02 March 2009

...Back Dated...

Lets see...I left off with the fact that I wasnt gaining any weight...

At my February 3rd appointment I had gone up 5 lbs in that month! Very good news =) Everything else was rather uneventful. My two week schedule started for appointments and I was given all of my birth plan information to fill out. They were being cautious since I had a lot of preterm labor issues with Kadence and they just wanted to have all of my stuff prepared. At this point I felt we had nothing to worry about!

The next two weeks I focused a lot on the kids. I took them to the park almost every nice day we had and I took them to the Hands On Museum. All of which I did by myself =) I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it with two kids on my own because somehow that made me feel better about having three kids. haha The week before my appointment though I started cramping quite a bit.

February 20th's appointment was much more interesting. I ended up getting a messload of tests run on me. I had a stress test done, which he passed. They wanted two heartrate jumps in 20 minutes and he did nine! I had explained to her when I went in that I had cramping issues and after she heard what I was saying she instantly wanted to run a preterm labor test called a Fetal Fibronectin and check me. I was 2 cm already and failed the test =( She suspected that my plug had falled out, but Leighton was at a -2 station so that is good! My midwife put me on bedrest, but there was no craziiness other than that.

February 23rd was a really bad night. While giving Kadence a bath I was taking to Jimmy when I had a sudden rush to change. I had definitely lost my plug then! Jimmy's instant reaction was "you're not going to have this baby now are you?" and I told him no...I'd be fine. A few minutes later though I started to wonder myself! I began contracting and cramping quite badly. I tried to do all the things they recommend to stop preterm labor, but nothing worked. I went all night long like this, with absolutely no sleep, because Ethan had woken suddenly in the middle of a night with a high fever. I needed to take care of him and I was not going to leave him!

At around 10am the contractions lessened up, but the cramping stayed consistent (and painful). At around noon Ethans fever broke so I called my Midwife. When she finally reached me at 3pm my contractions had started back up and she insisted I just go to the birthing center. So off I went...I was 2cm dialated, 50% effaced, and he was so low that she could feel his little head. My contractions were hitting quite heavily and steadily so I was given three pills at different intervals. They finally calmed my contractions and I was sent home with more strict instructions and extended release tablets that control my contractions. The nurse in the hospital INSISTED that I quit breastfeeding. If only she knew that we had been trying and was unsuccessful with it for the past 8 months! heh She said my Midwife insisted I quit because it was making my contractions worse (even though Kadence had been nowhere around the entire time?) and that the meds she put me on were unsafe to breastfeed with. That night I went home and started to wean cold turkey. I hated doing this because I have heard horror stories about how this causes abandonment issues, and if I expect that from anyone I expect it from Kadence!

A few days later I had to go in for another Midwife appointment to be checked. At that point I was 'half a finger' (she didnt give me a number) but Leighton had moved back up to a -3 station. Whoop! Geat news. Also, my Midwife told me she did NOT insist at all that I quit breastfeeding. She told me the meds she put me on are compatible with breastfeeding and that she only wants me to quit if I feel it is affecting me. I was happy to hear this, but I just went through three days of hell to hear I didnt have to stop. haha We have decided to stick to a 'only naps and bedtime' schedule now until we can completely wean in a better manner.

That is it for now. I have another appointment this Thursday and I'll update then!

13 January 2009

...I dont get it...

So, my scale's battery was dead all last week after my Midwife appointment. No biggie. Jim brought one home yesterday because my Midwife is due to call me today for my 'weigh in check.' I didnt feel that I had gained weight, although I try to eat so much crap its ridiculous. I'm drinking the weight gaining Ensure just to give you an example and I even ate a ton of swiss rolls in hopes it would help! (lets just say there was a lot of tooth brushing going on this past week. haha) I was hoping I had gained the one pound she wanted though. NO. Stepped on it today and I am actually DOWN two more pounds. WTF do I do? I'm so upset. I dont know what is going on. I feel better, I'm taking my iron and prenatals all regularly again now that I'm off my antibiotics, my teeth are actually cooperating. WTF? I'VE BEEN ON WEIGHT GAINERS! Who says that they are 16 lbs UNDER what they originally got pregnant at when they are SIX MONTHS along? =( I've never had this happen before. I just never gained weight til the end with the other two. Any ideas on what I can do? I'm desperate here....

05 January 2009

...Appointment...

