My Body

My body seriously impressed me.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m ungodly uncomfortable and want this pregnancy to be over but it still gives me the “wow” factor every day.

Women grow a tiny living thing for 9-10 months! That alone is HUGE! But then you add in everything else your body does.

In August, I never thought I would make it to my birthday (September 17th). I thought I’d be done working and probably on semi-bedrest just like my last pregnancy.

Then my boss scheduled interviews for today and said “baby can’t come before October 11th!”. I straight out thought she was nuts for thinking I would still be working. But here I am!

Now I still have one huge date left, my c-section, which is scheduled November 4th. & again when I was scheduling all of my twice weekly appointments, I kept thinking to myself that they didn’t matter because I would never make it. But who knows, I have made it this far, what’s 3 more weeks?!

Let’s just say that my goal is still just a week away and I’ll be happy.

Because really, I’m not sure if my body can stretch anymore or that my hips can hurt more than they already do.

30 Weeks

Today marks 30 weeks of my last and final pregnancy.

It really is bittersweet even though I have been dying the past few weeks not to be pregnant anymore.

But I truly will miss it. I will miss feeling my baby move inside of me. I will miss knowing I am growing something that will soon become a walking, talking, loving little kid like his siblings. I will miss the bond I feel with my unborn child.

& then again, I won’t miss the nausea, the uncomfortableness, the swelling or the pain I feel when moving.

Pregnancy is a crazy thing. 9 months of carrying a child you have not met yet. 9 months of pure love. 9 months of worry. & 9 months of counting down the days until you can finally hold him or her.

I have never loved and hated a job more.

I say job loosely. Pregnancy is not for the weak but a lot of woman do it. A lot of woman dream about it. & sadly a lot of woman never get to.

Pregnancy is hard. Pregnancy changes a woman mentally and obviously physically.

But it is worth it.

So here is to 30 weeks. 3/4 of the way done with my last pregnancy. & that much closer to meeting my baby boy 💙

#lastpregnancy #bittersweet #30weeks

Emergency Room Visits

Ever go to the Emergency Room (ER) and regret it the second you check in?!

Today I was getting super lightheaded, short of breath and my heart was racing every time I walked around. So I called the nurse advisor. & of course they wanted me to be seen.

So I came in. & proceeded to wait in the waiting room for 2 HOURS!

& this was after I had a standing blood pressure of 176/101. Kinda high right?! Especially for being 28 weeks pregnant.

But nope, there I sat, waiting for 2 hours for a room to be “open”. While I watched people come in after me and leave before me…

Then I finally I get in. The doctor comes in and sees me, doesn’t know any of my cardiac history and tells me my blood pressure and heart rate don’t look that high. Mind you, I am LAYING in bed.

So he says it’s dehydration. Orders a bag of fluid. Comes back in after 3/4 of the bag is gone and again tells me my heart rate and blood pressure are looking good.

This is where I tell him that it only spikes when I am standing or moving around.

The whole reason I came in!

So he has me stand and asks if they did this earlier. I tell him yes and what they got, 176/101 with a heart rate in the 120s. He gets 145/83 with a heart rate in the 100s.

Now he’s a tad concerned. He’s going to call the OB/gyn on call…

So here we are 4.5 hours in, a bag of fluid later and just now ordering labs…

Like I said, I regretted coming in the second I checked in.

#ERvisits #28weekspregnant #thirdtrimester #lastbaby! #highriskpregnancy