Smile Sweetheart, You Are NOT Having a Baby Today!

We made our 1st trip to labor & delivery yesterday, luckily we came home empty handed. I went in for my follow up appointment and while all my labs came back fine, my BP was still spiking so they sent me over to the hospital. I have to say it was kind of strange being in the room, seeing all the equipment and it freaked me out a little (no wonder the BP would not go down)

They monitored me, took more samples, and about 5 hours later sent me on my merry way. The nurse could tell I was getting anxious (i had not had anything to eat or drink since 9pm the night before and it was after 5pm at this point) and she just looked at me and said, "Smile sweetheart, you are not having a baby today!" So true. I want her to come, but not this soon!

Anyways, I am now on bedrest for the week, we will see what happens at my appointment on Monday. The great news- Nyla is doing wonderfully and everything with her is perfect, it is just me that is the problem!!!!

a few more pics from the cell phone....

mookie patiently waiting watching re-runs of law & order, the monitor, and what mike refers to as the super baby-heater-upper

Frickin A

This weekend I got a call from a nurse saying my

sugar levels/iron levels were fine.

This morning I got a call and they "took it back"

Apparently, as far as sugar levels, most classify "normal" as 65 to 140 points. My doctor classifies 65 to 135 as normal. I was at a 137. I have to take a 5 HOUR test tomorrow. I have to fast all night, and I am already miserable. Booooooooooo.......

maybe I will be blogging from the Dr.s office tomorrow to kill time,

and I am bringing a pillow to sit on.

Ugh.

Glucose Test.... Round 2!

So went for my second glucose test this afternoon, and got an unpleasant surprise... it was a

3 HOUR LONG TEST.

Luckily I brought along my work, laptop and wireless air-card, but this was not fun.

I was starving too, because they told me I could not eat for 12 hours before. The lack of food and beverages (other than the nasty orange syrup drink) combined with my history for not dealing well with blood being drawn lead to me me passing out 2 of the 3 times they took blood, making the process even more miserable.

Also, the chairs in the doctor's office need a serious upgrade. My butt is killing me. They should have a special seating area for woman doing this test, it is just cruel to make us sit in hard, tiny, uncomfortable chairs.

That is the end of my rant.. I am going to take a nap.

While You Are Here...

So today I went to the Dr. because I felt like poo, and she wanted to follow up on a few things from our last visit. As I was getting ready to leave, she springs on me, "while you are here, do you have like and hour or so to kill?" I said I guess, thinking she wanted to monitor me or something, and she went on to tell me that because I had not eaten anything, and I was due anyways, it was the perfect time for me to take my 1 hour glucose test.....

Basically you drink this crappy super sweet orange drink (you have to finish it in 5 minutes, I just plugged my nose and gulped it down) and then you sit around for an hour and they draw your blood. I was trapped at the OB's office (you can not leave) with nothing to read except for those crappy free pregnancy magazines that are just full of advertisements for things you don't need. Let's just hope I pass this one, if not I have to take a 3 hour test, which would totally suck. I find out the results sometime next week.

Yup... that's a baby

So even though I went for the blood test to assure that this was real, I guess I couldn't really deny this test I took last Wednesday night...

They really don't leave much room for error in interpretation nowadays.