Today promised to be busy, and it delivered. \u00a0Thankfully, it was the jigsawy-kind of busy, where one thing just naturally follows the other, without much fuss or muss – so it wasn’t really stressful – just busy. \u00a0(Ok, ok, the dentist this morning wasn’t entirely stress-free, but I got lucky in that the next patient cancelled so he could do what needed to be done in just one visit.)<\/p>\n
The ‘preggers news’ of the day is that I met with both the midwife (still no protein in urine, baby’s heartbeat is fine) and the preggers doctor (OB\/Gyn). \u00a0The ‘big’ news is that given the blood pressure issues, I will not be carrying past 40 weeks (23 Feb), and if I’m still preggers then, they’ll do a special ‘previous c-section induction’ (using a cervical ripening balloon catheter<\/a>) because they don’t like having to rely on drugs that women respond differently to.<\/p>\n The other interesting bit of news was that it’s now believed that a blood pressure of 145\/95 is in fact a pretty good blood pressure to have when pregnant, because it appears to support good blood flow to the fetus. \u00a0Who knew? \u00a0But they don’t like the bottom number to rise above 100 much, which is why I’m being medicated. \u00a0Also, my medication is apparently a pretty ‘lousy’ blood pressure medication, as in it’s not strong at all, and there is still leeway to raise the dosage.<\/p>\n So with that, my leash was lengthened a bit and I won’t be seeing the midwife until next week, unless something comes up (I measure my bp at home daily).<\/p>\n With that I went and actually bought three breastfeeding bras, seeing how it’s looking like there might be a baby to care for in the near future. \u00a0(Funny story: I never got around to buying breastfeeding bras before Anna was born, so when we went home from the hospital, we were met by Gu\u00f0r\u00fan who’d gone to Sears and bought a bunch of them for me to try on. \u00a0She still rolls her eyes at the memory. \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n Oh, and tomorrow will be a total rest and relaxation day. \u00a0And probably Friday too. \u00a0Ooooommmmmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today promised to be busy, and it delivered. \u00a0Thankfully, it was the jigsawy-kind of busy, where one thing just naturally follows the other, without much fuss or muss – so it wasn’t really stressful – just busy. \u00a0(Ok, ok, the dentist this morning wasn’t entirely stress-free, but I got lucky in that the next patientRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions\/7233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}