Another Doctor Visit....

So I had a check up today. I thought I would take the boys for the short appointment, but ended up being there for an hour and a half almost! This appointment my blood pressure was fine, I finally gained 4 pounds, and I wasn't dehydrated this time, so far so good. The doctor then tried listening to the baby and he's the only one who heard anything. Porter's heartbeat has slowed into the 130's and was very faint. The doctor felt a need for an immediate ultrasound and brought the machine in. He was glad to find our little guy moving around, and for everything to be just ok.

His heartbeat is slower, but not too slow yet which is good. The small space he has been growing in is even smaller to the point of him touching all sides even when he's scrunched up. I asked the dr. if he's just really big, or my stomach (for whatever reason) isn't big enough for him and the dr. told me it meant neither. He said that it means he doesn't have a lot of amniotic fluid. He then continued telling me that babies are viable at 23 weeks, but they like to get as close to 30 weeks as possible! Ok.....

So my next question was, "are you telling me my baby is going to be really early?" He told me that as of today everything is ok. I have to have another ultrasound in two weeks. They will start checking me to see if I'm dilating in 4 weeks and we'll go from the next ultrasound. They may have to start checking the amniotic fluid levels and if Porter doesn't have enough then delivery will be in the near horizon.

The only thing I care about is that Porter is ok. If he has to come early that is fine, only if he has a chance of survival. He is very confined at this point and delivery would make it so his body can develop properly with more space. This time around has been a roller coaster for sure! I will find it quite funny, if after all the worries and everything seeming to go wrong, he goes full term. At this point he will probably be early to some extent.

We hope that he waits long enough. I wasn't told of any restrictions or of anything I could do to make this better. So we will continue to play the waiting game once again, and hope that this too will pass!

A Tiny Movie of Our Tiny Porter!

There is another new post underneath and there are more pictures there! I think his mouth looks like a monkey! Maybe that will be his nickname.

I Know.....

I need to play catch up still with my other children, but today was our official ultrasound! It is for sure a boy and he is doing fine. I haven't gained any weight yet, in fact I was down a few pounds on Friday, so he looked like he was in tight confinement. Other than that here is our baby Porter!

My Sisters Baby.....

So my sister and I always have babies really close. It hasn't ever been planned that way it just happens.

Our first kids are nine months apart, our second babies are four months apart, and our third babies will only be a week or two apart( I found out first this time although hers is due first). She is getting the girl though! I'm way excited for her. Even though we really wanted a girl we are anxious for Porter to join the family. I couldn't call him Liam, it didn't seem right. If you have any middle name suggestions let me know!!!

Stay Tuned!

Now that summer is here and the last busy weeks of school are over, I will get caught up on my posts so stay tuned. We have programs, baseball games, swim parties, and whatever else I’ve forgotten. So check back soon to see what we have been up to!

It’s a Boy!

So this week I have been having contractions all week. Today they were worse so I went in to have them check just to make sure they aren't doing anything and they did an ultrasound to make sure everything inside was ok. I asked if she could see what it was and she could. She then asked what we have at home already and when I replied two boys she said I'm sorry! She didn't want to tell me it wasn't a girl! Then she said I could be wrong so just wait a few more weeks but Dave and I both saw it and stuff like that doesn't go away! So it will be a Liam not a Lola this time around! Better take back the girl clothes......

Just a Small Update.....

So after everything this weekend a nurse from my dr.'s office called yesterday. She was just making sure I had picked up a nose spray sample and wanted to know if it was helping. I told her I had picked it up, but that it hadn't worked and then I told her about the er visit. She put me on hold and the dr. got on the phone. He read the chart really fast first and told me he didn't like what he read and that he wanted me to come in today so that they could follow up, but most importantly he was worried about the baby because there was never a check on it. So I went in today and he said my oxygen flow still isn't where it should be and gave me a medication to help it get better. He also listened to the baby's heartbeat which it took him a while to find so I got scared, but everything was o.k.. I guess that it being five years since having a baby I worry more than ever that something will go wrong just because it took so long to get here. I shouldn't worry too much though because even though anything can happen I'm past the first trimester when most things could go wrong.

Ekg’s, x-rays, asthma?

So I had my first ekg in the middle of the night Friday. I have been having problems with my allergies and breathing has been difficult. I woke up about 1:30 in the morning and I couldn't breathe at all! Dave took me to the er and sure enough I wasn't breathing anywhere near what I should be. I was supposed to have a breathe output of 476 and I was only at 178. I had to have three breathing treatments, and a battery of tests. My blood pressure was 167/104 which is way high and bad in pregnancy. They did an ekg to make sure I wasn't having heart problems, blood tests to make sure I didn't have a blood clot, and an x-ray to make sure I didn't have pneumonia. Everything was normal which was good. My allergies triggered my childhood asthma and they said that sometimes it just makes your lungs spasm and can cause breathing problems. Anyways today I feel much better which is a relief. I still have to use an inhaler every 4 hours and there is some risk to the baby. I am just hoping that the risks aren't high.

We were in Logan at Dave's parents, which was good and the boys never even knew it happened. We came back and Braxton had moved to my bed and was sleeping, but both boys were out cold! They had fun visiting grandpa and grandma!