...katie...????????????????????

[ashiozz]

=) I added a link to his birth story =)

I think we should have a thread full of super awesome epic birth stories that end well, so that apprehensive women can read it and be less scared, cuz things end up ok most of the time


Mitch telling Tylers birth story is funny because he starts it with "Everyone is Ok"

 

[hoping4girl]

HI LADIES!!! GUESS WHAT??? I MADE LIKE 3 DROPS OF MILK TODAY!!!
I'm sorry, I'm so freaking excited!!!

 

[hoping4girl]

Lizzie Marie!! Hoping to get more pics of her tonight Someday I will have a full face shot, hopefully tomorrow night when she gets the light off her

 

[ashiozz]

YAY FOR MILK! Congrats. Im sure you'll get a face shot soon, shes doing SO WELL!

 

[Emerald87]

Kaida is perfect, cervix 3cm, closed, low. Placenta fine, big, anterior.

But I'm depressed. They refused to check my cervix without doing a full morphology scan. That was suppose to be our special moment in 2 weeks at our favourite sonnographer. Instead I was alone, in a shit room with a broken tv so I only saw her on an angle on the scanner's screen. And my daughter was kicking me in the cervix. Peachy.

 

[Emerald87]

Sarah she looks amazing. So well developed for so young!!!

 

[ashiozz]

is the morphology scan the one we call an anatomy scan at 20 weeks here??

Your cervix us low but closed are they worried abiut the lowness??

 

[Emerald87]

No, it looks great apparently. No cervix issues thus far.

Yeh, morphology = anatomy

 

[ashiozz]

See?! Kaida is doing great youre doing great, you're being a gestational champion! I bet she ends up well baked just like Tyler

All good news in this thread, we have had very good luck with all the babies thus far, which is because we're ALL kickass women, so no worries Emerald, you're kicking this pregnancy thangs bum!

 

[ashiozz]

though Im sorry they did your anatomy scan without your husband =/ thats just sad. That was one of mitch's favorite appointments, followed closely by the one on his birthday where the kidneys cleared up and the u/s tech gave us a free 3D peak

 

[gigglebox]

Sarah she looks amazing. So well developed for so young!!!

i was thinking this exact same thing! she looks at least 4lbs in that picture! how is the lung issue doing? is that something that needs fixing or will it solve itself?

looks like i have to go back full time. boss says i can't have my old position back part time plus insurance is outrageous. on my own, the plan that currently runs me about $300 a month would be over $1000.

 

[ashiozz]

Laura Im so sorry =/ do you know who will watch des during the day??

 

[gigglebox]

primarily my mom, also hubs' mom. if they can't work out all days i'm going to have to look into at home daycare which i am EXTREMELY uncomfortable with...

exhaustion sucks. i don't know what happened last night but i am so tired it's unbelievable. which consequently means i'm full of rage. i don't know how i'm going to be able to do this and work 40 hours

LOL ok, des just made things better! he's passed out in my lap and totally just sleep giggled! that was so weird

 

[Emerald87]

How cute! We need to have cameras on all the time. Live streaming SQUEE!!


I'm frustrated as all shit. She told me my cervix was good today; I just looked at the scans - they're shit. You can't even see my fucking cervix. And since I couldn't watch my own scan I couldn't assess at the time. So now I have to go to my doc in the morning and hopefully the magical radiologist can decipher the piece of shit imaging and the report says it's good. She spent 2 seconds on the main fucking issue and then half an hour on everything else - the request for specifically asked for a cervical check and she was retar-ded (hyphenated due to ***-ing). Oh and she check it transabdominally with an empty bladder. You have to specifically check it will a full bladder and transvaginally - even if she didn't wanna go transvaginal it's still a requirement to have a full bladder to assess it properly. It's not good enough, now I have to go somewhere else. I'm sick of this. I want fucking answers - good or bad, I just need answers. I don't know how you guys lived in limbo (Laura and Ash) when you had abnormalities on your scans. I'm going to tear my hair out (including my pubes at this point!!!!). Ok, rant over, feeling better.

