& Life Begins Again

 My name is Elizabeth; I'm twenty-five years old, my girls were born October 31st 2017 and September 2nd 2019.

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September 13th 2019

Wow last time I actually updated here I didn’t even know gender of baby #2.

Another girl and she was born September 2nd at 11:43 AM. Which means another holiday baby for me lmao. We named her Alice Ella and she was 7 lbs 6 ozs and 21 inches. So she was four ounces bigger then Tessa and an inch shorter.

I think I’ll make a separate post about my delivery.

Alice and I were discharged September 4th, but Alice was readmitted on the 6th because of her bilirubin levels. After 24 hours of phototherapy her levels just barely hit the minimum to be discharged again.

She was back to birth weight on September 9th.

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Why is it breast feeding between 2 am to 7 am is so hard? Like no matter the time I’m averaging three hours of sleep under my belt, and I’m fine with grabbing the haaka, a water bottle, an already prepped snack, changing Alice’s diaper and getting her to latch any other time. If it’s between 2 am and 7 am though I’m so miserable I don’t want to move at all. 😒

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March 24th 2019

I’ve got sunburn on my face and it’s killer. Lol

We did the flea market today for the first time this year, two weeks before the official season starts and we made almost 600 off of 75 dollars worth of merchandise. We’ve decided not to touch any of the money made and put it into savings so we can work towards a goal we’ve been chipping away at this year.

Tessa is over her great grandmother’s for dinner and she’s having an absolute blast. When we stopped over after working she had just woken up from a nap, ran into the kitchen and saw them working on dinner. She ran back to her kitchen booster and climbed in it and “screamed” mommom until it was brought into the kitchen and set up so she could have dinner. She’s such a chunk lol.

Tomorrow we’re checking out pop ups for the flea market and then buying merchandise for the online store. Very busy. 😬

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March 17th 2019

Had an appointment on the 14th, and everything was great. Got the blood test results in and the baby doesn’t have any genetic issues, and we found out the gender. Got another ultrasound that I’ll have to upload later.

Afterwards Dick and I went thrifting and had a very nice day. Today we’re packing the trailer for the start of the flea market season. I’m eagered to get that over with I’ll be honest. If there is time afterwards I’d like to finish setting up the eBay room. We’ll see how the day goes.

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March 7th 2019

I feel like I’ve been sick for two months now both pregnancy related and not. Pretty sure I currently have food poisoning

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February 3, 2019

Room temperature water makes me nauseous.

Gummy pretnals with dusting on it makes me nauseous.

The smell of hot dogs.

Not sure when the cronic nausea hit with my first pregnancy, but I have a feeling I’ll have that this pregnancy too.

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February 3rd 2019

This was suppose to post weeks ago. I guess it only made it to FB. On FB I made it “only me” so I can see the memories, but I still don’t have to announce we’re pregnant yet.

So my appointment on the 16th of January was good. Heartbeat was steady and strong, and most importantly there was fetal growth. They did adjust my due date from August 25th to August 30th. Our next appointment is February 13th. 💗💗

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January 18th 2019

So at my appointment on the 11th I met one of the doctors who could deliver baby. She was very energized and friendly. After we went over my emergency room visit she said she wanted to do an ultrasound before running any bloodwork, since my HTG levels were perfect in the ER. The ultrasound immediately picked up baby and a heartbeat. She told me the baby was measuring six weeks six days, so I likely ovulated later since at my ER visit, three days before, the baby measured at six weeks two days. Since the ultrasound was right were it should be, I hadn’t spotted anymore, a heartbeat was detected and there was growth I didn’t need any bloodwork. Which was really appreciated because my arms were all bruised up. She said we’d be keeping our appointment on the 16th and our due date for now. At the appointment on the 16th if the fetal growth still progressed as it has been then they’d adjust my due date. She said everything looked perfect, but she was keeping the threatened miscarriage diagnosis and the pelvic rest: just to be on the safe side.

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January 13th 2019

Just realized I haven’t updated on follow up OB appointment. It was good: I’ll do an update later. For now I just want to complain that I’m so disgustingly hot that I threw up everything I ate and I don’t know if it’s a pregnancy thing or a getting sick thing.

Thinking it’s a pregnancy thing because my body allowed me to pee and clean my toilet before empty my stomach. 😭😭 I used to almost clean the toilet nightly because the smell of a “dirty” toilet while I was puking made nausea worse.

Dirty as in “stale” idk. The sitting water smelled gross to me.

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January 10th 2019

7 weeks 4 days pregnant

Went to bed really late last night and was feeling cramps. I woke Dick up this morning so he could stand with me in the bathroom in case there was blood. Everything was okay. I guess the cramps could have been from exhaustion.

