A cause for celebration?

It is my one month anniversary of bed rest.... I'll take any reason to celebrate at this point! We are off for another ultrasound soon, can not wait to see our little lady!

36 Weeks!!

WE MADE IT ANOTHER WEEK!!!!

I am beyond thrilled, we are one week from Nyla being to term, and every day that she is able to stay in my stomach makes me feel more confident she is strong enough to come out of it!! I count every day now as a blessing, and I really have to say I appreciate how hard all my doctors are working with me to help me keep her cooking until she is ready!

We are officially in month nine!!! Nyla is my little watermelon, little not being the correct adjective, but I am using it none-the-less. She is finalizing her lungs and brain, and all her bones are solid, sturdy and ready for the big game! She is practicing blinking, breathing and sucking and is depositing fat at this point, so our little chunky monkey may come out full of adorable little dimples.

I think this is the happiest I have been in a really long time. Below is possibly the last update of Nyla as produce, I can not believe we are almost at the end!

Another Week, Another Hospital Visit....

The title of this post says it all, only this time they think the elevated blood pressure was just an anxiety attack. I was supposed to go to the Dr. at 6:30 to discuss when we were going to be inducing me... apparently it got to me. At 2:00 I started feeling funny, and it just got worse. Finally I checked my blood pressure:

I called, went into the office, by the time I was sent to the hospital it was 160/102. I got to the hospital, started to relax, Mike came a gave me a big hug and told me that trip #3 was going to be uneventful and that the only way we were going to go home and not have a baby was if I calmed down. Here is Mike trying to make me laugh about trip #3:

We watched comedy central and while they ran my labs my BP dropped back down to normal. The doctor called them "Beautiful Levels"

This made me very happy.

As soon as we started talking to the doctor, however, about how this can not happen again because next time I am going to have a baby, it shot back up to 138/100.... this is when she said it was definitely stress related and told me to go home, relax, and sleep.

We have a follow up on Monday morning at 8:15, and we are taking it from there. The doctor is also going to try to jump-start things naturally, and told us ways that we can try to naturally create progress so that I can work towards my other goal, NOT having a c-section. So much for addressing one thing at at time. Regardless, I am so happy that I was able to wait it out another week,

now lets see if I can make it to 37 ;-)

Acceptance

So now that I have had a chance to process I am trying to see the positive of Nyla coming this week.

1- It is the best thing to do for both of us healthwise

2- Chinese New Year starts at the end of January leaves me a whole month that China will not be emailing me and so I can focus on adjusting to being a mom.

3- The pro-bowl is this weekend, who cares about the pro bowl anyways!?!?!

4- I will finally get to hold her.

5- I will be able to see my toes again.

6- I am able to take awesome BP meds as of this afternoon because they are no longer concerned about them masking Pre-E, so I am going to start to physically feel a little better.

7- I can have some say/control in the situation, and anyone who knows me knows i love to plan EVERYTHING.

8- They initially told me I would be lucky to make it to 32 weeks, I made it to 36, take that doctors!!!!

9- No matter what happens I have an amazing support system of family and friends who will be there for me to help me through whatever the future holds.

I think I am ok with this.

Maybe Baby....

I just got back from an appointment with my specialist, and she told me what I already knew she was going to say. Her professional recommendation is to have Nyla delivered by the end of the week.

I am still processing....

HOLY CRAP

The ticker is in the last box. Holy Crap.

35 week Ultrasound

This week we did not get a growth ultrasound (boo) but we did get a doppler and Biophysical Profile and some pictures (yay)

It was so cool, we got to watch Nyla practice breathing, and her lungs were really strong, which makes me feel so much better in the even that she does come sooner than I would like. Apparently she looked perfect, and with the help of some food, grape soda and ice water we were able to get her to move her feet and one of her hands out of her face!

We had the same awesome tech as last time, and she really put the effort in to get us a good shot! We also found out she has a house in Midway 5 blocks from us, so she said we are going to have to come by and let her see what Nyla looks like on the outside!

Heeeeeeeeeeeeere's baby chubby cheeks!!!!