1st-time-mama08
	Age: 24 Country: Province/region: City: Partner: Robert Children: Yes, 1 Pregnant: Not anymore Due date: 19 Feb ,2008 Occupation: loving my baby!!!
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My husband and i got married on May 28, 2005! We had decided we wanted to wait to have children until we were married 2 years! We'll the time came by sooo fast but we were ready! I got off birth control and wasn't sure how long it would take us to conceive, I would have never thought it would happen so fast. :-) I just had this feeling that I was pregnant but I didn't say anything cause I wasn't positive and didn't want to get everyone excited until I knew for sure. So the time came to have my period and it was a day before, I told my husband I just wasn't feeeling all that great and he told me to take a pregnancy test.... So we got one and I did it and it came out positive really fast! Well me being me I decided I needed to take another one so we went and got a pack of the digital ones so I really couldn't misread it! LOL so those both came back positive !! We were so excited and kind of in shock at the same time. We told our family and everyone was exstatic!! This will be my parents 7th grandbaby, and his parents 1st! when we found out the due date it was to the day two years when we got pregnant! HAHA. God is good and has truly blessed us!!! This is our first baby and we couldn't be more excited!!!!

Well so much has happened since I first found out I was pregnant! And I haven't written anything so I'll go ahead and try to jot down what I can. :-)

I had tons of morning sickness in the beginning till wk 16 then I was over it thank goodness. I found out I was pregnant really fast and early on I was having cramping and spotting. IT was pretty scary but my baby was healthy and doing great so I was ok! I started showing extremely early so it was cool to see this little bump grow!! We found out we were having a boy in Septemeber at my 20 wk U/S. My hubby told me when I was just a couple weeks pregnant that he had a dream and saw a baby boy and so he just knew we we're having a boy, I wasn't convinced but when I was at a dr appt at 13 wks we did an U/s and I saw what looked like a "BOY PART" and I said to the DR. is that what I think it is or?????? And the Dr said well it could be or it could just be an umbilical cord, it's still too early to give a def. answer. So then came my 20 wk U/S and there it was again, so we knew then for sure what it was! LOL

Well after I had my U/s I found out that I had to go for another u/s with a specialist cause when the results came back it looked like my baby may have had a cyst on his head and possibly something on his heart!! NOw that really scared me but i trusted in God and we prayed and prayed and guess What!! At my u/s with the specialist when I was 24 wks.....they saw nothing! All i can say is God is good and he took care of my little man. He was completely healthy, everything looked great and I got to have 4d pictures of him that they did for me!! SO to me it was just a blessing in disguise cause I really wanted those 4d pictures. :-)

After all that craziness I thought it would be smooth sailing but u can never predict what ur pregnancy will be like that's for sure :-)

NOVEMBER 28TH: Yesterday I started having braxton hicks contractions and they kept happening so I called my doctor and they told me to go to labor and delivery a the hospital, so i did. I got there a little after 4 and was hoping it was just me thinking I was having more than I actually was and that I would be sent home but I wasn't. They hooked me up to a monitor for contractions and to watch the baby's heartrate. They said I was having some irritability to my uterus def. whcih means they're not considered contractions yet but it's still irritated which isn't good. They saw that I started having contractions and wanted to give me a shot to help stop them. So they had to check my bloodpressure and heart rate cause that medicine speeds up ur heartrate. Well mine was way too high it was at 124. It is supposed to be between 60-100. So they were a little worried about that. They then checked my cervix and it was soft but not dialated. I was still scared though that it was soft already. I'm only 28 wks! So they gave me an iv, and a pill that hopefully would help my contractions slow down or stop. Well hours past and my heartrate stayed high and the contractions were still steady. So they told me they were going to have to admit me and keep me overnight. Of course I started crying I was so scared. So they did a test with a swab down there that can help tell them if there's a possibilty that the baby could deliver soon and hours later the resuts said no!! So that was good. They then moved me to a room and had to draw a bunch of blood. A lady came in and did u/scheck if there was any bleeding or if it was detaching from the wall. And it wasn't so that was ruled out. Then I had to get an echo on my heart to check my heartrate again and it was now at 140-145! NOw that's freaken crazy. I couldn't stop shaking, not sure why and started to get a headache and feel really nauseated. I couldn't get comfortable, I think I was just really scared. So they we're finally able to give me tylonel to help with the headache. They then had given me more of that medicine through a pill, some medicine to help with the nausea and something through my iv to help me sleep. And boy did that sleeping medicine work, I was soooo out of it. My hubby and I were laughing today cause he was telling me stuff Iwas doing. I was not all there just put it that way. LOL. Well they basically aren't sure why I am still contracting or why my heartrate is the way it is. But they sent me home on complete bed rest, I can only get up to go pee or to shower. I am going to be so bored but I will do anything to help keep my baby from coming this early. I was so relieved I was going to be able to come home it's so much more relaxing at home. I'd be doing the same thing there at the hospital anyway. And they sent me home with that medicine to keep taking. I have to go to the cardiologist on Friday and then to my drs. I know God has his hand on me and my baby boy. I have to just have complete faith in him and stand firm on what I believe.

