I know I said I would be better at writing.  After I said that, I had another complication to this crazy pregnancy, anemia.  I had my glucose test and later that day the nurse called.  When you get a call back after that, you know it can’t be good.  Good news I passed the test, bad news I’m pretty anemic.  Now for me who has had problems my whole life, it was no surprise.  How bad and how my body responded was.  I have never been so bad off before.  I started taking over twice what is usually recommended.  There was no change in how I felt.  I have been so lethargic and can’t make it through the day without a nap.  My house wasn’t as clean as I like, my poor kids wanted my attention, and all I could do was sit on the couch hoping I didn’t have to use my brain.  Two weeks later I had my blood tested again out of curiosity.  The doctor wasn’t happy!  My iron level had actually dropped!!!  We talked about ways to modify my supplement to possibly have it better assimilated into my poor body.  She said if it didn’t come up then I would have to have an iron infusion.  A couple weeks before I had talked to the nurse at the hospital about it, and the side effects aren’t much fun at all!  I knew it must have been serious because my actual doctor called me back a few hours later to touch base.  Normally, it’s her nurse I talk to.  She said they were going to look at my blood and see how well my bone marrow is creating new cells to compensate for the ones dying.   I have my next appointment next week (we have begun the every two week visits) so we shall see what she decides to do.  She consulted my perinatologist before she had called.  He confirmed that if I did have to have an iron infusion, it would have to be on a different day as my IVIG AND they can’t use my PICC line which means they only have one arm to try and get an IV in.

This baby girl and all her needs.  Hopefully she won’t be high maintenance once she gets here:)