Our Journey: Life Before & After Our Miracle : March 1st

Saturday, March 1, 2014

March 1st - 38 Weeks 5 Days

Well, it's officially March. :) And I'm officially out of the double digit count down. We have 9 days left till my due date. My midwife told me at my last appointment that they will allow me to go to 41 weeks and then induce. I'm really hoping she comes on her own long before then, but I guess we shall see :)

I did not sleep well at all last night, due to my lack of self-control. Last night I just had to have some icecream before bed, EVEN THOUGH we have determined that it is dairy products and chocolate that have been giving me the worst heartburn if I eat them before bed. I text Daniel after I ate the icecream and told him it was SO worth it. Well it was....then. :) About 1:30 a.m. I text him again (he was working an over night shift) and told him, "Not so worth it anymore." Oh well. :) I guess it serves me right for lacking self-control, huh?

I have been having contractions sporadically all day today, but nothing I've tried timing and nothing that gives me any reason to suspect that it's time.

I'm giving her until Tuesday night (March 4th). And then I am going to begin Operation "GET HER OUT" :) I have an exam Tuesday night so I'm trying to get through that, plus my siblings have baseball games Monday night and Tuesday night so it would kinda be helpful if she waits till afterwards so they can head down. :) I plan on trying everything under the sun (provided it's not caster oil. I just don't think I can handle that lol). I'm going to do lots of walking, squats, and I also have a birth ball that I'm going to inflate and try some different bouncing techniques to see if that gets her going. I've heard that eating a Big Mac stimulates labor (by many many different women), but I don't think I'm going to try that one. The thought of a burger from McDonald's disgusts me lol, even for the sake of getting this little girl out!

I will keep updating how things are going. Can't wait till I'm updating with pictures of our sweet little girl.

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Call Me Mrs. FosterMarch 3, 2014 at 9:50 AM
We are getting so close!! And your poor feet and ankles :( I can't believe that! So your due date is the tenth and mine is the twelfth! Lets hope these little ones wanna come on their 'due dates' :)

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The Story of Our Struggle

We met in 2009, and were married in January, 2012. We both decided to wait to have a baby, so that we could enjoy being young and newly married. Surprisingly, even with our precautions, we discovered we were pregnant in May, 2012. Sadly, the pregnancy didn't last long, and I had a miscarriage at approximately 5 weeks pregnant. We were both devastated. I struggled with the question of how I could love a little one so much that I thought I "wasn't ready for". After the miscarriage, we decided to stop using precautions and to allow a baby to happen when the timing was right. Almost exactly a year later, on April 30th, I received the phone call from the doctor that my blood test came back positive. I was sure this time would be different. I painted a shell (with the words "will you be our baby's daddy") to announce the pregnancy to Daniel (just like he proposed to me). We made Mother's Day gifts to announce the pregnancy to our families on Mother's Day. The day before Mother's Day, however, I started bleeding, and on that following Monday I received miscarriage confirmation. The first miscarriage was hard, but this one truly devastated me. I didn't want to function. I literally wanted to just withdraw from everyone and spend each day in tears. Thankfully, as a few weeks went by, I felt stronger and my heart was healing. Daniel was my rock. He held me, cried with me, and walked me through a really hard time in my life.

The doctors had told me my uterus is extremely tilted back, which kind of explained why it had taken me exactly a year in between pregnancies to conceive again. Actually, I had two different doctors tell me that because of the extreme tilt, I could possibly never get pregnant. So, knowing that, I really didn't think a third pregnancy would happen......at all, or at least not any time soon.

Only a month and a half later, I tested positive again (on Daniel's 23rd birthday). I immediately sent a picture of the test to my family and his family. I saw no reason to try to make some kind of special reveal like I had with the last. That only made it harder when I lost that little one. I went to the doctor and got blood test confirmation, and they began having me come in every other day to have blood drawn to see if this baby was growing properly. Things looked good, and the weeks began to go by. I started making it to little milestones.
We found out when I was 17 weeks that we were having a baby girl. Words cannot describe the complete joy and happiness I felt making it to the ultrasound for gender determination. As the weeks continued to go by, I grew more and more comfortable in my pregnancy, and the anxiety started to lessen. After going through two recent losses, it kind of steals the joy of pregnancy because you are constantly worried about "what if". In December, when I was around 24-25 weeks, I tripped on some stairs and landed right on my stomach. Not long after I began having contractions, and my doctor sent me in to Labor and Delivery. My heart was terrified. I couldn't fathom making it all this way with this pregnancy and then losing her. They gave me a shot and some meds to stop the pre-term labor, and sent me home. The next day, the contractions continued to come, so back to the hospital we went. They gave me more meds, and kept me overnight to make sure the labor had stopped. When they sent me home, they prescribed me with a medication to take every 6 hours. I took that medication from week 25 all the way to week 36, and our little girl continued to healthily grow. Currently I am 38 weeks pregnant and we are beyond ready to meet our little miracle baby.

I've had alot of people give me "the side eye" for being pregnant at 22, and for not waiting till after I finished nursing school (which I am set to graduate in May 2015). That was my original plan. But I am living proof that plans don't always go the way you want them to. When we lost the first baby, we decided not to try to control when we would have our first child. Because I've had such a struggle with my body carrying a pregnancy, I didn't want to possibly miss my only chance to have a little one. We don't regret our decision for an instance. I still fully intend to make it through nursing school, and even though we are young, we are fully prepared to take on the responsibility of little miss Skylee Rae Hester.