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Here is a doctor update for the last two appointments:

August 14th: Well with my doctor being on vacation I had to see another doctor in the practice. Luckily it was the doctor that I had seen previously when my doctor has been on call so he knows about my situation. Like I have said previously they are now doing sonograms every week to make sure that the baby has good movements, is doing her fetal breathing and checking the amniotic fluid. Her fluid looked good, her breathing looked good so we were two for three and next it was movements. Needless to say we stayed two for three, she was not moving. They have this little tool that vibrates that will "shock" the baby to try to make it move and the sonographer used the tool for quite a while trying to get her to move and she just wouldn't budge. Her heart was beating well and everything else looked good, so she just told me to go out to the waiting room and she would talk to the doctor. Well when they called me back to the office they took my blood pressure which was 200/100 (Yikes), it did go down to 148/92 which is still not good but lets face it lately my BP's haven't been good. So they put me in a room and had me lay down and the nurse came in and hooked me up to a fetal heart moniter, contraction moniter and gave me a buzzer to push every time I felt the baby move. Needless to say I didn't really feel her move a whole lot, I could hear her making movements on the moniters but they wanted me to buzz the ones that I could feel. So they pulled out the baby "shocker" to try to get her to move and again she didn't really do what she was supposed to. The doctor came in and said while it wasn't great it is something he would be okay with. He re-checked my blood pressure and it had come WAY down. So they sent me home (thank goodness) and told me to come back the next week.

August 19: So this week Dr. Atkins was back from his vacation and I got to have my appointment with him. We had the sonogram first and everything looked PERFECT! She was moving a lot, fetal breathing was good, heart rate was good and fluid looked good! We even got to see her grabing her toes with her hands and she was moving her mouth, it was awesome! Then we went to the doctors area and the bottom number of my BP was high but they wouldn't tell me what it was. They re-checked it a little bit later and said that is was 128/88, which the nurse said was a ton better. They weighed me and as of now I have gained 5 lbs, YAY, that is way better than the 50 I gained with Kaylin. The nurse also informed me that starting next week they will be checking for dialation (oh boy). So the doctor came into the room and we had a little chat about how my appointment had gone the week before and he basically told me that if I have another appointment like I did on August 14th that they would move up the delivery date again. He said he is glad that we have made it this far and now we just need to try to push through week to week. We also talked about how here in the last two weeks I have been having severe headaches that won't go away with Tylenol and some blurry vision. So my delivery day will all depend on several factors. If I go into the doctor and the baby isn't moving like she should or I have high blood pressure or the fluid is low they will deliver early. The good news is this week has gone really well my blood pressures have been as low as they were when I first started going to the doctor so I will definitely make it to at least 35 weeks which is in two days. The baby has been moving really well and other than being tired, uncomfortable and still having the headaches I have felt pretty good. I am pretty positive that I will make it to my scheduled c-section as long as things keep going as well as they have this week, but of course as you all know everything with me can change in the blink of an eye.

So I have my next appointment on Tuesday and I am super nervous about it only because Jon is going to be in Kansas and it seems like when he isn't with me my appointments are REALLY bad. So hopefully it will go well and the baby won't try to come while Jon is gone.

An Answer to Prayer

Okay so I didn't do an update last week so I will put last week and this week in this blog.

At my doctors appointment last week my BP was up pretty high but not as high as the week before. The did a sonogram and said that the baby looked good and that it looked like she was 4lbs 8oz and 17 in. So they said that we would keep the c-section date of Sept 2nd and just take things week by week.

This week my appointment went really well. My BP was 120/80 and on the sonogram the baby looked GREAT! She is moving a lot, they said there is plenty of fluid around her and that her fetal breathing looks like it is supposed to. The doctor came in and started talking about the c-section date and said that when he originally scheduled it he didn't realized exactly how early that was so he has rescheduled it for later in September which will give the baby some extra time to get nice and big. Yay!

Now with all of that said, we will still be taking it week by week and there is always a chance that they will have to deliver sooner due to BP issues or if there is a problem with the baby. However, we are going to stay optimistic and be grateful for that extra time we have been given. As always if anything changes we will definitely let everyone know. Thank you all for your prayers!