Under Pressure...

Well things have taken quite a turn! Who would have thought that I could meet little Evelyn so early! Here is what has been happening...

The last few weeks have been crazy. At first I was just feeling icky and wasn't able to do much, but then my energy came back! THEN we had an issue with her lack of movement again and the Dr made us go to L&D. This was on the day before Mother's Day. They put my on a monitor and Evie wasn't moving much. We stayed there until 2 in the morning, but eventually she started kicking and dancing and doing her thing! She is already trying to worry her mommy and daddy! Everything looked fine and we were told to just keep an eye on her movement. If she stopped moving again then we were told to go back to L&D as soon as possible! I had a little talk with her and I think she got the message because she has been doing high kicks ever since! THEN the following day I got a cold. It was terrible because I couldn't take anything. I was just a coughing, sneezing, snotty mess! Poor Joey took care of me, but within a few days it cleared up. Finally everything was looking up and we were looking forward to take the next five weeks to get ready for our baby girl's arrival... then the swelling started.

Don't get me wrong. I am 8 and a half months pregnant so I have had some swelling, but nothing too serious. I have had just enough that I have to wear flip flops and try to put my feet up at the end of a hard day... no biggie! Then one day I couldn't feel my feet! I looked down and I was so swollen from the calves down that I couldn't feel the tops of my feet! Everyone told me that was normal so I just went on my way. The went on for days, but again, I thought it was normal! Then one day my started hurting... bad and my vision was a little different. I checked my blood pressure and it was 133/85. Now that isn't a terrible read, but when the highest blood pressure you ever really have is 110/75, you tend to worry! I thought it was just a fluke and decided to test it again later and when I did, it was a little higher and then later it was a little higher. By the time I got the the Dr the next day it was 142/101. The worry was it had gotten up so fast and on the day it was 142/101, I didn't go to work and I pretty much tried to take it easy all day!

The Dr said if I was already 37 weeks he would have sent me to L&D to have the baby. He didn't want to risk it since this came on so fast. The decision was to wait a week until I am 37 full weeks and then induce, that is unless it gets worse. So I had to go back on Friday to get another BP and then to the hospital yesterday to get some more tests run. Everything has stayed steady at about 138/85-90, but that is only with my on bedrest. So here I am, on bed rest and already losing my mind! I was told complete bedrest unless I need to go to the bathroom... we'll see how it goes. I have to continually check my BP to see if it gets higher. If I can keep everything in check then we will wait this next week and then she will be here! YEAH!

Everyone has been so great and supportive and I am so grateful! Please keep us in your prayers.

I will be doing very little this next week if someone wants to give me a call cause they are bored... :o)! I go back to my Dr on Tuesday and hopefully we will be able to set the date for induction instead of just 37 weeks. He mentioned June 2nd because that will be a week later and that will be the date that she is considered full term, but it could be the day before or a few days later. Once I know more I will let everyone know!

Thank you again everyone!

Oh yeah... it is very early right now so I am not going to look this over. If anyone finds a major typo... Aimee :o)... then let me know so I can fix it! LOL!