I have a confession: If I am up after midnight and on the computer, I always stop by this blog before logging out just to look at the additional day on the pregnancy ticker. Yes, if you hadn't already figured it out, that is how precious each day my little girl spends in-utero is to me.
Now, for the update. Last Thursday we had another OB appointment, the final one I will attend before my trip, so it was the last one in quite awhile for me. Everything looked great. Angie's blood pressure was lower than the last appointment, still no sign of spilling protein, good heartbeat, good fundal height measurement, baby girl is moving a lot and Angie is feeling good. Praise the Lord!
The last two action items on my list before I leave involve the legal documentation we will have to file after the baby is born (a parentage action to rebut the presumption that the woman giving birth and her husband are the parents of the baby-- it is not dissimilar to adoption proceedings, in fact, except it stipulates that Trevor and I are the biological, instead of adoptive, parents) and coordinating the cord-blood collection and storage.
I sent a half-hearted email to a lactation consultant regarding the possibility of inducing lactation, but I haven't heard back from her yet. I am really too busy to tackle this issue in the little time we have left before we leave, so if she gets back to me and things seem possible to arrange before we leave, I will look into it. If not, formula it will be.
I sent a half-hearted email to a lactation consultant regarding the possibility of inducing lactation, but I haven't heard back from her yet. I am really too busy to tackle this issue in the little time we have left before we leave, so if she gets back to me and things seem possible to arrange before we leave, I will look into it. If not, formula it will be.
4 comments:
I love seeing updates on your "growing" family! I have lots of info I can give you if you are really interested in inducing lactation... I got it from the lac. consultants @ work for my girlfriend that did it for her adopted daughter. Take care!
Whatever decision you settle on, it will be the right one. Glad she is looking so great!
Glad to see everything is chugging along! I have to admit that it's interesting to see pregnancy from this side of the coin. With my pregnancy we went along assuming everything was a-ok until we got the rug pulled out from under us at 37 weeks.
You know. . . if you don't think inducting lactation will be possible, then you could always buy a small amount of breast milk from a bank to get that immunity jump-start and then switch over to formula. Just thinking out loud here. . . I don't believe in making women feel guilty about breast-feeding or not. I tortured myself trying to do it for Charlie and it just wasn't really a valid option. Sanity is far more important.
inducing lactation. . . i don't know what inducting it would entail, but it is making me giggle.
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