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February 12, 2003
2/12/03
Happy Valentines Day!
I wanted to thank everyone who posted well wishes and congratulations on my TTM board. Each message made me smile. While I am still quite ill from m/s I have moments that I feel ok (like now), but for the most part I just lay on the couch and sleep. Because when I'm asleep I don't know I feel bad.
My mom came to town over the weekend and that was nice. Virginia didn't even know that Karl and I existed while she was here. So Karl had a chance to just relax. But the weather didn't cooperate so he didn't get a chance to get out and play tennis or go for a bike ride. But I know he enjoyed not having to cook for a few days. My mom also helped clean, so that was great. Virginia was also sick while my mom was here. Karl took her to the Dr and she has a bad virus...caught from daycare (guilt, guilt guilt). So he gave her a prescription for cough medicine with codeine. This helped because she was coughing so hard she would vomit. ouch...that had to hurt. She still has a minor cough, but is definitely on the mend and is no longer running a fever.
Virginia was excited to go back to school today (what we call daycare), she really likes her teacher. I must say that even if I feel guilty about sending her to daycare, it really is helping her with potty training. They have toddler sized real flush toilets...which I think she likes (because she always wants to sit on the "big" toilet at home). And I think the peer pressure helps....seeing other kids using the potty.
Karl told me that for this last week, every time he has Virginia in the car and they pull onto our street she says, "This is my house. I live here". Karl says it makes me smile every time. She learned that phrase from a book that is part of her bedtime routine. Karl says now at bedtime she recites almost the entire book with him. Maybe it's time to find another story. ;-)
Virginia is still being very sweet and motherly toward me. I feel like the luckiest mom in the world having such a caring and sweet daughter.
I've asked iparenting to open a new pg diary for me. While I patiently wait for that to happen, I am going to update on the pg here.
I had my first OB appt yesterday. The dr commented that she didn't have to ask if I was still feeling bad (she remembered from calling in the nausea meds for me)...guess I don't hide my feelings well. She also commented that feeling bad was a great thing. So she did the typical first visit things, including an internal exam. She commented that my uterus is tilted back. I had forgotten that from the last pg. She sent me to the next room to get an u/s and commented that it would probably have to be vaginal because of the tilted uterus. I didn't care, I just wanted to see this baby. The u/s tech was nice and she tried to see the baby from my belly first. But no luck, so internally she went. Then we saw one perfect little baby. The heart rate was 171 (hmm, another girl?). We also saw two arms and legs and the baby wouldn't stop moving. The u/s tech turned the sound on so we could hear the heart beat, but it would only last a few seconds because s/he wouldn't stay still. That's okay, seeing the strong heartbeat was good enough for me. That is so reassuring. The dr said my due date is 9/9/03, but the u/s dated me at 9/14. I know the u/s is right because the 9/9 date is from my LMP...but I have a long cycle and ovulate late. But I'll keep the 9/9 date...that's fine...because then if I make it to 40 weeks, I would be induced earlier. (I'm imagining being pg in aug/sept in Texas is not going to be fun...oh, well!). My dr then talked about the fact that Virginia was a preemie. huh? I had to remind her that Virginia was only 10 days early. She remembers me being on bedrest and she remembers Virginia being small (6lb 5 oz). So basically I just need to keep a look out for pre-term labor. She also mentioned that I could worry about my weight/nutrition after the m/s is gone. She said that even though I have lost 8 pounds, as long as I was keeping down the folic acid and drinking fluids that would be okay. She wants to see me gain 20 pounds by my 20th week, and then another 1 lb per week from week 20 to 40. I'm not worried that I won't gain enough. I think with Virginia I had gained less than 10 pounds by week 20, but still managed to put on a total of 42 pounds (which seems like a lot, but all of it came off so fast and I think having extra fat stores helped me make lots of milk). I do need to increase my fluid intake....when I went to give the urine sample all of 5 drops came out. The nurse wasn't humored by that. So then I tried again at the end of my appt (1 hour later) and got 10 more drops. oh, well. The nurse said that from now on I need to be prepared to give 1/2 cup each time. I wasn't like I didn't want to give the sample...guess I'll have to gulp down an entire glass of water before I go next time (in 4 weeks).
Here's to hoping the m/s ends soon!
Katrina, Virginia, and baby K
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