pre-eclampsia

Well just wanted to update those few people who actually read this... I went in for my regular weekly visit today and my blood pressure was 147/94, which is very high!!! The doc looked at my ankles and wrists which have been extremely swollen the last 2 weeks, but they won't go down at all now and I am starting to have blurred vision and bad head aches. He said that I have pre-eclampsia and will need to be on bedrest for 2 days. I have to go back to the doctors on Friday to have my blood pressure checked again and if it is still high they are going to send me to the ER to have the baby. If not they want to induce me on Saturday regardless because of the swelling. So I will now be getting induced in 2 or 3 days depending on how my blood pressure turns out on Friday. I will keep ya all posted!!!

WORST NIGHT EVER!!!

So yesterday was shaping up to be an AWESOME day!!! Dave took me for some mexican food( I had been craving it and I heard it can possibly start labor), then after that we went to babies r' us and got our bassinet/playpen. That was the last big thing we needed for the arrival of Kassidy. We then drove up to my ex mother-in-laws house to get Kruz for my neices 13th birthday party. My sis-in-law had a BBQ and of course cake...best part of any birthday party. She made the cake though and it is SOOOO yummy, it is chocolate with peanut butter frosting and she put twix bars around the side and reeses peices on the top.... soooo good!!! At the party she gave me some castor oil since I have been wanting to try it to see if it would help me go into labor.... I am so done with this pregnancy and just wanna see my baby LOL.

Well on our way home Dave and I discussed that it would just be easier for me to do a shot of the stuff and chase it with cherry coke, so we stopped at the gas station and got home at about 7. I poured the 2 oz. in a cup(that is what every website I looked at suggested for the amount), I had no clue that it was sooo thick!!! Of course I couldn't do a shot of it with it being that thick, so I mixed it with milk..............It was AWEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gagged it down and drank my cherry coke as fast as I could. After an hour I felt nothing so I told Dave that nothing was going to happen, even what it is usually meant for, which for those of you who don't know... it is meant to make you poop. Dave started joking around that I was going to have the worst diarrhea and he would make fun of me for thinking this would work and all I got out of it was the shits. We went and laid in bed at 9:30 and nothing was happening so I figured I was in the clear. I turned off the tv at 11 and by 11:30 my stomache was making the worst noises I have ever heard it make before :(. I am not going to go into details, but I was in the bathroom ALL NIGHT LONG!!!! So embarrassing because Dave woke up to me crying on our bed and I told him what was wrong... for those of you who know me, I have never even farted in front of him before, so telling him what was going on killed me!!!! We started to get worried since Kassidy wasn't moving at all and I couldn't keep water down, at 2:30 Dave said we were going to the ER if i couldn't hold water down and if my fever didn't break... so luckily it did and I was able to stay out of the bathroom and get 2 hours of sleep. So moral to the story is DO NOT TAKE CASTOR OIL EVER!!!!! It was the WORST night I have ever had!!!! So no more trying any old wives tales for me... I am just going to wait the 7 and 1/2 days that I have left.

I have a doc appt. on Wednesday, so hopefully I have dilated more... I will keep ya all posted :) wish me luck!!!

12 days!!!

Well, I have 12 days until little Kassidy comes(unless she decides to come early, which I doubt). At my last doc visit on Tuesday I was still only 1.5 centimeters dilated, but I am now 70% effaced :). I am excited for this Saturday, I have another shower that my mother-in-law and sis-in-law are throwing for me. Hopefully after that I will have most the stuff I need....but if not it gives me a good excuse to go shopping LOL!!! I just can't believe how fast this 9 months has gone by, but these last 12 days are starting to go by slow. I have been walking around and dancing a lot to see if it helps me dilate more, cross your fingers :). Well that is all I can think to type right now. Hope everyone is doing well!!

HAVIN A BABY!!!

Well as of right now I am 36 weeks and 1 day, but guess what????? I will be having a baby in 20 days, yeah you read that right!!! We went and did an ultrasound yeseterday to see how big our baby Kassidy was and her head is HUGE... it is measuring at 40 weeks :(, but on the up side she is only about 6 pounds 9 ounces. So she will be a bobble head just like her daddy was when he was a baby LOL. They checked me and I was dialated to 1.5 centimeters and 40% effaced, and then they called over to Jordan Valley Hospital and scheduled my induction date.... August 31st. OMG I can't believe she is almost here!!!! We are so ready emotionally and physcially, but we don't have her crib set up, house clean, clothes washed... I feel like I have sooo much to do and not much time. Dave has been an awesome husband, he has been trying his hardest to do whatever he can so I don't stress. If he ever reads this I just want him to know how much I love and appreciate EVERYTHING he does for me. Well since I have been slacking, I will probably not post till after the baby... but who knows maybe I will change my ways :). wish me luck!!!

