All Sorts of Happy News

First of all a quick baby update. I have a low anterior placenta (which usually means C-Section as it could be risky for vaginal deliver to the baby) and the baby is frank breech, meaning bum down near the cervix head AND feet up near my ribs. Oh many can I feel that cabeza and feet moving around, WOO HOO!!! More like ow-eeeeee!!!!!! So my previous C-Sections are a blessing in disguise cause this one would have had to be one too! The Lord knows what he is doing, don't EVER doubt that!!!

Well my good ole OB/GYN ordered for Home Uterine Activity Monitoring (HUAM) as well as a Terbutaline Pump and today I got all set up my a Nurse who came to the house. I got a call last yesterday saying everything as approved and that a nurse should be contacting me later in the evening to set up a time for today to come by and get me hooked up. Then about 8pm a package arrived at the door. It was a courier with meds that told Jason they needed to be refridgerated. Alrighty!!! I wasn't expecting that kind of service!! Not long after that I got a call from the nurse who said she has a case in Oxnard in the morning(w/o traffic its an hour and a half drive) and could she come back in the late afternoon. Of course I said yes. I was happy she said afternoon as the girls have Ballet class for 1/2 hr on Sat mornings. This morning I took the girls to their Ballet Class and then did a quick errand and came home. When I came home there was another package. I opened it up and there was more meds inside!! I got a call from the nurse with an ETA and she came right as planned. I signed my life away about 20 times and then she got me all set up with these fun gadgets (yeah right). Here are the details:

HUAM-2x a day once in the morning, once in the evening for an hour each time or any other time I am feeling contractions. After I have monitored I have to send in the results through the phone line after which a nurse checks it out and then calls me back to let me know the status, etc. Tonight when I did it I got a call back within 7 minutes. It is an RN reading it and they are on 24 hrs a day which makes it nice. If I have any concerns I can call and/or monitor and they will help me out.



Terbutaline Pump-Kinda like an insulin pump. It is in my leg and I have to wear this pump ALL the time. It pumps me fll of medicine on a regular basis and gives me an extra booster evry so often as well. If I feel those crazy contractions I can give myself adn extra dose of meds to call that uterus down. I have to change the insertion site every 3-5 days, not for the queasy!!! Jason is not even liking the thought of it being in my leg but to see it there AND know I have to change the site every 3-5 days makes him green about the gills!!! Poor guy. At least I have no problem doing it cause there is no way in.... well you know where....he could do it!!!! So..2x a day I have to put in a new vile of medicine. Way better than having to take to oral medication. I was taking it every 4 hours and with my ADD brain that is pretty difficult to do but the Lord works in greta ways to help us accomplish things that's for sure. My dr had just upped my meds too. So at one dosing I would take 2 pills and at the next dose I would take 1. Talk about confusing this just about did it!! I was able to hang in there for 5 days now(not bad if you ask me), the pump has arrived so no more oral meds!!! Hurray!!!! I will get steady dosings which will be much more effective. The nurse said orally you get between 40-50% of the meds and subcutaneously you get more like 90% of the med. So here it is going in!!!

BTW-The nurse asked me if I was a nurse since I knew so many medical terms and knew so much about the meds and my condition, etc. This happened with Kaida as well. I love it!!!! I love the internet and being able to learn so much and be informed. What a blessing to be able to do research and use our brains to help educate ourselves. It not only helps us medically but also emotionally. As we are infoprmed we can feel calm and prepared because we know what to expect/know what is going on. It also then helps us to knwo how to ask the Lord to help us in whatever our situation may be.

****More Happy News****

Tomorrow I will be 32 weeks!!! This is a milestone for me as Kaida was born at 32 weeks!! I pray daily that this little one and my body will respond to the meds and stay in until it absolutely needs to come out although it is not my will but His will. He knows what we are capable of handling and what this little one's time frame is. Throughout all of this pregnancy there have been some major stressors and ups and downs but not once have I felt crazed or worried. I have had a sense of peace and calmness and know that everything will be all right as long as I leave it in the Lord's hands he will take care of each individual of my family.

I will have to take pix of me and all my cool thingamabobs!!!!

Love to you all!!! Good Night!!!!!