He arrived at 11:00am on September 11, 2006. He weighted in at 9 pounds 6 ounces and measures 21 inches long. Everyone is doing well. Patrick has been eating well and had visits from his Grandma and Grandpap, and daddies friend Laurene.
I have included some pictures below. The rest are available here.
Okay I just got off the phone with Kaylea, and she just got of the phone with her doctor’s office. She is going to have a C-Section and she is scheduled for Monday, September 11, 2006 @ 10:00am EST.
I realize I am behind in the updates and will be posting some backdated updates shortly.
On Friday, June 30th we had another ultrasound. My mom joined us. We didn’t found out what we were having however we did get to see some of the face. The photos are below, here is the link to the original photos.
Enjoy!
The Spine and Head
The Eyes and Nose
The Entire Face
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.
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.
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.
And better than ever. I have added some music and a few other touches. You can view them buy clicking on the links below. Please note that there is something funky with the quicktime videos and I am working on that. They are also very large files so they make a few minutes to load.
Baby’s First Video (Week 18 Ultrasound)
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Click here for Quicktime
Tour of the Nusery
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