When I had Pnut I went through a real hard time afterwards feeling like I had been cheated. I had had a beautiful pregnancy with her. I had absolutely no complications at all. Labor and Delivery were another story. My initial labor started on a Saturday, but I wasn't admitted until Tuesday. I spent all day in the hospital and my body stalled, not necessarily my contractions. With Pnut's heartrate dropping on a regular basis, and my body resisting medications designed to help me relax we finally went in for a C-section. Even that did not go as planned as Pnut's heartrate kept dropping to the 70s and 80s while they prepped me and the spinal did not take effect fast enough for everyone's comfort level. So, I was put under general anesthetic and when I woke up, it was to a quiet room. I was quickly reassured that Pnut was fine and beautiful and with D. Which she was.
I had felt like I missed the big event. You watch the baby shows on TV and see the joy and excitement when you see the baby for the first time. I didn't have that. So needless to say watching those shows afterwards were quite frustrating and to be honest, anger inducing.
Well, with Cashew, I am feeling a bit more reassured. I discussed my last delivery with my doctor who reassured me that since we are doing a planned C-section this time around we have more time to let the medication take effect, there is no hurry and no distress on Cashew to worry about.
I can also watch the baby shows on TV again. I respect women that give birth naturally, I respect women even more that can do it without medication. I tried, my body failed me, I had medication and those failed me too, Once Bitten, Twice Shy. I am excited to meet Cashew. Pnut is drawing our new family all the time including Cashew. She accepts his name finally! That was a chore. She wants to have input on his middle name, but unfortunately all the names she has been exposed to are Hispanic. The one that sticks out is "Cashew" Lopez. It is just hilarious what she comes up with. She also wanted Jose #3 since there was a #1 and #2 in her class this year.
She cracks me up. My expected surgery date is August 26th and it can't come fast enough!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Feeling Full and weird scientific
28 weeks and 3 days. Roughly 9 1/2 weeks left. Wow.
I completed another school year Friday and am so excited for this summer. There are so many things happening, yet so much time to relax at the same time.
Yesterday I had my first real gripe about being pregnant. The hip and tail bone pain is annoying, but I can deal; the pinched nerve is painful at times, but I can get over it. No, yesterday as I walked from one end of my house to another I was so winded that I felt like I had just jogged on a full stomach and wanted to pant like a dog to recover. My guess is I have a baby head or rump pushing up into my diaphram. After laying down and actually being able to breath it got better. I don't mind the painful things, I can get through those. I do mind being limited in my ability to walk 50 feet. That is not ok. Despite that I am still getting excited for the end of summer and the arrival of Cashew.
Pnut has 4 more days of school and then our journey for the summer begins. I love my kid, she is just a little stubborn sometimes, so I hope I can keep busy with her, but not wear myself out at the same time.
On Friday I also had my Rhogam shot. It is interesting to explain this to people because not all of them understand. Essentially it is a shot that prevents me from rejecting any foreign blood cells that may enter my system from the baby. Why is this necessary? Well, because I am Rh negative and D is Rh positive. If you remember science from school and if you remember punnent (?) squares for blood typing, they would show how two people with different blood types can have x,y,z types of children usually with a 4 square grid. Well, we had a 25% chance of having a child with positive Rh and that is what Pnut is. Now with Cashew we will see if he ends up with a positive or negative Rh at birth. If he is negative cool, if he is positive I get another shot. I get a little geeky with this because I think it is kind of cool. Especially when I tell people that both of my parents were Rh positive and I am the negative (or that 25% chance) child. D and I have 75% chance of having a Rh negative kid and Pnut was the 25% chance kid.
See completely geeky, ignore my moment. :) I will have interesting examples for middle school science.
My Rhogam is just another stepping stone to Cashew's arrival. Soon the appts every two weeks start, and then suddenly it will be Pnut's 6th birthday, and Cashew will be right around the corner. Oh, with D and my 10th anniversary thrown in there too. Lots to come this summer!
I completed another school year Friday and am so excited for this summer. There are so many things happening, yet so much time to relax at the same time.
Yesterday I had my first real gripe about being pregnant. The hip and tail bone pain is annoying, but I can deal; the pinched nerve is painful at times, but I can get over it. No, yesterday as I walked from one end of my house to another I was so winded that I felt like I had just jogged on a full stomach and wanted to pant like a dog to recover. My guess is I have a baby head or rump pushing up into my diaphram. After laying down and actually being able to breath it got better. I don't mind the painful things, I can get through those. I do mind being limited in my ability to walk 50 feet. That is not ok. Despite that I am still getting excited for the end of summer and the arrival of Cashew.
