Another Pregnancy Scare :(

July 3, 2013

Another Pregnancy scare

Just as I was starting to breath a bit about this pregnancy we have another scare.

Today was our 25th week appointment. :)!!

I had canceled this doctor appointment  because unfortunately our insurance had terminated. I guess they frown on being late with  premium payments. Not good.
Btw, of course we had the premium checks sitting on the office counter since May but the tricky thing is, is that you actually have to send them in. Ahhhh  (I'm trying not to freak out here)

Just to give an estimate of every time we have a doc apt it's around 1,000 dollars of which we are responsible for $50 or so.

When I told jay that I had canceled the apt he freaked. If anyone knows Jay he never freaks over anything. He might be known to be a fainter but not a freak-er-outer(I'm pretty sure that's a word)  He said this is a million dollar baby and there is no way we are canceling. Long story short we went and had an ultrasound
And then saw the doctor. I'm so grateful Jay was so demanding.

We thought everything was fine. I love ultrasounds. I could look at her little black and white profile all day. Then after they checked the baby they checked Kim's cervix. It seemed like she took an extra long time measuring her cervix but Im like,"Jessica, you are just being worried over nothing, everything is fine".

Well, when the doctor came in he said there was a concern. My heart sunk. I guess they like to have the length of the cervix to be a 2.5 or higher. Kim was barley at a 1.8. Which meant her cervix is shortening which is not good unless she is ready to have the baby, Which we definitely are not!!;(

She has had a very stressful, hard and depressing week. The doctor prescribed some medications that could possibly help (we pray it does).
We asked if she could have a cerclage. The doctor said that they really don't do a cerclage after 24 weeks.

Through my tears I'm trying to stay positive (which is a little, lottel, hard to do considering our past).

Game plan:
weekly visits to check cervix. Hopefully cervix will thicken or lengthen.

If not then bed rest and then we will have to figure out another game plan number 2

Please pray that all may go well and that we may accept Gods will.

Love

The Richards ;)