Just Jess: cerclage

14 March 2010

Pregnancy Story part 6: Not doing a whole lot. Literally.

I figured since I haven't done one of these in a while it would be a good idea to do one now. after getting the cerclage I was sent home on bed rest for a week and then I had to go back to get a CL (cervical length) check and they would determine from there where the bed rest would go. Well, the week of bed rest went by pretty fast. When friday came around Jav took me to my appointment so that I had some support. We got in the room and they did the sonogram, and they said that my cervix was back down to a 1.2. She said that she also thought that I was contracting so I was sent over to the hospital to be monitored. I, of course started freaking out again and Jav was trying to calm me down. I got put into a triage room and they hooked me up to a contraction and heart monitor. Luckily Jess was there that day so she was our nurse again. Dr. Miller was the Doctor that was attending that night and he came in and started talking about how we are almost to 24 weeks, but at 24 weeks that does not mean we will get to take a baby home that is just the gestation they try to save them. He said that ideally they wanted me to make it to 28 weeks, but even then there are complications. He started talking about doing a second cerclage and left Jav and I to talk about it. Jav and I decided that we would not want to do a second cerclage (at this point I didnt know all I do now about Incompetent Cervix or else I would have definitely said go ahead on a second) After two hours of monitoring, which I only had two contractions that they think were caused by the sonogram (all my CL checks were internal sonograms) I was sent home on bed rest until further notice. I wont bore you with the details of 16 weeks of bed rest. I will tell you that I spent 95% of my time on line and the other 5% reading, playing DS, watching movies, sleeping, or sneaking out for car rides. A couple of times I had Jav take me to my work cause I missed the kids. I would always leave there a mess. Crying and everything. I missed them so much. Much much more than I thought I would. I never realized how attached I got to them. There were lots of tests in between, I had to re-take the 3 hour glucose test (the birth center made me take it early cause I was overweight)I had to do a 24 hour urine catch cause of high blood pressure.I had to do an echocardiogram? to make sure my heart rate was fine. It had been high at a few of my doc appointments, but I am pretty sure lots of laying around with no activity had something to do with that. As we neared the end, my amniotic fluid was too high so they started making me do twice weekly Non-Stress Tests (NST's). I guess because high amniotic fluid was a sign of gestational diabetes and my glucose numbers coming back a bit on the high side (the never outright said that I had GD they said I had Glucose Intolerence in pregnancy) they made me start doing the NST's and they were going to schedule me for a diet class. This took them months to do. Finally in the beginning in May they got me set up for it. I was scheduled to take it May 26th at 3 pm. This would be my last day as a pregnant woman.

This was around 28 weeks. Bedrest is NOT glamour! lol

Where has the sleep gone?

Man I am tired. Cain is napping and I planned on napping while he was, but there was a laundry basket full of clothes looking at me saying I have been waiting for DAYS to be folded. So I just had to do it. I could not neglect it any longer. Now I know that if I were to try and take that nap now Cain would wake up. It always happens that way.Besides, I should probably get him up soon or else he will not fall asleep til later tonight and Ive got some algebra homework to do. Fun!

Jav woke me up this morning to go to breakfast and to take me to target! He got a bonus so we went and got some fun stuff at target instead of stuff that is needed. That is always fun. I got Cain some more jammies, a cute little T-Rex shirt and 4 books. We also got him a cute little monkey blanket and towel 'cause he's our liitle monkey. :D I got myself another shirt and pair of pants from the sleep wear section. The have these nice soft tank tops that are 7.99 and I've bought eight of them so far. The funny part are that 3 are the same color (gray) and 3 are another color (dark blue) and then two are the other two colors they had. I love pj's and would wear them every where if I could. I also looked at shoes, I was actually going to buy a pair of heels, but they did not have my size. I think I should own at least one pair of black heels incase I ever need to dress up (and to say I own a pair of heels lol)

I had a doctors appointment friday. I got to talk to Dr. Tran about the damage that was done when the cerclage ripped through my cervix. She said that it is healing nicely and that it would be good for another cerclage. The only problem is that it is naturally shorter than what it should be and that I WILL need a cerclage again, and possibly bedrest. I was most worried about the damage. Someone told me that with the damage I would probably have to go with a TAC (Trans-abdominal cerclage) and I kind of want to avoid that option if I can. I would like to have the birth experience again and with a TAC that is an automatic c-section. I would like to avoid invasive, major surgery at all costs.

I reaalllyyy dislike Sundays. Even more than Mondays. At least with Mondays the week has started, there is nothing you can do about it but get through it. Sundays, while giving me an sweet sweet extra day with my baby, also leave the fact of monday looming over your head. Its not that I dislike working or anything, I love the kids, and if it wasnt for them I probably wouldnt be working,but I'd like to stay home with my baby, and do school. That would be wonderful. I could finish up school and take care of my lil guy. perfect world, right?

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