ultrasound 35 weeks

Well we just got home from our ultrasound. Olivia is still measuring big in her belly, and they can't really tell if her liver is enlarged. Her belly is in the 90th percentile.The tech said it didn't show typical signs of anything wrong with the liver, which I guess would show more openings in the ducts. Her educated guess is that she is chubby. She showed the information to the perinatologist before we left and he though the same thing, but wanted to keep an eye on her, so scheduled an ultrasound in 10 days on the 18th. I really liked this tech, she was really nice and spent a lot of time explaining the different parts. One thing she mentioned several times is how much hair she has! I'm curious now to see what it looks like! She said she got the good hair gene since she has long eyelashes too! Anyway they said she is measuring about 6lb 8oz now but she also said as more time goes on and I get closer to term, the less accurate the machine is. The bad news is I completely forgot to bring a cd. She gave me paper pictures but I'm not sure how to scan them on to here. Really the pictures aren't as good as my 20 week pictures since she is so big now and you only see parts. She still likes to have her hands up by her face but at one point held up her hand and gave the "I'm number one" sign. The tech printed a pic of that one. She also tried to poke her a little to get her to move her hands, and John said it was funny because you could see Olivia open her mouth startled and jump. She was busy moving in there though and the tech said everything else looked great. She is breathing well in there, has enough fluid, heart rate is 150 (which is perfect) and they can even look at her blood pressure somehow and that is good too. So I am hoping they are correct and she will just be on the chubby side... I'm still guessing they will induce me early with her measuring like this. I guess I am technically term next Thursday at 37 weeks but I don't think they would induce me that early ( I hope not! )

more updates about today

The nurse finally spoke with my OB today and she is not concerned about the possible enlarged liver either. They are thinking she is big now because I am possible borderline diabetic? I don't know, I passed all my tests but they said that I came close to failing. Ugh that would've been good to know before my 1030 pm run to Dairy queen last week with John for ice cream! And of course I find this out right in the middle of baking John some M&M cookies... none for me I guess. :( Everyone says this is when you can eat what you want, but not me! I am back to being even better about my diet. I have tried to eat healthy, but I know I can do even better than I have been (like no ice cream runs to Dairy queen!) The nurse said that the dr would like for me to have an ultrasound in 2-3 weeks then weekly after that to see how Olivia is growing. I should be excited about them, but I'm not just because that means more possibility of finding things wrong... also I'm guessing I may be induced early since she is big and they will be monitoring her. I told John that I will be 38 weeks on Sept 25 so I wonder if she will come sometime around then?

Anyway here is the pile of baby laundry I did today. I'm SO glad I've been keeping up on it. This is mostly stuff from just the showers! I have boxes of clothes for the next year that I have already washed. Now I need to get to putting these away...

And look, Olivia has blinds in her room! They are blackout blinds and the are top down bottom up so you can raise and lower them from the top and bottom. (no strings) They are the same color as we got for our room too. You can see in the pack n play pictures, no more paper window covers! We are still working on blinds for the rest of the house... need to save the $! And here is a picture of me at 33 weeks exactly:

NEGATIVE

I called the hospital AGAIN to see if my lab work was done this morning. I swear you have to hound them to find out anything. Anyway she had to go into the computer into different screens she said to find out the results so I guess that's why they never knew they were done. Good news is the CMV and the toxoplasmosis labs were both negative. Those are bad infections to have. I was pretty sure I wouldn't have the toxoplasmosis, but you never know with CMV since I do work around sick babies, some with weird viral infections. I try to stay away from those ones of course, but you don't always know what different babies may be carrying. Anyway the bad news is I had a feeling yesterday that they weren't telling me everything about the ultrasound. Something about the lab work just didn't add up. It didn't make sense to me that they would be ordering the infection labs if she were just measuring big. So I called my dr office yesterday and FINALLY found out the ultrasound report that she was measuring about 1.5 weeks ahead but it also states a possible enlarged liver. UGH. I knew there was something. I wish they would have been honest with me at the ultrasound appt. Maybe they didn't want to stress me out, but they shouldn't take me for an idiot either. Anyway I don't really know what that means. What I had seen online is that infection is usually the #1 cause of this, so I'm sure that's why this lab work was ordered. Since I don't seem to have any infection, I'm not sure what it could be. I did see somewhere that a big baby could cause this too. I'm also hopeful on the fact that it says "possible" in the report. My dr. is on vacation until Monday so I guess I will just wait and try calling her next week to see if she can maybe answer what it could be for me. Anyway that's all I know now. Pregnancy is stressful. I don't think I will calm down until she is actually here and I can see she is ok.

