Brief scare.

If life hasn't been interesting enough for me, I got thrown a little bit on Tuesday. As you know I'm about 34.5weeks/8.5 months along, so we're getting closer to the end, but not close enough for baby. Well I've been having issues off and on for the last couple of weeks. I thought honestly that, I was just needing to go to the bathroom more, because it's the last trimester, which is what happens. Normal, right? Wrong.

Monday night was the last time I had felt baby move, granted this peanut just like his/her brother Cyril moves a lot less then their older two siblings did, it was unnerving when I woke up Tuesday morning, and realized that Peanut hadn't moved throughout the night. So I did everything I could think of within reason(I still had daycare kids, so it's not like I could lay down)to get this peanut to move. That's when I started wondering if my water was leaking. There were some signs that made me think that, with the lack of movement, and the Braxton Hicks (BH) contractions getting stronger, I was concerned I might be in some trouble or that Peanut was. So I waited till naptime, and called, the OB doctor agreed that I needed to come in.

So a good friend of mine, named Michelle held the "fort" down at my house for the daycare kids, and I went in. They did an Ultrasound (u/s), but it wasn't your normal u/s...at least it wasn't to me. Peanut had 8 things to do, in a half hour of time. If Peanut didn't, then I had to do some more tests, one of which was a fetal stress test. Thankfully Peanut did all 8 things in 15 minutes. That was a HUGE relief to me. Some of those 8 things are: Practice breathing (the tech looks at the stomach moving, to judge if baby is "breathing"), look at heart beat/rate, the baby has to move, and stretch. They also looked at the Aminotic fluid, everything was perfect for 34 weeks and it turns out that my inner organs, and the placenta are being the punching bag for this Peanut, that's why I can't always feel the movements.

The doctor ran more tests, and the final verdict was a UTI/Bladder infection. I didn't know that you could have one without having the traditional symptoms. But since they put me on an antibotic, things have been much better. He said that it was a pretty bad one, which matches with how long I've been dealing with symptoms. Felt kinda of dumb since this was baby #4, but I learned something knew that day.

Next week I'll see doctor again, which was supposed to be the last 2 week visit. Which I can't believe I'm at that point already. The only thing I hate of these last visits are the weekly to bi-weekly physical checks. One can hope he won't do that, right? ;) But it just means we are that much closer to meeting Peanut.

Goes to show you that no 2 pregnancies are a like, and even a smooth sailing one can suddenly give mommy to be some scares.

God Bless,
Carlena