35 Weeks

Well today I am 35 weeks so my doctors are saying that I have made it over the hump. They have said all along that they will be happy if they can get me to 35 weeks!! I had an appointment this morning and I am 2cm dialated. My doctors have taken me off my medication and I am officially off bedrest..they are just going to let me go whenever I go at this point..they will no longer try to do anything to hold off labor!! So now we wait..John and I were joking last night that he better come now or wait until after Saturday because thats the first gator game..haha!! Stay tuned..won't be much longer!!

Kaylee 17 Months

One month from yesterday Kaylee will be a year and a half old...so crazy how time is flying by. I was leaving labor and delivery last night (long stort) and I was telling the nurse who was walking me out how it seems like just yesterday I was there having Kaylee..now I am getting ready to do it all over again. Doesn't seem possible!!

Kaylee is growing up so fast..we are still working on her behavior and our biggest thing is consistency..I am hoping sooner than later she will realize who is in charge!! She is having trouble sharing with her friends and she will snatch toys from them and say "don't touch it". Its really funny to hear her say it and the look on her face..but I have to make her give it back them she will give them a kiss and pat them on the head..its so funny!!

She is doing great in her toddler bed..she has been waking up about once a week in the middle of the night but she doesn't get out of bed. She just sits there and cries until I go in and get her. She will come out of her room in the morning time if I do not get her as soon as she gets up. I sleep with the baby monitor on so I am usually in there before she makes it out of her room..but we also put a gate up at the top of the stairs just in case she gets out!! She still takes naps in her swing...her feet almost drag the ground and her head touches the bar at the top...but she loves it and sleeps for hours at naptime so I haven't tried to break her of it yet. I am waiting until after the baby is born.

She is finally starting to talk more...I didn't think she would ever get here HAHA..she knows "mama", "dada", "Kate", "Mami", "Lori", Papa", "Jade"(her best friend) by name and she will usually say them but not always. She also says ball, stop, cuppie (when she wants her sippy cup), don't touch it, yes, no, baby, up, thank you..and a few more that I can't think of now!! I am still working with her on asking for what she wants by name instead of pointing or just shaking her head.

She is being extremely picky lately with what she will eat!! Some days she refuses to eat much at all. I was worried about this at first but I have been reassured by many people that she will eat if she gets hungry enough!! I make sure she has plenty of milk and juice throughout the day and I give her vitamins so at least I know she won't be dehydrated!! We have found lately that if we give her something to dip her food in like ketchup or ranch she will eat..so at least that works some of the time!!

Well I guess thats about all for this month..Kaylee is getting excited for her brother to come..we talk about it every day! She loves to lift up my shirt and kiss my belly..its so sweet. Hopefully she will be a nice big sister!!

Baby Update

Well as I mentioned in a post last Tuesday I was at the doctor with pre-term labor..hopefully this update won't overlap with the other one..all my days are starting to run together. Anyways last Tuesday when I posted I had been in the hospital the night before because I had been having a lot of contractions. Well Tuesday afternoon after my post they were getting worse so I decided to go get checked out..I went to the doctors office and they monitored me and gave me another shot of terbutaline and sent me home with pills to take every 4 hours. She told me to call back if the contractions did not slow down. So Tuesday night aound 9 pm I was still having them and they were getting a little stronger so I called back and they told me to go to labor and delivery.

When I got there they hooked me up to the monitor and I was having them about every 5 minutes apart but they did't want to check my cervix because they wanted to wait to do some test that takes 24 hours after your last internal check...so anyways they gave me another shot of terbutaline and we waited for it to kick it...I was still having the contractions so they gave me an IV and decided to give me morphine to see if that would relax me enough to get them to stop.

After that was unsuccessful they decided they were going to put me on magnesium sulfate...this is a horrible medicine that I also had to have when I delivered Kaylee to keep my blood pressure down. They have to catheterise you to give you this medication because you are not allowed to walk around while on it. So they admitted me and started me on the magnesium..It gives you a bad headache and makes you very very hot...oh also they wouldn't let me eat..so you can imagine how unhappy that made me! LOL

So Wednesday morning they came in and said that I was still having the contractions so I wasn't going to be able to go home...I couldn't eat all day Wednesday and they did that test around 3:00 pm it came back negative which was a good thing (meaning the probability of me going into labor within the next week was low). So that evening they took the cathetar out and let me eat..Thank Goodness.

I thought I was going to be going home Thursday but I ended up staying until Friday morning just because they weren't sure what was going to happen. They ended up checking my cervix and it was thinning but not dialating yet..so they felt like it ws safe enough for me to go home as long as I was going to be on total bedrest..

So the weekend went well...I continued to have contractions and I went to the doctor yesterday and they said they didn't want to check me unless they had to since that could ramp up the labor...so I am supposed to be just hanging out at home and waiting for any changes. Last night I was having more and more that hurt but they werent in any sort of pattern so no one knows how much longer it will be. While I was in the hospital they gave me steriod shots for his lungs so that he has a better chance of them being developed if he is born early.