Where to even start?????

WOW!!!!! So much has happened since I last posted. We will start off with the most recent and work our way back... make things much easier for me LOL!!! Well yesterday Dave started his new work schedule that none of the shop is too excited for and it's actually pretty dumb, instead of 4 ten hour days and either having Friday or Monday off they are making all the guys work 8-5 M-F. I know this doesn't sound too bad, except they are used to going in at 6 working till 5 and having Friday off, so it really sucks!!! Dave started his morning off going to the gym and then came home, got ready and hopped on his motorcycle. About 10 mins after he left I got a call from him saying that he had just been in an accident, I was shocked and asked if he was ok and he said that everyone was telling him he needed to go to the hospital. He needed me to come get him since the bike could not be driven and of course I was making him go to the er to get checked out!!! What happened is a guy with a flat bed work truck pulled out in front of Dave while Dave was coming through an intersection and he couldn't stop in time so instead of Dave hitting his head on the flat bed of the truck and probably dying he laid the bike down, flipped over it and hit his head on the asphalt first, then put his arm to block the road and got road rash all over his shoulder, elbow, and knee. Luckily nothing was wrong with his head only had a goose egg and road rash since he was not wearing a helmet. I could and should be planning a funeral right now.They got us right back in an ER room and they came in and started checking for broken bones and said his elbow felt fractured and they wanted to make sure his hip was not broken since it was hurting him the most. They did X-rays and everything was fine... no broken bones. they then proceeded to tell him that the next part was going to be the most painful thing he has EVER experienced... they had to scrub out all the gravel in his road rash. It was so hard to sit there watching Dave be in that much pain, but I was just glad he was still with me.

Next on our list is Kruz's 6th birthday party... we had a few close friends and family come to his celebration on sunday the 11th, his birthday is actually the 14th, but we won't have him. We had some pizza and cake and ice cream of course. Kruz got to pick out his cake this year instead of me getting my fav... he did a really good job picking it out too... white cake with strawberry filling and buttercream icing. He had a starwars the clone wars themed party so I bought some guys to put on it. He got spoiled again like usual, his favorite gift was the one daddy and I gave him... an I-pod shuffle. Like I said he is SPOILED!!!!

Last but not least.... I went into the doctor's on the 7th and found out I was right... this baby is going to be bigger than she should. I was supposed to be measuring 31 centimeters, but I am measuring at 33 centimeters and still growing, so when I am 35 weeks which is only 3 weeks away they will do an ultrasound to see when to schedule my induction, so Kassidy will be born sometime in August... I can't wait!!!

I have some prego pics, but they aren't too great... one Kruz did and the other is when we were camping so enjoy LOL.

Feeling fat!!!

So I am now in the second week of the 7th month... HOLY CRAP!!! Our little baby girl will be here in no time. Well I know I haven't posted pics of how big I am... I am trying to find the cord to my camera to upload them, but I am BIG!!! At least that is what EVERYONE tells me and ya know what it pisses me off LOL. I am so sick of tenants or total strangers asking how far along I am, so I tell them and they say "holy crap you are huge, that is going to be one big baby!!!" I wish people would understand that pregnant women go through so much emotionally and physically and we already feel ugly and fat(at least I do), it doesn't help hearing it ALL the time!!! It never used to bug me that much, but my emotions are getting the best of me this month so far.

On a happier note though... I think we have FINALLY picked out our angel's name. DRUM ROLL PLEASE.... We are pretty certain it is going to be Kassidy Lin Johnson :). We are for sure going to spell it with a K, but the rest of the spelling is up in the air. For those who know me they know I like unique names so I might change the spelling a little.. not sure though. I will try and post pics soon.

A New Bike

So yesterday Kruz had a big assembly after he got out of school, so I took him back since my aunt Tina told me he HAD to be there. It was a BIG raffel basically... except to get your name in the drawing you had to read, for every 100 mins you have read through out the year you got one ticket. Well Kruz reads 600 mins a month so he has been getting lots and lots of tickets!!! They had lots of small prizes such as games and balls, yo-yo's and then big prizes such as scooter, I-pods and bikes. Well since they were short on time they decided that for the bigger prizes they would draw them ahead of time and leave those till the end. The whole assembly Kruz was on edge wanting everything that had been called, of course he didn't get anything till the end when they did the big prizes. Kruz won a brand new nice gold and black bike and helmet. He was so excited he ran down the aisle way screaming and waving his hands in the air like he was the champion.

Dave and I never win anything... so maybe I should start taking Kruz to wendover with me or have him choose a powerball ticket LOL, maybe then I would win :). In other news, pregnancy is going GREAT!!! I am 25 weeks and can't wait to meet our little girl.