Got a call from the dr's office this morning, with my u/s results. I wasn't worried at all - after all, Wood and I saw little woodlet moving and squirming all over the place. Baby is perfectly fine :) However, it seems I have a complete placenta previa. This is when the placenta decides to make it's home smack dab over the cervix. I'm now on some restrictions (no lifting, exercise, etc) and I have a referral for July 2nd for the perinatologist who visits our remote and rather rural location 1x per month.
There is still time for it to "migrate" into a higher position. While the placenta doesn't move, per se, as the uterus stretches, the possibility exisits for it to migrate to a higher position as time goes on. If not, it means a definite C-section several weeks before term. It also carries a higher risk of preterm labor (I already have a history of this), hemmorrage, growth restriction for the baby.
What causes placenta previa? Oh, let's see: Age over 35 - yup. 3 or more previous pregnancies - yup.
So I have a regular OB appt on June 25th, I see the perinatologist on July 2, and we got to Milwaukee on July 13th, for both G's checkup at Children's hospital in the am, and I'm having a Nuchal translucency scan in the pm (they don't do those up here at all - Wood and I just want to be prepared for all contingencies. Some trisomies are associated with heart and other defects, and if we were to find out something like that, we probably wouldn't deliver at the hospital here in the UP.)
Praying that the previa moves up and out of the way, or this could be a complicated pregnancy.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
G and A are going to be big sisters.....
A work in progress…….a bit of geography for these hard to look at u/s photos –
Round circle on the right hand side is the yolk sack. Directly under that is the baby’s head, which is about ½ of the body at this point.
If you look closely, you can see the little arms and legs – baby is laying on his/her left side facing forward. Right arm is just below the head,
about halfway down the body to the left. Bumps at the bottom are the legs.
We could see the baby squirming around today, reaching it’s arms towards it’s head. Kinda cool! Heartbeat was 167 beats per minute.
The dynamic due want a boy only.....we'll see!
Morning sickness (actually all day sickness) is starting to subside. However, I'm asleep by 8 or 9pm every night now!
Round circle on the right hand side is the yolk sack. Directly under that is the baby’s head, which is about ½ of the body at this point.
If you look closely, you can see the little arms and legs – baby is laying on his/her left side facing forward. Right arm is just below the head,
about halfway down the body to the left. Bumps at the bottom are the legs.
We could see the baby squirming around today, reaching it’s arms towards it’s head. Kinda cool! Heartbeat was 167 beats per minute.
The dynamic due want a boy only.....we'll see!
Morning sickness (actually all day sickness) is starting to subside. However, I'm asleep by 8 or 9pm every night now!
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