September 30th, 2008
And no longer tongue tied..(more on that later). But first, introducing Jasper Bear:
So I think it’s true what they say, babies get worse until 6 weeks and then start getting better until 3 months. This past week there have been several really good days, particularly Sunday when Sarah, Jay and baby Daphne came to visit. [...]
August 15th, 2008
Sorry I didn’t post sooner, I had a very stressful day.
I woke up early full of excitement about my BPP U/S (biophysical profile Ultrasound) to get a sense of how big the baby is and make sure things look Ok in there. There are a couple of concerns with post date babies other than size, [...]
June 3rd, 2008
I got the best possible news, my cervical length is still 3.5, which means no change at all since my anatomy scan at 19 weeks! No funneling either, so bed rest is off the table, yay!
I had the sweetest ultrasound tech in the world. He’s a young dad of three, and he took the time [...]
June 2nd, 2008
Thank you all so so much for your kind and encouraging words of support.
Saturday night I was still having contractions, but not as much yesterday day… until they got me hooked up for my monitoring at the hospital. The midwife had ordered an hour of monitoring along with my second shot of steroids to mature [...]
June 1st, 2008
Well, it didn’t take me long to be back in the care of the open door midwives, less than 24 hours in fact!
Yesterday (saturday) morning, I wiped and saw blood, more like a dark brown discharge. I also was feeling some super mild menstrual type cramping and decided to call the midwives to see if [...]
May 14th, 2008
Thank GOD. I had absolutely no interest in having to do the three hour test, so this is very good news.
The rest of my OB appointment was uneventful. I just told her I was leaving. Didn’t get too much into the details but I think she got the idea. She reviewed the blood tests with [...]
April 28th, 2008
Thanks for all your well wishes from my last post.
I finally called in to see if they had my blood work results back. After the usual bumbling fumbling of my name etc, they couldn’t find them so said they would call me back.
A while later the doc himself calls (wow, that’s a first!) and tells me [...]
April 18th, 2008
I haven’t posted much this week because I’ve been running around between doctors appointments.
About 2-3 weeks ago, I had a really bad sore throat. I thought I was getting the flu and was grateful that I wasn’t in my first trimester when a temparature can be really bad for baby..
Strangely though, unlike the usual sore throat [...]
March 18th, 2008
I can’t believe than in about 18 hours we will finally know if we are having a boy or a girl! As usual before ultrasounds, I am nervous that we will discover something is wrong, and I am quite sure I won’t be getting any sleep tonight both from excitement and anxiety. Ahhhhhhh!
For the record, I [...]
January 29th, 2008
I got the blood test portion of our NT screening back today and they were excellent!
Prior to testing, my risk for having a baby with Down’s was 1/307. After the scan, its is only now 1/6000.
For Trisomy 13 & 18 (which is often fatal for the baby) my risk prior to testing was 1/524, but [...]