NOT SO GOOD

Okay, so I had my doctors appointment and it didn't go very well. They took my blood pressure and it was 180/110. YIKES! It ended up going down but only to 160/100. So, they have decided to send me to a high risk pregnancy specialist. I will still go to my regular OB but I will also see the new doctor too. They have also put me on some medication as well. So now for the good news (I guess), the doctor thinks that my blood pressure issue may be something that is not pregnancy related. He said that when you have pregnancy induced hypertension (fancy words for high blood pressure), it usually doesn't effect your blood pressure until later on it the pregnancy. He thinks that I have an underlying blood pressure issue that I have had all along that has just not been diagnosed. So hopefully we will get it under control and I won't have to go through the months of bed rest again. My next appointment is April 9 with the specialist and April 14 with my OB. Kaylin went with me to the doctors office and she did pretty good until they got out the little machine to listen to the baby's heart beat. She started crying and telling the doctor not to hurt mommies baby. It was very sweet. The doctor and I were laughing at her because she really thought that he was going to hurt me and the baby. Needless to say she won't be going back to the doctor with me for a while. The baby's heart beat was 169. I would like to ask that you all please keep us in your prayers. If we have to go through all the stuff we went through with Kaylin it will be a long and hard pregnancy, and most definitely the last. Thanks.

My Goal

Okay my goal for this pregnancy is to keep everyone up to speed on this website. So I am going to try to blog every time I go to the doctor and let everyone know what happened at my appointments and such. So here we go:

My first appointment was on February 12, they did a sonogram and found out that I was 7 weeks and 3 days, so not quite 8 weeks. They told me that my due date would be September 27th. I know another September birthday for the Anderson/Armstrong families, as if we didn't already have enough. For those of you who aren't family members we have 6 (one of those is Jon's best friend, so he's not blood family but family still), and we are adding in number 7.

I will pause here to add, before I had gone to the doctor I had been having dreams that I was having twins, and Kaylin kept insisting that mommy was having two babies not one. The sonogram technician said that there was only one baby in there, praise God, I don't think I could handle two newborns and a 3 year old.

So the sonogram technician said everything appeared to be okay and she was able to let me listen to the heartbeat and is was 152. It didn't really look like a baby, it was more or less a little blob. After my sonogram I went back to the doctors area and they checked my weight (and no I don't know what it was, I didn't want to know what it was, I think if I start gaining too much weight the doctor will politely say something but he didn't seem to have an issue with where I was starting out at) and they also checked my blood pressure. My BP was 116/70 which was fantastic! Then I went into his office and we had a little chat about my pregnancy with Kaylin and the issue I had with her. He told me that since I had BP problems last time that started around 20 weeks that we would start doing appointments every two weeks once I hit the 20 week mark, unless I have issues before then. He also told me that if I have BP problems then we would automatically do a C-section again but, if I don't have BP problems then I could possibly deliver naturally.

Now let me pause again to say that, a part of me would love to deliver naturally just to have the experience but...I will be doing another c-section. With Jon and I both working full time and having Kaylin it is just easier for us to know exactly what day this baby will be here. Plus, as my mother-in-law so wonderfully put it, people don't win awards for going through labor and to me it just seems like it would be easier to just do the c-section to begin with and not go through the laboring (like I did last time) and then end up having to doing an emergency c-section.

So after my little chat with Dr. Atkins, he did the rest of my exam and said everything seemed to be going well. I went and had my blood work done and went home feeling fantastic (aside from the nausea and vomiting). Unfortunately that didn't last....I had to go back to the doctor two days later because I was bleeding and cramping.

Come to find out I am Rh negative, which in the back of my mind I knew I had negative blood but at the same time kind of forgot. They did another exam and sonogram and everything looked great. The baby's heartbeat was 159 and I wasn't showing any signs of miscarriage (which is what I was worried about). The just gave me a shot and put me on some restrictions, which I've done pretty good with. So my next appointment is tomorrow March 10 and I will let you all know what the doctor says. Kaylin is going with me to my appointment so she can hear the baby's heartbeat and I hope she does okay and doesn't freak out.

By the way overall, this pregnancy has gone better than it did with Kaylin. I have been sick but not as sick, if you asked Jon he would say it is just as bad but what do men know. I have been extremely exhausted which I don't remember from last time but I also wasn't working 40 hours a week at a job where I stood all the time and I didn't have a two year old to take care of on top of that. All in all, I must say that this has been a somewhat pleasant experience up to this point and I hope it continues to go that way. And for all of you who are wondering what Jon and I are hoping for, we really would like to have a boy but seeing as we don't really get a say in it we will be happy with whatever God has chosen to give us.