I apologize to all of you who were waiting to hear what has been happening with the pregnancy! I've been slacking on my blogging duties in order to take care of things that needed to be done in March. In the weeks since my last blog I've been relegated to returning to the specialist every 2 weeks for fluid measurements and weekly visits to the OB for baby monitoring. The monitoring is still just plain awful. My visit two weeks ago consisted of 45 minutes in the torture chair with a brief 20 second pop in of the doctor. In that 20 seconds he said that the pain I have been feeling whenever I move my left leg for the last several weeks could be a strain, sprain, dislocation or broken bones in my tailbone. Nothing to be done in any case but suffer through the pain and hope it gets better. It isn't uncommon for a baby's position to cause problems in the "S.I. Joint". And baby, let me tell you it isn't fun! That visit also didn't provide good test results, whether that meant that things looked bad on the results or that the results just didn't come out clear enough to make the doctor happy I still don't know. The week before that, at 30 weeks, we went to see the specialist and he had bad news. We dropped from 11 cm to 8 cm of fluid and they were starting to worry again.
Needless to say, little Lucanne had something more to prove to the doctors at 32 weeks! When we went in on Monday for our 32 week visit to the OB she kicked and bucked and probably would have hollered and screamed if she could be heard and the readings were more to the doc's liking. Minutes after leaving the doc's office she had more to say to the specialist! She had an increase of fluids to almost 12 cm and we were able to see her taking "practice" breaths on the ultrasound. It is such an amazing thing to watch that little lung expand and contract inside your own body. I have to admit that while all this bed rest has been a pain, both literally and figuratively, it has been well worth it to see the things we have seen in the ultrasounds!! We have seen the brain, all 4 chambers of the heart beating, the kidneys, the liver, and now have gotten to see the lungs actually working!!! I cannot begin to tell you all how that makes me feel. I had been worried about the fluids for two weeks and almost dreading going to see the specialist as much as the monitoring torture chamber at the OB's office. Our little miracle girl is proving to be such a fighter and I just know that despite all the OB's concerns about this, that, and the other thing, Lucanne will prove him wrong and we will make it all the way through to term without having to have a surgical delivery. My friend said today that karmic-ly I am on my way to an easy and swift delivery and easy first few months after all that I have been through with this pregnancy. I sure hope she is right!
Several people have been asking me about the baby's room and colors. We received a wonderful dragonfly crib bedding set from Herb & Kelly. We are still planning on painting the room in a Camelot Castle theme, but are adding the dragonflies to the design because castles were so hard to find where they didn't look like Disney cakes! (The crib bedding is cream with chocolate brown stripes and dots and light granny smith apple dragonfly bodies.)
Kevin & Kim have loaned us the bassinet that Kevin made when Hailey was born (and their Winnie the Pooh bedding set). We will be using the bassinet for at least the first few months so I won't have to run downstairs every 2 hours!
People are also asking about registries already. We are registered at www.jcpenny.com and www.babiesrus.com.
We are anxiously counting down to June 1 and pray that we have enough ticks left in the clock to prepare ourselves and the house for the coming of our little miracle baby. In the meantime I will try to be more diligent about updating the blog!! As always thanks to every one's support and good will!!!
Needless to say, little Lucanne had something more to prove to the doctors at 32 weeks! When we went in on Monday for our 32 week visit to the OB she kicked and bucked and probably would have hollered and screamed if she could be heard and the readings were more to the doc's liking. Minutes after leaving the doc's office she had more to say to the specialist! She had an increase of fluids to almost 12 cm and we were able to see her taking "practice" breaths on the ultrasound. It is such an amazing thing to watch that little lung expand and contract inside your own body. I have to admit that while all this bed rest has been a pain, both literally and figuratively, it has been well worth it to see the things we have seen in the ultrasounds!! We have seen the brain, all 4 chambers of the heart beating, the kidneys, the liver, and now have gotten to see the lungs actually working!!! I cannot begin to tell you all how that makes me feel. I had been worried about the fluids for two weeks and almost dreading going to see the specialist as much as the monitoring torture chamber at the OB's office. Our little miracle girl is proving to be such a fighter and I just know that despite all the OB's concerns about this, that, and the other thing, Lucanne will prove him wrong and we will make it all the way through to term without having to have a surgical delivery. My friend said today that karmic-ly I am on my way to an easy and swift delivery and easy first few months after all that I have been through with this pregnancy. I sure hope she is right!
Several people have been asking me about the baby's room and colors. We received a wonderful dragonfly crib bedding set from Herb & Kelly. We are still planning on painting the room in a Camelot Castle theme, but are adding the dragonflies to the design because castles were so hard to find where they didn't look like Disney cakes! (The crib bedding is cream with chocolate brown stripes and dots and light granny smith apple dragonfly bodies.)
Kevin & Kim have loaned us the bassinet that Kevin made when Hailey was born (and their Winnie the Pooh bedding set). We will be using the bassinet for at least the first few months so I won't have to run downstairs every 2 hours!People are also asking about registries already. We are registered at www.jcpenny.com and www.babiesrus.com.
We are anxiously counting down to June 1 and pray that we have enough ticks left in the clock to prepare ourselves and the house for the coming of our little miracle baby. In the meantime I will try to be more diligent about updating the blog!! As always thanks to every one's support and good will!!!
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