I had a Midwife appt today. All of my tests for Spina Bifida, Downs Syndrome, etc came back negative. Good news.

She was crazy shocked when she seen that he was so big. I kind of laughed, cause I really dont understand how I make such big boys. I mean Ethan was 6 lbs 4 oz 21 in at birth, but he grew up to be my gentle giant so quickly...it was nuts. Within two weeks (at his appt) he was at 9 lbs 5 oz and 23 in! It's weird to think too that I'm having so many weight issues, yet the baby I'm baking is growing ahead of schedule. haha

Speaking of weight issues, I have to do a weekly call check with my Midwife now. I have not gained anything since I lost all of my weight and she's really concerned. I'm not shocked at all. With the stress, then the flu TWICE, then my teeth issues...can you really be amazed? I mean...really? I do have a belly though. You can totally tell I'm pregnant, I think anyways!

I asked a lot of questions. I always do, but whatev. I'm an over researcher, I admit it. All of my teeth issues? Yeah, bet your a*s I was finding out what meds are okay, what arent, etc. I'm not pumping my child full of crap. I dont believe in meds during pregnancy and having to do any of this KILLS me. I've done great about not using pain killers though. I'm proud of myself. And I pretty much got my tooth pulled without much of anything. My child comes first!

I'm really glad this baby is growing so wonderfully and is so healthy. How? I have no idea.

...Horrid teeth issues...

So other than my OWN health issues, I think this pregnancy has gone rather smoothly. I had the bleed in my uterus which caused me problems in the beginning, but it healed up nicely according to my ultrasound. Now I have tooth problems, which are slowly but surely getting taken care of.

It has been the worst two and a half weeks of my life, let me tell you what. I never in my entire life have endured the kind of pain that I have experienced the past few weeks. First my top left molar started causing me problems because a root/nerve started showing. I cracked the tooth early in my pregnancy with K and figured I could just deal with it. Now, about a year later, I'm definitely dealing with it but not like I'd hoped! The pain from the nerve/root just showing was unbearable. Even if nothing touched it, it shot radiating pain through the entire front of my face. Not ever having to deal with this before, and suffering so badly sinus wise, I began to cry. Then I cried when it came again 15 minutes later. And again when it hit 20 minutes later. Then the pain came again every 15 minutes for 16 straight hours. My face was swollen, I was unable to barely move from dealing with the pain so many times, and I seriously thought I was going to die. Jim had no idea what to do. Since we thought I didnt have dental insurance he began to call around to dentists and find out how much we were going to need to fork out so that I could just get the tooth pulled. Luckily, since I was up the ENTIRE night I was able to research my current insurance and found that I do have a dentist! The hard part? Getting in...

A few days before Xmas eve my pain from the left top went away. I was so relieved, but it wasnt over. There was a very odd smell coming from the tooth and it was overly swollen. I could barely open or close my mouth. Thinking I could deal with that, whatev, I tried to finally get some sleep. WRONG!! That night my lower right tooth began to start up because I've been having to eat on that side. This is a tooth that cracked after I had K. It cracked way worse than the other though, leaving a pretty big hole. Now it had an exposed root/nerve and I began to deal with that tooth while having a swollen other side of the face. WTF!!!

Finally, after not sleeping for an entire week and barely eating, on Christmas Eve I got into the dentist. She glanced at it and said I had two abcessed teeth and put me on antibiotics. Then told me that one could be saved, but she recommends I get both pulled immediately. I chicken out and tell her that I need to think about it. BAD IDEA. One more week of hell coming up... Needless to say I finally decided it was time!

Last Friday, two weeks and one day after all of this started, I finally get in to see a dentist who will pull my teeth but will only do one at a time. I chose the badly infected one to go first, since it may get to the baby (even though I'm almost done with my antibiotics). Now that tooth is gone, but the other tooth is my nightmare pain tooth. So I'm trying to heal, while dealing with horrific pain still. I can go in after two weeks and get the other one pulled.

I never want to deal with this crap again. I hate teeth. I havent eating right in MONTHS because of all the f*cked up shit going on constantly. I'm so absolutely miserable. I'm a walking robot. I want to see nobody. I want to talk to nobody. I want to just disappear and heal. I cant take this anymore =(

...Catching up...

So...to catch up a bit we will do one quickie post of all the picture stuff!

To begin I will just say...
IT'S A BOY!!!!


