Go Molly!

During the NST and ultrasound today I learned that Molly is officially a feisty little wiggle worm. She wouldn't stop moving throughout either appointment. Yay for an active happy baby! Speaking of...AFI is now a little over 10, YIPPIE! :D Hence the title "Go Molly!" She's doing great and its making me feel much better. She's switched herself back to her favorite position: breech, with her head directly under my belly button. 

In other news, I'm very thankful for bedrest with this awful ice/snow storm coming our way. (Sorry for all of you that have to be out in it, and PLEASE BE SAFE!) I'm praying its all cleared up by my appointments Thursday. 

So I'll end with a few face shots that I got of peanut today :) The ultrasound tech said she looked like she was grinning in a couple of them :) 

Oops!

So I've been called out by a few ppl about me skipping Thursday's blog. I'm so sorry guys, didn't know it was that important to you! :)

I was being lazy and there isn't much of an update to give. NST was good, even though the computers were down when mine was scheduled (sorry!). My doctor is very happy with the results of the growth scan from Monday. She said even though Molly is still small, she's showing growth. So yay to that. My b/p in her office was 128/72 so she was very happy with that. She's very optimistic that we will make it further than we thought (yay!). I get to skip another week of my 24 hour urine protein collection.

But really...My glucola test is this coming Thursday (to see if I'm gestational diabetic) and I'm not looking forward to it. I've been telling myself since before I even got pregnant that I would probably end up with gestational diabetes, but really its ok if I don't! Plus I hear the glucola drink is awful.

That's all I've got today. Sorry for being late with the update :-D. I'll have more after our ultrasound on Monday.

Just another Monday...

Passed another NST, go Molly! Then off to MFM. Luckily instead of waiting the hour and a half between appointments, they got me in right away. :) AFI (fluid level) is still 9, yippie! They did the growth scan this week also...she weighs 1 lb, 12 oz which puts her overall in 40th percentile. That's great news considering two weeks ago we were in about the 5th percentile! Bad new, or I guess the not-so-good news: her head and abdomen are still on the small side, under the 10th percentile. This means I still have to see MFM (high risk docs) every Monday for ultrasounds. That really doesn't bother me that much, its awesome to peek in on Molly and see what she's up to.

In other big news...she's now head down. She's been breech since our 12 week ultrasound so its kinda a big deal (the way I see it, she has enough fluid to do a major movement like that, so that makes me happy). Doesn't mean she'll stay that way, but its good news for this week! I remember telling Charlie, my hubby, that I think she flipped Saturday night. I said "she's moving so much and whatever she just did was BIG. I think she just flipped..." he said I was crazy. Well BOO YAH! Point for me :)

Again, thanks for the thoughts and prayers! They're working so keep it up! :) Now I'm off for a late nap! Appointment days always wear me out :D

Weekly appointment update

Ok guys! I'll try to remember that not all of you reading this are OB nurses :P

Passed another NST (non stress test)! My appointment went great! I got approval to go out to lunch with friends or visits twice a week as long as I take it easy and sit. So if anyone wants to grab some food out, just let me know! She said we'd revisit the activity limitations after the growth scan (ultrasound to measure baby's growth) Monday. I might even be able to go out shopping once a week or something crazy like that! :)

I'm excited to share that because my last 24 hour urine protein collection was lower, I get to skip it this week! Woot woot! That's a big deal to me! Peeing in a "hat" and pouring it into a jug at 4am is not as fun as you'd think it would be!

That's pretty much it for this week. Excited for lunch tomorrow with Jessica, followed by a weekend home with the hubby doing a whole lotta nothing! Wish us luck for the growth scan Monday!

Good news!

NST (non-stress test) was great today. Molly is so active as soon as that monitor hits my belly, she goes crazy! My ultrasound at MFM (high risk doctor) afterwards showed that our AFI (amniotic fluid index) is now 9! WOOT WOOT! That's "normal," on the low end of normal, but still! I'll take it! The nurse at my doctor's office also called and said my 24 hour urine protein from last Thursday-Friday was 141, which is down from the 250 in the hospital! Yay!

So its a day for great news! I'm excited that everything is looking normal, at least for this week. :) Another NST and appointment with my doctor on Thursday and I'm really hoping to get the okay for a shopping trip Friday.

