on Friday...

[kamber82]

  ...I went to to the doctor for by bi-weekly prenatal appointment.  The doctor said that my blood pressure is a little too high, with a little protein in my urine, and that I have gained too much weight since my last appointment (8 pound in just over two weeks).  I have been asked to take a week of bed rest and to do a 24-hour urine collection plus another blood test.  They are worried about preeclampsia.  I am going to do exactly what the doctor tells me, it just is so upsetting.  I was feeling so great, and I still am, but the doctor is concerned.  This was a different doctor than my usual one because he was out of the office the last couple of days.  Troy is trying to take the best care of the baby and me as he can, but I worry about him.  He has to be so tired.  He won't even let me get up to turn the light on if I want to read.  He just wants to do everything for me.  We had plans to go downtown for a bit Friday evening with a couple of my Chinese friends, but we couldn't do that.  Saturday night was a Halloween party that we were supposed to go to, hosted by one of Troy's co-workers that we couldn't go to.  Today, Sunday is my my sister, Cassie's last soccer game for the season that we were going to go to, but we can't do that now.  The doctor seemed concerned, but when I started crying in her office, she hugged me and told me that she thought I looked too good to be a pregnant mother with preeclampsia.  She said she just wants us to do these tests so that we can be certain that everything is okay, and that we don't need to worry.  We are 31 weeks and 5 days along.

I am just so scared because this is what I was concerned about before. I think you all know, that at fourteen years-old I was told that I wouldn't be able to carry to full term if I were to get pregnant.  Everything seemed to be going so well, and I started to get overly confident, I think.