16 weeks!

Today I'm 16 weeks preggers. I happen to have a doll here in that size. This is how big little miss is

15 weeks and Elephanty!

 I've been crocheting lots of things for baby girl. Here's one of the latest things... a stuffed elephant :) 

Getting my BP undercontrol

 I hate this low salt stuff. Although I'm sort of getting used to it...it still feels limiting and I've always hated that. But today I was talking with another preggo momma about things and I looked at my calendar in my app... WOW It's working!

The orange circles indicate that my average BP for the day (I take it three times) is over 141/91 meaning It's hypertension. The yellow dots are 121/81 and higher which is the prehypertension stage. I actually didn't even realize the app did this! but check out the shift from majority of orange to yellow dots !

14 weeks!

 14 weeks today! Also a special day because big sister got to see baby at her first ultrasound! 

She was disappointed since little miss wasn't moving around much. 

Big sister moment :)

 Emilie who was still awake heard me trying to use the baby Doppler when I was getting ready for bed. She came running into my room with a big ole smile on her face. She loves hearing her little sisters heart.

Cerclage is IN

 I had the surgery to put this baby on lockdown on August 4th. Here's the complaint of the day:

So I wanted to share how yesterday went. I've had three previous cerclages placed. ALL have been done under anesthesia (twilight or general). I have never even been offered a spinal before. This time around. Holy hell it was annoying. Every one wanted me to get the spinal. So I had to tell five different people no, so they would go on to explain all the risks of general and I would still have to say no. I was being wheeled INTO the operating room and still having to say NO. Like really? Talk about "pressure" being put on my to make a different decision about what I want them to do my body.

Let me state, I did my research. I knew what possible things could have went wrong with both before I even entered that hospital. I politely listened to all their speeches, and still told them no.

I told the last person my anxiety about a needle going into my spine is much worse than the issues that could happen from general. She proceeded to tell me she has talked patients with worse anxiety through it (umm, you weren't seeing mine lady since we were not doing it). My other favorite thing was that "oh well we aren't even close to the spinal cord where we go in." SURE but you're still going INTO my spine which is full of important nerves that I would rather NOT be messed with. I'm not dumb I know it's not just a big ole empty space there.