I go back next Monday unless something changes and in 3 weeks they will take me off the medications and let me go into labor...so stay tuned!! Who knows what will happen!!

Behavior Issues

Well our sweet little angel is going through a stage (I'm hoping it's just a stage) of being naughty. The past few weeks it has gotten worse and last night John and I sat down and talked about it and decided how we are going to go about handling disciplining her. This past week she has started hitting. Saturday her and John were playing in the floor and she hit him in the face..this was the first time she had done this so we weren't sure if she was playing or doing it to be mean. He told her not to hit and she just laughed..a little while later he told her not to do something and she hit him in the face again...this time he popped her because she obviously did this on purpose. Yesterday while we were at my doctors appointment my mom told her not to do something and she hit her in the face (she goes for the face every time)...so my mom popped her and told her not to do that and that made her mad and she did it again...she is a strongwilled little thing. She has also been throwing some major tantrums lately..if she doesn't get what she wants or you tell her not to do something she will throw whatever she has and starts kicking her arms and legs..it's ridiculous. So last night I had already had enough of her behavior and sure enough she starts to throw a fit because she didn't get her way so John popped her and sat her in a chair. This was the first time that we have used time out because we didn't think she would really understand but she totally understood and was not happy at all about the situation. She sat there and cried and cried and she would look at us and try to get down but she would stay when we told her to. It broke my heart to see this even though I know it is what she deserved..but we have vowed to be consistant so we can hopefully turn this behavior around. Any sugestions welcome!!

Pre-Term Labor

Well I gues if it's not one thing it's another. Yesterday morning I went to the doctor with blood pressure problems..nothing new this happens at least once or twice a week. I got there and they decided they were going to send me to a high risk doctor to get a second opinion on how to treat the pre-eclampsia. They can't deliver this early without a second opinion. I will be seeing the same specialist that I saw when I was pregnant with Kaylee that had me go ahead and deliver. So we will see how that goes..my appointment is next week. So my blood pressure came down and they sent me on my way!!

Around 2:45 yesterday afternoon I started having contractions. I have had a few contractions so far with this pregnancy but they were never closer than 30 minutes apart. These contractions were coming 5-10 minutes apart but they didn't hurt so I decided that I would wait a little while before calling the doctor. After 2 hours of having contractions consistentally every 5-10 minutes I decided I would give them a call. So of course they told me to come in and get checked out just to be on the safe side. I was hesitant to go because I was thinking maybe it wasn't really contractions and I was just crazy..haha!! But sure enough when I got there and the hooked me up on the monitors I was having them. So they monitered me for a while and they weren't stopping so they decided to give me a shot or turbutaline (spelling). They checked my cervix and I wasn't dialating so after the medicine kicked in and stopped the contractions I got to go home.

The nurse said that the medicine will only last for a while and that if it continues to happen they might put me on this medication until I deliver. So we will see..hopefully this was just a fluke thing and it doesn't happen again!!

Baby Kyle Update

Haven't shared what has been going on with me and baby Kyle these days so I thought I would give everyone a breif update.

As I mentioned before in a previous post I have pre-eclampsia with this pregnancy just like with Kaylee and it cause my blood pressure to jump around a lot and it sometimes gets very high...well my past few appointments my blood pressure has been under control but then last week I started feeling bad and it was due to my blood pressure going back up. I went in to the doctor and she checked me out and ordered labs and sent me on my way. We found it a little odd that she sent me home because usually if my blood pressure is high they like to watch me for a while and run some tests on the baby to make sure that it is not affecting him...but she didn't do any of that!!

That evening my blood pressure got really high (almost as high as when I was induced with Kaylee) so I calld back to make sure that it was still nothing to worry about and make sure they didn't want to see me. She said to take it easy for the night and come in and get checked out the next morning. I was baffled..but said okay!! The nxt morning I went in and saw a different doctor. He was very upset that the previous doctor has not asked me to come in and had not even checked out th baby. He did a check on the baby and everything looked fine with him. The labor and delivery nurse told me that we were at a point now that if my blood pressure gets too high and they think it is safer to deliver then they will go ahead and do so!! Talk about freaked out...I am definentally not ready for him to come yet. So after my blood pressure went down they let me come home and said to return in two days for another check.

When I went back in on Friday my blood pressure was not as high as it had previously been but the doctor wanted to go ahead and get some measurements on the baby so that if they do have to deliver soon they will know what they are dealing with. Baby Kyle is roughly 3 1/2 pounds and he is head down. The doctor was pleased with his size and said that if they do have to deliver very soon he will be fine..he will probably have to stay a little while until his lungs mature and he wouldn't beable to come home until he reached about 5 pounds.

I am 32 weeks today and they are hoping to hold off on delivery until 35 or 36 weeks if my blood pressure is stable enough. So I can't believe that I will be delivering this little guy in 3 or 4 weeks. I have a lot to get done these next few weeks. My next appointment is Friday unless I need to go in before then. I will give everyone a new update then..Also we got Kyle's nursery finished so I will be posting pictures of that shortly!! Stay tuned.