Coming to grips with the due date...

Well, my doctor insists from the first ultrasound they did that I am 10 days behind where I should be based on my last period. This really irritates me to the bone because I know 100% for sure what my dates were, but they continue to insist my body must have been off track that month.

So, as the date nears, I have to come to accept the due date they are using because they aren't changing their minds. So, we'll go with May 14 instead of May 4. Oh well...what's 10 extra days, right? EVERYTHING to a pregnant woman!

I did have an ultrasound done yesterday. I should have been 28 weeks, 6 days based on the due date they are using. Amazingly, my precious baby girl measured 31 weeks and 4 days. So who do you think has the right calculations here?

A Baby In 9 Weeks!

WOOOO HOOOOO! I now start going to my OB every 2 weeks from here on out! I asked about doing the amnio at 36 weeks to test for lung maturity and she said it was up to me if we did it or not. I told her I didn't want to have made it this far just to develop some massive blood clot and lose her. She agreed and said she wants a healthy, mature baby and a happy mom!

So, they are putting off my glucose screening and blood work until 2 weeks from now. I will also get my wonder RhoGam shot in the butt at that appointment. At 32 weeks I will start going every week for my ultrasound and NST (non-stress test).

Since they refuse to go by my date and are sticking to their own incorrect due date, that will put me at 36 weeks on April 16...However, now looking at the calendar and seeing that date is so frightening!!! My son's birthday is April 4 so that just won't do! How can I afford two birthday parties so close together?!?!!?

28 Weeks- Starting to get nervous!

I should be 28 weeks today, however, my doctor is going by an ultrasound that was not correctly dating my pregnancy and it really ticks me off! They have me 10 days behind where I should be based on my last period. Amazing, she measures right on track where she should be based on my last period too, though that's a whole other story of it's own!

I am starting to get crazy and nervous about blood clotting. I google things and read horrible stories about pregnancies ending around this time because of clots forming in the umbilical cord or placenta and it is found too late to save the baby. I feel like I should be watched like a hawk. I don't want to have made it this far with our precious baby girl to lose her in the end over something so simple as a blood clot.

Please God, let our baby be born alive and healthy! I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon with my regular OB and plan to find a way to pour out my concerns onto her. Hopefully she will take me seriously and start monitoring me and baby Belle more closely.

I don't see my high risk perinatologist for another 2 weeks. It has been 8 weeks already since the last time I saw him. I want to be knocking at the door each week asking them to check on my little angel!

During my last pregnancy, at 30 weeks, I started seeing my OB every 2 weeks and having an ultrasound to monitor baby movements and practice breathing movements, then off to the OB office to have a non-stress test for fetal movement. I wonder if they will do that with this pregnancy. It was such a pain, but such a relief to know they were monitoring my little Joshy so closely.

Also, with my last pregnancy, they sent me in for an amniocentesis at 36 weeks. There was no safe place to insert the needle because Joshua was too big and the placenta was everywhere. So, they didn't have proof of lung maturity and I had to wait for 39 weeks to have a c-section. They were going to take him early if his lungs were mature because in their words, it was "better for him to be out than in if he could breathe on his own." I wonder if they will recommend that again for this pregnancy?

Awful News! What do I do now?

FedEx rolls up at my house this morning with an envelope. It's from my mortgage company. We've been going through a "trial loan modification" for 8 months now. Their letter says that we have been denied for a loan modification. We are behind 9 months on the mortgage, totaling over $7,000.

So what do I do now? I am having a baby in 13 weeks or less! What are we supposed to do? I called the bank and the girl on the phone tells me for our area, a typical family of 4 spends $300 a month on groceries. I know I spend $500-600 per month. I never buy anything unnecessary at the grocery store. I buy diapers, toilet paper, shampoo, lunch for my son, etc. We never eat things like steak or any kind of meat that costs more than $4. I told the lady I don't know where she got her figures but those people who only spend $300/month are eating WIC corn flakes for breakfast lunch and dinner. She told me to go to a food bank for old produce donated by grocery stores.

This is ridiculous! They let me go through 8 months of limbo, paying their "trial payment" just to tell me to get out now. I'm at a loss for what to do. How can I bring another baby into this life? I pray that God will provide a way for us to provide for our children!