i'm still pregnant. and i've been up since 3am w/ steady contractions. the pressure is so bad i can barely walk. i'm absolutely miserable. and i do NOT want my child born today. today would've been my "father's" 51st bday. i'll pass.
skeeter's job sux major donkey balls! he's supposed to be back at his own company next week, well he finds out this morning not only are they doing another week at the crappy place, but he doesn't get to work his last shift of the week cuz they're repainting the floors. wth?! so another 8hrs w/ no pay when it's time to be buying school supplies and renting instruments, etc.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
IS THIS REALLY IT?!
i hope not!! as much as i've been wanting her out...now i'd rather wait. it's hot. we're under a severe heat advisory. we have no air in our car that is running crappily right now anyhow. i stayed up til 2am. tried to sleep. couldn't. pain. pain. pain. pain. now my contractions are 4 mins apart. and getting stronger. ok. i can't talk/type.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
2cm...the waiting game
so i got over my stubbornness and went to see my ob today. and skeeter, the NON expert, was right, i am indeed dilated....to 2cm....on the outside of the cervix....the inside not diddly squat! so that means it could be 2 hrs, 2 days, 2 weeks. who knows. what i do know is i am sooo beyond ready for this to be over. tomorrow is a full moon...bring it on! ok, i'm off to go jog 10miles. yeh right. i'm off to go continue being miserable!
life's short....
remember that. we are not promised tomorrow. so shut the hell up, quit bickering, enjoy your time, get over the stoopid, petty, juvenile crap, unless of course, you're ten! let it go. make the best of what you've got. don't spend your precious moments complaining. DO something. anything. one little thing. make yourself happy. quit waiting on other people to do it for you. make your mistakes, learn from them, and regroup and move on!
RIP to all the relationships i just recently lost over some absolute B/S!!
RIP to all the relationships i just recently lost over some absolute B/S!!
o yeh, i peed on his feet........
so the other day i was having really really really really really bad contractions. popped two darvocet, walked, rocked, soaked in the tub, didn't even care if it had been cleaned behind the last user or not, yeh, i was hurting bad! so i'm outta the tub, in our room, bad contraction hits....i'm trying to rock thru it and then i feel an amazing amount of pressure and w/o any further warning...peed all over the floor, including his feet since he was standing there to support me. he didn't dare complain though! well, that's one to tell the grandkids.
nothing like insomnia.....
to give you time to update your blog that is seriously lacking. since so much has happened in the three weeks since i've last posted i'm gonna do the quick run down...probably don't remember half of it anyhow.
*the kids have all had physicals
--pudd is healthy, short and stout
--twiggi is healthy, tall and skinny
--bam-bam is overall healthy, now on two diff allergy meds and waiting on referrals to both allergy/immunology to try and figure out the true source of his misery and the psychology dept for a re-reval to determine if it's possible he has some form of autism as opposed to his current diagnosis of mental retardation
--tatertot is healthy, tiny and petite, and only sweet when she wants to be, which right now is about 50% of the time
*the older girls had vision appts
--pudd....needs reading glasses, that we go pick up today
--twiggi is 20/20 and just a little weaker in the left eye
--bam-bam goes on monday
**dental appts
--bam-bam and keek just went and are due back in late november
--the older girls will go on monday eve, esp since twiggi has two that are just refusing to budge on one side but dangling on the other
so overall, healthy kids!! yaaaayyyyyyy!!
pudd goes to the gi specialist today to see if they can figure out the cause of her ever so often unexplained abdominal pain flare ups...by my calculations...we might be about due for one...hope not!
**i did NOT deliver w/in two weeks after the positive ffn....it was actually THREE weeks yesterday, but there is change and progress....which doesn't mean a thing...and that sux.....as of now i'm 33w 4d....minimal goal was 32w...surpassed that....preferable goal is 34w.....coming up on that sunday. as of last thursday at 33w 4d, baby was weighing in at 4lb 5.6oz and all parts were present and accounted for...including the girl parts...still there....i didn't go to my check up this past monday...feeling "ok" and gas costs too much.....BUT i'm hoping to go this afternoon.....skeeter has been checking my cervix for quite a while now and as of two days ago we started to have some change and now i'm having intermittent spotting....however, my contractions which are usually quite vicious have calmed trememdously. maybe she's waiting for us to get past his cousin's wedding on friday and our baby sprinkle on saturday. anyhow, since he's no expert, i'm gonna go in and see my ob and let him do an official check and see how much progress has actually been made.
