- Mood:
hopeful
Follow up ultrasound scan this morning. She is doing wonderfully, the doctor even said that if today was a Biophysical Profile day she would have a perfect score. Best news of all, she has come from the 13th perentile for size at the 20 weeks scan to the 50% percentile today at 30 weeks. My baby girl is growing and I am so happy to know she is thriving. They estimated her at 3lbs 5oz today. They also said she had a good amount of hair already :) haha. Evan had lots of dark of hair, which I don't understand cause both Dave and I were born bald.
3 weeks and then we begin the weekly biophysicals until delivery. I can't wait to have her in my arms so I can see that she is ok in front of me. 7-9 more weeks. If she keeps doing this well they are gonna really want me to wait until 39 weeks, but I am just so scared. Evan was a perfect healthy baby too right up until his death afterall. I am just taking it week by week, that's the plan right now. Meeting with an Anesthesiologist on Thursday to discuss medication options, because I want to stay on Fragmin 1 a day versus Heparin 2x a day, then I have to be aware of my options should something unexpected come up, like early labour or a unplanned emergency section. you cannot have a spinal or edidural for 24 hours after a Fragmin shot, wereas the Heparin is a 12 hour med. I dread the idea of giving myself 2 shots a day with a medication that bruises and burns, boo! Also the Fragmin is fool proof in pre-messured syringes, wereas the Heparin does not.
- Mood:
happy
Now is time for the movie reviews:
I LOVED The Men Who Stare at Goats- I think it is hillarious and smart, but I can also understand why so many think it dumb and not funny. It's spoof satire, it's dry but smart humour. It's co-produced with BBC films, so it's that type of "either you like it or you don't" humour. I do like it, and would love to watch it again, It didn't hurt that like all my favorite male actors are in it together.
Sadly, I did not enjoy Inglorious Basterds at all. In fact it's the first and only Tarentino flick I didn't like so I am really dissapointed. I thought the story line was brilliant, the message was great, and I like how typical of Tarentino, there were 3 story lines happening simultaneously, but the movie itself was slow moving and boring. I really thought I would love this movie so I am shocked to hear myself saying that.
Drillbit Taylor also sucked. It was your typical teen geeks versus bully, high school drama crap movie. Oh well.
Now I just have to mention that I am completly in love with Six Feet Under. It has me wrapped around it's little finger. I just finished season 1 and I loved every moment of it, what a great show. I love love love Michael C. Hall as an actor, since I have watched all of Dexter to date and this show just reinforces what a great actor he is. I also think that Lauren Ambrose is way stunning.
Your Body
- Let's get right to the point: You're a bloated, water-retaining mess. Chances are good you can't get your sneakers on or your wedding ring off, so get comfy in your slippers. Your pants don't fit. Your shirts don't fit. And now, thanks to the swelling in your feet, your shoes don't fit. You can thank a wonderful thing called edema for that. Go edema!
- Extreme swelling (as in "Oh my god, what happened to my hands?!") might be a sign of preeclampsia, so make sure to see your doctor. For mild edema, your doctor may recommend support hose—with plenty of room for your belly—and drinking plenty of water. Also, a low-salt diet may not be any fun (No potato chips! No soy sauce!), but it may help to minimize edema and water retention.
- On the bright side, edema is a great excuse for sitting down, propping your feet up, and asking your partner to bring you a cool drink and this week's US Weekly.
Your Baby
- Having a baby prematurely is frightening, no doubt. But here's a reason to relax: Due to the impressive advancements of medical technology, if your baby is born this week, she'd have a 9 out of 10 chance of survival, which is seriously great news. Other awesome developments:
- Baby's brain can now control her breathing and body temperature. She can also cough, and her sucking abilities have been perfected. Look out, boobs!
- Your Mini's skin is looking less wrinkled as she packs on the pounds. She's starting to look more like a Pampers model and less like a Depends model. She's now beefing up on the energizing and insulating white fat she'll be born with (unfortunately, white fat is not energizing and insulating for adults!).
