Raisinglittlegrays

Friday I had a visitor, Krysta. She brought me all kids of goodies. My fav doughnuts from KK, an adult coloring book, Lularoe leggings, mangoes (real and dried), monat hair samples, my fav whitening toothpaste, lipsense, and a beautiful crocheted NICU octopus for baby S. She also brought me affirmation cards, and delicious Chick-fil-A.  Saturday, Jan 27th: I had a bad dream. Basically, I had S and didn’t even remember it. I had him Via emergency csection Bc his heart rate wouldn’t quit declining. I woke up, to blood gushing out of me. I’m talking running down my legs. Called the nurse in, who called the dr in. Luckily, everything is good. I allowed an internal check. Cervix is still closed and no dilation. Placental abruption was brought up again. But she reminded me as long as baby is tolerating it well, I can go to my induction date with an abruption. But before I got out of bed, I felt the initial gush. And I swear to you for the first time in my LIFE God spoke to me. All h...

This second week, there wasn’t much going on. My nurses and techs have all started to really warm up to me, and vice versa. So far, my favorite Dr that I have seen is Dr. Stinson. He’s a DO, and he’s just so relaxed and soft spoken.  One of my favorite techs, who I also happened to go to school with, brought Baby S some super cute preemie onesies 😍 I’ll have another ultrasound in about a week (probably next Friday or so), and they will be checking on his growth and fluids. So please pray everything is going down in the belly as it should! Ultrasounds will be done about every 3 weeks!  Now that I am over 24 weeks, I am back to having fetal tones monitored every time toco is monitored. Which means, every time they monitor for contractions, they are having to put the baby’s heartbeat on for a full 30 minutes. And my poor nurses, he’s a runner and at this gestation it’s already hard to keep them on for that long.  Week 2 Recap: The dietician came in and spoke to me Satu...

One week down in here! Yesterday was my one weekiversary here at the hospital. As much as I don’t want to be here for 10 more weeks, it’s what we’re hoping for. I’ve met a lot of nurses, and have a few that are my regulars. Everyone loves coming in to my room because I have my diffuser running constantly, so it always smells good in here.  I’m going to start taking advantage of my wheel chair privileges. I get to go out in a wheel chair twice a day for 30 minutes if I want to.  This first week has seemed like an eternity, but I’ve had a great amount of visitors to keep me company. Day time is usually the most boring. So I tend to doze off a lot.  I won’t have too many baby updates, which is a good thing. No news is good news. It seems as though I’ll only be having ultrasounds at my regularly scheduled times, so every 4 weeks. Ultrasound time is when I’ll know more about Baby S! For now we continue to take every day that he stays put as a blessing!  Week 1 Recap...