Love, Jillian and Gina
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope you are having a wonderful day and spending lots of quality time with family!
Friday, November 15, 2013
Update...
Jillian - 30 weeks!
It has taken me a little while to write this post, but on the day of my last entry, (aka Halloween and my husband's birthday), I got into a car accident on the way home from work. It was one of those horrible flukes at a 4-way stop that I drive through every, single day. It was my turn to go and I'll never know if that other car ran the stop sign or just didn't yield, but the details aren't important. It happened. I just hope no one reading this EVER has to experience the terror of being in a car crash when you are pregnant. My airbags deployed and my car was totaled. Thank God the airbags did not hit me, because the seatbelt was holding me back in my seat. The downside is that my seatbelt was right across the middle of my large belly and once the accident happened, I was full of panic and fear that something awful had just happened to my 28 1/2 week fetus. I was shaking from head to toe and I knew that I (myself) was physically okay, but there was enormous pressure on my stomach that I was feeling as I climbed out of my car. An ambulance showed up immediately and I instructed them to take me to the Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital where I plan to deliver. If anything bad was going to happen, I wanted to be as close to Children's Hospital as possible.
A terrified ambulance ride through rush hour traffic followed and I was brought into maternal assessment where a wonderfully, sweet nurse named Henrietta kept Eric and I calm for the next several hours as we waited on bloodwork to see if a placental tear had occurred. The baby's heartbeat was strong and everything looked really good on the fetal monitors. The preliminary test came back that DID confirm some of the baby's blood had crossed over in my bloodstream and that meant the impact from the accident did cause a small tear in the placenta. This meant I would be admitted and would be spending the night in the hospital. It was my first overnight hospital stay and I was scared and nervous and didn't sleep at all. I just watched my baby's heartbeat on the monitor and tried not to move so I wouldn't knock the sensors out of place. :)
My Dr. came in to see me the next morning and told me that as a precaution she wanted me to spend 24 full hours in the hospital and they would talk about discharging me later that evening.
I am just so grateful that everything ended up being okay and that Baby A is still cooking away in his oven. :) This whole event taught me that things happen that are out of my control and I need to relax and not try and do a million things like I am so used to. I am taking the rest of this pregnancy EASY, even though the last week did have some big events that I could not miss... I just stayed off my feet as much as possible and I am obsessively counting kicks and always putting this little baby first! :)
Here is my last 2 weeks in pictures:
It has taken me a little while to write this post, but on the day of my last entry, (aka Halloween and my husband's birthday), I got into a car accident on the way home from work. It was one of those horrible flukes at a 4-way stop that I drive through every, single day. It was my turn to go and I'll never know if that other car ran the stop sign or just didn't yield, but the details aren't important. It happened. I just hope no one reading this EVER has to experience the terror of being in a car crash when you are pregnant. My airbags deployed and my car was totaled. Thank God the airbags did not hit me, because the seatbelt was holding me back in my seat. The downside is that my seatbelt was right across the middle of my large belly and once the accident happened, I was full of panic and fear that something awful had just happened to my 28 1/2 week fetus. I was shaking from head to toe and I knew that I (myself) was physically okay, but there was enormous pressure on my stomach that I was feeling as I climbed out of my car. An ambulance showed up immediately and I instructed them to take me to the Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital where I plan to deliver. If anything bad was going to happen, I wanted to be as close to Children's Hospital as possible.
A terrified ambulance ride through rush hour traffic followed and I was brought into maternal assessment where a wonderfully, sweet nurse named Henrietta kept Eric and I calm for the next several hours as we waited on bloodwork to see if a placental tear had occurred. The baby's heartbeat was strong and everything looked really good on the fetal monitors. The preliminary test came back that DID confirm some of the baby's blood had crossed over in my bloodstream and that meant the impact from the accident did cause a small tear in the placenta. This meant I would be admitted and would be spending the night in the hospital. It was my first overnight hospital stay and I was scared and nervous and didn't sleep at all. I just watched my baby's heartbeat on the monitor and tried not to move so I wouldn't knock the sensors out of place. :)
My Dr. came in to see me the next morning and told me that as a precaution she wanted me to spend 24 full hours in the hospital and they would talk about discharging me later that evening.
I am just so grateful that everything ended up being okay and that Baby A is still cooking away in his oven. :) This whole event taught me that things happen that are out of my control and I need to relax and not try and do a million things like I am so used to. I am taking the rest of this pregnancy EASY, even though the last week did have some big events that I could not miss... I just stayed off my feet as much as possible and I am obsessively counting kicks and always putting this little baby first! :)
Here is my last 2 weeks in pictures:
The fetal monitor. I've gotten to know this machine all too well! Strong, happy heartbeat and great stats!!
Gina had her MN reception in Stillwater! It was beautiful!!! (My sis and I with the bride)
My college besties threw me a wonderful baby shower!!!
I was a bridesmaid and soloist (sang Ave Maria at the Basilica) at my dear friend, Kelly's wedding last Saturday!
(With Nicole, Kelly's new sis-in-law and also a soloist)
Eric and me at the wedding!
I will be going to the Doctor every 2 weeks for checkups now. We have our hospital tour tomrrow morning. I am looking forward to it, even though we got an early tour with our Halloween overnight... :)
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