hi everyone

well to be honest this time round i was hoping for a much different pregnancy, with my son i spent 6.5 months in hospital and then he wanted out early 31.5 weeks and spent all up 10 weeks in hospital before we could bring him home.

so far with this pregnancy it is almost about the same as my son's.  i have been as sick if not sicker with this bub, I've had now 4 doctors tell me that this is going to be my last pregnancy cause if i was to go for a 3rd it would only kill me.

3 weeks ago i was told that i have had a stroke, not a popped blood vessel but a stroke.  leading up to it i was getting super migraines i would lose feeling in my right arm and get tingling on my left side. at first my doctors thought that it was to do with an old injury from a riding accident, but with all the "safe" test they were proven wrong.  when it started to look like that it was in fact a stroke they then did all the "bad" tests to confirm their fears.

from what  they have told me this is a really rare thing to have happen in pregnancy.  there really isn't much information out there on it, there is lots on stroke itself but not much to do with pregnancy.  my doctor is still trying to get more information for me.

at this stage they think that bub's is fine and wasn't effected by the stroke. so fingers crossed.  but i know that bub's is ok cause there seems to be a non stop party happening in there that's for sure lol.  with my son coming at 31.5 weeks they are saying that this bub will come around the same time but they are going to do everything that they can to keep bub's in there for just a little longer.

i still haven't gotten all the feeling back in the right arm but am getting there.

because of all of this my heart is now a little weaker and they aren't to sure why, I've had to walk around for days with heart monitors on to see what my heart is doing, one minute its fine and then the next it's racing and i have a pain in my chest, or it goes really slow and then really fast,  the doctors have told me that when this happens I'm to call and ambulance and get to the nearest hospital as they don't know what will happen.

so between the non stop vomiting (and the Zofren not working anymore) and all the other things that have been happening. i am trying really hard to stay positive about everything.

next Friday we are off for our 19 week scan and to find out what this partying bub is, this is something i am really looking forward to, and i am really hoping for a little girl. but I'll be happy as long as bub's is healthy.
 

I'm booked in for a c-section on the 24th Feb 09 at this stage just got to get there first.

i love this pic of bub's

for the last week i've been hospital with HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM - my ketones levels were high, my kidneys were slowly starting to shut down cause of not been able to keep any fluids or food in my system. i had been vomiting to the point of blood for 4 days straight, what ever i ate or drank it would just come straight back up again :o(.
 

cause of all this my liver functions were also low and the doctors were starting to worry, i had 2 drips and a cocktail of meds ( still on them all ). and will be from what its looking like for the rest of the pregnancy. my doctor is also thinking now of bring bub's a little earlier than though also instead of a month it might be as early as but my son was born at. but we wont know for a few more weeks yet.  and cause  of this its making it hard to book into hospital too lol.

my doctor feels that i might be in hospital every 2 weeks for top ups of fluids and other needs to try and keep everything looking good.  i also have to see either my OB or GP every 2 days to check on ketones, kidney function and liver function and any sign of these starting to not look good its straight back to hospital for me.  

hope everyone is doing great

gecko-baby

sorry its taken me a while to put up the first pic of bub's.

the ultrasound place doesn't give pic's or the films to you until you see your doctor and today was the first chance I've had to get to the doctor.

bub's is measuring 5.3mm and is 5 weeks 4 days in this pic. (between the little white x's)

it was a little early for the heart beat so I'm off for another scan on Tuesday of next week, and this time hubby can come with me.

 gecko-baby

hi

i have been reading some of the advice on minti about preemie babies, and thought that i would share some of the support groups we were told about when gecko-buba was born, they really did help us through a really hard time in our lives.

http://www.momentbymoment.com.au/cafeprem/momentbymoment/Support%2BGroup/

http://www.austprem.org.au/ - this one is run by the Australian gov

http://www.lifeslittletreasures.org.au/

http://www.prematurity.org/

http://www.prematurebabes.org/

http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/bfinfo/premature.html - this one is support for breastfeeding a preemie baby

http://www.prembaby.org.au/

i hope that some of these can be of some help.

 gecko-baby