Poor Kyra

At her last appt with the neuro surgeon at Children's in August, he told us we could slowly start weaning her out of the collar and to call if she had any problems.

I had to call her neuro surgeon. She has to go back to wearing the collar 24/7 again :(

We'd gotten her to the point she was out of it from about 3pm-7:30am, but she started having bad headaches in the evening. The first couple of nights I hoped it was just a fluke, but last night she asked if we could put the collar back on so her head would stop hurting :(

So, we're starting over again. He wants her in it 24/7 for 2wks and then we'll start all over again with the gradual weaning and hope next time goes better.

I wish her appt would hurry up and get here, so we knew what the mass was doing. She goes back for another MRI at the end of Oct.

Nerve-wracking

That's how my ob appt yesterday felt. The nurse did the usual stuff and then a male med student came in and asked if he could talk to me and listen to the heartbeat. Sure.

He kept trying to find it, but couldn't :( My heart sank! He looked up at me and said 'I'm sorry! I really hate when this happens, but I need to go get Dr. C'

It was only a couple of minutes until he returned with her, but it felt like FOREVER!! Dr. C started looking for the hb, and after a couple of minutes she looked at the med student and said 'I can't get it either! Bet you don't feel so bad now!' And they both laugh. I was like HELLO!!! I said, 'Well, it doesn't make me feel better!' She said, 'I'm sorry. I could keep looking and prob find it, but I'm stressing you out, and that's not good (ya think?!?) so let's just go next door and do a quick scan.'

I just KNEW in my heart it was over. I was fighting back the tears and wishing Kevin was with me.She put the wand on my tummy and started laughing and moved the screen so I could see. She said 'Well, obviously everything is ok cause he's moving around all over the place' Little stinker! He/she was SO active and moving around like crazy! Found out the reason they couldn't pick up the h/b was because of the placenta being anterior. She zoomed in a bit and showed the heart beat (didn't get a h/r) and printed me a pic and sent me on my way.

I'm thinking after nearly giving me a heart attack, he/she deserves his/her first spanking when they're born! LOL.

I still don't think it's sunk in yet. I've just been expecting the worse, with all the cramping/spotting and 3 AIPD outbreaks, but it's really looking like peanut is gonna be just fine!

Here is the pic from yesterday