Pnut has 4 more days of school and then our journey for the summer begins. I love my kid, she is just a little stubborn sometimes, so I hope I can keep busy with her, but not wear myself out at the same time.
On Friday I also had my Rhogam shot. It is interesting to explain this to people because not all of them understand. Essentially it is a shot that prevents me from rejecting any foreign blood cells that may enter my system from the baby. Why is this necessary? Well, because I am Rh negative and D is Rh positive. If you remember science from school and if you remember punnent (?) squares for blood typing, they would show how two people with different blood types can have x,y,z types of children usually with a 4 square grid. Well, we had a 25% chance of having a child with positive Rh and that is what Pnut is. Now with Cashew we will see if he ends up with a positive or negative Rh at birth. If he is negative cool, if he is positive I get another shot. I get a little geeky with this because I think it is kind of cool. Especially when I tell people that both of my parents were Rh positive and I am the negative (or that 25% chance) child. D and I have 75% chance of having a Rh negative kid and Pnut was the 25% chance kid.
See completely geeky, ignore my moment. :) I will have interesting examples for middle school science.
My Rhogam is just another stepping stone to Cashew's arrival. Soon the appts every two weeks start, and then suddenly it will be Pnut's 6th birthday, and Cashew will be right around the corner. Oh, with D and my 10th anniversary thrown in there too. Lots to come this summer!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Just the right size :)
I went to have my follow up ultrasound today and I am happy to say that everything appears to be fine with the baby.
I got there on time and had drank my water like I was supposed to . . . and almost died when I wasn't called until 20 minutes after my appointment time. Thankfully I had a wonderful tech who let me use the restroom first and would take the pictures needed at the end. Amen!
Cashew was automatically found to be head down and the tech said that the best measurement they use for size is the abdomen. Which measured 26 weeks 4 days. Spot on for due date since today I am 26 weeks 5 days. The tech had also asked if I was sure of my LMP, which I was! I saw once again that Cashew is a he, and then the scan continued. His femur (upper leg bone) measured 27 weeks 4 days, and his head measured around 28 weeks. It was so nice to see his little face 8 weeks older. I got a frontal picture of his face and you can see the beginnings of cheeks, it looks like he and Pnut will share the same chin, and his frontal view reminded me of the picture I am going to change my FB profile picture to. It is of Pnut at 2 days old and home from the hospital.
At the end of the scan I asked the tech how much Cashew weighs and he is estimated to be around 2 pounds 4 oz. Everything I read for 27 weeks is around 1.9 pounds so he is over. I guess I was right and I am not the one gaining the weight, Cashew is :). I like to ask my ultrasound techs their years of experience just for fun. Not only was my tech male (and probably the nicest, most cooperative, and informative man EVER), but he had been doing scans for 30 years. Score! He made me laugh because he said that he didn't know how my dr. could have gotten 32 weeks from 25, but that he has told doctors to throw the tape measures away. He listened to me when I mentioned that Cashew had been breech, which is sometimes a cause of larger fundal heights. He measured my fluid and it is still within normal range as well.
So for now, I am a happy mama. I got to see my young man's face and he is just the right size.
I got there on time and had drank my water like I was supposed to . . . and almost died when I wasn't called until 20 minutes after my appointment time. Thankfully I had a wonderful tech who let me use the restroom first and would take the pictures needed at the end. Amen!
Cashew was automatically found to be head down and the tech said that the best measurement they use for size is the abdomen. Which measured 26 weeks 4 days. Spot on for due date since today I am 26 weeks 5 days. The tech had also asked if I was sure of my LMP, which I was! I saw once again that Cashew is a he, and then the scan continued. His femur (upper leg bone) measured 27 weeks 4 days, and his head measured around 28 weeks. It was so nice to see his little face 8 weeks older. I got a frontal picture of his face and you can see the beginnings of cheeks, it looks like he and Pnut will share the same chin, and his frontal view reminded me of the picture I am going to change my FB profile picture to. It is of Pnut at 2 days old and home from the hospital.
At the end of the scan I asked the tech how much Cashew weighs and he is estimated to be around 2 pounds 4 oz. Everything I read for 27 weeks is around 1.9 pounds so he is over. I guess I was right and I am not the one gaining the weight, Cashew is :). I like to ask my ultrasound techs their years of experience just for fun. Not only was my tech male (and probably the nicest, most cooperative, and informative man EVER), but he had been doing scans for 30 years. Score! He made me laugh because he said that he didn't know how my dr. could have gotten 32 weeks from 25, but that he has told doctors to throw the tape measures away. He listened to me when I mentioned that Cashew had been breech, which is sometimes a cause of larger fundal heights. He measured my fluid and it is still within normal range as well.
So for now, I am a happy mama. I got to see my young man's face and he is just the right size.
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