 

[gigglebox]

could someone please tell me where my baby's snooze button is located?

 

[Emerald87]

could someone please tell me where my baby's snooze button is located?

Bum hole?

 

[gigglebox]

em, i mean this with love...CHILL THE FUCK OUT! i'm sure the chick you had has done her fair share of scans. you have got to start relaxing or you are going to cause problems with your stress levels.get a second opinion to ease your mindl and if you have something wrong that this lady didn't catch, you can bitch slap me and tell me "i told you!" but if everything is OK, please take some time to relax and just enjoy your pregnancy!

also, why not get an internal exam from the doc?

 

[ashiozz]

guh good morning.. tyler slept last night, until 4:30am.. so from 10-1am and from 1:30-4:30.. so im trying to get him to go to sleep one more time so I can finish getting the rest of the sleeps I need, I didnt sleep until his second bout of sleep. I was sick to my stomach last night =/ but hes refusing to sleep and just throwing fits every two seconds.

S'okay, he can't stay awake ALL The time.

I will win this. lmao

The abnormality i had on my scan did drive me nuts , but it was one I had to wait and see, for.. Actually when I Found out there was an abnormality on my scan they didn't tell me jack shit over the phone until I called back.

They called and said Dilation was found on my scan and I needed to get rescanned at my next appt... That was it? They didn't tell me WHAT was dilated .. so I was googling, I found kidneys on the baby could be, my cervix could be, the baby's heart could be.. so I called back and I asked for more details, the nurse on the phone told me it was his kidneys and it was mild, but they needed to keep an eye on it.

I freaked out, its a marker for downs syndrome, but no one at my doctors office mentioned that. I did also find that its common that it clears up and its more common in boys, so that helped me relax a bit, he had 2 extra scans for his kidneys and every single time I just prayed it had gotten better and wasn't anything serious. You kind of have to learn to wait and see in pregnancy, it's scary, but that's all you can do with abnormalities on a scan like that.

I think Laura was kind of in the same "Wait and see" boat, but on a larger scale and she was struggling with a HUGE decision about possibly aborting... I didn't have that experience, so Im not sure how she made it through that.. Whether Tylers kidneys cleared up or not we weren't going to need to abort him.

Laura, Des' snooze button is his mouth, and a binky needs in NAO so you can sleep lmao...


Tylers eyelids are finally getting heavy..

 

[ashiozz]

Laura said all I wanted to about your relaxing, you need to take time to relax. You remind me of, well, me in the beginning, Every appointment I had it seemed like they had some kind of bad news for me, all the time -.-

at some point you just have to put your faith in the pregnancy and your body and relax or youre going to be a ball of stress and you're not going to enjoy the rest of the time you carry Kaida, and it's not healthy for her either.

 

[gigglebox]

oh, about the waiting for doom thing (on the scans), it was REALLY hard. i was a wreck for every one until about 23 weeks or so, and then i was nervous for each scan after that. hubs wouldn't come with me because he was so freaked out by the traumatic 12 week scan. i got him to go to two more and that was it (when you have them every 2-3 weeks, 2 scans isn't that much in the scheme of things). and with each scan and each test, the doctors couldn't find anything concrete wrong. just that this measurement could mean -insert terrible situation here- (and that ranged from the Turner's diagnosis to dilated kidneys to heart issues to too much amniotic fluid and it just went on; seemed like each scan had a new problem). in the end i just decided whatever was going to happen would happen and i would let nature take it's course. if anything major and detrimental came up i would deal with it, but it never did.

speaking of letting nature take it's course...my mom told me yesterday part of the reason they took the vent out of Nina was to hope on some level that her body would finally let go. poor nina, she wanted out and a lot of that was because she has many needs and hated being a burden, and now she's made it a lot harder on my parents. they are in the process of trying to find her an assisted living place now. she is also likely going to the psyche ward after they clear up her MRSA and her possible pneumonia (they detected fluid in her lungs).

between all that and the work thing, blah, i'm just kind of overwhelmed right now. i feel like i should have taken more resting time this past weekend while i didn't have Des oh well.

i have to poop.