Reaching the End.

The past weeks have been a bit tougher than anticipated. DH's father unexpectedly-ish passed away. While he has been fighting cancer and effects of diabetes for sometime, he suddenly needed to go into the hospital to be placed on a ventilator. We were told he would come off and things looked good, only to find out the next day he had multiple strokes and heart failure. Needless to say he fought as hard as he could to make it to Magoo's birth, but his body just couldn't do anymore. I told him he had to watch over her because I could tell she would be a troublemaker like DH, so we know he will be there (probably egging her on at times knowing him).

In other news, Magoo is now full term and ready to pop out at any second. Of course she didn't come today - I was hoping the full moon would help things out. But everything looked good at our last appointment. We have our last ultrasound of the pregnancy this week and another appointment to ask questions and I have a lot! The hope is that her kidneys are at least not any worse since our last ultrasound and she will still only need antibiotics at birth and not a surgery.

Mainly, we found out this week I am GBS positive (Strep B, which for most adults is symptomless and harmless. It lives either in your bladder/genital area or intestine/rectum area and can be passed to the baby at birth. This could be potentially deadly to an infant). I was oddly surprised, when I should not have been. It comes and goes, so you aren't always positive, but it strikes people with compromised immune systems. So no surprise I have it. This means I already have to change my birth plan.

Initially, my birth plan included placing a hemlock in case of emergency, but not allowing IV fluids or IVs to be hooked up until an emergency so I was freer to move around. I will now need to get antibiotics every 4 hours until I give birth to her, meaning that I will be hooked up to the IV. The hope is that lets say the bag empties in 30 minutes, then they can unhook the IV and for at least the next 3 hours I can be free. I also want to know what antibiotics they will use because the ones most often used I will not have.

Overall, things are progressing well. We are still hoping she comes sooner rather than later to avoid an induction. DH will also have two weeks off to spend time with us prior to returning back to work, so ideally she comes on the 3rd. That means we have two weeks to bond as a family, get a schedule down and then he returns to work the same week my parents arrive. Plus Thanksgiving is the next week, so it would almost be like having three weeks off!

Until then, Halloween is only a couple days away. Maybe she wants to be a Halloween baby.