Thursday, February 10, 2011

Doctor Run down

My first appt with my doc was last Monday so I thought I would post about it now. :)
I really like her! She works and delivers in St.Marks which isn't too far from our hacienda. She made time to sit and run through all things that we need to be extra careful of this pregnancy. Just little things like diet control and checking my blood pressure when I am at the grocery store will help. She is going to treat this pregnancy like a high risk preg starting at 22 weeks. I will go in every 2 wks starting then and then move up to every week at 30 wks. So I will have almost twice the amount of visits and I am not even having twins. It will cost us more but as long I dont go through delivering another baby at 29 weeks it is well worth the $$. We will have a normal ultrasound at 20 weeks and then every other visit I will go to Fetal Maternal Medicine and they will do a fetal scan to make sure the baby is growing at a normal rate. This is all because even though Coop was born at 29 wks he measured at a 27 wk baby. Also fetal scans will help in early detection of toxemia. For those who dont know this is why I had Cooper so early because I had severe toxemia set in over 2 days and by the time we got sent to the hospital it was too late to get my blood pressure down. Very scary experience but we are so blessed that Cooper hasn't had any major problems from early delivery.
Needless to say I feel really good about everything my doc had to say and am looking forward to a healthy happy baby at the end!

P.S. My mom has threatened to move in at the first sign of trouble. So its another incentive to stay healthy. Luv ya ma ;)