Medical Scare

So First I think I will start by saying I am 34 weeks and 1 day and can hardly believe I have just under six weeks to go. I figured it had been a while since I did pictures so I put up two new ones. So now... what a crazy week it has been. We spent all of last week buying more stuff for our apartment and for the baby room as well as new furniture for both bedrooms as well as the living room. Last week for the first time I experienced a new symptom… swelling. For the first time in my pregnancy my feet and fingers have started to swell. If I walk around for more than 45 minutes my ankles and fingers balloon out. I know understand the term cankles!! And my fingers they look like little sausages!!! It is so sad. Previous to pregnancy I spent a good portion of my time staying fit so to be this unfit feeling is really hard.

Any way, so last week busy week and finally last Thursday things started to slow down and Jacques and I were sitting on the couch watching a movie and we both kind of realized at the same time we don’t remember the last time we felt Aries move so we started playing with my belly trying to get him to move… NOTHING. So I decided to do my kick counts which is where you pay attention to your tummy for two hours and count every movement. In a two hour span you should feel your baby move 10 times. The first time we did it we only felt 5 movements so we waited and hour and then did it again and only felt 6 movements. So we got a little concerned we decided that over the weekend we would pay attention and if his movements didn’t pick up or if they decreased more we would call the doctor on Monday. Over the weekend we had our second birthing class where we sat for 8 hours which was a great time to do kick counts through out the whole day it was pretty much the same every two hours that passed there were only between 5-7 movements so of course first thing Monday I called the doctor and moved my appointment up from next Wednesday to today. At the doctor they wanted to do a fetal non stress test which is where they hook me up to a monitor to record the baby’s heart beat for twenty minutes. Unfortunately they could not get the machine at my doctors to work so they had to send me to the hospital and there they figured it out and recorded the baby’s heart beat but refused to tell me anything and said to go back to my doctors so of course I get nervous. However thank God when I got back to my doctor she assured me that Aries is fine he is just growing faster than my belly is at this point so that mixed with the fact that I have quite a bit of amniotic fluid, and the fact that I have a short torso and the fact that he is a slightly bigger baby means he does not have much room to move around at this point. : ( I feel bad like I am squashing him but there is not much I can do. I am just so relieved that everything is okay. My doctor also said that is probably best if I take it easy the next two weeks so that I don’t end up on bed rest or have the baby a little early. I think I am okay with that though. Because I feel VERY SLEEPY! And I am not really enjoying my cankles or sausage fingers so I am ready for the swelling to go down. Any way I hope everyone is having a blessed week!