Long needed update

Ok. So a lot has gone on in the last 2 weeks. K at 4 days old had another bili test done cause he looked jaundiced. It was 13.2 so the ped said she wanted it rechecked in a few days. When he was a week old it dropped down to 8.9 and they said he was good. On the 14th I gave him a bath and noticed he looked really yellow. It had just come on in like 1 day, he was a normal pinkish color saturday and then BAM! I figured that since his appt was monday then no need to worry. I mentioned it to the dr and he said that it could be from breast milk, his liver is having a hard time breaking down an enzyme in the milk and that they would test his bili again and go from there. It was 19.8!!! Holy shit! They say to start worrying as it gets near 20! Sp they rushed around and got me approved for Vernon Home Health to come out and monitor his and get me a bili light so that they didn't have to admit him. We went back yesterday and after only being on it since 330 Monday, it had already dropped to 16.2. Good news!! I also starting Monday had to stop giving him breast milk.... So today we go in and after another day and night of being on the bili light, its dropped down to 13 even. We're heading in the right direction except he's lost an ounce because he wont take the formula. It takes me forever just to get 2 oz down him. He told me today to go ahead and give him breast milk again since hes not eating.
Well I thought that we were out of the woods yesterday with the level going down but nope. My son is severely anemic. They did a CBC and another test (it escaped my mind what it is right now due to lack of sleep) and his red blood cells are busting open and spilling bili into his blood. So, right now he said if he doesn't get jandiced again after the breast milk while still being on the bili light then its his anemia and his livers ability to deal with it. I have to take him to ldpr on Friday after I pick my mom up from the airport to get another CBC done to check his red blood cell levels, another bili and he wants to run some more tests but he didn't tell me what he wanted to do cause he said he has it in his head what he wants to test for but might change it later.
Also, he detected a heart murmor but he said that since he hasn't heard it before the other 2 days and no one else heard it the past 2 weeks that it could be nothing and only caused from the jaundice and all. He wants the chardiologist to check him out just to be on the safe side though.
My poor kid!!! I dont know what is going on with him!
Last night was such a bad night cause he was so irritated from being on the bili pad. He wont sleep unless he's in his glider and last night, he'd only sleep maybe 30 min before waking up screaming, Picking him up to console him didn't work to well cause he was still cranky. He slept at the drs office today since he could get comfy without that stiff pad behind his back. That and I think because I could actually bundle him up and cuddle with him.

The end is here!

