Saturday

Just a quick update to say that we're still hanging in there and doing very well. Since being off of my Mag Sulfate, the procardia seems to be holding my contractions well. I am still having contractions every 5-10 minutes, but they are not all uncomfortable and are not causing any further change in my cervix. That is the golden ticket! Truly I only have 4-5 an hour that I feel are stronger contractions - but no are no where near like the ones I came in with last week. The last two nights I've been able to catch some decent sleep and only woke up due to the contractions maybe 5 times a night or so - what a relief. It's amazing what being able to get some sleep does for your peace of mind and mood! Also, we're still doing the p17 (progesterone) shots throughout this time since I've been on them since early second trimester.

Our little girl is still breech and will likely remain that way the later things progress. I'm not too shocked since many girls who belong to the unicornuate uterus club or have other uterine abnormalities have malpresentation like this. We've basically planned for a c-section from the beginning so I'm not too bummed. Ideally of course it would be nice to avoid the uterine scar for further pregnancies especially since mine seems to like to contract so much - but if it's not in the stars I understand. We also have another growth scan Monday morning so I'm pretty excited to see how much Brynn has been bulking up. They also want to glance at my amniotic fluid levels since they dipped a bit from our last two BPPs, but we're still not in the "danger zone." Our AFI is still greater than 5. So I am hopeful that they will be fine. I understand that many people deliver large healthy babies with very low fluid and ours honestly isn't that low at this time compared to many women I've seen come through labor and delivery while working over the last few years.

My husband is going tomorrow to get a few basics for the baby that we haven't purchased so far. Most stuff I'm not too concerned if we have - but he's going to pick up stuff like our infant car seat and my breast pump. We'll both have something new to play with and to figure out how it works when we need it in the weeks ahead - him meaning the car seat and me the breast pump, LOL! (I promise I'll just be looking and no funky pumping will be going on, hehe!) Today he picked up some diapers and wipes so things are starting to come together down this home stretch. We figured we'd try out these two and see how we like them - can always switch to something else if we don't like them.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I finally got to see the Sex in the City Movie my husband brought to me. Of course I loved it even though many people had told me all about it. It was something I planned to do weeks ago - but haven't been able to coordinate with everything going on. I was so delighted to discover some great news over the last few days. Even though I only know of a handful of girls with a unicornuate uterus or abnormality here in blogland, I heard that three of them received wonderful news all this week! What a crazy coincidence - but surely a great one. If you get a chance go over and offer them a big congrats - each of them have faced a long road with infertility. Nutmeg96 got her positive results and Elizabeth just found out that their surrogate is pregnant from their cycle this month. Surrogacy is a journey many women with a unicornuate uterus may travel and she has handled things like a pro. Mel at Life in a Holding Pattern also discovered those magical two pink lines and I'm so excited for her as well.

Hope everyone else's weekend is going great too, and as always mine was a bit nicer because of you all!