Have to go to the ER today to sign a consent form so they can send my paperwork to the new OB office, since they forgot to do it the day before. It’s really frustrating I’ll be honest.

Friday I have an appointment at the new OB office for bloodwork. Then I have an appointment on the 16th which is the official confirmation of pregnancy appointment and an ultrasound. As long as my numbers are increasing everything will be okay.

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Since I’m active currently if anyone is due July 2019 - September 2019 give this post a like. I’d love to follow along with your journey.

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He’s so cute 😂😂

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January 9th 2019

I am seven weeks three days pregnant. Two days ago I went to bed with light cramping and chalked it up to my uterus stretching. Yesterday when I woke up I realized I was spotting. I called my new OB to see if they could see me today but because this isn’t a “medically established” pregnancy they said my best bet at being seen today would be to call my old OB office. They were incredibly sweet with me on the phone and the receptionist set up a standard “pregnancy confirmation” appointment when I’m eight weeks. She said after talking to the nurse practitioner the best she was able to offer me was two days from now, but my old office would be better since they have an established base line with me (as in they’d probably see me today). Realistically I knew all this but I despise my old office and told them after my six week post check up I’d never be back.

Given the circumstance I called the old OB and inquired about being seen today. They told me there isn’t anything they could do regarding coming in. They offered to see me at nine weeks to confirm whether it’s a viable pregnancy or not. Then they said they’d call the on-call OB to see if he thought I should come in today. THREE hours later they call me back and say I need to go to the ER to get bloodwork and an ultrasound because the pregnancy might not be viable.

I honestly prepared myself for the worst, and so did Dick. We, including Tessa, spent seven hours in the ER last night. As soon as I walked in the ER receptionist said they’re going to fast-track us into the back room’s waiting room given the reason I was there, but it’d still be a half hour before that. Someone came and took my blood and shortly after that we were put in the back. We were there for hours before transferred to ultrasound, and at ultrasound they refused to let Dick in the room.

In the room the tech said she’s not allowed to disclose anything, or show me the screen. As soon as she started she actually turned the screens away from me. She took so many images I was certain the baby wasn’t viable. I sobbed. It was a terrible experience. When we went back to the room I explained what happened to Dick and I cried some more saying our baby wasn’t going to make it. Another nurse came in to collect an urine sample and offer us food. She said after that test they’d just be waiting for all the results to come back and a doctor would be in to tell us what was what.

A practitioner came in, so sweet, and she went over the bloodwork. She realized they didn’t check my hormone levels though, so went into the hall to call to see if they had another vial of my blood to test. At that point Dick took a second and looked at the computer and said from what he could tell everything looked okay. This is the moment where I gave myself some hope. Maybe the baby is okay.

Hours go by. Practitioner returns and goes over the ultrasound. Singular pregnancy. Low heart rate. Threatened miscarriage BUT the baby is hanging on. She said they’re measuring a week behind based on my last period so that could explain the low heart rate. We’d need to have another vial of blood to test hormone levels to make sure they’re were they should be for a seven week old pregnancy. She said the bleeding is likely because of a cyst outside my cervix. When the final hormone level came back it said that I’m roughly seven weeks pregnant: totally normal levels. She put in my discharge papers to be seen in two days to test hormone levels again, and a recommended ultrasound. If the levels double everything is okay, but at the moment my diagnosis is threatened miscarriage.

She said it’s possible the measurements are off because my medical history says Tessa measured small every appointment but was born a good size. She also stressed an embryo is different compared to a baby though. She did say my first ultrasound with Tessa at eight weeks had her measuring smaller too. It’s in the old OB’s paperwork.

Anyway, I’ll be calling the new OB office to see if I can be seen tomorrow. I’m not to return to work until Friday but I wasn’t scheduled at all this weekend, so I get a week off.

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January 8th 2019

Threatened miscarriage. Heartbeat found though.

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January 8th 2019

Had a little cramping last night and woke up this morning to a little brown blood when wiping. Called my old OB office to see if they’d see me today, and the oncall nurse said she’d reach out to the OBs to see about an appointment today. She mentioned it could be a combination of uterus stretching and implantation, but I shouldn’t have sex until my next appointment and to take it easy at work.

I made an appointment for the 16th at my new OB office. Hopefully my old one gets back to me and I can be seen today. I’m nervous.

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January 7th 2019

Tessa has trouble sleeping last night so I think everyone had a poor sleep. Except I had to be up at 4:30 AM for work. 😭😭

Side note I need to call an OB /today/ to schedule an appointment for the pregnancy. I’m slacking off since I already know what I should be doing now lol.

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January 6th 2019

Six weeks today.