My last post was only over a week ago and a lot has happened since then. So last weekend I was getting over some sort of stomach bug. Not fun. I was feeling better and back to work. On Monday night, I woke up to this awful urge to itch my entire body. I wasn't really sure what was going. Needless to say I didn't get a lot of sleep that night. It was really crazy. Every part of my body itched and itching did not help all that much. I called the doctor that next day and they had me come in. They said I had cholestasis which is an issue with the liver. I have high estrogen in my body right now and some livers can not handle this and dump bile salts out of the liver which go to the surface of your skin and make you itch. There is a medication you can take which I am on currently. It took a couple of days to actually kick in. The itching is a little better now but I still have issues. The same day they decided to put me on the fetal monitor, have an ultrasound and take some blood. The fetal monitor showed she was doing well. The ultrasound showed that everything looked great as well. They haven't gotten the test results back from the blood work though as they had to send it out.
I went back to the doctor's on Friday for my regular appointment. She did the group B Strep culture at that time. This is something that is present in some women. It does not effect a healthy adult but if it is present then it could effect the baby during delivery. So they check to see if you have it and then when you go into labor they give you antibiotics to protect the baby. Of course, I have it. Not a big deal though. She also checked to see how I was progressing. I was 30% effaced which means the cervix has thinned out 30% out of 100%. The baby's head is down and at a -2 station which means she is not quite at the opening of the birth canal but getting there. She couldn't tell the dilation as it was really painful procedure. Yikes they have to do that again. Not looking forward to that. The baby is facing forward which means if she stays that way, I have back labor. She may turn to the back and at least help me out there. But with all that's going on, I don't have much hope.
The rest of that day after this check up, I had some really uncomfortable lower pelvic pain that was lasting pretty much all day. I thought I was going into labor kind of. It was a constant pain which I didn't really think would happen. I ended up going home early from work and laying down and then I felt a lot better. Poor Chris thought we were going to have a baby that day. Not yet!!
Also, at this appt. I had a high blood pressure reading. I had one two appts before but a normal one in between. They wanted to take blood just to be sure. I went back to the doctor's yesterday and the BP was down. My blood work came back and one of the things was high, so they decided to do it again just to make sure. When they are looking at the results they look at it as a collective whole not individual stuff which is why they want to do it again. She also decided to put me out of work as I should rest as much as possible. My feet and legs are really bothering me. I can barely walk anywhere. They are huge. Good thing for my man shoes. So I am out of work as of today. I am going in for a bit to wrap things up and check on other stuff to make sure I have all the right documentation. If this kid wants to stay in there, I could potentially be out of work for 4 weeks before she actually wants to come out. 2 weeks until the actual due date of 8/9 and 2 weeks past if she decides to be overdue. Please, please pray that she doesn't decide to do that.
I go back on Thursday to do a non stress test where I am hooked up on the fetal monitor again. They will be doing this once a week to make sure baby is doing great. I can already tell you, she is awesome. She is a mover and a shaker. I am always feeling and seeing movement around my belly button which is where either her hands or feet are. Chris had a bit of a shock the other day witnessing that. It was pretty funny.
So on my time off, I will be organizing everything for the baby, reading, getting some extra sleep in, and trying to get as many projects done as possible while resting. I would like to at least make it until this Thursday as that is the waterbirth class. I have to take that in order to be able to have a waterbirth so any time after that would be super.
Hope all are well. Send good thoughts my way to the baby so she decides to come out soon.
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