Small update

Let's see...I haven't had the chance to update since last week because of being busy with Christmas and all. I was in the hospital for a couple of hours (only because the dr office was closed) on Friday. I was bleeding on Thursday night for some reason and had strange discharge on Friday so I went in. They did a ffn and it came back negative. They also made sure I wasn't leaking fluid, then sent me home. Baby's heartrate was allll over the place while I was hooked up but he was pretty active too so that might be part of why.

Yesterday I had a quick ultrasound to check cervical length again and it is still decent at 2.86cm. She also tried to see if baby had moved at all so we could get a good face shot but the little stinker is facing my spine pretty much and still has a hand in his face so we got a couple more side shots but that may be all I get. Better then nothing!

Other than that there isn't a whole lot to update. My back pain has been so bad it's hard to get up and walk some days. I brought it up last week and the dr didn't tell me what it could be from or anything but just gave me some Tylenol #3. The chiropractor is pretty much out of things he can do to try and help too so looks like I'm just going to have to deal with feeling like a cripple for a while.

First shot we got wasn't too bad!

And there is the hand in the face like usual

31 weeks...getting closer!

Here are a couple of shots we got yesterday:)

A few more 3D pics

Since Tuesday baby wasn't cooperating we tried getting a couple more pictures yesterday after I had my second steroid shot for the baby. We got a couple but he was still facing my back so we might try again when I go back for my appt next week:) It's one of the few positives about getting along with the people in the clinic I guess...and being there allll the time!

29 week belly

3D Ultrasound

So today I had my 3D ultrasound finally! I debated whether or not to do it but since I never do much for myself and all I asked for for Christmas was stuff for the baby anyway I decided I deserved it. It didn't go too bad but baby didn't want to cooperate very well. His hand was in front of his face the whole time and so was the umbilical cord so we didn't get too many great shots. At least I have to go back there tomorrow anyway so she said we could just try and get a few more!

Baby is measuring a week ahead which was nice to know. His heart rate was at 148 bpm today. He looks like a little chunker already and is weighing about 3lbs 3oz:) Because of the cord it was hard to tell if he will look like his brothers or not but we will see in a couple of months!

Hand in his face like it was the whole time!

Once again but still cute:)

Hand is to the side here!

His chunky little foot

Hand

I also had a quick cervical length check and it has gone back up to 3.18cm over the past week. I still don't know how to believe this with all of the contractions and pressure I had over the weekend but I'll take it! I also had to get the first dose of the betamethazone shot and will get the second one tomorrow afternoon.

What a day...

I'll start by saying that for the past few days I've had that gut feeling today wasn't going to go well. Usually I'm right when I say that and today I was more right than I expected to be.

We went up to the hospital after taking Jax to preschool because my MIL had a hip replacement surgery. It was a long morning of sitting around with nothing to do. About 12:45 I finally got out of the little room we were all in and went to get the horrible drink for my glucose test while I was on my way to my ultrasound.

The ultrasound was extremely quick since it was just to check my cervical length. I did get to chat with the tech who did almost all of my ultrasounds when I was pregnant with Bentley so that made it a little more enjoyable. She did however give me the not so good news that my cervix has gone down to 2cm now. She also said that he is now head down.

About an hour later I had my blood drawn and my appt. Somehow I gained 3lbs in a week, which I find hard to believe since I haven't been eating as much but whatever. The appt was very short. Dr listened to babys heartbeat but I didn't catch what it was at. I asked about having contractions all of the time still and was pretty much told that there's not much more I can do about them since I'm already on the Procardia all the time. The dr also said that he will give me the steroid shots for the babys lungs at 30-32 weeks which will be at my next appt. Since I had to wait for the results from the blood draw before I could get the Rhogam shot but they let me go back to the waiting room for my MIL's surgery while I waited.

Another hour or so I was told to go ahead and go back to the office. I got the Rhogam shot (I talked the nurse into giving it in the arm instead of the hip because I think its less painful). Then more news came in. She put off calling me back over because I failed the one hour glucose test. I'm not sure how because I had cereal at 6:30am and didn't eat after that til the test was over. So now I have to go back Thursday for the three hour test and pray I pass that one.

Then she also said I'm anemic now. So I get the joy of taking iron pills twice a day for that. I was told they cause constipation so I'm not so excited about that one but Ill do what I have to!

So that was probably one of the worst appts yet:( I'm kind of curious when they'll check to make sure I'm not dilating since my cervical length is still getting lower but they didn't say anything about it. It bothers me because the contractions have been getting stronger lately but I have them so often I don't know when I should be concerned. Guess I can only pray I'm as lucky as last time and they tell me they're keeping me when I go for an appt because I'm in labor:s

In good news though I have my 3D ultrasound a week from today:D I can't wait to see what baby boy looks like now!