We have had our first of two appointments this week, and good news. Kaylea’s blood pressure is down. It is still elevated but it is no longer in the statosphere like it was last week.
We still have an ultrasound and another appointment on Friday so look for more information then.
The shower pictures from Kaylea’s moms are up. You can view them here.
Randy and Nancy are out this weekend with the crib and all of the shower gifts, so stay tuned for more pictures. We also have an ultrasound on Friday and an appointment on Tuesday so there will be many more updates.
We are getting rid of our Babies R Us Registry. Why? Well we can’t by anything online anymore. There are four items (outside of the Baby Einstine DVD’s) that we can purchase through Babies R US/Amazon. We have already started a registry at Walmart and we will be starting one at Target Soon. I realize that many of the items from both places will only be available on-line however most of our family has access to a computer, and the major basic nessecities, many of which we still need, are available in most of the Walmart and Target Retail stores. There are a few things that will still be on our Babies R Us registry, like some of the furnature, because they are the only ones that carry it but that will be about it.
If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail either one of us.
Well Kaylea’s encounter with blood pressure medication did not go well. So we had another office visit yesterday. They halved her dose, and with today being the first day with only one pill we shall see. They now want us to take her BP in the morning before she gets out of bed, as soon as we get home from work, and before she goes to bed and takes her daily dose of blood pressure medication.
We have an appointment on Tuesday, and another appointment and ultrasound on Friday.
More updates to come.
We had another appointment yesterday, and it wasn’t all good news. Kaylea’s blood pressure was the highest it has ever been in the office 158/100. The docotor’s decided it was way too high and they diagnosed her with chronic hypertension. This wasn’t a complete suprise to us, as they told us before that if it stayed too high they may do something about it. They went over the issues that this can cause, the complications, and prescribed her some medication to lower the blood pressure. They also suggested some medication she can take for her sinus, which as of late, have been cause her some problems and that she should take it easy if possible.
They also told us that if they can’t get her blood pressure under control with medication, that the next step would be bed rest.
Now after talking with our parents there immedate response was what about pre-eclamsia. Well after some research and a really good article at OBGYN.com I was able to explain to them the difference. Pre-eclamsia is really gestational hypertension, chronic hypertenion comes on before the 20th week of pregancy and does not include any the of signs of pre-eclampsia or gestational hypertension. So now you ask what are the symptoms of gestational hypertension well according to the article at OBGYN.com they are
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From Hypertension in Pregnancy
Kaylea is lucky in that she doesn’t have the protien in her urine. Also all her liver and kidney function tests are good.
We will now have weekly visits to the office with monthly ultrasounds and regular non-stress test. They are going to watch this carefully because of complications that high blood pressure and cause and because they want to make sure it doesn’t evolve into gestational hypertension.
In good news we have an ultrasound next friday and with any luck we will find out if we are having a boy or a girl.
So Kaylea had two suprise showers this weekend. We got a ton of stuff. Most we don’t even have yet. We only brought home the bedding, clothes and bath stuff (towels and washcloths), so we can get them sorted and washed then adjust the registry.
I am working on the videos and photos now. The photos from Saturday June 10th’s shower are available here. I am still working on the video (which will be delayed while I await the arrival of some software) and the photos from Sunday June 11th.
Kaylea had another appointment today. The uterus measured 25cm which apparently is good because that measurement is based on how many weeks you are into your pregancy +/- 3cm. Her blood pressure was up again this week, however as usual it was normal at home all month. We did get to hear the heartbeat for more than a few seconds. I think the baby is too big now to escape the ultrasound. They also gave her a prescription for a 1 hour glucose tolerance test. We ask about a 3 hour test, because she only showed changes on the second hour when she was diagnosed with PCOS but they just want a 1 hour for now, so we shall see. Next appointment and update in one month.