December 3, 08: Well I went to the dr. today and it was a good visit! I am not dialating which I am so happy about!! They were afraid that the contractions were going to start making me dialate, but so far so good. My blood pressure was good, baby's heart rate was fine. Mine on the other hand is still high. I go on Thursday to get an echo done with the cardiologist to find out what kind of heart murmur I have which can help answer some questions with my pregnancy and for when I go into labor. I still am on strict bed rest. And my dr. said I will be on bed rest for the rest of my pregnancy. I only get to go out to go to any dr. appts :-) So I look forward to going.LOL! I have to go do my glucose test on Wed, which i've heard is really gross, but hey like I said I am looking forward to getting out of the house. I had to do some more tests today and will get the results tomorrow. So every week closer that I get with my baby doing good makes me a happy girl!!! :-)

December 13, 08: Well I went to the doctor yesterday and we had an u/s done and the baby looks great! I have a good amount of fluid around him and he was just as active as ever. He was playing with his foot when we saw him Glucose test came back negative and it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. The only down fall was not being able to eat so I was starving. LOL. I went to the cardiologist as well yesterday and the dr. went over my results from my echo last week. He said they saw a little hole in my heart so that is what kind of heart murmur I have. They put a heart monitor on me yesterday that I had to wear for 24 hrs. They wanted to monitor what my heart rate was like etc. They want to see if my heartrate elevates gradually or if it just does it really quick. My heart rate is still high so they need to just get a better idea of what's going on. I will go back to him before I have the baby to check me once more and then they need to decide how I will deliver my baby. They have to weigh the risks for a vaginal birth and a ceserean birth. If I delivered vaginally when it came to pushing it could put a lot of strain on my heart so I would maybe only be allowed to push for like 30 minutes. The other option is ceserean birth but with that also they would be able to get the baby out right away but what would happen once they got the baby out and then my heart is trying to handle all the extra fluids etc. SO my dr. isn't sure what route is best yet he will keep in contact with the cardiologist to make that decision. Once I have the baby I will go back and have another echo done so they will know if there's anything they need to do to fix it or if it would be ok left alone. They said when ur pregnant everything is elevated and ur body almost doubles in the amount of blood flow for u and the baby. SO my heart just might be having a hard time trying to pump all the extra blood. BUt all in all having the hole in my heart is better than other things it could've been!!! So it sounds scary but it's not too much to necesarily worry about right now.

1-2-08: So I went to the Dr. Monday and still contracting but not dialated!!!! SO that's great to hear. I'm 33 wks pregnant and the dr. says anywhere from 4-7 wks would be ok to have the baby come! Oh my goodness that seems like it's so close. LOL!! But it will be great to have him here :-) They also did the FFN swab test. So I should know the results in a few days. I also went to the Cardiologist today and got the results from my heart monitor. Today my heartrate was really fast when they checked it, it was at 149 bmp. Thats even faster than it was when I was in the hospital. So when he read my results he said that the highest my heartrate got was 160. Now that's just crazy and apparently that was when I wrote that I was having shortness of breath. He said it got up to 160 a few times. But at this point they can't give me any meds to slow it down cause it will have an effect on the baby, but they will be able to give it to me when I go into labor to slow down my heartrate. SO that at least made me feel better cause I don't like the way I feel when my heart goes that fast. Me and one of the nurses joke that my heartrate is so fast that it's like i'm running a marathon and I never stop. LOL!! I will go back to see the cardiologist right before I have the baby in early Feb. to see how things are and help with determining how I will deliver. Well I hope U all had a safe and fun New Years!!!

