Dr. Blake (High Risk) Appointment Update 02/26/09

Went to the doc today.. Baby Toria is doing good!! She passed all her tests with flying colors.. woohoo!!!! She was cute on her ultrasound.. she had her arm draped across her face.. I just imagine it being all dramatic.. life of a Princess! hahah.. and then she was huffing and puffing during the ultrasound.. the doc said it was like huff puff and then sigh. HAHA.. I guess we were boring her? And then she had her tongue moving constantly.. i dunno if she was wanting to suck or what the deal was with her tongue but it was moving! The doc usually is very straight forward and to the point and she actually was like commenting on how cute Victoria was acting! haha..

I keep reading stuff online... yeah.. i know.. i shouldnt! hahha.... But I was told during my hypnobirthing class to tell them NO to the Vitamin K shot (for her) and to supply my own Vitamin K infant tablets for her. They said that the injection gives her WAY too much Vitamin K. And it hurts her cuz its a shot. But I'm having a hard time finding Vitamin K. SO.. I looked it up online!!!

I read I can take vitamin K now and when I breast feed it'll get to her that way, plus give her the tablets in the hospital as well. However, the Vitamin K causes your blood to clot better (or something?) and since they found out I have a blood clot disorder and they have me on baby aspirin for it, I'm assuming the last thing I want is to clot more! hahahha.. so thats a no-go.

Then I read that if a baby gets too much vitamin K it can cause leukemia and other cancers (or something?) but then if the baby doesnt get enough, they can have bleeding in their brain that can cause permanant damage and death.. I'm just like OMG! UGH!

SO.. I asked Dr. Blake. She said the chances of the bleeding disorder arent high (I think i read its 1 in 100,000 babys) but she recommends the shot. She said that the shot is not likely to cause any harm to the baby, only good preventative things.. so.. she suggests having the shot.

And I'm being an over protective mommy, but I didnt want her to have to have a shot right when she's born! haha.. I know shes coming out to the real world and shes not going to be all warm and cuddled up inside my belly, so thats a shocking change to start with, but then to be stabbed with a needle too. Poor girl! I know they have to take her blood but I figured if i could take away one more needle from her and give her tablets I will. But i guess I'll allow her to have the shot and deal with it! ahah...

But then again, if she were a boy, we'd be having MUCH WORSE done to her then a shot HAHAHA.. so I guess I'll just quit being an overprotective mommy and let them do their job!!!

I have an issue with the erythromicin in her eyes too!! Its pointless... I have no diseases so she doesnt need it.. but its a standard thing they do.. ugh!

I need to quit reading the interenet i think :P

Anyways.. Here is a new picture of me... 33 weeks exactly.. She's gonna be here in no time.. I'm scared :P

Kevin is starting on the nursery tonight (He'll do more painting tomorrow.. he just tried the color on the wall to see what it looks like... I'm really scared about it cuz it looks pretty dark!!! We went with the blue color because there really wasnt any other color we could choose that would look good with her quilt.. the pink i think would be too pepto bismo pink and it would drown out the other pink in her room, the orange would be kinda pukey, and then that leaves turquoise and i dont want it THAT dark!!! So we had the choice of light turquoise, medium and dark.. we went with the medium color.. Kev and i both agreed on it.. but now that its starting to go on the wall, im scared HAHHAA.. I hope its not too dark!! I'm sure I'm just freakin over nothing!! We'll see tomorrow when he gets to painting it more! :)

Here is where we are so far..

The pictures are just to show the color so far.. it obviously not much yet!!! Plus I keep changing my mind about where I want to put everything in the room.. The lamp Kevin just hung in the ceiling I already want on another part of the room, the crib I now want somewhere else.. I think I'm gonna drive Kevin NUTS :)