Viva Luks Vegas: It's Been A Long time... Sorry this is so long

Let's see ….since the last time I blogged my sister gave birth to an amazing little guy... Kasen Charles Odgers born Nov. 27, 2010. We celebrated an amazing Christmas with our families. Then, we rang in the New Year with our best friends. Brock & I both realized that all these Holidays were our last just the two of us.

As for doctors appointments and babies status it has been a crazy couple of weeks. I have been to the perinatologist many times. Once for a routine 6 week follow up at 33 weeks. The exciting news at this appointment was she was 6 lbs 2 oz and in the 90^th percentile. She is going to chubby baby. At this appointment we did get a little scare. He said that the baby’s pulmonary artery looked enlarged and we had to wait a very hard and stressful week to follow up with a pediatric cardiologist.

Oh wait! before I get ahead of myself let me mention after the routine follow up we went out to dinner with Brock’s parents to show them the babies ultra sound pictures and tell them what the doctor may have found with her heart. At dinner I noticed that my usually Braxton Hicks seemed a little stronger than usual. Then I started to stare down at my phone and watch the clock. I was having contractions every 4 to 5 minutes. I timed them for about an hour watching them get a little closer. I finally told Brock what was going on & we decided that I should go home get lots of water and lay down for a little while hoping that would make them stop. After an hour at home & of timing contractions that were not stopping we called the Doctor. She advised we go to the hospital. We both were surprisingly calm. I told Brock that is was to early (33 weeks) to have her and I wouldn’t bring any bags or even the car seat to the hospital. When we got to the hospital they hooked me up to all the fetal monitors and sure enough I was having contractions every 2 to 3 minutes. My doctor ordered Terbutalin a muscle relaxer to stop my uterus from contracting. They could only give me a max of three doses and of course I had to have all three. The only side effect was an increased heart rate, but other than that I was discharged with in three hours with no more contractions.

With no more scary pre term labor it was just now waiting to make sure our little girls heart was okay. With lots of praying everything checked okay with the cardiologist (34 weeks). He just wants to see her once she is born in the hospital to double check she is okay. I am thankful & feel truly blessed that her heart is okay.

Now we just have to hope that she isn’t too anxious to join our world. I have to go to weekly non-stress test with the perinatologist to make sure that my preterm labor isn’t causing any problems for our little one. Also I am no longer working : ). I was advised at 35 weeks that if I didn’t want a baby in the NICU that I should take it easy until she is at least considered full term at 37 weeks. For the next few weeks I get to sleep in and relax until our little miracle is born & turns our world upside down. I can’t wait!

I am now 36 weeks which is almost the full term mark. I know that is she was born today that she most likely would be okay. I am put at ease a little more knowing that my mom had all 3 of us on or before 36 weeks with out any complications.