staying positive

We were back to the dr yesterday. We waited 2 hours it was so busy and poor hunter was there but he did well. I did thin more down to between 2.4 and 2.6cm. Which is pretty nerve racking. I just want to get out of the 20's (week). I know any time before 36 is going to be rough but being 27 weeks tomorrow scares me to death. Hunter was 29 weeks when he was born. They will continue to watch and measure me every week. If i get down to 1.5cm or below is when they will give me more meds and prob put me in the hospital, im not too sure they havent said much cause they dont want me to worry too much.

So anyway i am just staying positive, staying on the couch and hoping to pass the weeks.

Here are a couple pics of hunter from yesterday when he was so patient. My mom and him went on many walks and found some powdered donuts. He wanted them so bad then ate maybe 1 total. He must be like me ... if they were chocolate they would have been gone!!! He doesnt have much of a sweet tooth, he will eventually so i am not complaining! :o)

We were able to go to dannys first home baseball game yesterday. They won and danny really enjoyed it. Hunter sat in his little lawn chair and yelled "go daddy go ... go daddy go" the whole time, it was soo cute. I wish i had a picture to show you. I brought a lawn chair for me and layed down the whole time so it was nice to get out.  The less I think about everything the better!!!

"Do not be anxious in anything,

but in everything, by prayer and petition,

with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,

will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Phillippians 4:6-7

reflection

This weekend, as many of you might know, 3 of my most amazing friends came down for some warm weather and fellowship. It couldn't have come at a better time. We didn't do much and it pretty much was because of me but it was an awesome weekend. We all layed out all day Saturday and pretty much baked ourselves. We played games and just really enjoyed each others company ... i know i did. It was really rejuvenating and much needed. I am so grateful for all of them and the time and money they spent to come see me. They even had a little shower for baby Avery/Layla ... not sure what her name will be quite yet though we did work hard on Danny this weekend to convince him of Avery! :o)

This week is my 4Th week of bed rest. I am incredibly grateful for all my family who is here to take care of me and hunter. I am very blessed for everyone and try my hardest to remember that everyday. It just wears on you the same thing everyday ... people bring me movies but i am over the whole invention of television except as i lay here writing this i am anticipating watching the bachelor from last night ... ha!! I am trying to read more and come up with things I can do with hunter while i lay here. I really can not wait until we can do the simple things again ... look for bugs together outside ... go to the "cookie store" as hunter calls it ... really its the grocery store ... or when we can go to the library for story time again ... do laundry even ... wake up make coffee and plan the day ... but i have now come to the conclusion this weekend that i must do any and everything i can to keep our baby girl warm and healthy and pretty much be her growing station for as long as God allows. Right now we have our eyes on at least 30 weeks, if we could get into the 30's would be a blessing but next i pray for 36. And even though that is still 10 weeks away, i am OK with laying around till then ... my dream is that when she is born that she is healthy enough for them to lay her across my chest. Even if we don't make it that far we have already come a long way. But we stay positive and pray hard.

Hunter has adapted incredibley to all the confusion with mommy always having to laydown and not able to do much with him anymore. He has become more attacted then prior but that probably expected. He turns into more and more of our little man everyday. Please pray he continues to do well with everything and when the baby does come he will adapt and understand. 

Back to the dr tomorrow so look for an update. Hopefully it will be good news ... Danny has his first home game as head coach of st pete high schools baseball team and after the dr we are planning on going there ... backing my moms car up ... and having me lay my booty in the back and be able to watch the game and watch hunter see his daddy's baseball game ... im excited!! 

Good news!!!

So I went to the dr today. My cervix was actually a little thicker ... by .2cm. But hey we will take it! So, I will just continue bed rest, my medicine and go back for another check in 1 week. 

They said I can go to the beach for 2 days ... friday night to sunday afternoon, which i am sooo excited about. I have to do everything as i would here. No going out to eat, no driving ... stay hydrated and laying down except for when i go to the bathroom or eat but who cares ... at least i will have a new surrounding and wonderful friends to be with ... YAY!!!

Here is a pic of hunter enjoying some lovin' and bed rest this am before we went to the dr. He is definately getting spoiled always having mommmy around to watch movies with ... elmos shapes and colors is something we watch at least twice a day now. He is soo cute when he says octagon ... which he now can identify!! Love his heart!!! :o)

One more thing ... thank you all for all of your prayers and thoughts. This  has definately been a time of ups and downs recently but hopefully this will be the begining of things to settle and calm down until at least 36 weeks. Yes this is my life till 36 weeks. But right now our goal is a happy healthy baby girl so we will keep praying and trusting the Lord will take care of all of us in our journey.

