April 3rd 2013
This week was spring break, which meant that it was perfect
timing for the stomach flu….Not!!
My sister's (Angie) kids had the flu and then gave it to my
kids, which then gave it to me. Of all times to share this is the time they
pick grr. I haven’t been that sick since I was pregnant with baby Cord in 2010.
In the last 10 hours I have thrown up about seven times. Ahhh I was miserable
and just wanted to die. If I didn’t know any better I would say that I was
pregnant.
I had waited three long weeks for this appointment and of
all days today is the day that I couldn’t get my head out of the toilet long
enough to even look up let alone go with Kim to our 12 week doctor apt. and I
certainly did not want to give this to her or the baby. So I made sure and
stayed far away from her.
Jay was in court all day so luckily my dad was able to go with
Kim to her appointment. I laid on the bathroom floor as they put the phone on
speaker so I could hear what was going on. I couldn’t hear much but it seemed
like everything was going good. They said they could see the feet, arms, head
etc… I am so elated and it seemed every thing was good.
April 4th 2013
However, the next day I finally was back on my feet. And as
we all know when moms are sick nothing gets done. So off to the bank, library, Wal-Mart
and Costco we went. We were out of everything mostly food. During the day Kim
had phoned and texted a few times seeing how I was feeling and if I was coming
into work.
As I was putting the groceries away Kim had phoned again but
I was unable to answer it. It was around 2:00p.m, which is my favorite time of
day because its “quiet time” which means the babies and I take a little nap in
my room. I know that with Ely being 5 and Jace 4 I fear that our "quite time" will end but for right now I treasure this
time I have with my babies. I remember when I was little, my mom and I, everyday
at one o clock (when I was off track) would take a nap on the couch while
watching Matlock.
Now I like to think that I carry on the tradition :)!!
The babies were pretty much a sleep when I decided to call
Kim back. She asked if I had received her message, I said no. She then began to
tell me that she had been bleeding and the doctor’s office wanted her to go
straight to the hospital. She kept talking but I was frozen and fell to my
knees. I some how managed to mumble the words saying that I would meet her at
the hospital. By now I was in tears and the babies were wondering what was
wrong. We all knelt on the floor and prayed that Kim and the baby would be ok.
Luckily, as I was driving up to the hospital Trudy was
downtown and was able to meet me so that she could watch the kids.
So there we all were Jay, Kim, myself, Trudy, Braxton, Elyse
and Jace. Trudy said that we have to stop meeting each other at the hospital
for once. Lol
It seemed like we waited forever in the waiting room. They
should call it the “one hour and then some room” just to make it more
truthful…lol
Finally they called us back. We unfortunately had been in
this position before. I tried to keep the tears from my eyes and stay strong
for Kim. I held her hand as I also held Jay’s. I don’t think I breathed the
whole time.
Kim said that on the way to the hospital she was thinking
she was going to have to get a D&C like Nikki had back in August.
As soon as the Tech started the ultrasound we could immediately
see the baby kicking up a storm. He (no I don’t know the sex, but I say it’s a
boy so I’ll call it a He) was very active and his heartbeat was 175. Ahh, we
were able to breath a little. The tech began to say that it looked like the
placenta was detaching from the uterus a bit which might be causing the
bleeding. We asked how serious this was. She said that she has seen women have
major placenta detachment and they carried their baby’s to full term and then
others very minimal and they miscarried. Hmm that didn’t help at all. Basically
she said you could or could not miscarry.
However, for the first time, Jay and I were able to see our precious little baby
moving, turning and kicking. I wish we could have stopped time for a moment. For now we have to have "faith not fear" that everything will work as
god has intended it to be. Yes of course we pray our hearts out that our baby
will be healthy and be born at the right time but more importantly we have to
pray that we may accept heavenly fathers will.
So, instead of a D&C (thank goodness) we went shopping.
That makes everything better....right? We got Kim a way cute purse, since her
purse was stolen, and she bought a way cute Easter dress that she can totally
wear while pregnant, success :)!!
I will try and put pictures on the blog from the dvd they
gave us tomorrow.
11 Weeks Pregnant