Ultrasound 32 weeks

Sorry I didn't post these last night. Believe it or not I fell asleep at 730pm!! I slept until 530 this morning too so I guess I needed it. Anyway here are the pics I got. We didn't get as many, this ultrasound was a lot shorter since I guess the main thing was to see how big she was. Also she was stubborn and had her hand by her face so you only get to see part of it, but she does look cute from what I can see! Also they said she had a lot of hair! Crazy!

updates

I just woke up from sleeping for the day. I worked last night, pretty uneventful. I did have 2 of the cutest babies in the unit in my opinion! Twin boys, 3 and 4lbs each. Olivia was kicking like crazy when I woke up yesterday morning (at 6 am on a Sunday!). Will she be an early bird like me and John? After about an hour of it she gave herself the hiccups pretty hard core. John got to feel her moving and kicking a lot then he got to feel her hiccups! I don't think he had felt that yet. She didn't settle down until I got out of bed and took a shower. She was also moving a lot last night at work, and when I woke up at 3:30 pm today. It seems like me getting out of bed and walking around is the only thing that calms her down. When she was kicking yesterday I felt her on both side of my belly at the same time. I hope she isn't lying transverse. She better get into the correct position soon if she isn't already! Thursday is going to be a lot of fun!

There are so many fun things this week. My bedding is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. I think when we put that in the nursery will pretty much be complete. All I would have left is getting some sort of decal for the wall. I wanted to wait and get the bedding to make sure I loved it! We already have the closet set up and decided to just put the ikea chair in there as our "rocking" chair. Then on Thursday of course we have the 32 week ultrasound and this weekend my first baby shower here in Spokane! I'm also excited because I will get to see some family from out of town that I don't see very often. My cousin Brandon who lives in Florida just happens to be coming the same weekend!

Well, I hope everyone has a good week! I am supposed to work 4 nights in a row starting yesterday but I'm hoping to get Wednesday off since we are overstaffed. My assignment at work really isn't bad, but it is hard to work 4 12 hour night shifts in a row. Especially hard when 7 months pregnant and I swear none of the chairs are comfortable anymore!

Dr. appt. 20 weeks

I had my 4 week check-up with the doctor this afternoon. John didn't come because he was busy working. Unfortunately my dr. was held up at a delivery and my appointment ended up being almost an hour late! That was ok though, because the nurse took my blood presure, which was FINALLY good. I also had only gained 1 lb a week the last 4 weeks and I got to listed to Olivia's heartbeat! It was a strong 154 beats/minute. Its always been around that. The doctor came in and said everything looked perfect. I had also been recording my blood presures at home and she said they looked great. She wrote down an average for all of them. She said everything at the ultrasound looked perfect and no further ultrasounds were recommended, but she always schedules one at 32 weeks to see how big the baby is getting. So I will be able to look forward to getting that in a few months! Also they finally got the lab results for CMV and I wasn't immune to it, but I hadn't contracted it in the NICU either. That is a virus that is very bad for women to get when they are pregnant and can cause abnormalities with the babies. I thought that one of our babies at work had it that I was in a room with, so I got tested for it just in case. So I just have to make sure to be careful when being in contact with the babies, especially if they have anything funky going on.

Anyway I will have another check-up in 4 weeks with a nurse practitioner because my doctor will be on vacation. I haven't scheduled it yet because I didn't have my June schedule with me and by the time I got home the office was closed! I think it will be the week of June 19th though.

She's getting big!

Week 20: Cantaloupe

Baby's digestive system is busy creating meconium (a tarry black substance made of swallowed amniotic fluid, digestive secretion and dead cells), which will fill the first diaper after birth. And, speaking of the diaper situation... baby's genitals are now fully formed!

I'm starting to feel her move more and more. I seem to notice her a lot more when I am sitting down, or have my legs bent. I have a dr. appt this afternoon which should be good. She will have the entire ultrasound report, so she should let us know for sure that everything looks good! John can't come because he has a big job today and has to be home in time for his birthday dinner! I'll post here how everything goes!

Pink or Blue?

Today is the big day! I just got home from work so I have to go get some breakfast and try to sleep for a couple hours. I will be sure to post the results here- pink or blue!

p.s.- you like the pic? ha ha

Here it goes!

Well, this is my first attempt at a blog. I'm hoping I can keep everyone up to date on the progress of our first baby and anything else going on in our lives!

As far as the baby goes, my big ultrasound is scheduled for Wednesday May 13th at 1pm. We are very excited to find out if we are going to have a little Olivia or a ... (no boy name yet!)