I don’t think I have even done any pregnancy updates yet for this baby so I will do it in SQT!
1. I am 32 weeks. I actually feel better than I felt in the first and second trimester. The first trimester, I had horrible morning sickness and coild not move off the couch. The second trimester, I was mostly exhausted and felt soooooo uncomfortable all the time probably because buof the babys’ positioning. We also had so much going on so I was under a lot of stress which I believe affected me a lot. I think the baby has since dropped and I am so much more comfortable now.
2. I am having a girl. Our kids ages and ranges go G 18, B 15, G 12 (next week), B 8, First loss G, Second loss B, G 4, G 2, and now another girl!! That makes her the 5th hopefully living girl and 2 boys.
3. I had my 20 week scan at 25 weeks because I had difficulty finding a doctor since we moved to Pennsylvania. Let me just say that because the baby was bigger, we had much great images and she’s already got hair and cute little cheeks and LONG legs. They did find out that I had a low lying placenta, an anterior placenta, and a single umbilical artery. The anterior placenta makes it very difficult to feel her move. They were not concerned with the single umbilical artery since her growth is doing well. She’s measuring almost 2 weeks ahead.
4. I failed my 1 hour glucose test. I didn’t just fail it, I bombed it by 40 points. 😬 if you are not sure, it’s a blood draw test they recommended around the 24 week mark to check your blood glucose levels. I started checking my glucose at home and it was always low but I did cut out sugar completely anyway and I increased my carb intake since I normally eat low carb. I ended up passing the 3 hour test. They check your glucose 3x and even though I failed the 1st one, I passed the other two which is what was needed. Yay!
6. At my last appointment, the midwife detected an abnormal heartbeat (arrhythmia.) I was sent to Maternal Fetal Medicine for a Level 2 ultrasound. They did see the arrhythmia and said that she is having PACs (premature atrial contractions.) Normally, this is mostly a benign condition that resolves itself before or shortly after birth. We have to monitor her a little more closely and make sure she doesn’t develop tachycardia (extremely fast heartbeat). I was then recommended to speak with a genetecist due to my medical history and learned that it could be more involved so we are going to do some genetic testing just in case.
7. I am pretty unprepared for the baby since we gave away most baby items. (Stupid) I’m not worried. We will figure it out and pick up stuff as we need. I’m thinking maybe a car seat would be a good idea tho since they won’t discharge me without one. I have barely any swelling, my BP is good and my back pain is a lot better since she dropped. I do get some weird random right rib pain at night but it’s not severe. I try to stretch every day or every other day because it helps so much with the aches. I also was working out several times a week but I’m a little concerned of her heart so at this point so I’m going to lay off for now.
I am eager to connect with YOU! Anyone have experience with a fetal arrhythmia? I know that she is in God’s hands and he will take care of her.
Wanna check out some other bloggers linking up?? Kelly has released a workbook for special needs moms and I may need to check it out myself! You can see her post and other blogger lineups HERE!
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