well turns out everyone is right and I am wrong, very wrong!! After laying around all morning, eating some lunch I headed to the doctors office. My blood pressure was lower than it’s been in months and everything went suprisingly well. What does this mean? that I do need to rest more and that not having to care for Caleb all day makes a huge difference to my blood pressure. This realization sucks. So while the dr hasnt put me on bedrest for real, since of coure after doing what she said to do my blood pressure is fine, I now know that if I dont rest more and get help w/ Caleb that I will be in trouble w/ my blood pressure. so the truth is I should be on bed rest. blah!
the best news I got today was my blood work all came back normal so no pre-eclampsia, wohoo!! But what we dont know is what is wrong with me still! I’ll see how the weekend goes and if I’m still really sick I’m going back to the primary care doctor. there was a little concern for me over some stabbing pains when I cough and sometimes even just when I move. I got even more worried when the u/s tech said that the place where it hurts is where my placenta is sitting. she said there was no signs of damage to the placenta so they didnt think there was a tear. if the pain persists, gets worse or I develop other symptoms I’ll have to call or go to the hospital. so for now the hope is that it’s just pain from too much coughing/throwing up and that it’s muscular. but it sure does hurt like heck!
The baby has gained a lot of weight in a week, if the u/s is reliable, she said they’ll worry if there’s still a significant growth spurt in the baby at the next u/s. meanwhile, I didnt gain any weight. so still at just a 4 lb gain. meanwhile the baby weighs in at almost 6 lbs, and I”m only 34 weeks! he’s measuring size wise exactly a week ahead, so 35 weeks 2 days. things went well and everything seems fine, of course as long as I keep to doing nothing but laying in bed w/ the laptop, yeah, that’s likely to happen! so we’ll see. I have an appt w/ the perinatologist tomorrow, for those counting, that’s 4 appointments this week, the only day I didnt go to the dr was wednesday. what a fun week! I go back Monday to the regular ob for a stress test and appointment. Baby B is definitely less active than he was last week, but if he’s growing that much that quickly he’s probably just running out of room. It was pretty funny, to wake him up to get him to move on the stress test today they banged a pot over my belly, and of course he woke up, but barely.
well I’ve updated enough for one day, maybe even for a weeks’ worth, but I know you love it! 😉
forget to mention: the u/s tech today said the baby has a lot of hair, I could see what she meant, Caleb didnt have all that much hair, not when he was first born, or at least I dont think so. so I am kind of excited about that. wish Dean had been there to see and hear that one. we both have thick hair so it’s not really suprising, but it’s a cool thing to know that we didnt know before. the u/s tech hasnt checked for sex again since we told her we know, I was tempted to have her double check today, but i didnt. if it turns out all the other u/sounds were wrong then so be it, since we’ll be happy as long as the baby is healthy. well thats all folks.