- And speaking of energy, your little Energizer Bunny is on fire these days. You're sure to feel your share of kicks, punches and elbows, especially when you're lying down. You might want to start keeping a kick chart to monitor your baby's movements, and also to later show your 13-year-old child what you endured for him or her. Ask your doctor how to count kicks and how often you should do it.
- This week your baby is a little over 15 inches long—about the length of a loaf of bread—and weighs about 3 pounds, as much as a Macbook Air laptop.
As for me...
-I have very, very little edema yet, almost none in fact. I go through puffy moments but they don't stick around. My hands get really achy and puffy while I am asleep and then return to normal throughout the day.
-I have days on end of uncontrollable heartburn and then days when I have none at all. I am on a 4 day heartburn-free streak right now.
-My hips are a mess as is my groin, but I am learning to manage the pain and hoping it does not increase, but rather stay unilateral til birth.
-Baby is strong and kicking up a storm around the clock which I of course love.
-I am in nesting overdrive and just want to wash and fold all the baby clothes now...but we have nowhere to put them yet so I leave them put away and it's driving me mad.
-My boobs have not changed size this pregnancy, guess they already reached their max last time haha. They are covered in blue veins though and ache like mad.
-I have gained 8lbs total in 29 weeks, 2 of those in the last 2 weeks, finally starting to pack on the pounds. Pregnancy is the only time in my life I would use those words haha.
-BP has been steady and stable in the 120/80-122/85 range, so that is good.
-Passed my GD diabetes test with flying colours
-No RH conflicts, so that is good.
-8-10 more weeks til we get to meet our wee one.
-2.5 more weeks before my weekly biophysical's begin. When they do it means 5-8 weeks til we meet bebe on the outside :)
Most importantly I am happy and 99% at peace in this pregnancy only freaking out a couple times a month typically which rocks. I am
doing so much better then I ever thought I could and I really hope things stay this way. Just need to keep surrounding myself with possitive thoughts.
-Well the baby of course. She get's first dibs at awesomness
-Our land tax assessment was too high last year (we purchased at less then the estimated value) so we overpaid which means
starting today, our mortage payments dropped $80.00 a month for this next year. WOOT perfect timming. We now pay $150.00 less
a month to our mortage then we did to rent, including the land tax. How wonderful is that. Makes wiggle room for the unexpected household
expenses and for super expensive oil and wood we need to heat our house.
The less then Awesome.
-MS Vista. Boo Vista. Dave bought a new laptop a short while ago and it came with Vista and we have had nothing but problems with it. Anytime it does an automatic update the laptop crashes. Last Saturday, while we were sleeping Vista did an automatic updated and somehow hidden encoded malicious software got uploaded with it and crashed our system. We kept getting the blue screen of death. When we called Dell they looked into it and are the one's who informed us of said malicious software. We had to reformat the whole damn thing...for the second time in 4 months. Boo. They offered to sell us a Windows 7 upgrade for the low low price of $200. Blow me. I want to go back to Windows XP not forward to more crappy operating systems.
-Dave got brand spanking new winter tires put on our vehicle last Friday. Yesterday-Monday..i.e 1 business day later, he got a tire puncture from a nail. Of course that is just our luck. Luckily the same garage who installed em laughed at us and just charged $20.00 to fix it.
-Our vehicle is an automatic off the lot 2007 Chevy Uplander. Just this past 2 weeks (READ: 1 month outside warranty window) it has starting having issues as though it were a standard transmission. What I mean is that sometimes ( 3 times so far in 2 weeks) when we accelerate after being stopped at a red light, the car won't go for a minute, as though it's out of gear then it clicks back in and all is fine. 2 people have said it could very well be the transmission. IF this is the transmission going on a brand new low milage vehicle 1 month outside warrantee, GM will be hearing from a lawyer cause this un-fucking-real. Let's hope that is not the case.