So exciting =) Although, I pretty much knew it from all of my instincts and the Intelligender test. haha Here are a few more 'snapshots'.



He so obviously is gonna look like his father. The nose, jawline, etc is definitely from his Dad! Ethan and Kadence have full chubby little cheeks and my funny button nose =) I can't wait to see what he will look like in real life! He shows up really big for his age already, 89th percentile. Perfect!
And here is my 22 week picture, I'm actually showing now!!

10 December 2008

Tummy Virus 2008

Yeah, so much for updating as often as I wanted to =X

On Friday I heard from my Midwife. She said I am severely anemic and that she was concerned about my white blood cell count. Apparently it was pretty low too, and she couldnt figure out why. She recommended that I stay at home, avoid sick people at all costs, and rest until she could run a few more tests and get more results back.

So...I'm an idiot. I big idiot. I must think I am invincible or something. Saturday I got the brilliant idea to hit up the Toys R Us sale with Jimmy because it was the same as Black Fridays and I wanted to do more Xmas sale shopping for the kids. I was determined to, actually. So off we went and got a few great things, but was it really worth it?

I also started my new meds Saturday that my Midwife sent in for me on Friday (got them late due to insurance B.S.). Sunday morning I woke up feeling miserable. I was extremely dizzy, like when you have the spins after drinking too much, throughout the entire day. I was terribly nauseous and even though my body was weak I couldnt sleep for the life of me! Then I looked at the side effects for my meds and they said that a few of those were normal, the dizziness was not. So I decided to call on Monday and discuss it with my Midwife.

Still feeling crappy through Monday, like someone beat the crap out of me and I was gonna ralf because of it, I go to get Ethan from school. Turns out he threw up 5 minutes before the bell rang. Great! Get him home, showered, and changed and instantly I got sick. All I needed was an excuse to lose my cookies. Thus became Tummy Virus 2008 in our household...all because I had to hit the Toys R Us sale. I do blame myself, because it is all too ironic and nobody else in Ethan's class is sick =(

Now I am down another four pounds because of the last few days. Yesterday I was determined to eat soup and pretzels, but that didnt even budge my weight. I'm really upset. I dont know what to do at this point. Jimmy keeps commenting about my weight and I just seriously hate this!!!!

My Midwife is gonna be so mad that I didnt listen to her, and that I lost more weight because of it =( I feel like the worst mom ever right now.

04 December 2008

...Update, finally...


Sorry I havent updated in so long. Holy Lifetime Drama, Batman. Some of you know the circumstances, some don't. To put it simple I thank God that today was uneventful.

Lets start back with my last post. I had mentioned then about my headaches and severe fatigue. I was unable to function and had to put a lot of my everyday activities on hold for about two weeks. I didn't want to be a nuisance like I was with my last pregnancy, so I was trying to wait things out until my Midwife appt on December 3rd. I won't do that again though. I should have paid attention to warning signs, but was one of those 'people' who try to self diagnose based on guesses and internet searches. Due to my last appt discussions of my iron being borderline anemic, I figured I just had low iron. I also though my extreme dizziness was due to my blood pressure because I have had a history of pregnancy hypertension.

Through the final two weeks before my Midwife appt I pushed through rather well. Started taking a prenatal with more iron and due to the caotic issues in my life had to push on no matter how I felt. The only real problems I had were with my dizziness with white blindness (things turn white, other times I see a million white spots) and I had a hard time breathing cause my chest hurt, but I figured my blood pressure was just high cause of the stress. About a week before I went in though I realized the significant change in my weight though. I had lost exactly ten pounds! I have no idea why, either. I felt I ate a ton more than usual and I had even taken a belly picture just hours before weighing myself because I felt I was showing a bit more. One friend encouraged me it was stress related, while others frantically worried. I just ended up going with the stress idea because I had been through HELL the past two weeks and chalked it off to something else I needed to talk to my Midwife about.

