Baby is size of: Mango!
Weight-158.8
Change since last week: same
Weight gain overall: 11.6 lbs
Symptoms: Sciatica pain down my left side is daily now-I can hardly stand up without feeling it so I feel like I stand up like I'm 80 years old. No urinary hesitancy-I can almost sleep through the night again, but get up at least once. Weird, very vivid dreams. Some cramping, round ligament pain and brown spotting is back-yay. Oh and I found my first set of stretch marks!! They are pretty light just on both sides above my stomach. See below for my new obsession of oiling and lotioning 3x a day. I know it's mostly genetics but I will do what I can do minimize or prevent them.
Cravings? Same! I love my same breakfast every morning-see below. I still love fruit every day. I need more veggies!
Exercise: Sadly, I'm back on pelvic rest, so I'm not exercising at all till Doc gives okay again. It's been kind of a rough week!
I said I would NEVER go to the ER. I never understood why pregnant women rushed there for simple bleeding or thinking they were having miscarriages. What can the ER really do?
So, I woke up Friday morning and was fine, but realized that I had some brown spotting. I thought this was all over with weeks ago! I went about the day but it didn't get any better and actually got slightly heavier at night with some pelvic pain, but it was still brown blood which was good. I decided to call the on call nurse Saturday morning just to get some advice. I was praying she didn't say go to the ER. She called the on call doctor (which ironically happened to be my old OB that I don't see anymore). She called back stating that since they were concerned about my cervix opening and no offices were open on Saturdays, they wanted me to go to the ER. I was so upset. The first thing I thought about was money. I hate ERs. I have terrible history's with them. When I was sick a few years ago, I went there three different times with three decent hospital bills and really just a bill of "clean" health since they couldn't diagnose me right. Ugh.
Dan convinced me it's better to be safe than sorry. So off we went. I picture ERs to be like the show I used to watch, ER. We walked in around 10:30 am and it was as quiet as could be. No doctors rushing bloody people off of ambulances or performing CPR as they wheeled the person in. It was actually quite peaceful.
They did a urine sample, blood test, pelvic exam and an ultrasound. Let me tell you, this NP was not gentle with the damn speculum! It was nice to see baby on the ultrasound. It looks so much bigger! They couldn't tell boy or girl since umbilical cord was in the way. But it was moving like crazy!
So results were: placenta previa. Basically the placenta is too low and is covering or partially covering the cervix. This causes the bleeding. I still kinda feel like a ticking time bomb. If heavy bleeding starts, it's hard to control and the hospital has to monitor it . In 90% of cases when it starts early in pregnancy, it usually heals itself since the uterus continues to grow and things continue to shift. However, if it stays, they may induce baby a month early and only do Cesarean since there is too much of a heavy bleeding risk with vaginal delivery. I'm thinking positive. Had this been like 30 weeks, it would be more worrisome.
So, it wasn't a bad experience. The staff was very nice. I just wish I could have a "normal" pregnancy and not be on edge every time I go to the bathroom. As Dan would say, "Just sit down somewhere and be pregnant!" I have a hard time doing nothing and I guess I should relax more. There's nothing that could have prevented this, but still, it's frustrating!
Baby thoughts-Okay, not baby thoughts, "Mommy thoughts". I have an intense fear of stretch marks. Now, I have some from when my boobs and hips grew when I was a teenager, I can deal with that. The thought of having tons on my stomach freaks me out! I know it's genetic and since Mom had them, I likely will. But I refuse to settle for that. I went to the bathroom at work and since their lighting was super bright, I decided to check out my stomach. Sure enough, I found a set on each side of my ribs/upper stomach. Granted, they are very light, but I freaked out. So, below is what I found to have the best reviews. I started last night and lather it on my stomach, hips and boobs. I will continue to post about the results. I am hoping if they can't prevent them, they can at least minimize them!
So! Next week will hopefully be a good news week! We have our anatomy scan. The hospital already confirmed the main body parts were growing correctly. Hopefully we can find out the sex since baby didn't want to cooperate last time! Also looking forward to 4th of July and a two day work week. I can't believe baby will be half baked next week!
My standard breakfast: 1/2 cup strawberry shortcake coffee with sweet cream creamer, fruit salad, toast with cheese, ketchup, natural turkey sausage and a cage-free organic fried egg. I believe I've been eating this for three weeks now!
Feel better flowers Dan bought after we got back from the ER.