**our sprinkle is this saturday and i'm not looking forward to it now. i'm tired and don't really feel like being bothered. and as bad as this may sound, hope i go into labor and am in the hospital and have to cancel. it's just frustrating. people don't rsvp. we're not even buying food til after people show up so as not to be wasteful. not a single one of my babyshowers has ever been successful and i see no reason to start believing in them now. the highlight, skeeter ordered me a chocolate on chocolate cake that he says will make you wanna slap your moma....hmmmmm, i'll leave that one alone...and we'll see.....
**pulled the kids outta summer session...it was elective and elected NOT to deal w/ the b/s! they wanted out, and i obliged. but trust me! i am sooo looking forward to regular session starting next month!!
**skeeter's employer sux majorly...first they shut down the week of june 30-july 4th....cool if you've been there long enough to have paid vacation time to use...his one year anni date isn't until sept...so that was a nice financial blow for the month....and then they have no work for their welders.....so they're down the street at the sister company which has piss-poor conditions and a different shift, 11p-7a, as opposed to 430p-3a.....which means when he gets home he wants to sleep until 5 instead of sleeping til 8 or 9a and being able to help me w/ the kids and me, him and tatertot taking a nap during the day...one more week of this crap!
well, i think i'm fairly well caught up......now to catch up w/ pics and i ain't gon lie...not doing it right now
*the kids have all had physicals
--pudd is healthy, short and stout
--twiggi is healthy, tall and skinny
--bam-bam is overall healthy, now on two diff allergy meds and waiting on referrals to both allergy/immunology to try and figure out the true source of his misery and the psychology dept for a re-reval to determine if it's possible he has some form of autism as opposed to his current diagnosis of mental retardation
--tatertot is healthy, tiny and petite, and only sweet when she wants to be, which right now is about 50% of the time
*the older girls had vision appts
--pudd....needs reading glasses, that we go pick up today
--twiggi is 20/20 and just a little weaker in the left eye
--bam-bam goes on monday
**dental appts
--bam-bam and keek just went and are due back in late november
--the older girls will go on monday eve, esp since twiggi has two that are just refusing to budge on one side but dangling on the other
so overall, healthy kids!! yaaaayyyyyyy!!
pudd goes to the gi specialist today to see if they can figure out the cause of her ever so often unexplained abdominal pain flare ups...by my calculations...we might be about due for one...hope not!
**i did NOT deliver w/in two weeks after the positive ffn....it was actually THREE weeks yesterday, but there is change and progress....which doesn't mean a thing...and that sux.....as of now i'm 33w 4d....minimal goal was 32w...surpassed that....preferable goal is 34w.....coming up on that sunday. as of last thursday at 33w 4d, baby was weighing in at 4lb 5.6oz and all parts were present and accounted for...including the girl parts...still there....i didn't go to my check up this past monday...feeling "ok" and gas costs too much.....BUT i'm hoping to go this afternoon.....skeeter has been checking my cervix for quite a while now and as of two days ago we started to have some change and now i'm having intermittent spotting....however, my contractions which are usually quite vicious have calmed trememdously. maybe she's waiting for us to get past his cousin's wedding on friday and our baby sprinkle on saturday. anyhow, since he's no expert, i'm gonna go in and see my ob and let him do an official check and see how much progress has actually been made.
**our sprinkle is this saturday and i'm not looking forward to it now. i'm tired and don't really feel like being bothered. and as bad as this may sound, hope i go into labor and am in the hospital and have to cancel. it's just frustrating. people don't rsvp. we're not even buying food til after people show up so as not to be wasteful. not a single one of my babyshowers has ever been successful and i see no reason to start believing in them now. the highlight, skeeter ordered me a chocolate on chocolate cake that he says will make you wanna slap your moma....hmmmmm, i'll leave that one alone...and we'll see.....
**pulled the kids outta summer session...it was elective and elected NOT to deal w/ the b/s! they wanted out, and i obliged. but trust me! i am sooo looking forward to regular session starting next month!!
