Baby Update

I went to the doctor today and my blood pressure was only a little high. I am very swollen though, my poor feet hurt so bad and even my face looks horrible now. I have to go in twice a week now. He said he wants the baby to stay in a little longer. He said maybe after Thanksgiving he can induce me, he also said maybe on the 1st. I told him I don't want to be induced though. I am hoping he will just come before Thanksgiving anyway. I definitely can't have an epidural now, my platelets are too low. I didn't want an epidural anyway but now that I can't I am like wait give it back!!!! What if I do need it??!! I was fine without it when I had Kinley but what if this one hurts a lot! If my platelets get too much lower, which they will, we will have to have him. I don't think my platelets will wait until after Thanksgiving anyway. He said he didn't want to have to give me a transfusion. So really I think it is looking like we will have him before Thanksgiving, which was my plan all along so I will be happy with that. Now if he will just come on his own I will be super happy!

Hopefully the Last Time

Hopefully this will be the last time I will post about baby issues, the next one should be about him being born! Yesterday around 12 I started feeling horrible, shaky, headache, felt like throwing up. I knew my blood pressure was high. So I get the kids from school at 3 and go to CVS to do there little blood pressure machine, I know they aren't accurate but better than nothing. It said my blood pressure was 157/102. So I call the doctor, that is already closed, and talked to some dumb lady. I talked to three dumb ladies before I finally got a message left for my doctor. Waited for him to call and then he kind of sounded annoyed but he told me to go in and be monitored. Shauna and I go and my blood pressure stays high until about 9. My highest was 171/100, a bunch of 150's and 160's in there and my bottom number stayed around 95-100 most of the night. That high bottom number isn't good. I was glad it was so high though because my doctor is still being dumb about all of this so surely now he has to believe me when I say I am dying! Right??!!
They tested my pee, protein was +3, not good. My platelets are down to 72, not good. And one other thing was elevated but I don't know what that is for. My liver enzymes are normal though, which is good, not going into liver failure at least. After doing all the tests they admitted me because I couldn't go home with those blood pressures. They said I had to stay the night. I begged to go though and the nurse talked to the doc and they decided I could go since my blood pressure was doing a little better. The nurse wasn't very happy about it though, she was trying to convince me to stay but really who wants to stay in a hospital to not even leave with a baby? She took my last blood pressure and it was high so she was like let me just unhook this thing and she turned it off. She was very nice and funny!
When I got home my blood pressure went back up though because I felt horrible again. I guess maybe I should have stayed but it seems like such a waste. The doc said I can't do anything and I have to go in on Monday. I still feel horrible. On our way to soccer I ran into CVS again to check it and it was 121/96. I don't know what is up with that bottom number but it is really making my head hurt I think. I am not going back in to be monitored though. So the kid just needs to come or they need to decide what to do because being monitored doesn't even fix anything.
I was also having pretty good contractions three minutes apart but I am still only dilated to 1. The baby is doing good though! Happy to stay in there I guess but really I don't think I can take very much more of this so I hope he comes soon.

35 Weeks

I had a doctors appointment today and he made me go get my blood pressure monitored. When I went in only my bottom number was a little high, of course when I got over to be monitored it was almost normal. They took blood so they could check my platelets, hopefully he will call in a couple days and tell me what it is. My feet are HUGE right now, that is also why he wanted me to go be monitored because he can't believe how big they are. The protein in my urine is +2, which isn't good. He did say we might have to have him early, but he might just come on his own because I had bad contractions all night last night. I am dilated to 1.

Baptism

Sunday Taylor got baptized. I can't believe he is so old!! He said that he thought he was bigger now (looks bigger). But no he hasn't grown since he was 4, but I just let him think that! I thought it all went well though, I was kind of nervous about it. I wont tell you how many times Den had to baptize him, I am sure it will embarrass him, but he was nervous! It was more than once though, it kind of was a lot actually!!! I felt bad for Taylor because he kept dunking him but Taylor said that it was fine. Taylor got scriptures from grandpa and grandma for his birthday.

I am really just glad we made it through this whole weekend with no baby. We were so busy and I don't like planning things like baptisms and birthdays. Now I feel like we can have a baby, even if it's early, and I wont freak out about it as much.

I just posted like 5 new posts so I hope everyone caught all of them.

Here are some pictures of us right before Taylor's baptism. As you can see no one likes pictures except for Kinley. Taylor was trying to climb the tree, I was trying to hide my fat, and Den just wont look at the camera. Kinley is always cute though so just stare at her.

Halloween

After all of Taylor's birthday stuff we took the kids trick or treating. They got a ton of candy. I know Kinley doesn't look like a very good tinkerbell, I just wanted to hurry and get this weekend over with, next year I will make sure she is cute! I was glad Taylor wanted to be a ninja because he is usually some character like star wars or a transformer. Shauna drove the car and I rode with her because I knew I would have way too many contractions.

Riding in the car didn't really help though because after trick or treating I had contractions for two hours, bad ones, one right after another. I almost went in but it hurt so bad I couldn't get off the couch! I knew it wasn't time because the pain never got worse to. It hurt but they should have gotten worse and worse and they stayed the same. They finally slowed down though and my stomach was sore the next day. My feet have been doing better though, until today! So that is kind of good.

Taylor's Birthday

After all the kids went home from Taylor's sleepover Shauna and everyone came over and we ate pizza, ate a graveyard cake, and opened more presents. Sam and Avery got Taylor a nerf gun, he has really been liking those lately, I hate it because I think they bought the loudest gun they could find. I felt bad getting Taylor only one toy for his birthday so I also got him a nerf gun, a quiet one, so his friends can play to and a little transformer that he really wanted. Grandpa and Grandma (Den's parents) also sent him a $50 gift card that he hasn't spent yet so I know I will hear about that everyday until I take him to the store.

Taylor's Sleepover

Taylor wanted a couple friends to sleepover for his birthday so Friday night Hayden and Tanner came over. We went to see the movie Astroboy, which I thought was dumb and boring, and then Taylor chose McDonald's for dinner, which I wasn't very excited about either but since it was his birthday I let him pick. Then we came home and had leftover eyeball cupcakes and opened some presents. His friends gave him a transformer and money. We got him the very expensive Transformer DEVASTATOR!!! I told him if he wanted that it would be the only thing he got because it was so expensive, he still wanted it. Then the kids played, went to bed, and got up very early to play some more.