effacement and dialation do you think they will?? If a baby is too big will docs induce??

Jan. 4th, 2008 (36 weeks 3 days)-

So I had my last U/S today and a checkup. Lucy measures 2 weeks bigger than she should! They said she weighs about 7 lbs 15 oz. One more ounce makes 8 lbs!!! AAAHHH!! I am so petrified to give birth now! She has dropped down into my pelvis, and is sunnyside up! In other words BACK LABOR!! I really am hoping that she decides to come a little early! I really don't want to give birth to a ten pound baby! Although my husband weighed 9.6 when he was born and I weighed 9.5, so we are def. going to have a big girl!! (Lucy if you can hear me get your chubby little buns out here! Mommy says so!!) LOL I doubt that will work! I have my first internal next week to tell if I have progressed any! I know I have I can feel it! I just will keeping praying she decides to come a little early to make it easier on the both of us! That way she doesn't get stuck! LOL

Jan. 8th, 2008-(37 Weeks)-

AAAHHH Finally I am considered FULL TERM!!! I am so excitied to be here! I can't waitfor little Lucy-Ann to be here! Oh boy I have had a rough few days! My hubby just started working 3rd shift(11pm till 7am). It is so hard getting used to sleeping by myself and having to be so quiet during the day! Also our puppy Libby Mae has been sick! I was woken up at 3am to her pooping and puking all through her kennel! Finally when she and everything else was clean I put her to bed with me only to wake up at 5:50am to her pooping all over my bed! That was the worst night ever! That was also the 1st night my hubby worked 3rd shift! So I ended up having to catch some sleep with him during the day! That was one rough night! Wow I feel like I have so much to do here at home to get ready for Lucy-Ann but I have no energy to do anything! The docs still say it's just anemia I have! My next appt. is this Friday!! It is my 1st internal, hopefully I have progressed and am ready to have this little monster! I really want them to induce early due to size! She is very Big and it is really starting to scare me! i am afraid she will get stuck, or I will rip really bad, or I will wind up with a c-section! I am so afraid to give birth now! I know whats coming for the most part, I watched my sister give birth this past July! And I am still very scared! I also see the blood specialist again this friday! They are running more tests to see what is wrong with my blood, and I have to have my thyroid tested, my mother thinks I have Graves Disease(Hyperthyroidism). It runs in the family! I hope I get some results back soon before I have the baby to know what is going on! Also within the next week or 2 there is going to be some remodeling in my bathroom! My husband and I rent an apartment from my parents! They are wanting to get the whole bathroom remodeled before the baby comes! I thought that was really nice! Can't wait to have it all finished and get Lucy here! Ok will give another update after my next 2 appts. or if something really interesting happens...(I doubt it)lol

Jan 14th, 2008-(37 weeks 6 days)-

This computer is really starting to make me mad! I have updated twice since the last time and neither one of them stays!! Ok my appts last friday, I measure 39 weeks I was 1 cm dialated 0% effaced and my cervix was very soft! Blood specialists didn't find out anything new! They still have no idea what is wrong with me! I am tired of being prego!! I want this BIG baby here! My next appt is the 18th will update more then unless something really exciting happens between now and then!

Jan. 20th, 2008- (38 weeks 5 days)-

OK lets see here, on Thursday the 17 th we(my hubby and I) got a call that his grandmother was not doing well in the hospital. He spent that whole evening there with her. He got home around 2:30am on friday morning. So we went to bed. At about 3:00am he got a call stating that she has passed away! I felt so bad, he was so upset!! Friday at 10:15am I had my 38 week appt. He wasn't very enthusiastic about going, considering. But luckily he did go with me! The doc measured my uterus and said 38 1/2 weeks(CM) and then did the internal. She said I was about 2-3cm and 100% effaced! YAY, I was so excitied to hear that much progress! Then she asked if I wanted her to do a membrane sweep, and I said YES! While she was doing the internal the first thing she said was WOW we might have a baby this weekend! Then she said if not this weekend You sure won't make it to your next appt! GOOD! I spotted the rest of the day that day and had some major cramping. Then on Sat. I was spotting on and off all day, and that night I lost A huge glob of mucus plug. And then this morning(Sunday the 20th) I lost even more mucus plug! Hopefully that means things are going to start happening! I sure hope so! I want this baby out so bad but then again I don't want to have to cart a newborn around to a funeral and be exposed to THAT MANY people! Well she will make her special entrance when she wants to I guess!!!