**skeeter's employer sux majorly...first they shut down the week of june 30-july 4th....cool if you've been there long enough to have paid vacation time to use...his one year anni date isn't until sept...so that was a nice financial blow for the month....and then they have no work for their welders.....so they're down the street at the sister company which has piss-poor conditions and a different shift, 11p-7a, as opposed to 430p-3a.....which means when he gets home he wants to sleep until 5 instead of sleeping til 8 or 9a and being able to help me w/ the kids and me, him and tatertot taking a nap during the day...one more week of this crap!
well, i think i'm fairly well caught up......now to catch up w/ pics and i ain't gon lie...not doing it right now
Thursday, June 26, 2008
delivery within two weeks?!?!?!
i had a really bad nite tuesday. contractions three minutes apart, baby had dropped, etc. not good. toughed it out. called my ob the first thing yesterday thinking he'd have me come in and instead sent me to the hospital. got there, contractions were basically non existent, urine was good, and cervix was closed although soft and short. they did a swab for a fFn test. i got dressed while we waited on the results because the smell of the gown was so sickening. i laid down on the gurney and dozed off. the midwife came in and told us the test came back positive. wow! i've had the test done several times w/ all the kids and never got a positive. ok. soooo, they hooked me back up, contractions were weak but more frequent. they switched my meds back to procardia every 6 hrs and i'm only allowed up to go to the bathroom. wow. i'm still just about two months away from my due date......i've had the steroids for baby's lung development but s/he would still probably have low birth weight and i don't want to have to visit my baby in the nicu for weeks. so keep us in your good thoughts.
Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a protein produced by fetal cells and a type of fibronectin. fFN is found at the interface of the chorion and the decidua (between the fetal sack and the uterine lining).
It can be thought of as an adhesive or "biological glue" that binds the fetal sack to the uterine lining.
Diagnosic test
Fetal fibronectin "leaks" into the vagina if a preterm delivery is likely to occur and can be measured in a diagnostic test.[1]
It is an excellent biological marker of premature (preterm) delivery; a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation.
When the fFN test is considered positive, delivery is likely to occur soon. When the fFN test is negative, it means that there is little if any danger of preterm labour for 7-10 days. The test is easily performed. A specimen is collected from the patient using a vaginal swab. The swab is placed in a transport tube and sent to the lab for testing. The lab can easily produce a test result in less than one hour.
A systematic review of the medical literature found that fetal fibronectin is a good predictor of spontaneous preterm birth before cervical dilation.[2] The test may be run on patients between 22 and 35 weeks gestation.
A negative fetal fibronectin test gives a more than 95% likelihood of remaining undelivered for the next 2 weeks. On the other hand, a positive fetal fibronectin test indicates a higher risk of preterm delivery (61% of delivery before 34 weeks)[3]. So, the fetal fibronectin test can't tell you for sure that you are in labor, but it can tell you that you're not.
Fetal fibronectin (fFN) is a protein produced by fetal cells and a type of fibronectin. fFN is found at the interface of the chorion and the decidua (between the fetal sack and the uterine lining).
It can be thought of as an adhesive or "biological glue" that binds the fetal sack to the uterine lining.
Diagnosic test
Fetal fibronectin "leaks" into the vagina if a preterm delivery is likely to occur and can be measured in a diagnostic test.[1]
It is an excellent biological marker of premature (preterm) delivery; a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation.
When the fFN test is considered positive, delivery is likely to occur soon. When the fFN test is negative, it means that there is little if any danger of preterm labour for 7-10 days. The test is easily performed. A specimen is collected from the patient using a vaginal swab. The swab is placed in a transport tube and sent to the lab for testing. The lab can easily produce a test result in less than one hour.
A systematic review of the medical literature found that fetal fibronectin is a good predictor of spontaneous preterm birth before cervical dilation.[2] The test may be run on patients between 22 and 35 weeks gestation.
A negative fetal fibronectin test gives a more than 95% likelihood of remaining undelivered for the next 2 weeks. On the other hand, a positive fetal fibronectin test indicates a higher risk of preterm delivery (61% of delivery before 34 weeks)[3]. So, the fetal fibronectin test can't tell you for sure that you are in labor, but it can tell you that you're not.
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