Long overdue 26 week update

Sorry for the lull in posting - kind of been a combo issue of our laptop being broken as well not been feeling the best. My husband is working on trying to reinstall all of our drivers and our hard drive which seems to have crashed and no longer recognizes our wireless internet. Instead - I have to wait to use his work laptop when he gets home for the day, and when he's using it for work. What a concept - he actually has to do work sometimes on his "work laptop" LOL! I just realized how funny that sounded :-) Good news is hopefully ours should be a quick fix, one advantage of having an electrical engineer hubby.

I had another appointment today at my OB's and things are holding steady for now. Things are still a little dicey - but I am pretty delighted to still be hanging out a week later on the procardia and at home - so dicey is A- okay with me! My cervix is about 1-1.5 dilated and 50-60% effaced, not the best in that department - but could be worse I suppose? Still the slight funneling is there as well - but the cerclage is intact. Contracting still quite a bit - but tolerable and I'm just trying to catch some rest when I can. Trying to look on the positive side I would say that the headaches have died down a bit, as I expected that they would as I adjusted to the procardia.

Most of the time I still feel like I'm on a cruise ship with the room spinning and the dizziness. However, my OB didn't seem to think that would improve much because of the high dose I'm on and the fact that my BP tends to run on the low side anyways. We've been trying to add Reglan to the Zofran I'm taking so that I can keep a bit more food down to try to keep the weight gain up as well. All in all - I dread adding any more meds to what I'm already taking because I hate thinking of all this going to our little girl Spot as well. But I realize that as with most things in medicine - you must weigh the risk vs benefit ratio. And right now - I need to keep food down which has been a challenge this whole pregnancy and is a bit more cumbersome now that the room spins as well, LOL! Spot needs the calories to grow - so I can only do that for her by keeping up my intake as well I suppose.

We got to catch another glimpse of our girl today as they measured my cervix and did a quick scan. Next week we have another full growth scan - but today she was measuring in about the 15th percentile. Our "little Spot" as I always call her truly is little! But she has continued to grow - and I am just thinking of her as our little underdog. She'll just be the small scrappy fighting type....I just know it. I'm already so proud of her - and find myself posessively defending her when the ultrasound tech said "she's small - but continues to make progress week to week." I love the ultrasound tech, but of course protective mom that I already am over little Spot...I chimed in saying "of course she's continuing to make progress, she's doing great with the cruddy uterus home I gave her, and I am so proud of my little girl!" Funny how protective I guess I've gotten and I didn't even realize it!

Over the next few days, I need to finally do my glucose test and get some other labwork drawn. I think it's just a CBC to make sure I'm not anemic and some electrolytes and LFTs (liver function tests) since I'm on the procardia. So hopefully I'll pass the one hour glucose test so I don't need to sit through the 3 hour one - but if need be enough of you great ladies have been down that route so I know what to expect :-)

I'm getting so excited to finally meet little Spot when the time comes - the feelings are almost overwhelming at times. I can't wait to look into her eyes and just have a little cheek to cheek moment. Guess I'm getting to be an old sap and kind of mushy and hormonal as this pregnancy progresses as well! But it is such a great feeling knowing that it won't be long now - and that makes all the dizziness, headache, and vomiting just seem like a tiny blip in the radar of things. All of that is just temporary, and hopefully I'll have a whole lifetime of great moments with our little girl. That makes anything else worth doing.