1-10-08: So I had a dr appt today and it went good. So the first crazy thing is that my Dr just told me he's only going to let me go to 38 wks and not to 40!!! AAAHHHH that means I will have my baby boy the first week of Feb. I can't believe it, it's so soon. :-) I'm incredibly excited but nervous too. So anyway he said he only wants to let me go to 38 wks for my benefit. With my heart and all. And he talked to the cardiologist that I have been going to and he said that I can't labor long. So that means as of right now they will let me try to have him vaginally and if it causes too much stress or is taking too long then they will have to do a c-section. So please just pray that I won't have to have a c-section cause I really don't want to....but I will if it's better for my son and I. So he checked me and said that i'm starting to thin and so I have to go next week to be checked again. My baby is head down now and he's guessing that he weighs about 4 1/2 pounds. So all in all it was a very informing appt!! I also will go to the cardiologist next week instead of Feb. 4th cause i'm going to be delivering sooner than we thought. I'll post an update next week when I get more info on me and the baby :-)

Feb 1, 2008 Update!

Last night I had to go to the hospital cause I was having some spotting and my contractions were getting harder and not so much just like the braxton hicks that i've been getting forever. I started to time them and I was getting them real often, so they had me go in for monitoring. They were some pretty strong contractions and I was getting them every 3-7 minutes and before I left they were 1-7 minutes. They just were varrying. I was 70% effaced earlier at my dr. appt that day and at the hospital I was 80-90% effaced but still only dialated to a 1 1/2. So they decided to let me go since the contractions still weren't making me dialate anymore. I was relieved cause I hate hospitals. I just wanted to be home if they weren't gonna do anything. I had to go to the dr. today and this morning I lost my mucus plug, which let me tell u was disguisting. LOL!!! At the dr today no changes in dialation thank goodness. So the contractions i'm having still aren't making me dialate anymore. So although i've been on strict bed rest since Nov. I was given really strict rules to seriously do nothing!! Not that I did before but any little thing now can affect the dialation or contractions. They gave me a delivery date of Feb, 7th! So i'm excited about that and just hoping I can make it that long. The Dr. won't do a c-section on me before 38 1/2 weeks unless my body forces him to by going into active labor. He said up until then the baby is 38 weeks he's still at risk for possibly having breathing problems. So i'm good with trying to keep my baby in longer, hey i've done it already this long when I was having the problems at 28 weeks :-) So if anything else happens I will give an update!

It's going to be a c-section:

As some of u already know I had to make the decision of either a vaginal delivery or a c-section. After much consideration and a breakdown in the dr's office lol, i've decided to go with a c-section. I went in with a ton of questions for the dr. and c-section really is just going to be the safest for me. It scared me cause if I tried for a vaginal and started to have problems with my heart they would have to do an emergency c-section to get the baby out before they could give me any meds cause the medicine they would have to give me would be really bad for the baby, so of course I wouldn't want that!! Same goes with my asthma which gets bad with my heart rate because anything they could give me would give me would speed up my heart rate. I told him the contractions that I'm getting now speed up my heart rate and make me feel like I can't breathe, these def. aren't anywhere as bad as they would be when I'm in active labor and it really scared me that they really couldn't do anything until the baby was out. I hate the way I feel when it happens. If i did a c-section obviously there could be risks with that with my heart but the dif. would be that I would already be in the operating room and they could get the baby out in 45 sec. if they needed to and then once Kaleb's out they could do anything to help me. That right there made me feel more secure. I mean could u imagine if something went wrong if I was trying vaginally, they would have to get me over to the operating room still do the c-section and then give me meds, to me that's too much time for something to seriously go wrong. I was so dissapointed cause I really wanted to have him vaginally but i'm coming around to accepting it. I know it's the right decision I made. So either way as long as my baby boy is safe i can deal with whatever I need to! Thanks sooo much for all your support and prayers throughout this pregnancy! Not too much longer till I get to meet my baby boy