Ok so, just a quick update while i can. Baby came at 36w6d(my count) 35 weeks to the day the drs count. Almost full term, still considered preemie (not sure why). He was 6lbs 9 oz and 19 inches long. A BIG difference from Ashes 33-34 weeks and 4 lbs 4 oz and 17 inches lol. He is such a miracle and wonder baby. He sleeps all night, only wakes up maybe once.
So heres my little birth story for anyone interested... I think Alex, you are the only one who reads this still lol. So i went in Friday, Nov 28 because I had been having some major contractions and cramps all day. My contractions went away and I decided to take a shower. Well, i felt loads better while I was in the shower, but the act of walking from the bathroom to the livingroom I got some really bad cramps that just didnt feel like they were going away. I called Wes to tell him he needed to come home cause I needed to go to L&D. He came home to watch Ashes and I went to L&D. Come to find out I was having contractions every 2 min!!! They weren't enough to change me (yet). He told me that since I was only 34w5d (36w4d my count) he was going to stop them!!!! I couldn't believe he was telling me this!!! My High risk dr told me at 34 weeks he would just give me something to ease the pain and help me relax but not stop them and here this on call dr was telling me he was gonna stop them!!! I was to tired and in too much pain to argue with him and ask for my high risk ob to come in to look at me that i just agreed. Normally when I get terbutaline, they give me anywhere from .50-.75 ml and I have never hd a reaction to it other than whats normal. He gave me .25 ml and I had the worst reaction to it. My heartrate went from 98 to 145 in less then 2 min when normally its a gradual rise as the medicine goes threw the system, my BP jumped up to 139/95 which is bad, I had to be put on an O2 mask cause I couldnt breath and it made the contractions worse. Since i cant have anything else cause of my asthma, he decided to over hydrate me to slow down my contractions. Well after 2 hours of that he discharged me. He told me i was to "sit my ass on the couch and not do anything until monday" yes, he said ass lol.
So Saturday rolls around and after sitting there for half a day with no relief, I decided it was pointless because even getting up to go to the bathroom made them extremely painful and worse. I decided that A and I were gonna go to Subway to get dinner for all of us. We ate and then L told me he was gonna go to work and since he was gonna be in the box, that if i needed to get ahold of him, call the company and they would get ahold of him and he would rush back. (he was gonna be 45 min away for like 9 days) He left at about 900 pm but since they werent doing anything, his plt sgt said he could just come home, no sense in him sittin at the company when he could be home with me. He got home about 930 and we started timing my contractions. By the end of "Charlie Wilsons War" They were 13-17 min apart with a few that were 3-5 min. We went to bed around 11 and before we went to bed he asked me if i was sure i didnt want to go back to L&D to get checked out and monitored. I told him no since the only thing they could do for me was monitor me and hook me up to another iv and i would rather try and get comfy in my own bed and get some sleep then be there. I fell asleep right away and woke up at 0100 with the worst contraction I had ever had, so bad it was in my back with the majority of the pain in my pubic bone. Now, I had had a few times where I had peed myself or almost peed myself during contrations so I thought that I was about to pee on myself so as I was saying oh shit from the pain and trying to get out of bed, I took 2 steps (which brought me to the bathroom) and as soon as my feet hit the tile my water broke. I sat down and told wes he needed to call l&d and tell them we were coming cause my water broke. It was so funny cause after he called them and was trying to get some of the last min things in my bag, he asked me "are you sure it broke and you didnt pee yourself?" I looked at him, looked down right as I had a little gush and it was leaking on the floor and was like, nope, im peeing myself, I have an extremely large bladder that lets me hold gallons of water lol.
So we got there about 130 and they got me hooked up, looked at, I was 2 cm and 90% by then, got me all preped to go get my section and then the dr came in. he just laughed at me when I said "I know i was supposed to wait til monday but hey". The contractions were nothing like they were with A after my water broke. I was able to laugh, joke and talk to everyone. I was trying to keep the mood light for my hubby who although will never admit it, looked like a deer caught in the head lights lol. The dr explained all the risks with him being early and so on. they took me back to the section room, gave me my spinal and at 307 am Mr. K made his entrance into this world. He wasn't breathing at first but still managed to have apgars of 6,7,9 which are good. They put him under an O2 tent after I got to see him and by the time the ped got there he was fine.
We got to come home on Tuesday at noon and he has been an absolute joy. he's only had one bad night but all it took to cure it was lettin him sleep on me. I think about how long it took to be able to get pregnant with him and all that I went threw with my labor and I am soo thankful to have him. Words can not even explain.

Not so good on the baby front

So good news first.. I am 36 weeks tomorrow!!(34w 1d the drs count but they are gay and NOT going by my u/s) YAY!! haha i know such a small thing to be excited about yet its a big thing to me. On to the not so great news. I haven't grown in a month. I mean I've grown lol but my findal height hasnt grown any which means that baby might not be growing. I have an u/s on tuesday and assuming that radiology does their job right, I'll have my results for my appt on Wed but... this is BJACH, an army hospital and civilian technitions and radiologists so I don't see that happening. Everyone in that effing hospital other than the drs and nurses are freaking civilians and rude as hell who think that they are oh so important and can take their sweet time. So Im hoping that its a fluke that Im only measuring 30-31 weeks.
If he does turn out to have IUGR that means that the end of the road is here because its better for him on the outside then the inside. While I'll be happy to be done with the contractions and the pelvic pain and pressure, I don't know how I can deal with another baby in the NICU if he ends up there. It wasn't so bad with A cause I lived like 5 min away from Providence where they sent us, and I had no other kids, but the NICU here is in Alexandria which is 45 min away and I have Ashe that I will be toting with me. Its hard to keep a 4 year old quiet and calm for that long in a medical enviornment where she cant do anything but sit there.
Im really hoping its not my anemia that is causing an issue. Wes told me that I need to relax and Im getting worked up over nothing that hes fine and its nothing but I can't help but worry cause A was the same way. She was small for gestation. Men they just dont get it.

great

I am severely anemic. And what is a severely anemic pregnant person supposed to do? Take Iron suppliments... but what can you do if you cant take iron because it makes you incredibly sick to the point of dehydration? Nothing apparenty. I just get monitored and if it drops any lower then it is now, i get to have him.
On the plus side, I know he will for sure be here the 15th of December. They only do sections on Mondays and Wednsdays and he wasnt willing to do it on the 1 or the 8th so I told him the 15th was fine. I didnt wanna be preggo for my birthday but I guess having him the day after is ok too.

