Archive for April, 2008

O.B. Appointment/Ultrasound

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Dakota looks really good and we were afraid he might have club food but the ultrasound showed that his legs are perfectly fine. I’ll have pictures up as soon as I can get them. last night I felt as if I just realized I was pregnant and I just started balling. My husband held me for a while and talked to me saying he’d had this feeling of complete fear for while, but like my husband is he hides his feelings and won’t let any one know unless he just can’t handle something. It’s really scary to think I’m going to be having a baby soon and that my baby is going to be coming out of me. I’m really considering a c-section just because I’m so terrified. Well any who…everything is going well except my fears, but from what I gather it’s normal.

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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I’m getting so excited about seeing Dakota again I get to see him on the 22 at ten pm and I just can’t wait. He’s been moving around a lot more recently and it’s really reassuring because it lets me know he’s still ok between the appointments. However I’m starting to feel a little more depressed theses days, wondering if an 18 year old can be a good mother to a baby, wondering if my husband still feels I’m attractive now that I’m gaining weight, and wondering more often if my husband even wants Dakota because he doesn’t seem to walk to talk about him often and has a tenancy to just go quiet when I do. All these things have caused me to be less excited in some ways, when I’m not looking at him or feeling him I just feel so lost. My family is more receptive of the baby now which helps some, my mom helped me with my baby registrys and my grandparents are really getting in to the thought of being great grandparents. It’s really nice to have that support and yet I still feel like I can’t talk to them about my feelings because then my mom will probably just tell me that maybe I shouldn’t have gotten pregnant in the first place.  This all might be just pregnancy hormones that are making me depressed and think these things but I really don’t like it it makes me act so sadly towards the people around me.  Any who I’m just having a bad morning I didn’t sleep well last night and this morning I woke up and my right arm hurts really bad, so blah, but I’m done talking for now so I’ll post more when something actually happens.

Akeema

The baby I thought I lost.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

On November the 23 I was told in the emergency room that I had lost my baby and that it was due to the fact that my husband was A- and I was B+ . Now I believed the man because I just was so depressed it didn’t matter to me, but soon I was wondering if it was possible for me to have another child with my husband so I started doing research and found out that unless the RH factor was peresant, in which case I’d have to be negative and both dad and baby would have to be positive, that I would have a perfectly fine pregnancy. My husband and my mom kept telling me o leave it alone that it happened that I needed to stop dwelling on it, but I couldn’t I had to know what happened, it hurt to bad to just say ok and let it go and pretend that the baby just died of what my doctor told me it did, so I continued to learn more about pregnancies and blood types ignoring both my mother and my husband when they would me to stop. Soon however on January 2 I started getting really sick to my stomach all the time, and on the third I passed out in the local mall so we made me a doctors appointment and I was told to take a blood pregnancy test. I stared at the woman then started crying unable to keep the pain in side any more. My husband explained what happened and held me while they took the blood. On the 12th (no idea why it took so long) I got a call telling me hat I was pregnant and that because of my past misscarrage I needed to see an O.B as soon as I could. A few weeks went by but neither my husband or I were ready to admit tat I was pregnant yet so we didn’t speak of it until I just couldn’t take it any more and told him that we had to go see a DR. We went and I told the nurse about my family ’s medical history as did my husband, after wards I called my father-in-law and told him that I was pregnant again, he was really happy but I said not to tell any one else because my mother had been very disappointed in me when I’d gotten pregnant only a few months after i got married. (and the fact that I’m only 18  ) He said he’d keep the promise. The next day we were out at dinner and my stomach started cramping, Freaking out I went to the bath room and saw that I was bleeding. I came back to the table in tears, and with out asking what was wrong my husband took me to the emergency room. We waited six hours before we were seen and it was the longest time of my life. However when they saw me they were all happy and smiling and I wanted to sucker punch them in the kidneys. After they took some blood samples and such I went in to another room and changed in to a night gown then they put an IV in my arm and did and internal ultra sound. The baby was perfectly fine and ewe saw his chest fluttering in a heart beat, I started sobbing right away and couldn’t stop for a while. The doctors then told me tat there was no way I could do anything to cause a misscarrage in the first trimester, that the only thing that could cause it is something internally wrong, It seemed like I’d been waiting for those words and I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders. Now that I think about it I think that I probably was looking for a reason why because I was afraid I’d caused it in the first place. They set me up with another ultrasound the next day and I couldn’t wait to see my baby again. When we went in I was both scared and excited as I got undressed and laid on the table. As the lady nurse did my ultra sound I stared at the picture on the screen transfixed by the little movements that my baby was making. However when she measured the baby and told me I was 16 weeks along I stared at her like she was insane, because there is no way I could have been that far along…unless I hadn’t lost the baby. She told me that that was a possibility, and that she’d see a few more things before telling me that. After the ultra sound was over she felt my stomach for a bit them smiled at me a little nervously before saying, congratulations you are 16.5 weeks and you never had a misscarrage. I stared at her then again, it’s becoming a rather bad habit, I started crying and held my husband as he stared at her in astonishment unable to say anything. She left us alone for a while and we talked before I got dressed then went and made an OB appointment. I am now 23 weeks and counting and we are having a baby boy, his name will be Dakota Aden, and I could not be more proud of my baby boy. Thank you for reading all this I just had to write my story, and I will be posting pictures and such as I get some from my next ultrasound, on the 22 which I’m suppose to have had at 20 weeks but I was visiting family and couldn’t go so I’ll have it next week. For now I’ll have my 16 week ultrasounds up here.

This is Dakota at 16 weeks.