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Welcome to my page! :) My name is Amy and this is my 3rd pregnancy. I am very blessed to have 2 beautiful healthy girls, ages 2.5 and 4 yrs old and am expecting another beautiful baby girl. Currently I am 30 weeks pregnant and at the moment on "very light duty" b/c of contractions I've been having since 28 weeks. I have to take medicine around the clock to stop the contractions and I was on strict bedrest a week ago, but I've seen my doctor twice since then and there's been no change in my cervix so she put me on "light duty" so I can take care of my girls. I was told "you can take care of your kids, w/ lots of help and lots of breaks, but let the house go" so that's what I've been doing and boy the house is a mess!! Actually my husband has been great, he's been a big help around the house doing all the stuff I can't. Some days I just feel totally useless but I know that's what I need to do in order to keep this little girl in as long as I can. It's rough though, b/c you can never totally be "off duty" when you have 2 youngun's running around and your husband has to go to work. Anyways, I hope everything works out okay and the baby doesn't come too early.

I come on here a lot lately b/c it's nice to have a place where "all things are pregnancy" and to have a place to talk to others about problems I'm experiencing, to lend advice where I can, or just to plain ol' vent about things that are going on. None of my friends are pregnant, in fact, quite the total opposite of being pregnant at the moment, so there's not a lot of people I can relate to in my world, so this site is a great outlet for that.

Well, that's all I can think to say about myself at the moment, if you have any questions for me, or just want to talk or add me as a friend, go ahead!! :) Good luck to all w/ their pregnancies!!!!

Update:

6/23/08 (31 weeks)

Well as of last Friday, I had a fetal fibronectin test done to see if all these contractions I've been having are going to lead me into labor w/in the next 2 weeks. Good news, it was negative, meaning I have at least another 2 weeks to go. But the bad news is, I'm still having all these painful contractions (and trust me, they are NOT Braxton Hicks, I get those too, they are nothing compared to these) and really no reason behind them. I hate taking this medicine to stop them too, but if I don't they only get closer together and more painful the longer I have them. I am still on "light duty" and everytime I "push" the envelope and try to do more than I'm supposed to be doing, the contractions come on. It really does suck, b/c there's so much I need to do w/ my other 2 kids, just day to day, not to mention things I need to do to prepare for this new baby, that I can't b/c it seems to bring on pain and contractions. I am happy about the negative result though.

I had my shower this past weekend and b/c I can't do much, all my stuff is still sitting in bags and boxes on top of my kitchen table!! I sooo need to get this baby's room ready for her, but I can't do it alone and w/ all these doctor's apt.s I've been having and having to find a sitter each time, it's just so difficult to ask someone to come over and help me get her room ready. And my poor husband's working on overtime lately to afford all these lovely bills, and he's already having to take on tasks like supper and dishes and laundry that I can't do I feel too bad to ask him to help get the nursery ready--and it's a mess!!! I wish I had a maid sometimes!! lol Boy that would be nice. I'm just glad I haven't had much company lately b/c my house is such a mess during the day! It's hard enough getting the girl's lunch and mine ready w/o having contractions, much less bending over and picking up all their toys they drag out! One thing about it, I hope this baby doesn't get ANY toys as gifts from people b/c w/ 2 girls already, we don't need a thing in that dept!!!

Okay, I think I've "vented" and updated as well, enough today.....okay, maybe one more gripe! I Hate that we put up the pool and it's just sitting outside dying for us to get in it and yet, I can't take both my 4 yr. old and 2.5 yr. old out in it by myself w/o at least some help from a flotation device--which all got ruined from last year and I can't go to the stupid store w/ both girls and get one!!! grrrr! Okay, now I'm done! :)

UPDATE: 35 WEEKS July 21st:

Well, I've been on bedrest since July 12th. I went to the hospital that night (got a funny story about being pulled over on the way there too I'll get to later) w/ contractions so close I couldn't keep track, at least 3 mins apart. Stayed overnight, measured 1-2 cm dialated (which was new since 2 days before that I measured nothing) and the next day no change, (literally too, b/c I was still contracting w/ high doses of turbutaline) but they let me go home on strict bedrest. Was told to make an appt. Monday to get checked again but an hour before my appt that Monday I started up again, so to make a long story short, I ended up being admitted after 2 hours "observation" afterall. There was surprisingly, w/ all these crazy contractions, no change to my cervix so they sent me home again, back to bedrest, where I've been ever since. Unless I totally misunderstood my doc, she said to give it one more week (basically taking me almost or all the way to 36 weeks) and she'd "let me go"--which I took to mean go off the medicine I've been on since 28 weeks when I first went into premature labor. I hope I took her right b/c this medicine sucks! And I still get big-time contractions even on it, so it feels pointless. I know I have to do this to try to keep the baby in as long as possible for her lung maturity and everything else, but it really does get old being on bedrest w/ 2 kids to take care of! I've totally been relying on my hubby and my mom everyday. Oh, and another fun piece of info. I learned while at the hospital is that my baby is now breach--which is new b/c she's been head-down for about 2 months or more now! What is she thinking? Sooo, for someone who does NOT want a c-section, this could be bad news! All I've feared "labor-wise" is having to have a stupid c-section and now it's a real possibility! So I'm asking around here to try to find out if anyone's had any success w/ an external version where they turn the baby externally. It's something I might consider as oppose to a c-section if I can be sure it's safe. Something to discuss w/ my doc tomorrow I know, but still I want to hear from someone who's experienced it to know if it's very painful or not, or if it actually worked. Anyways, that pretty much brings me up to date for now.......OH, about that police story! lol Well the first night I went into pre-mature labor my hubby was taking me to the hospital which is 35 miles away! I was really contracting and man, I swear, I thought I was gonna have the baby in the car it was so bad! So he was a nervous wreck and doing like 80 mph! So of course, we pass a deputy sherriff's car and they turn around and come after us, I told him, I was like, just pull over, it might be for the best, ya never know! So, they get out of the car and start to approach us and my husband sticks his head out the window and says "my wife's in labor" and they totally waved us on and said "go on"! I don't know if they actually heard me having contractions or if they saw me or what, but I couldn't believe how nice they were! Then, we pull off and start to go, and they catch up to us, pass us, and basically "escort us" until the county line doing 90!!! lol I couldn't believe it! I mean, honestly, that's the way it should be, but I've seen and heard of people not being as fortunate! So anyways, thank God for those cops that night or they might not have been able to stop my labor when I did get there--if I made it! :)

Saturday July 26th---36 WEEKS:

I am BORED! Tired of them stopping labor on me! I had to go to the L/D again last night, in labor again, only since the baby's now transverse, it wasn't doing much good to be in labor b/c my cervix is still so far up and I'm no more dialated then I was, so they tried to stop it again w/ a shot. Didn't completely stop the contractions, never does here lately, but slowed them down enough for them to say, okay, you can go home and do nothing! FUN! This is getting old. I wish I could turn her myself! If only she'd been head-down last night, I could have actually had her. They said they wouldn't have stopped me if she were in position, but they know my wish is to not have a c-section if it can be avoided, so we're still trying to give the baby time to move on her own between now and 38 weeks, when I'll be induced or scheduled for an external version, or c-section, if that doesn't work. It all depends on this little girl moving. If only I could will it! LOL I am, however, going to go swimming tomorrow and try to get her to flip while I do a handstand underwater--I read somewhere that MIGHT work and since I've been trying everything else, I might as well try that too, no matter how silly it sounds. Besides, I have nothing to lose trying that! I would welcome the feeling of "weightlessness" right now! :) I may even try going to the chiropractor Monday if that doesn't work. I don't fear going there, like I know a lot do, b/c I went there during my 2nd pregnancy right up til I had her, and I think it helped me out a lot, but I can't say I welcome the "soreness" associated w/ going the first few weeks. Plus, since I am still pretty much on bedrest, I'm kinda afraid it might bring on labor. So lets hope the pool works and I don't need to go there! :) Anyways, bedrest sucks, and it sucks not being able to go anywhere!!! I guess I've vented enough about that for now....Hope everyone else's pregnancy is going well!!

August 8th, 2008

I had my baby!!! :) Miley Faith was born 8-08-08 at 1:16pm weighing 8lb and measuring 21" long! She is beautiful! She has a head FULL of black hair and it's so thick! We all just love her! She had a scary spell after she was born, w/ jaundice, where her bilirubin level was too high and she was pretty lethargic and not waking up to eat so she had to go back to the hospital and stay for almost 2 days under phototherapy lights--that was scary and stressful, but she's home now and her jaundice is a thing of the past, and she's eating well, and doing great! Except for having her days and nights mixed up! We're working on that. Anyways, this is honestly the first chance I've had to get on here and update so I'm working on getting pics up and the birth story and all that (even though it's not a good story! it was awful!) but for now, this will have to do!! I hope all of you are doing great, and congrats to those of you who have had those babies!!!!!!! :)