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers! They are working! :D

First NST/Weekly appointment

Had our first weekly appointment and NST (non-stress test) today and I'm happy to say I'm back home!

I got all of my biweekly NSTs and weekly appointments scheduled up until March 28, 35 weeks. Also picked up my bucket to collect my 24 hour urines (yay...).


That's all I have for today! I have another NST Monday then see MFM (high risk doctor) for another ultrasound afterwards. I'll have another update then! :)

Well I decided to start a blog...

I decided to start a blog because of all that's going on with Molly and I (mostly so I can stop irritating my facebook friends that don't care :P). Oh and I guess I won't be doing much of anything else since I'm on bedrest now :D.

So lets start with last week when all the "drama" began.

I went to my normal 24 week appointment (at 10am) knowing that we were going to repeat an ultrasound, because they couldn't get a good shot of her heart, brain, or kidneys at our 20 week appointment. I noticed the u/s tech didn't say "everything looks great!" or anything positive, just that we got the shots and she'll pass on that we were done. Weird. They normally say that everything is good...

So I get back in the room to wait for my doctor. She walks in and says "you're fluid is looking kinda low...they didn't put a number just "low" so let's get you rescanned." After waiting about 20 minutes, I get to see Miss Molly on the big screen again.

I go back out to the waiting room while they try to find my doctor. Well go figure, my doctor got called for a delivery while I was being scanned! How dare her! :) The nurses there decided to have another doctor take a look at the numbers and her recommendation was that I needed to see MFM (high risk doc). The nurses came out to tell me all of this and said "We'll call you later today or tomorrow with info for that appointment, you're free to go."

WHAT? Free to go? No-I want to talk to my doctor. You can't just tell me that something is "off" and expect me to walk away carefree. I told them this; they said "well I guess you will just have to wait for her. It might be awhile so go get some food and come back." This was around 12:30.

Finally around 1:30 I saw my dr again. She said she'd recommend me seeing the high risk doctor for another scan because their machine is more accurate. At this time she also told me that Molly is measuring a little small as well as my fluid being low. She called MFM herself and sent me right up.

They scanned me and got an AFI (amniotic fluid index) of 6.1. Anything under 8 is "oligo." The MFM doc said she would like to admit me to the hospital, give me steroid shots to mature her lungs in case she has heart decels on the monitor and they need to deliver me. AT 24 WEEKS. Needless to say, I was a wreck and said I wanted to see my doc again.

So back to my dr office. I cried when she came in, told her I was worried. She said she thinks its going to be ok, but wants to be conservative about this to make sure nothing bad happens. Ok-can't argue with that.

At 3:40, 5 hours after I arrived for my appointment,  I'm an "obs" on the unit (which makes me feel much better than being full on "admitted"). They get me hooked up to the monitors, give me my first steroid shot, draw my labs, check my b/p (which of course was a little high-it had been a stressful day!), and start a 24 hour urine collection (to check for protein...preeclapmsia).

Molly looks great on the monitor so we get to take that off after awhile. My labs look fine, b/p is normal. My dr says as long as my urine comes back ok, I'll be homebound Saturday.

The next day around 2pm when I get put on the monitor, she has a little decel that got my b/p up and my heart pumping! Damn it, Molly-we're supposed to be going home! Don't do this stuff! My doctor decides to leave the monitors on and get another ultrasound with a bpp (biophysical profile).

After looking very cute on the ultrasound and making faces at us (me, Kera, Jessica) she scores 8/8 on her bpp and my AFI is now 6.8! WHOO HOO!

My urine collection is up at 4:30ish. It comes back about an hour later and has some protein (240ish) but isn't enough to mean anything at this point. I get to go home that night! YAY!

Another ultrasound at MFM Monday showed my AFI is now 7.5 (remember, 8 is "normal!!!!") MFM recommends a follow up in a week to check it again. Yes! I get to stay home another week!

Tuesday my dr office calls me with their plan: NSTs (non-stress tests) twice a week on my unit in triage: every Monday and Thursday, weekly appointments with my dr on Thursdays, and weekly 24 hour urine protein collection. Ugh. Ok. I can do that...

So now you guys know everything I do! :D I'm praying I'm not getting preeclampsia. Praying I get to stay home. Praying Molly stays in until spring. Praying she gets big. Praying my fluid gets back to normal. That's a lot of praying...sorry to be bothering you so much, God! :)