Jan. 26th, 2008- 39 weeks 4 days-

OMG yesterday I had a membrane sweep and about 1/2 hour later I was having STRONG contractions every 3 minutes! I call my doc and they said go to the hospital! Went there and contractions were 5 mins apart and they had me stay for 3 hours just to say "Oh well your contractions aren't changing your dialation at all so you can go home" We left there around 3pm got home and contractions were still very strong and never stopped! Around 9:30pm I was getting really irritated and wanting to know if all this pain was changing me at all, so called the doc and asked what to do because I could not sleep he said head to the hospital. So got there around 10:00pm and they watched my contractions for about 3 hours and said they still weren't changing anything but they were now 2-3 minutes apart and very very strong, they admitted me and gave me a shot of morphine in the butt so I could sleep! That wasn't until around 2am. So they were still so painful couldn't sleep! Finally called a nurse in around 5am used the toilet, they monitored me for awhile then said try to get some rest. I finally fell asleep around 6 am then woke at 7:30am.So much for sleep! When I woke the contractions had almost diminished! I was so upset!! They brought in breakfast and after breakfast they started monitoring again and I was having them about every 7 min. My doc showed up and he checked me, STILL NOTHING! They sent me home! So now here I sit with painful contractions that are not doing a damn thing! I don't know what to do because I know I won't be able to sleep again tonight and my cervix probably isn't changing either!

Jan. 29th, 2008- (40 WEEKS)-
OMG today is my due date and no Lucy! I am so dissappointed! Yesterday I met with the male doctor at the office and he checked me and said I still hadn't changed! I was very discouraged! He didn't do the membrane sweep like he was suppose to either! I am miserable! I have been in prodromal labor since friday morning! AAHHH I'm ready to start pulling my hair out! The only thing he said he could do is perscribe me pain meds for while I'm at home and for me to go to the hospital at night if I can't sleep and get a morphine shot and stay there for the night! (I don't think so, I am not drugging this baby up until she is born)!!! So today I woke up discourraged that Lucy isn't here yet! Still painful constant contractions! I'm really tired of it! I went to the movies with hubby today to see 27 dresses! It was really cute! I had to get my mind off of not having this little girl yet! I meet with my doctor tomorrow morning, I'm really hoping we will start discussing inducing! Lucy is in the posterior position, and big, I think that is why my contractions aren't causing me to dialate! PRAY FOR ME PLEASE! Here's to hoping that something will happen soon or doctors will finally decide to do something! I sure hope so! Thanks Everyone! Good Luck to all else who are out there and still prego!

Birth Story-

OH BOY I was in prodromal labor for almost week, told my doc I couldn't taje it anymore! She finally decided to induce! Went into the hospital jan 30th in the evening to start the induction! I was in labor all day on the 31st, around 4 pm the doc asked if i wanted to take a break from the pitocin and maybe head home and get some rest or did I want her to break my water! Of course not being able to stand it much longer I said BREAK THE WATER!! When she did the contractions came on so strong!!! I opted for the epidural after about the 3rd contraction! The doc came and did what he had to do, but the epidural did not take full effect! I had a window on my left side that wasn't numb! I was going crazy, so he had to readjust the epi and have me lay on my left side! I Loved the epi as soon as it took full effect! the doc checked me around 6 pm and said I was 5cm after an hour I felt alot of pressure and asked the nurse what it could be, She said she would do a check to see, it was around 7:30 pm when they did the next check, I was 10 cm then! So within an hour I had gone from 5 to 10! I was shocked but so ready for this to be over!!! The doc cam in and started getting everything ready, around 8pm is when they started having me push! I pushed from 8 to 9:47pm before she was born! OMG, that hurt alot!!! I remember when the doc said to one of the nurses, turn up the pitocin to make the contrx stronger, I piped up and said, NO TURN UP THE EPIDURAL THE HECK WITH THE PITOCIN!!!! Then when her head came out, everyone started screaming, SHE'S HERE!! I said OMG I'm done she's here, thank god, the doc said no that was just her head you still have the rest of her to go, I started crying and said What are you kidding me, that was only her head .....I can't do this Nope I'm not doing it... then the doc said well you can't leave her like this! That's when I started to push with all my might because I wanted this over!!!! So Lucy was born at 9:47 pm and weighed 9lbs 5oz and was 22 in long! BIG GIRL!!!!! I am so blessed to have her here! My husband and I are very grateful that Lucy is big and healthy! All I have to say is Thank You God that it is over!

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