"Trust in the Lord forever, 

For in God the Lord, 

we have an everlasting Rock."

Isaiah 26:4

poor hunter-man

Sorry this is so late but it has been quite busy around here lately. 

Thursday hunter went to a softball game with my aunt to watch one of his cousins play. He was doing fine but then started having trouble breathing. He had a cold but respiratory wise he wasn't having a problem until then. My mom took him right to the Dr's office a little before 5 after i pleaded with them to see him. He looked awful. So anyway, they started him on another 10 days of his antibiotic, prednisone for 5 days and his nebulizer ever 4 hours. 

That night we stayed at my moms because Danny was out late with a baseball game and i didn't want to make hunters day even busier. He slept from 9:30-12:30 then he was up, wide awake. I gave him a treatment, tried to put him back down but he wasn't having it. So we layed on the couch and watched tv. Right about 1am, i started having contractions. They didn't seem very serious at first, I have been having contractions a few an hour ever since i went on bed rest but they didn't stop. They went from 10 min apart to 6 min then to 4 min apart. So I called, woke up Danny and we went to the hospital. By that time the contractions were 2 min apart and pretty painful. They gave me a shot of terbutaline which seemed to him right away but after a hour they came back. About 4 strong ones in an hour and what they call irritability every minute, irritability is like minor contractions. So they then started me on Procardia. We use it on our floor for blood pressure, its a smooth muscle relaxer so they use it to relax my uterus. It helped after about another hour and they let me go home. 

So now I am back to bed rest, taking procardia every 6 hours and dealing with a sickly little man. Hunter is getting better, still on his treatments and is congested but starting to eat more and sleep regularly again. The procardia really seems to be helping. Its nice not having contractions all the time now, maybe a 10 or so in a day. Hopefully this will be the turn around. I go back to the Dr wednesday for a check up and to measure my cervix, lets pray its better news. Its just crazy going from doing everything yourself to having to rely on other people for everything! Its definitely been an adjustment!

Breathing treatments with grandma

Doctor updates!

Well today was another outing to the doctors office. Both for me and Hunter. Hunter had a follow up eye appointment, since he was a preemie and was on oxygen for so long the eye doctor is an important maintenance of his. The latest update is that he is still far sighted. We thought maybe he was color blind but the Dr said he wont check that for another year or so. Color blindness runs on the moms side for male babies and dads for females. We know of no one who is far sighted on our family so hopefully he wont be the first. They said in order to check they have a picture of the number eight half is in the color green and half is in red. When they ask him what number it is ... if he says 3 he is color blind if he says 8 then he isn't. pretty cool. So basically he is good for a year, we just have a few things to look out for and as long as they don't occur then we don't have to bring him back any earlier. 

My appointment on the other hand wasn't as positive. Though having far less contractions my cervix thinned from 4cm to between 2.7cm-3.3cm. They didn't see if i was dilated because they didn't want to over stimulate anything. So i will go back in 1 week when i get another progesterone shot and they will remeasure me to see what my cervix measures. Lets pray things calm down, i am really looking forward to getting out of the house and parking my booty on the beach with my favorite friends for the weekend, next weekend. The doctor wants to see how i am next weekend then give me the clear for the beach. So we will see. Trying not to worry past today is one of my goals and knowing God is with me and has a plan. 

"So do not fear for I am with you;

do not be dismayed, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you and help you;

I will uphold you with my righteous right

hand."

Isaiah 41:10

The Blogging begins

As of yesterday, i decided blogging might be something that would make my time useful and help me not be so bored plus i could keep everyone updated on my progress and of course on my little man, hunter and everything he is into.  Hopefully, my blog wont be boring. 

I have been on bed rest now for two weeks tomorrow and it seems to be dragging by. Only approaching my 25Th week in pregnancy and still having some contractions I can forecast bed rest better be something i start getting used to. We seem to be getting into a routine now which makes things easier on hunter. The best part so far is that Hunter doesn't seem to mind always being able to watch a movie snuggled up next to his mommy at any time of the day!

Hope you enjoy the pic of hunter kissing his baby sister. He is very sweet to her, though he wont name her. When you ask him where baby sister is he says "in hunter's mommy". Ask him the name and he says either "mommy" or just "sister".  :o)