Fast forward to my appt which was yesterday, finally. First thing they realized was my weight, go figure. Karen sat me down and was ready to discuss extreme morning sickness with me, thinking I had been horribly sick the past month to lose so much weight. No =( She then asked me about my eating habits and I told her how I had been eating MUCH more and I do not know why it's doing this. She then stated "just tell me you are eating healthier meals then and not so much junk, so that I can stop worrying. By next week I want to see some weight on you." I told her I couldnt lie, I eat just as much junk now than ever...if not more. If I dont eat enough during the day my breastmilk suffers and I cant have that...so I eat junk a lot of the time to up my calories faster. :::sigh:::

Then she went to take my blood pressure and things got interesting. She used the normal BP cup and got 89/66. She figured that couldnt be right so she grabbed another cup and retried. This time it was 90 (over something, I always forget the last numbers!). So then she tried the other arm and it again was 89/66. This really bothered them. She asked me how I had been feeling and that's when I told her the rest of my problems. She said she's never really had to deal with this, and she had to step out of the room to talk to the other Midwife in the office. Came back in and told me they were going to run a few tests, the two I heard were to recheck my iron and my thyroid but I had about 8 tests drawn. Hopefully soon they know what the eff is going on. I must say, I am really shocked my blood pressure is so low. Never had this happen before. haha Its always in the 120's on top.

I spoke to my mom about it and she said something about if the numbers of your blood pressure meet up you could have a stroke. She thinks that's why they are concerned.

Anyways, here's my picture from awhile back. I was 16-17 weeks. OH and my BIG ultrasound appt is December 23rd =)


10 November 2008

...New picta...


I'm so tired of having to do the "I'm due in the beginning of May" line because even my Midwife doesnt know what date to give me! Its still anywhere from the 4th-10th. At least she took off one day though, last time it was up til the 11th! Until my 20 week ultrasound they are gonna say the baby measures one week behind what my uterus does. Last weekend at my appointment I measured 14.5 weeks. But here is a picture to see where I am about now. Not much, if any, change from 11-12 weeks. Although, I am happy to see that even though this is my third I am definitely smaller than I was with Kadence (around this time). I was obviously preggo with her at 14 weeks and at 16 weeks I was much bigger! Here was my 14 week picture from Kadence...
By the way, my appointment last week was uneventful. I was borderline anemic but I convinced her I could get my iron up by myself. I've had to go through this a lot since being pregnant with K, breastfeeding K, and now breastfeeding while pregnant! I think I'm losing the battle though. I'm on day six of a horrid constant headache and fatigue. I can hardly function, it's terrible. I might have to go in and get supplements afterall, but I HATE them cause they kill my tummy =(




04 November 2008

...Happy Anniversary to Mommy & Daddy...

According to Intelligender, it's a....

So far my instincts are right!

29 October 2008

...Intelligender...

I am so stoked because I should be getting my IntelliGender test any day now! I know that I shouldnt get my hopes up when I see the results, but I havent known of anyone to get the wrong answer yet. Go figure I would be the first of my friends though! I purposely set aside money for this. haha I told Jimmy that at exactly ten weeks we were doing it! He didnt fight me on it. I think he wants to do it just as bad as I do! That's why I tried to get it closer to our anniversary date. I'm gonna do it and have it as a surprise when he gets home from work (November 11th). Trying to decide if I want to add something like a colored onesie or what not, in case it does turn out to be wrong. haha What do you think? Who had good experiences, and who had bad?

BTW, for those preggos that are asking yourselves "WTF is she talking about?" Here is the site!
http://www.intelligender.com/pages.php?pageid=5

20 October 2008

...So I lied about the pictures...

I'm starting to show a bit!
Well, to me anyways =) I looked at the pictures from Kadence and I'm almost the same size, maybe a smidge smaller but that could be due to my screwed up weeks. I'm definitely between 11-12 weeks now though. Still down -3 lbs but whatev, that'll be put back on. hehe Crazy to think I'm kinda growing the same way I did with K!
On another note, I'm positive that I can now feel our little mayflower moving. I felt it with Kadence a few times around this time, and all of the time starting at 14 weeks. It's only when I'm wearing a seatbelt in the car, taking a relaxing bath, or in a sleepful state while laying on my back. It isnt gas, trust me. By this time I definitely know what 'that' feeling is. haha
Everything else is goin well. Just missin my hubby!

14 October 2008

...Odd...

It is so bizarre. I had HORRID morning sickness for like two weeks. Barely even hit two weeks. Then the cramping/possible MC stuff happened over the span of about two weeks. Other than that though, I wouldnt believe I was pregnant if I hadnt seen the little stinker myself! Yeah, I go through spells of being extremely exhausted, but I chalk that off to low iron. I've always had iron problems, and breastfeeding while pregnant is double icing on the cake! Occasionally I do still get a tummy ache, but that happens when I'm not pregnant too. My boobs hurt really bad in the beginning, but now I can breastfeed like it never even phased me. I've lost weight and Jim has been getting onto me about how crazy loose a bunch of my pants are (I'm seriously not trying to do this!).

