One step forward... a few steps back...

I am 24 weeks today. Time is flying by... 6 months already!

I had my 2nd fetal assessment today. Things aren't looking any better with my placenta. It is still very low. Hasn't moved up like they had hoped. The nurse who did my fetal assessment was amazing. I wish I knew her name. She showed me the baby's head, face, spine, belly, heart, bladder, legs, hands and feet. We even went to take a peek at the baby's sex to make sure nothing had changed LOL... its still the same. Then she went down towards my pelvic bone with the wand and wasn't happy with what she saw. At the angle she was looking at, she couldn't tell if the placenta was over the cervix or just up next to it. The baby's head was resting on it, covering it up a wee bit. She said it definately was low, and by looking at my chart from the last fetal assessment it hadn't moved up. We got talking about holidays, and family and I told her that we were leaving on Thursday for Edmonton to visit my family. She asked if my Dr. knew that I was going out of town. To be honest... I'm not even sure that it came up when I saw Dr. Visch last, and I don't see Dr. Awadalla until July 30th, so probably not. Besides, I booked this trip back at the beginning of May. She said with where my placenta was sitting, she would say no travelling out of the city for me... for fear of a hemorhage. WHAT??????????????????????? You've got to be kidding me. I was sooo sad. Sad that I was going to miss Anika's 5th birthday ~ her party in Edmonton was something she has been talking about for weeks. How could this be happening??? By this time I had tears running down my face. My baby was fine ~ she reassured me the baby was fine, even showed me a 4D photo of the baby's face (very cool I might add), it was just that my body wasn't cooperating.... figures! She decided to call Dr. Reid, to have him come and do a vaginal u/s to see if he could get a better angle on it. I had to wait in the waiting area so they could get the room ready and wait for Dr. Reid. I'm sure it was obvious that I had been in tears. There were 3 other couples and me... I'm sure they were all wondering what was going on. Dr. Reid came in and soon I was back in the room having another u/s done. A few minutes seemed like forever. Nobody said a word. All that raced through my mind was "this can't be good". The tears started again. I tried really hard to hold everything back. Dr. Reid then said "get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I'll be back in to talk to you." All that was racing through my mind was... why didn't I get Adrian to come with me. He would have, but I figured everything was going to be ok, so I told him not to bother missing work for this. CRAP CRAP CRAP... not a time when I wanted to be alone. A few minutes more and Dr. Reid was back in the room with his pad of paper and pen. He drew me a picture of my uterus, with the baby in it, and the placenta. He said he didn't think it was covering the cervix but he did say it was less than a centimeter away. They prefer it to be 2 cm or more away from the cervix. He said that they are going to monitor me and that if I have any spotting or bleeding to come straight to the hospital. He then said he didn't thinkI'd be in any great danger to travel, so I could go on my holiday. OMG OMG OMG... I get to be with my baby when she turns 5!!!!! I go back to have another fetal assessment done in 8 weeks.. September 10th to be exact. My holiday is going to be very special. This will be the last one for quite a while. We are going to relax and really enjoy ourselves... isn't that what holidays are for??

Now... the baby is nearly 12" long and 1 3/4lbs. If the baby continues on this path, it will be much bigger than Anika was at birth... 5lbs 4oz!!