Saturday was our appointment at UC Baby the 3D ultrasound clinic and it was so much fun. Evangeline is most certainly a girl. She is already a thumb sucker and apparently very flexible haha. She had her toes on top of her head at some points during the scan. She is not head down as the nurse thought last week, that or she turned since then. She was, during this scan reclined quite comfortably with the back of her head against my anterior placenta (i,e facing my back) with her hands up over her head (or in her mouth) and her knee's in tight to her body (or up over her head sometimes). She is very cute and has chubby cheeks already and long lean looking limbs. There were many obstructions to our seeing her face, she had both hands and both feet in front of her face at one point, and then when those moved aside, the cord was floating right in front of her nose and mouth. Reguardless she is beautiful and it was a wonderful experience.
Now some pictures
( See me here.. )
Yesterday was a bad, bad day. I did a number on my back by walking to much. (I.e 15 minutes from the bustop to work, 10 minutes x2 from the bus stop into the hospital and around the hospital) I am to avoid walking more then a minute or two at all cost. It threw my lower back into a mad spasm attack. So then I had SI inflamation and burning as well as active muscle spasms all day and night. I was mess. I went to bed at 9pm cause I was exausted from the pain. It scares me so much but it seem's manageable if I limit my motion, so that is what I have to do for the next 9-11 weeks, stay put. Luckily it seems I can do my job easily cause I don't have to move much, and I replaced my office chair with an exercise ball which helps. My physio agree's with me that the level of relief the 'safe' drugs will offer is not even worth it for the stress and anxiety they will cause me (i.e Evan dying the day after I started my Tylenol 3 regime). We both know that the only relief I get is from Anti-Inflamatory drugs and they are not safe in pregnancy. So ice and rest it is.
I am relieved to know that as soon as Miss Evangeline is on the outside I can start a heavy regime of Naproxen and it's fine for her in terms of breastmilk. That relieves alot of the anxiety cause ice and Naproxen is what helped clear it up fast after I had Evan. This injury seem's to 99% behave itself when I am not pregnant. It's all because I have hyper extended joint already (yes my arms and legs are crazy weird) so throw in some Relaxin and we have joints that wobble all over the place, allowing my SI joint to go in and out of alignment at will. Woot. NOT!
-Up .2 kg since I last saw her 3.5 weeks ago....Yes that is .4 of a pound. More chocolat milk please.
-Blood pressure, urine and fetal heartbeat all perfect.
-Fundus height messuring a little ahead this week (woot) baby is head down and she said she is sitting low
which explain the cramps in my nether regions. I knew it, I could feel the pressure. Can't beleive she is gonna
stay there for like another 10 weeks yet.
-Decision re: induction was presented to me as follows.
If I want induction at 37 or 38 weeks they will want to do an amnio to check lung maturity, otherwise, I have to wait to 39.
Dave says, ok so if your uncomfortable with an amnio, just wait to 39. Easier said then done when your this anxious each day.
Anyways, I have loads of time to think about it and you know I will be.
and it's official...Fox has announced that this will be the end of Dollhouse. Boo! So tiered of crap T.V.
There has to be a station out there that will appreciate what Joss has to offer and help, rather then hinder his progress.
So, so, so excited that the end is so near.
So, so, so anxious that things will go wrong in these last weeks.
Taking it one day at a time, enjoying each and every kick and nesting like mad. :)
Everyone else in my life is oh so confident Evangeline will be here kicking and screaming, and I love their confidence truthfully. I need that to help balance out my own anxiety. Dave seems fairly confident, he is holding up but I imagine this is very stressful for him as well.
Dying to drink gallons of cold chocolat milk this week, don't know what is up with that. Cereal with cold milk is something else I am wanting 3 meals a day. I have look into my options for small farm organic milk. We only by milk from a local company but they are still a big time mass producing dairy. Trying so hard to get more protein into my diet but I am so disgusted with meat as a whole, have been the whole pregnancy, also disgusted with soy. Eating beans and legumes instead. Amazing this meat aversion has not effected my Iron levels.
Baby is squiggle wiggling all around as I type, love it so much, I am hungry again and I am thinking I have to get off this couch and start the housework. I have the day off as Remembrance Day is a holiday, and I need to take advantage of this time to tidy up as Mom and her man are comming for weekend to be here for the ultrasound. I know if I just "Do It" it will be done in 2 hours tops, however I am so lazy today.
Getting there slowly. :)
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