Pregnancy Week 32 & Something Fun
Another week, another complication...Three weeks ago we went in, and due to pain in my leg I had an ultrasound to check for a blood clot. No blood clot, but I did have a muscle tear (how did I do THAT???) and the ultrasound showed the veins in my legs were giving out. Hello, support hose. Then last week, Lily measured WAY big. Her estimated weight was 5 pounds, 3 ounces, which is closer to a 35 week baby than a 31 weeker. After some blood tests, gestational diabetes has been ruled out, so we don't know WHY she's so big.
So, yesterday she turned 32 weeks. At the ultrasound, two things were discovered. First, my cervix is changing, which landed us at Holy Family for the evening to monitor contractions. We got to leave, but I'm on bedrest now, as well as Procardia. Today the contractions were still there, so they upped my dose. I'm still having contractions, even on the higher dose, so I'm not sure what my doctor will do on Friday. I have to make it 2 1/2 more weeks and then I can have her, praise the Lord!
The other complication is that sometime in the last week Lily TURNED! She has been head down since 16 weeks, and all of a sudden NOW she flipped. If she does not turn on her own, we will be having a c-section. There are ways to manually turn the baby, but with my uterine scar that is not an option. So we watch and wait, and I invert myself for twenty minutes a day with the hopes that gravity gets this girl back where she belongs.
It's amazing, that we only have a few weeks left. Tonight we were discussing how we never dreamed we would make it this far. God is so, so good.
Psalm 52:9 I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
And, just to prove our ENTIRE existence isn't consumed by this pregnancy, a few pictures of the girls:
Grandpa reading with his girls:
Jaime with her lego robot:
Thanksgiving dinner with Grandma and Grandpa:
So, yesterday she turned 32 weeks. At the ultrasound, two things were discovered. First, my cervix is changing, which landed us at Holy Family for the evening to monitor contractions. We got to leave, but I'm on bedrest now, as well as Procardia. Today the contractions were still there, so they upped my dose. I'm still having contractions, even on the higher dose, so I'm not sure what my doctor will do on Friday. I have to make it 2 1/2 more weeks and then I can have her, praise the Lord!
The other complication is that sometime in the last week Lily TURNED! She has been head down since 16 weeks, and all of a sudden NOW she flipped. If she does not turn on her own, we will be having a c-section. There are ways to manually turn the baby, but with my uterine scar that is not an option. So we watch and wait, and I invert myself for twenty minutes a day with the hopes that gravity gets this girl back where she belongs.
It's amazing, that we only have a few weeks left. Tonight we were discussing how we never dreamed we would make it this far. God is so, so good.
Psalm 52:9 I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
And, just to prove our ENTIRE existence isn't consumed by this pregnancy, a few pictures of the girls:
Grandpa reading with his girls:
Jaime with her lego robot:
Thanksgiving dinner with Grandma and Grandpa:
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