Happy Birthday Gilbert!

I wanted to wish my husband a very happy 28th birthday. Gilbert's birthday was Saturday. I hope that he was able to enjoy himself a little that day as he deserves nothing but the best.

Gilbert and I have had a very difficult week. On Wednesday we received a call that everyone dreads. Gilbert's mom had a stoke and she was at the hospital. This is her second stoke. The first one was 10 years ago. So we immediately rushed over to the hospital. These last few days have been emotionally and physically draining.

Right now his mom is sedated and on a ventilator. The doctors told us that in the next 4-5 days they will slowly take her off the sedation and the ventilator. Then she will make improvements for another 4-5 days and she will plateau. At this time we will know what brain damage has occurred from this stroke. We would greatly appreciate you prayers for her and our family during this time.

Due Date ?

A couple of people have asked why my due dates changed. The first due date of November 10th was based on when I had my last period. The midwives told me that it is not uncommon for someone that has had a miscarriage to ovulate irregularly. Apparently that is what happened to me, I was ovulating irregularly which also explains why the first pregnancy test I took was negative.

What Does That Say

That's Right I am pregnant! Gilbert and I are very excited that we will be parents soon. My due date is December 4, 2007. Although I am only 7 weeks pregnant there has been a lot that has happened.

On our first appointment with the midwife, we were told our due date was November 10th. We had a few concerns we talked about, the main one being that we know I do not produce enough progesterone. For those of you that don't I had a miscarriage almost 3 years ago. After this happened we found out I do not produce enough progesterone. So I was going every two days to get blood drawn to check my progesterone levels.

Sure enough, after about a week they confirmed that my progesterone was not rising like it should. So now I take daily vaginal progesterone suppositories. After this the midwifes wanted me to have an ultrasound to make sure everything was fine with the baby.


Everything is fine with the baby but that is when they gave me my new due date of December 4th. This 7 weeks has felt like an eternity. I currently am tired and battling nausea. Which working 9 hour days make it hard to deal with. But I am hanging in there and can't wait till I feel better soon.

I appreciate the prayers that the baby will continue to be healthy and ask that you keep praying for us.

Couldn't Resist

 

This was so funny to me, I couldn't help but post it.

Misc.

I have not been very good about updating my blog. Not much is going on here right now. I do have some random pictures that I have not posted.


I had mentioned earlier that I was into Orchids. This is the third Orchid I bought. It is the only one blooming at the time. My goal is to get all three to re-bloom next year. Hope I can be patient enough.



This is Maddie's new past time. She loves to look out the window.

Youth Fair

Gilbert and I went to the Youth Fair with our friends last weekend. One of our friends, Jason, won the stuffed animal pictured above for me. I went for the food but I am not sure the headache to get there was worth it. We waited in traffic for about an hour to park and then when we got to the gate we had to wait 30 mins to an hour to buy our tickets. I believe we left the house about 8:30pm and didn't get into the fair until about 10:30pm.

I also got a taste of the real Miami at this fair. I saw all kinds of people here. If you like to people watch this was a very entertaining place to go. I can tell Gilbert and I are getting older because we had no interest in riding the rides. One: we didn't want to wait in the long lines to get on the rides and two: they just don't seem that safe anymore. I can remember when I was a teenager and loved getting on the rides and the lines didn't seem that long then. We had a good time but we were exhausted by the time we got home. I don't think I will feel the need to go there again anytime soon.