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November 28, 2003
Things are happening!
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Posted by janna at 11:26 PM
November 25, 2003
We've made it!
We are officially 36 weeks today! This was the ultimate goal, ever since we went on bedrest at 24 weeks. It's hard to believe that we have come this far.
Things seem to be going well. I'm on vacation this week, so I'm taking it easy...sort of. I'm actually taking myself off of bedrest. I'm going to do a little shopping today with Mom. I want to pick up a couple of things to take to the hospital, mainly snack food (will I want to eat??).
Anyway, here's to Baby D sticking it out! Any guesses as to when he will come???
Posted by janna at 10:27 AM
November 20, 2003
Going way back to the end of May
This was Z-dog and I two weeks after we found out we were pregnant (we were about 11 weeks at the time) -
This was Zeppo and I about two weeks ago (33 weeks) -
Full exposure -
I am having serious belly envy...of myself! Look how far we've come! Not long now.
Posted by janna at 10:33 PM
Ah, Baby D...
Do you have such a need to come now?
The contractions continue...very irregular, and not as many, but when they come, they really come. They take my breath away. When I'm walking around, I feel the need to hold my belly up, as if that will help keep him in there.
I have been corresponding with a woman in Massachusetts. I 'met' her on a discussion board for women who are due in December. I had posted a question to see if anyone else would be going off of Terbutaline...and she was going off two weeks before us. She was off for five days... that's all I'm going to say. :)
Posted by janna at 09:51 PM
November 19, 2003
Oh My God!
Okay, folks... we're 35 weeks officially, one week away from stopping the medicine, from letting Baby D do what he wants to do. Apparently Baby D is getting a little anxious!
Monday night I was having a lot of contractions despite my medication. Tuesday morning I decided to call my doc to see what she thought. She said that since I never call her, something has definitely changed so she sent me into the hospital to be hooked up to a monitor to see how things were going. If my cervix was changing because of the contractions, it was possible that they would try to give me something else stronger to hold him in for another week. We went in, were hooked up for an hour, and found that while I was having irregular contractions, they weren't causing my cervix to change and I wasn't dilated. I was able to go home, yippee! We realized that morning that we didn't have a bag packed for the hospital, and really was a wake up call that this was real!!
I still experienced contractions last night, but didn't go back in...
This morning we went to our weekly appointment. Our doc checked again and said, yeah, you're a little over one cm dilated. Uh, what??? So, the contractions are doing some work, apparently. Wow. Doc said she'd like baby to hang on for another six days, to get to 36 weeks, so I'm going to take it EXTRA easy this week, laid out, trying to get a bunch of work done. We left the office just staring at each other. I really felt like I felt the night we found out we were pregnant...teary eyed, overwhelmed, in disbelief...is this really happening? Can we mentally prepare any more than we have? What's left to do? Could we be parents in a week or two? Doc isn't worried about us having a Christmas baby anymore... :)
Posted by janna at 11:58 AM
November 12, 2003
Okay...I'm glad I'm on bedrest
Today we went to our weekly doctor's appointment. Afterwards, we went out to eat for lunch, my weekly escape from the house. We went to this diner down in the middle of town. While we were standing at the register paying for our lunch, the woman at the register looks very seriously at me.
"When are you due?"
Umm, Dec. 24th.
Uhhh....
I said nothing!!! Just last Sunday someone was asking me how I felt about strangers touching my belly. I had said it never happened because I was always at home, never really around strangers very much. Well, that incident made up for them all...and for all future pregnancies!
Posted by janna at 05:00 PM
34 weeks!
It's hard to believe we're finally getting to our HUGE milestone, 36 weeks. Just two to go. Went to see the doc for the weekly check-up, everything is still going very well. I measured at 35 cm, so the belly is definitely growing, heartrate was good. We talked with the doc about when exactly I should stop taking the Terbutaline that is stopping the contractions.
Posted by janna at 04:34 PM
November 06, 2003
Week 33!
We've made it to week 33, so fantastic! We're very thankful Baby D has decided to stick it out in his little house rather than coming early. That means three more weeks of taking Terbutaline, the med that is keeping my contractions down. To be precise, I only need to take it for 19 more days. While it makes me nervous to think about what can happen after stopping the meds (I know I will eventually be having a baby, no doubt, but hopefully he'll give me a little break afterwards), I can't wait to potentially sleep through the night without having to wake up to 3 am alarms to pop a pill. John doesn't seem to think I'll be sleeping through the night anyway, which is probably true.
I do wake up a lot these days. Acid reflux is not my friend these past few weeks, and who knows where my bladder is in there...I must say, though, I think I'm sleeping pretty well despite it all.
Baby D is still extremely active. I'm wondering if he has flipped, with his face facing to my back, because today I felt more movement in my back than i had. It's hard to tell. We went for our weekly check up yesterday, and things look good. My uterus measured 33 cm (right on date), Baby D's hearbeat was good, 148, and my blood pressure is totally normal. Phew. Last week I did have a couple of nights where I had a lot of contractions in a row, which really concerned me. I did not want to go in if I didn't need to. When I talked to my doc about it yesterday, she said we needed to be sure the contractions weren't coming more than four times in an hour for more than an hour. Apparently your body can become used to Terbutaline and the contractions can break through. Hold on, Terbutaline, not much longer now!
Posted by janna at 05:43 PM
November 02, 2003
Walk a mile in my feet...
Wait, where are my feet???
Holy belly, batman...
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November 01, 2003
"Is it okay," John asks...
"Is it okay if I teach Junior to squeeze the toothpaste from the bottom up?"
*hint taken, John*
Posted by janna at 08:01 PM