Moss Park photo goofery

Hobie's getting old enough for the baby swings - what a fun new photo prop! Moss Park's "secret" campground playground is perfect for these photos with the beautiful pine trees and quiet setting. Oh, and the happy baby too!

31 weeks and going!

Had another uneventful appointment with my OB today. Little guy is 31w4d today and everything is still looking good. I'm a big fat 191 pounds but that is in keeping with what I should be gaining. Blood pressure was 110/70 which is fabulous. Pee was clean. The baby's heartrate was perfect and we're still just sitting around waiting to see what will happen next! I go back in 2 weeks provided nothing happens between now and then.

30 weeks!

I actually had my appointment with my OB last Tuesday and everything was looking good - blood pressure is still reasonable at 120/77, I'm measuring about a week ahead by fundal height, and baby's heartbeat sounded great. The happiest part was my urine is still clean - who knew that would be a cause to celebrate LOL Then this morning I had my appointment up at the hospital with the perinatologist for the Level II u/s. My BP was nice and low at 122/60. Baby is looking great, his heartrate was 143, amniotic fluid was good. The placenta is at 4.51cm and it looks healthy and bloodflow is adequate. They pegged his size at 3lb, 12oz which is 67th percentile. Coral was born at 30w1d (two days earlier than this 30w3d u/s) at 3lb, 3oz so if they're correct he's a good size! Other than that, everything is good! I'm at 189 pounds, yippee. I hit the big mark on Saturday at which I had Coral, and it feels like such a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders that we got past that scary milestone.

Oh yes! And my blood sugar number was a nice low 92 from the previous visit's screening. Thank goodness!

playing catchup!

I had my high-risk appt today with maternal/fetal medicine up at the hospital. The tech was super nice and printed me off so many cute pictures of his feet, and face, and boy parts He is measuring great at 2lb 2oz and everything looks perfect with him. My blood pressure is still really good - it was 106/68. The tech did get a measurement of just over 4cm on the placenta which is good! MUCH better than last time! I see my OB next week for my regular appt (and glucose screen...joy) and I want his opinion on some things.

23w4d

Nothing like a boring visit. I had to take the kids with me and 2 out of 3 were fine, one was kind of a pain but not horrible. Luckily we were in and out in 30 minutes. Let's see, my weight was pegged at 178 (yikes!), my bp was 124/68 which is reasonable, fundus was measuring 24 weeks (although it just seems so much bigger/higher up to me!) Aaaand, that was about it. Heartbeat was fine. I go back in 4 weeks for the joy of the 1-hour diabetes test - no kids! they are not coming with me! - and another regular appointment. Before that I have a high-risk appointment in 3 weeks up at the hospital for an ultrasound. I'm looking forward to that one even if the doctors there can be jerks.

19 weeks!

Baby looks good and he's all boy! Alexei is happy he's not getting yet another little sister. I had a high-risk appt with the hospital a couple of weeks ago and everything was looking fine. The perinatologist says I have a 50% chance of the pre-e recurring and a 20% chance of the HELLP recurring. The placenta problems are a wild card. Then yesterday I had an appointment with my OB and had the big 4-D u/s. He looked so beautiful in there but the tech didn't give me any printouts and my DVD of the session was blank! I'm still waiting to see how we fix this. My weight is up to 169, blood pressure at 126/88. That worries me a hair.

boring 15 week appointment

Yeah, sorry, it's a boring update. I was really nervous going in and didn't sleep much at all last night, since I haven't felt the baby moving at all lately. But, the doctor found the heartbeat right away in the 150's and that was a huge relief! I've been driving myself crazy this past week and I'm glad everything is fine. Other than that, my blood pressure is still really good at 103/70, so far in this pregnancy I've only gained 1 pound (I'm at 163), and no protein in my urine. We get to go in four weeks (Aug 4th) for the big u/s! I'm excited about that. I also am supposed to have a high-risk consult to go over my history with a specialist and get a better feel for the odds of getting sick/placenta issues/having a preemie again. The high-risk place is supposed to call me in the next few days with an appointment. DH will be thrilled, he hates having to deal with the kids if I have an appointment (the high risk center is at our local women's hospital where Coral lived for 6 weeks, it is in downtown Orlando and there's no way I'm making that drive by myself - yes, I am a big driving weenie!) But I have no sympathy, I took all 3 of them with me this morning. We came home and everyone had ice cream cones as a thank you at 9:45 in the morning. I am not above bribery!