I had my monthly prenatal appointment yesterday. Baby is doing great! Head down, heartrate in the 140's and kicking the doctor. My body however is being a little annoying. While my weight gain isn't out of control, I'm definitly heading towards my highest gain in pregnancy yet. Oh well. Then there's my platelets. Are you tired yet of hearing about my blood? At last months appointment my Dr. was very pleased that my platelets had gone up from 98 to 101. Not so this month. They have dropped down to 86. Still high enough to not overly worry or do anything yet but I could tell my Dr is none the less concerned about it. So i'm now getting my bloodwork done every two weeks instead of monthly. Luckily i'm used to needles by now. I'm not sure how low she'll let my count get before she wants to try intervention methods. With Lily they got as low as 50 but luckily they went back up a few days after that. I know that its below 50 that it gets dangerous. I looked over my pregnancy journal from when I was pregnant with Lily and my count didn't get this low until after 30 weeks. Hmmm. I'm mostly not worried about it, but i do have my moments where I think..."what if?" I'm really examining how I feel about blood transfusions and being on steroids? Time for some googling I think.
Otherwise things are good. I'm loving feeling this little one moving around all the time. Baby is so far really nice and sleeps all night and doesn't start kicking me until i wake up in the morning. My ribs are starting to feel a little cramped but its actually helping me to have better posture! I was thinking numbers last night, if i had this baby when i had Noah (36 weeks) then I would have only 10 weeks left!! Getting excited!!!
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Lord, restore the blood in Starla's body so that it functions as you designed it to! please.
ReplyDeletePraying with everyone that your pregnancy continues well, baby and mommy healthy!
ReplyDeleteI agree in prayer with Carin! You don't want to have the baby as early as 36 weeks...he/she has the best chance being full term!
ReplyDeleteI would so love to not have to be induced this time!! I would love to go full term and go into labor naturally for the first time! This has been my prayer for this whole pregnancy!
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