Update on pfamilygal

best wishes! we'll all be thinking of you and baby!

Yep! Let her know we're sending her happy baby-birthing vibes.

Can't wait to hear all about her birth

Good luck!

Thanks for the update!

I almost fell out of my chair when I realized I had just run into you again Kimberly! LOL! Hi!

Mandy

Hope all goes well!

- Krista (fellow SCS'er)

Hi Mandy and Krista!!

Tam is coming home today.... she is still pregnant... they got her blood pressure down with mag and are taking her off things so they can send her home on bed rest.

She'll go to the doc tomorrow to get more details on a "plan" from here!

Kimberly

That's such good news that she's getting to come home and bake the babe a while longer.
Good luck to her!

So glad things are working out!

Thanks, K, for updating everyone. Here's the full scoop.

I had to go up to labor and delivery last night after work because my blood pressure was elevated and I had a severe headache. They put me on Magnesium sulfate for 14 hrs to bring down my pressure (I am already on meds for chronic HTN). I've been released on strict bedrest until I see the doctor tomorrow. We will then make a plan. I want very much to have this baby without being on magnesium. It makes you feel so terrible and means I'll be on bedrest at least 24 hrs after delivery. So we are going to talk to the doctor about inducing or scheduling a c/s now, instead of waiting until the bp rises again. Given the choice between two evils I think I'd rather have the c/s than have mag again. At least after a c/s I still feel like me. The mag made me feel like being run over by a truck!

I need prayer for wisdom and guidance and for my potassium to go up. It was only 2.4 last night and if it is not at least 3.0 when he comes I will not be able to have an epidural or spinal. Which means if we have a c/s I will have to be under general anesthesia. I just ate some apricots and drank some OJ (I'm allergic to bananas) and will do more when I wake up.

I'm off to bed now. They woke me up last night for bp, reflex and clonus checks every 30 minutes and I am wiped.

I hope you got a good night's sleep and that your Potassium levels are where they should be!

Lots of :

THat's great, however that you are home and the babe gets a little more time at least to 'cook'.

All the best