Hello...

James Lawrence arrived exactly a month early on Feb. 8, 2015, 2:15pm weighing 5 lbs 1 oz / 2310 g

( birth story under the cut; early arrival & liver failure )

i'm 23wks along in my pregnancy, and my sister is also pregnant, at about 11 weeks now. she recently went on vacation for the weekend to visit a friend of mine since high school whom she recently met (we didnt live together for most of our teens). i dropped her at the airport, but the day she was coming in, I ended up in the hospital because of ( Read more... )

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 ( Cut for teh ick... )

So I posted a little while ago about some spotting I was having, being my first pregnancy I was flipping out.

( good news for the most part )

On Tuesday, I (stupidly) decided to go run some errands and wound up hitting ice and flipping my car. I wasn't going very fast when it happened and I only flipped because where my car went off the road the ground wasn't level with the road. I watch a set of 3yr old twins and had my dog with me, we were all fine. No injuries, no bumps, no bruises ( Read more... )

So, wednesday night, around 7pm I was in a LOT of pain, and had thrown up everything I ate or drank even water for the past 3 to 4 days. I called my OB and she said come to the ER right away and that she would call and let them know I was comming. So, I got dressed, hubby got dressed, I threw up again just before we left, and we were on to Chrustus ( Read more... )

So I'm roughly twenty-two/twenty-three weeks along, and I hadn't felt the baby move in a few days. She moved pretty consistently from fiftteen weeks on, but I tried not to panic. I tried everything - juice, ice cold water, hot shower, cold shower, poke the tummy, jiggle the tummy, vibrating cell phones on the tummy, spicy chicken, small amount of ( Read more... )

So it looks like those Braxton Hicks contractions were not too false...I just spent the last 6 hours of my day in the ER with cramping/contractions. Turns out I am dehydrated and have a serious UTI. They gave me saline IV and antibiotic IV as well as a 2 week regimen of Microbid to take home, as well as a shot to stop the contractions...when I ( Read more... )