I just find it really odd that unless I'm having issues, I dont even feel preggo. haha

07 October 2008

...Pictures...

I did take down all belly pictures that have been posted. Not knowing how far along I am now makes things a little difficult. Dont worry though, I havent changed since the last picture so it would be a waste of space to do them now anyways! The other day I woke up thinking I was starting to show, and was proved wrong later that night. More bloating! I also flucate from not gaining any weight, to having lost 2-3 lbs (odd, never did that before!) I'm sure I'll start the series back up again soon. November 4th is my next appointment and I find out my new due date! Right now, with my latest date, I am either 9w2d or 9w6d.

06 October 2008

...Guess who this is...

It was a very vague appointment. The specific Midwife I seen today has a knack for being brief and almost careless with her appointments. I hated seeing her while I was pregnant with Kadence, and ironically enough she's who delivered her! I pray that Sharon or Carrie delivers me this time. Yes, you read that right...lots of optimism now. Regardless if my Midwife gave us some false hope or not, she still gave us hope.
There was no heartbeat on the outside, but I got an internal ultrasound and seen the baby going haywire. It was SO active. haha She had to wait a good 5 minutes to get any kind of reading. Jimmy found it quite humorous and was beyond excited. He still is.
The big news is on this ultrasound I showed up 9w5d! That is only two days behind. She told us that we cant get excited yet, because she did just a quick guess, but next appointment I'll have a new due date. She's going to call the ER doctor we seen and talk things over with her. She wasnt too concerned with the baby falling behind after that.
On the bleeding front, she said I'm not in the clear until the first trimester is over. She said she's seen lots of success with what I've got, so to be positive.
So overall we are going to block out a lot of the miscarriage talk and expect our new baby next May as planned!
P.S. No weight gain yet.

04 October 2008

...Epiphany...

I was talking to my mother about past pregnancies with the kids, and how different each one was. We all know how miserable I was with Kadence, but because I did so well with Ethan I never relate stuff to his pregnancy. I had the most perfect pregnancy with Ethan (until the end and having to be induced due to hypertension). Only problem was he was ALWAYS behind on size by about ONE-TWO weeks. They were concerned about this throughout my pregnancy, of course after my 22 week first ultrasound when they discovered it (gotta love Madigan). They pretty much labeled him IUGR (growth retardent) towards the end. Then at 40.5 weeks I gave birth to a healthy 6.5 lb baby boy. I complained a lot after that thinking I just grew a small baby because I was a small girl.

Ironic?

Why didnt I think about this before...

Thoughts?

(just trying to stay positive, I guess.)

02 October 2008

...Guessing...

By the way, there's definitely only one baby in there. Sorry to those that guessed twins!

...Why?...

I hate this. I hate every part of this. If its going to happen, let it happen now. I cant do this anymore.

Yesterday, I woke up at 8 am with horrible pains. They werent the usual kind of pains a pregnant woman has, I asked around. By the time Jimmy got home at 5 pm there was no doubt...we were going in. I'd developed a headache from dealing with so much pain, and my lower abdomen was extremely sore and worn out. Taking Ethan over to a friends (bless her heart for keeping him SO long on a school night!), we headed over and at 5:30 began the looooong wait. What a nightmare in itself. There was a mess of ambulance's, broken bones (OMG this one little girl almost had me in tears!), and other insane issues. By 10:00 we finally got in.

Got a pelvic exam (normal), blood work (normal), and an ultrasound (what appeared to be normal). The ultrasound brought us so much hope because the tech seemed really cheerful and optimistic. We ended up seeing the baby and a heartbeat! I was shaking so bad while she did her measurements, I was terrified of what I'd see. After glimpsing a few times at the dates, a lot of them kept coming up as 6 weeks and one came up at 8 weeks. I was confused because I was 9w4d yesterday, but then I figured it was just ultrasound tech stuff I knew nothing about. Even by this time I wasnt feeling as excited as I should have felt. I still had a bad feeling that something was off. A small amount of time after the US the doctor came in to give us the verdict...

