36 Weeks!!!!

5 month belly

8 month belly

Happy New Year! Its a blue moon too, how rare! Well, one more month to go til baby. Its hard to believe that we are going to be mom and dad. Here are some belly pics. I have gained right about 20-25 pounds. Hopefully it will be as easy to lose as it was to gain!

35 Weeks and Merry Christmas

Time sure does move quickly! Its already Christmas and 35 weeks now! Putting the final touches on the nursery, and as you can see making up the crib. Austin has been busy assembling all kinds of fun things, strollers to swings. We are getting very excited!

33 Weeks and counting. . .

So, I think I jinxed myself. When I said "I feel guilty this has been a real easy pregnancy." Last Monday I started to feel some back pain. I was at work, it was my office day, I had brought my heating pad so I tried to combat the uncomfortable back with heat. This didn't work. I had called Austin right about noon asking him to bring me some Tylenol when he was on his way to Greenbay to see the Packers game. About 20 minutes later I called him back, I wanted to go to the hospital.

I have had these "fake" contractions, baxton hicks, before and they are in the front of the uterus. According to the birthing classes we have been attending real contractions will be from your back to the front of the uterus. So either I was feeling labor or because this pain was only from the right side, I had a kidney stone. Oh lovely.

Austin drove me from Mayfair Mall to Waukesha Memorial Hospital. Now I am not delivering at this hospital but it is seriously five minutes from our house and at this point the pain was intolerable. Once the ER nurses heard I was 32 weeks pregnant their look of urgency scared me. I cried little bit, "its too early for the baby."

Now in triage, the urine test had blood and protein present, and I was hooked up to fetal monitor. The baby, of course, decided to be super active and kick, dance and punch making it more uncomfortable. Good news, I wasn't in labor. Bad news, I had a kidney stone. I have had a kidney stone before, on our one year anniversary, so I was familiar with this pain. After contacting my doctor, who doesn't usually work at this hospital, I was given morphine. I was told that it was safe for the baby as long as I wasn't a constant user the baby won't be harmed. Two more doses, and I was still in pain. I was going to be admitted. It looks like Austin will not be going to the football game. Sorry.

I was hooked up to a machine that had a button I could push for a dose of pain medicine. Soon I felt better, if I took a deep breath there was still a dull pain in my back. I sent Austin home around 10. I was getting a ton of fluid from the IV bags so I was also filtering my urine in search of this damn stone. Waking up every hour or two, it was right around midnight, when I could breath deeply. I wasn't in pain anymore! I stopped giving myself pain medication.

Not sure what time it was 2:00am or 3:00am I got up to use the bathroom and a vein behind my right thigh was shooting pain. I pushed it back into my leg and hobbled to the bathroom. From there it felt worse. Hot, swollen and painful to the touch. The next morning instead of being released an ultrasound was ordered to make sure there wasn't a blood clot present. The tech searched the deep veins, nothing was found. I was finally ready to go home. 25 hours later.

It was now Tuesday afternoon, I had used a floating holiday today. Tomorrow night I am scheduled to work. Not sure how this was going to happen, I could barely walk. This vein was bright blue with a 5 inch diameter of hard, bright pink hotness around it. My next doctors appointment would be Friday after work.

My doctor told me that the vein had a blood clot, it was a superficial vein, and this clot could not kill me. Thanks. And the tissue around it was infected. She thinks that 25 hours of lying down had something to do with it. . . ya think?! So, on with more antibiotics. Oh before all this mess, I had a head cold that kept me and Austin awake for 4 nights of coughing. I went to the doctor and was given antibiotics. This poor baby has had more medicine in the last couple weeks!

So, its been exactly a week. The vein is still painful to the touch, and infected. I can walk better though. I take 12 pills of antibiotics a day and they really upset my tummy. My next doctors appointment is next week Tuesday.