im back!

its been a real long time and i totally shouldve kept up with this thing much better throughout this pregnancy but having a crazy little man running around and knowing that people i know read this means ive been having a hard time being completely honest the way i was the first time around... not that ive lied about anything, i just havent given out all my gory details. and in my life gory = hilarious. ha ha!

so gory details quick!

i still pee when i sneeze and laugh, and new to this pregnancy, i also pee when i cough! ta-da! and if we decide to go down pregnancy road again i most certainly will try to have another summer pregnancy... winter pregnancies almost always equal catching at least one cold and with colds come coughing... terrible, awful, pee-causing coughing. sadly and disgustingly enough i even had to wear a pad because every two seconds i was peeing just a little, and by day two of being sick i had run out of all clean underpants! terrible. so the pads were a gross must.

gross fact #2: i complained about constipation my last pregnancy as well, but if i had known what i would go through with this one, i wouldve kept my mouth shut! oh ma gah! my iron fortified, poop preventing prenatal vitamins teamed up with my also constipation causing vomit meds and decided to wage war against me. i actually had to do something that i never thought i would ever do... numerous times. i have only just recently been able to go without the use of duh duh duh... a disgust-o-rama enema! gross.

ok... that is all for the yuck of pregnant krp.

onto the baby business. up until yesterday everything was going just fine. i stopped losing weight from being sick all the time which is good, i havent had to take a vomit pill in almost two weeks which means i can poop on my own (very good), and the baby was growing right on track. my dr even said the other day that i am 'carrying the baby beautifully in my pelvis.' ha ha!

i did have a little weirdness that i was pretty reluctant to mention to the dr just because i felt like an idiot... the baby was moving really weird, i would have described it as a 'fluttering,' just like the early movements but it didnt really make sense since hes so much bigger now. so i asked the dr if that might be normal or if there was any possibility that the baby could be having a seizure inside. i was told that there are mixed feelings about it but it was definitely something he wanted to look into, so i was sent back to the specialist to have a more targeted ultrasound to make sure everything was ok. the first visit went fine, he was doing well, his growth was right on track and nothing looked out of the ordinary. but i still had to come back 4 weeks later for another check up, that wass yesterday.

fast forward to yesterday and big changes... the baby isnt doing so great anymore. i had the regular stuff done with the regular tech i always see there and i could tell that something wasnt right because she kept trying to measure something with the oxygen and blood levels and clearly she wasnt getting the results she wanted. so i was done, she said the dr would take a look and possibly bring me back in there to look at some other things. they took me to another room, had another tech do some more checking on the blood and oxygen but i couldnt see anything in this room, the screen was definitely not facing my direction. then after more waiting the dr finally came in and did some more measuring, i had been in there for about an hour and a half before they told me anything... that is torture for anyone, let alone a crazy, hormonal pregnant lady. i finally found out that the baby is now measuring pretty small, and his head is measuring even small than his already small body. the only measurement they gave me was his weight at 3.13 lbs and that is below the 10%... and the umbilical cord is wrapped around his neck and possibly his shoulder, and this might be the reason that his growth has slowed down. not fun news to hear at all.

so the plan of action is to monitor the baby more closely, i will now have ultrasounds every other week and in the meantime i have to fill out a movement/kick chart everyday which they say is really just for me to be more aware of the babys movements or lack thereof. if we dont hit a certain number of movements in a day, or there is a big change from one day to the next i need to get in touch with the dr immediately. kinda scary. but were really hoping that the baby will figure out how to get out of his little cord mess hes gotten himself into... and if things stay this way then were thinking that ill probably keep him in here for at least 4 more weeks and maybe theyll take him early like they did with our first. we will see! its just a big scary waiting game now.