Pregnancy Update

We have had a crazy few weeks over here!!

I have had high blood pressure since about 20 weeks of pregnancy. It has gotten high enough that my doctor has required me to get twice weekly non stress tests (NST) and weekly Amniotic Fluid Index (AFI) tests, labwork, and doctor's appointments, and ultrasounds every few weeks. Last week we went in for our first testing that included all of the tests- AFI, NST, ultrasound, and labwork. I was at the doctor's office for over 3 hours. It was a long time. Thankfully the AFI and NST showed that the baby is doing great! In the ultrasound, they told us that she is still doing good. She went from the 90% in size at our 22 week ultrasound to 40%  at 34 weeks. So she isn't growing quite as fast. They pushed back my due date just a few days to July 11th, instead of July 7th because of her size. So the baby passed all of her tests as being healthy, and the labwork showed that I have Preeclampsia, but it is not negatively affecting my body. So that is pretty good news! They told me this morning that I am dilated to a 2 and 60% effaced. I would LOVE it if this little babe came early. I would not be sad to miss out on those final weeks of pregnancy.

The other good news in our crazy day last week was I got to see her in two different ultrasounds, one at the beginning of the morning and another at the end. They told us she weighs about 5 pounds right now, and just estimating based on regular baby growth cycles she will weigh just under 8 pounds at full term. They also showed us that she has hair on her head! I am so so happy about that! My family has a curse of baby baldness and I haven't had heart burn once during my pregnancy so I was convinced she would be bald too, but she has hair! YAY!! I am so excited to meet our sweet girl.

I want to remember a story from Wednesday night. I have come down with a cold, the symptoms are mild besides the coughing. Wednesday was the worst night and I just felt so sick that I had no appetite. I made dinner but couldn't stomach it and I tried to eat just about everything in our kitchen and nothing sounded good, not even chocolate! That's when Mikey knew I was really sick haha! A combination of hormones (mostly hormones), hunger, and sickness led to a complete breakdown. Poor Mike, sat there trying not to laugh as I cried uncontrollably because I was hungry, sick, and tried of sharing my body. LOL. I literally said between sobs- "I just want medicine and I want to be able to skip a meal because it won't affect anyone but me, but I have a baby in there!" " I have been pregnant since October! I want to just have me in my body!!" And the crying just wouldn't stop. It was so so pathetic. I think it lasted about an hour, haha! Like I said, poor Mike!! We finally ended up at the McDonald's drive thru around 11 pm so I could get a grilled chicken sandwich and a diet coke. My husband is a saint. I wanted to remember this crazy pregnant lady moment, because I see how plain ridiculous it was. I have had one other experience like this and Mikey was so sweet to me then too. I am grateful this has only happened two times and is not a frequent occurrence. I hope it was the last.