Baby is falling behind by almost a week and a half. Doesnt seem like much, but when they are this tiny it makes a world of difference. I have a lot of blood surrounding the baby, which signifys I'm more than likely in the process of a miscarriage. You could tell the doctor was trying to be as optimistic and kind as possible, but basically told us we were going to lose this baby. Gave me discharge papers saying it and pamphlets on it. She went on to say I could pass the blood without losing the baby, because sometimes that is possible, but to prepare myself in case it doesnt turn out like that. Blaaaaah. It was just a horrible outcome and mind numbing at that.

Now we wait. Once we left the hospital my pains got horribly worse and are still as bad. I still dont know how long I'll have to deal with it and what the outcome will be. I want to vomit at the very thought of seeing this baby and knowing it has a very high chance of not surviving.

Crazy thing is the picture portion of the ultrasound machine suddenly wouldnt work, so we didnt get a picture. Think that's a sign? I've never had that happen before.

Yeah, I'm a mess and probably wont be of much use to anyone for awhile.

29 September 2008

...Wha Who!...

I passed a kidney stone! Who would have thought that someone would feel so accomplished, over something so weird? haha Your prayers really do work. Each time I've asked for them, miracles happen! Just like when I asked for prayers that Kadence not get a cold...she ended up not getting one! I only hope that this week brings good results from your prayers as well. I just got home from doing my second HCG level check. :::crossing fingers for no phone calls this week:::

In other news, Kadence has thrush and I have the breast version...again. Jim and I realized it last night when she started crying during her feedings a lot, and I've had breast pain for over a week now. Lovely. So today has been a focus on fixing that.

I'm pretty much done with breastfeeding now. I'm gonna have to wean. My midwife was very stern about it on Friday when we talked about a potential miscarriage. Said if I start cramping up again I MUST wean. The worry of that, and the worry of getting more infections, is enough to make the decision to finally do it. Should be interesting!

28 September 2008

...Seriously?...

So, for the past week and a half I've been feeling horrid. Weak and aching body, extreme exhaustion, shaking, terrible nausea and gagging at random moments. I've been pretty useless and I thank God I have Jim as a husband. He's been so understanding and helpful the past few days, as I've progressively seemed to get worse.

The night before my appointment with the Midwife office I started feeling a sudden sharp pain in my left side towards my back. I started freaking out to myself (cause everyone was asleep) because I did NOT want it to be a kidney issue arising. After situating myself about 5 more times I was finally able to go to sleep. That next day when I was speaking to the nurse and she warned me how bad my kidney issues may be this time around, I just shoke my head but for some reason did not mention my pain the night before? Guess I shrugged it off since it had gone away.

Sporatically I've had the pain, but nothing serious. The most I had in reguards to it up until a few hours ago was that I couldnt lay on my left side at all. Even feeding Kadence for a nap earlier, I was almost in tears. She prefers that side to fall asleep and I was so uncomfortable, it was almost unbearable. Then I fell asleep too. After about an hours worth of sleep, I woke up and rolled out of bed and almost hit the floor. No doubt in my mind, its my left kidney. Immediately I sent Jim out to get me cranberry juice and 7up. I only pray I can fix this in time with home remedies, but its highly unlikely considering my symptoms.

Why do I do this every time? You think I would know the symptoms by now. It fools you so much though, and I always relate it to a pregnancy problem because thats when my kidney problems are worse! Last time I was throwing up from the pain and over the span of four hours I was hospital ridden. Pray that I dont end up in the ER!

26 September 2008

...The wait begins...

I dont know what to think at this point. It's all very weird, and up in the air.

First, we spoke about my bleeding issues. She seemed concerned that I had bright red blood, and not a darkish color. I told her I had not passed anything though, so I didnt believe I'd had a miscarriage. She told me then that she wanted to take HCG levels just to be safe.

Second, she looked for a heartbeat. No success, after about 15 minutes of trying and two nurses. She went on to tell me that good case scenario is the baby just likes to run away from the doppler. Bad case scenario is something could be wrong. The baby could not be growing at a proper rate, putting me at risk for a future miscarriage, or it may have already passed away inside utero.

Third, she took my normal OB bloodwork and my HCG levels. I go back in on Monday for my second level check so they can compare them. If I dont hear back from them by mid-week I am in the clear. Thankfully, I have my ultrasound scheduled on October 6th. She looked and tried to get me in sooner, but had no success.

So now it's just a waiting game. Please pray everything is alright.