This Friday brought another Greyson checkup. I was 34 weeks and 2 days!
At this appointment we learned that I'm measuring 36 weeks and he guessed Greyson most likely weighs at least 5 pounds. His heartbeat was a nice steady 130 (yay!). We are doing great other than that the first blood pressure reading came out at 143/90. So it was mildly high. The nurse took it first. Then after my appointment Dr. Talsky took it again. When he took it was 118/80...so it was perfect. He said had it read high again he would have had me come back in 4 days to check it again. Basically if I end up continuing to have that high of a blood pressure reading I will end up getting monitored on an NST and have labs drawn. Then likely be put on bed rest to control it. If it that were to not work and it would go into the extremely high ranges I should be prepared to deliver at any time. Um GULP. I know that any time after 36/37 weeks they allow labor to continue and if were to happen, I'd head in for a c section as soon as it did. But with all 3 of my kids hearing be prepared for any time if...it always gets me. Oh yeah. We're having a baby....and we're way closer to the finish line that we were before! again GULP!!
Anyway, because my blood pressure fixed itself...for the time being he said to look for headaches, dizziness, blurred vision and swelling in one foot or hand another vs both sides equally. My hope is that it was just the hustle and bustle of getting to my appointment that created the spike. As long as everyone behaves themselves I shouldn't have to go back till December 20th. At this appointment I will have my group B strep test done and make sure everything else still looks good. All of this makes me a little nervous and the rub in that is that stress plays a huge roll in the rate of our blood pressure. So I'm trying to take my best friends advice...think happy thoughts and relax!!
We are currently in the process of getting the boys moved into their new room and after that our goal is to finish rearranging their room for Greyson...and getting bags packed for the hospital. There are a lot of things we need to do on our Get Ready for Greyson list...and after this appointment we just bumped the priority up a notch! Life sure is interesting with remodels, two kids and the holidays to juggle!! I have joked it would be our third child we are the least prepared to bring home! That in itself makes me laugh!! Hang in there Grey...we're trying to get ready for you!! And if you could wait till January so you're nice and healthy...and we have everything all ready to go...we'd be ever grateful :)
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