Butt Hiccups

Ok, so i dont want to sound like a complainer but.... HOW THE HEL DO PEOPLE MANAGE TO HAVE A KID AND BE PREGNANT!!! I am so tired!!! Ok I know I know, Im at the end of this roller coaster of hormones and overly exaggerated emotions (due to hormones) and not feeling well, bein overly tired, not sleeping, not being able to get comfy, but dang! I have to rock back and forth a little just to be able to roll to get out of bed lol. I feel like humpty dumpty!
I have a drs appt on thursday and hopefully can schedule my section date. Im gonn beg for him to take him at 37 weeks if i make it. The last couple days I have had cramping and contractions. I almost went to L&D the other night because they were so bad I couldn't sleep. Thankfully they tapered off in the morning and i was able to get like an hour of sleep. It may have been an hour but it was a much needed hour. A has been soooo good about letting me relax and keeping herself busy and stayin out of trouble. I feel bad some days cause i know she wants to go out and play but I just cant muster the energy.
I started letting the puppy in the back yard and am glad to say that after having to take her out 2 times, she is now whining at the door to go out and go potty. I also figured that since she is going out there and I put the baby gates infront of the main gate that i would start lettin A out there with her to play. Im gonna ask housing if they can stick a storm door on the back door so I can leave it open while they are out there. I want it for a couple reasons, that being a main one. Leaving that door open bugs go in the house, you can hear everything that goes on outside and inside my house even with the door closed and Im not comfy with that. I shouldn't be able to hear the bugs chirping or the rain as it falls like Im standing outside.

And they say people in the south arent retarded

Thats what I thought to myself today when i went to walmart to get some things. OMG you would not believe the things people were doing. Granted I know that there is a hurricane coming but come one people the most we are supposed to get here is some rain and winds. We may lose power but thats it. Some of these people are gonna feel really retarded when they have 900 cans of spaghetti o's in their cabinet and they didnt even need them. People were buying propane and batteries like they were free. I mean, most of these people live in the ghetto. They live in busted up trailors with 6 cars in the driveway and yard and NONE of them run yet they can come to walmart and spend 1000 plus on stuff? Yeah I dont get it. People were being rude, shoving people out of the way, blocking aisles so that people couldn't get down them because they wanted ALL of one item, it was just plain choas. When Rita came threw it knocked down some trees and power was off for like 2 days and these people are preparing for the end of the world! I just wanted some everyday things like bread but nope, bare shelves and then I saw one woman walk by with 2 carts full of bread. I was seriouslt tempted to ask her if she thought she really needed all that bread because well, its not the end of life as we know it and there was no need to buy over 100 loafs of bread for what could be 3 days tops with no power.
I did however stock up on water and got some top ramen. I have food that can be cooked here. My husband called me a retard cause he was like "You flippin retard, how do you expect to cook all that food with no power?" To that I responded, "Hey moron, Im the one that uses the stove and well, you dont need power to run a gas stove!" I told him the only thing we couldnt use was the oven but thats only because while though its gas, its set to an electric switch and timer but i told him that you dont need to back chicken you can fry it or there is a way to bake it even on the stove.
Im trying to get all my laundry done before all this starts tomorrow and clean a bit. im glad that I have all these candles and that i have all those battery operated tealights. Although, I dont know how long they will last since NO ONE has any 3v button batteries any where since OMG people think they need every type of battery even when they dont. That and my daughter thinks she needs them as a night light ALL night long so im sure there are about 5 of them hat dont work at all. Im not sure what im going to do to entertain her when there is no power. Only thing I can say is THANK HEAVENS FOR LAP TOPS AND POWER CONVERTERS!!! All we need to do is go charge it in the truck for a short time and YAY!! We can watch movies. Im not sure yet how Im gonna be able to handle the heat. I thought about getting one of those HUGE D style lookin batteries and getting the setup for a small generator but yeah they dont have those. I also loked for those battery operated fans and yeah no such luck. I am gonna roast in the heat. I already foresee being in L&D hooked to IV's because I cant drink water fast enough to keep hydrated. I guess once the winds die down there is alway the hose. I dont mind some dirt water to keep me cool lol.

He stuck

HIS FINGERS IN MY WHOHA!! Damn man! Its amazing how I go to the ER because I feel as if Im getting a bladder infection and they send me up to L&D.. Um hello IM not having labor symptoms, just peeing a lot! Yeah so I sit on the monitor for like an hour and they come in and he says, "baby looks good, your urine was concentrated but no infection but we are sending it off for culture but Im sure you are starting to get one... Im gonna check your cervix.." I was like HUH?!?!?! Yeah then I got a look at the paper and I guess I had been having some contractions but not many and I was thinking to myself, yeah ok I know I've had a few but nothing bad, Im not in preterm and I KNOW that they arent strong enough to do anything. I was right, he told me I was still high (that doesnt mean anything to me cause I was high and 2 cm with ashe) and closed and firm. That was a waste of my time let me tell you. Im still cramping in my bladder, I still gotta pee like a mother and yeah.. Im annoyed... Sorry had to rant