HERE WE GO AGAIN

BACKGROUND INFO:

Well, I didn't think we would ever need another blog again. But, this is the best way I can get information out to people on a daily basis. I thought I would start with a little background information about everything and then start updating.

Many of you know that we had Justin at 28 weeks. When we got pregnant with Ava, it was our number one goal to prolong this pregnancy as much as possible. We developed a game plan with the doctors to make sure that happened. I received progesterone shots (once per week, starting at 16 weeks) to help minimize contractions, and had an ultrasound and fetal fibronectin (to tell whether it was likely I would go into labor in the next two weeks) once every two weeks. Things were going great! Contractions were under control, ultrasounds looked good, fetal fibronectins-negative. Last Thursday, I went for my normal two week visit with the doc. We did the normal testing. We also noticed my blood pressure was slightly elevated. 140/100. They worry about preeclampsia (high blood pressure during pregnancy) which can be harmful to both mom and baby. The plan last Thursday was to do some more testing on me and to come back Friday morning. I went back to the doctor's office Friday morning, my blood pressure was a little higher than Thursday, so they sent to be monitored in the hospital for the day. They told me that my fetal fibronectin was positive this week-yikes! I was sent home on bedrest with a plan to have ultrasounds once per week (to monitor baby's growth) and two additional appts. to check my blood pressure every week. That was the plan :-) We went to bed Friday night and I woke up around 2am to watch TV because I couldn't sleep...not uncommon. I got up at 4am to go to the bathroom and my water broke. Totally unrelated to the blood pressure issue that was creeping up, apparently I was just done being pregnant. So, we called the doctor and headed to the hospital.