Well, ultrasound showed baby as being okay, he's teeny, 5lbs 2oz estimated, but has plenty of fluid and physically does all the things he should- practice breathing, movement, and while a little bit of weight, did gain weight in two weeks (was 4lbs 4oz last time).
However, my BP was still elevated, which my doc wasn't too concerned about. She said if mine drastically drops, that would be more cause for concern than maintaining it at its elevated level. I had protein traces in my urine though, which equals toxemia/pre-eclampsia. They ran toxemia labs and I have to do a 24 hour urine collection Sunday to Monday mornings. I'll return that Monday morning, ASAP, then Tuesday morning they'll have the results and I have a meeting with the doc. If the protein levels are over a certain amount we'll be delivering. Doc said she hopes we make it to Sept 3rd, but didn't feel it was likely.
On one hand I'm glad we're almost done with this, but on the other, he's so tiny and I'm scared of NICU time.....and the surgery too. I really don't know if I'm more relieved or scared.
But that's the latest. I guess this weekend we'll grocery shop for hospital food (for Cody and Colton to eat while I am in the hospital) and go ahead and install the baby seat in the car just incase. I think Tuesday morning I'll go ahead and skip breakfast so that way if she does want to send me to surgery, we won't have to wait for my food to digest. I've seen her do a c-section on her lunch break, and my appointment is at 10am something... Katie doesn't have class until Tuesday evenings, so Colton can stay home with her in the morning, and if worse comes to worse, she can miss the first day of that class, thankfully its only the first day and she won't miss much! But her class starts at 6pm, so hopefully we'd be done to where Cody could go get Colton.
If I am sent to L&D, Cody will bring me my laptop after delivery, so I'll update here. I may even break our rule and use the internet on my phone to update myspace/facebook if we're sent over to the hospital. LOL
2 comments:
Wow! That's pretty exciting! I'm sure you'll have a healthy little boy, but if he does need a little NICU time, don't worry. He will be in good hands! We had a great experience! Keep us posted :)
Congrats, Mandy!
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