Monday, September 26, 2011

Baby #4 on the way :)

Ever since we were married, we have always felt that we were to have children in our home. We have been blessed to have our almost 6 year old twins and our 3 1/2 half year old. Unfortunately, we suffered a devastating miscarriage in January of this year. We still felt we should have another child and when we got the Ok from our OBGYN we started trying again. We have had ups and downs with cysts keeping us from getting pregnant. In the end of July and first part of August, I was under a lot of stress with changes at my job, getting Matthew and Ashleigh ready for school, pulling our condo off the market, and getting Ashleigh ready for her surgery. With all this stress, I was still taking my fertility medicine but I was not taking my ovulation tests or tracking my cycle during the month. I had joked with Chris that it would be a miracle if we got pregnant because I was not tracking. Also our due date with the baby we had miscarried was coming up Labor Day weekend and I thought it would also be a good distraction if we were pregnant.
The weekend that I was to start my cycle, I was well prepared and I was having a lot of pain on my ovaries so I thought that they were just cysts because that it what it felt like. Monday had come and I was 4 days late and in a lot of pain. So I went and got a pregnancy test just to see because I wanted to know if I could take Ibprophen or not. To both mine and Chris's surprise we saw this:

I had a scheduled ultrasound the day after to look at the cysts from 10 weeks before. All the tech could see was the cysts that was on right side was gone, but two cysts we found on my left and my uterus looked good for pregnancy. The tech sent me to have a blood test done. The blood test came back with 370 which meant that I was pregnant but that wanted me to come 48 hours later for another test to see if the level at least double which it had, it was over 1000.
They had me come back 2 weeks later to have another ultrasound to look at the cysts and see if they could see any baby yet. We were a couple of days off so all they could see was the 2 cysts and a sac with a yok sac inside.
At 7 1/2 weeks, I saw my OBGYN for my first prenatal exam. He said it felt that I was 7 weeks and that things were going fine at that point. He scheduled a ultrasound for today to checked for viability of the baby.
3 days after my appointment, I had woken up in the morning to use the bathroom and found that I was passing clots. I had Chris take my to the emergency room. I was scared and upset, because I could not understand why it was happening and if I was miscarrying again. The ultrasound found a baby with a heartbeat but also found a tear with some bleeding. They sent me home and put me on bed rest til the bleeding stopped. It stopped so I tried to go to church but had to come home because it started again, but I got it to stop and it has not started again. I talked to my nurse on Monday who told me that I could go off bed rest because if I miscarried it did not matter which position I was in and to call if I saw any tissue with the bleeding.
Today, I had my schedule ultrasound and I was reassured that the baby looks good, heartbeat strong, the cord is already attached, and the baby is measuring 9 weeks 5 days which is 1 day smaller that how many weeks I am. We are soooooo excited. The baby is due April 24th but I never see a due date so I am thinking around Easter which is the 8th. Ashleigh wants it to be a girl and Matthew wants it to be a boy. I would love to see another girl but I will be happy either way. This will be our last baby.

1 comment:

Lindsay said...

I am so happy for your guys! I miss you so much. Once I am out of school I will give you a call!