30 week update

Its been rather eventful 'round these parts since my last update. I think the most monumental event of note is that tonight is Gabriella's 1st night in her new room! It took a little longer to get her settled down and after one rogue wake-up 30 min in to take her to go pee (this was insanely humorous - we haven't done anything with potty training yet, but she really did have to pee, and she did a little in her diaper and a little on the potty, I was shocked!). After we put her diaper back on we said our good nights, snuggles again and she went right back to sleep with no problem. I'm really keeping my fingers crossed for a wake-free night. I hope she makes it through ok till morning. I feel like tonight will be the hardest night and then it'll hopefully be easier moving forward since she'll only get more comfortable. The room is only 2 weeks freshly painted so we haven't gotten all her decals up. It'll be a work in progress for a few more weekends, but I will definitely take pics and post soon.

Second super important thing, we have a name for baby girl. As I've written before, Emilia was my fave name and Chris finally came to the conclusion that Emilia was the best name for our little girl. Soooo we shall call her Emilia! Gabriella and Emilia. I love it!

Third, I ended up in L&D last Sunday. Not fun, but everything is ok. For maybe about a month now, I've been experiencing very sporadic lower back cramping. It comes in waves, almost contraction-like. It happens for like 15-30 seconds, then dissipates. It might happen 3-4 times in a row and then its gone. I was experiencing this maybe once a day, once, every other day. It never caused me any worry since I have regular cervical checks and everything was always checking out ok. So, last weekend (Friday) I was noticing that they were becoming more persistent, coupled with some occasional front cramping. I made note to keep an eye on it and call the doc if needed. By the time Sunday rolled around they were still around with no signs of leaving so I called the on-call OB. This was my doc during my pg with Gabriella so he knew my LEEP history (he actually did it). He advised I come in and get checked. They ran a gamut of tests: standard blood tests, checked cervix, fetal fibronectin, u/s, CM culture. Everything was ok, but they did find out that I had the start of a yeast infection and that while not dehydrated, my daily water intake was too low.

The conclusion of the hospital stay was a 7-day course of monistat and at least 64oz of water per day. Since on this regimen I can say that my back cramping has decreased a ton. I still have it on occasion, but nothing like last weekend and with no frequency whatsoever. I see my regular OB on Wednesday and given the good progress I'm hoping I'll still be ok to go to DC next weekend.

Since I've written a novel, I'll skip the check list update and wait till Wednesday when I go to the doc. Until then :)