I touched in my 18 weeks pregnant blog about watching a video on organizing baby nurseries. That gave me a lot of ideas, so we ordered the dresser and changing table topper for Baby T's room.
The dresser just came. Unfortunately, not together.
My husband and I argued a lot while we were playing with a new baby gate we ordered off amazon. They had a deal that we could order a 34 foot gated in area.
Actually, we put it together over the last 2 nights and it went really smoothly, actually. Thankfully. We had fantastic instructions included and we would love to buy more Storkcraft products in the future.
I actually think with the size of the drawers I won't be buying those plastic crates and may just make a small divider in the drawers, but likely the 6 drawers are small enough that we can just make labels on those drawers and place things in those.
Baby T's bedside sleeper arrived today, and we will have to look at putting that together over the weekend.
That will be stored in her nursery for now, but it will be kept in our room once we bring her home from the hospital. We just don't need to make that arrangement before the end of our pregnancy. It is too early to be stepping over every day during my pregnancy.
Yesterday, I had an appointment with a congenital heart specialist.
I have touched on how I was born with two holes in my heart before.
The holes having been repaired when I was 7 months old, then closely watched until I was 16 years old to make sure as my heart grew in size, the remaining tiny hole did not get bigger.
But after reaching adulthood, they told me there was no need to monitor my heart anymore and the only time they would check on it again was when I was ready to conceive.
So, last December, I had an echocardiogram of my heart to see how the blood flowed through my heart and make an assumption about what the extra fluids and blood of pregnancy would look like on my heart.
I was given the okay to conceive.
We were then told to come back around 20 weeks to see how that blood flow and fluid looked in action. From what I can understand from my results of the echocardiogram, my heart is still only at about 62% capacity so the rest of my pregnancy should be smooth sailing and I have the okay to have a vaginal delivery with pain medications and this should not cause any additional stress on my heart.
I will go back for another checkup at 32 weeks.
And my new congenital heart doctor is very thorough, so she wants to get an MRI of my heart after Baby T is here, to make sure that a certain muscle in my heart, that commonly gets too thick in babies born with a VSD, has not thickened and caused decreased blood flow.
She has told me not to think about this for now.
But if it has thickened, they would have to open heart surgery to thin that muscle out. I am trying not think about that for now, though I watched my father recover from an open heart surgery and he was in so much pain, he has frequently told me he would rather die than go through it again.
I know this wouldn't be my feelings; I have so much to live for and I am a fighter, I would be just fine but it seems painful.
One thing that was off was my blood pressure was 137/90, which is high.
My new Doctor asked me to monitor it at home and they would make a note of it and watch for preeclampsia.
My fear, there it was, uttered by a specialist to me, and not in the hypothetical sense that it had been before "if you develop preeclampsia," "these are the warning signs of preeclampsia to watch for" "we will do tested to make sure there is not an excess of protein in your urine for preeclampsia."
This time it was, "this could be preeclampsia. We have to watch closely now and see what we can do, but we can't make any assumptions off of just one reading." So she asked me to monitor my blood pressure at home again with my cuff. Thankfully, my two readings I have done last night and this morning have been 114/68 and 118/71.
We are just fine.
I think I didn't notice when I was there that I was anxious, because I don't know how my baby is doing. I haven't seen her in 5 weeks. I can't feel her move. I was also scared that what if something isn't perfect in my heart right now, a caesarian delivery doesn't sound like a big deal.
I actually have no preference in what way Baby T enters this world. But I need her to enter this world, healthy. I have to stay healthy for her.
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