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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Colin DuyBao Nguyen
Born on April 22, 2009 at 12:33AM
Weighing 5 lbs 10 oz
Length 18 1/4 inches
Baby Jellybean had an early arrival at 37 weeks due to preeclampsia (pregnancy induced hypertension). I had noticed my fingers and toes feeling really tight over the Easter holidays, and periodic measuring of my blood pressure showed elevations to 140s/90s. At our routine OB appointment, my blood pressure measured 150/100 and I was admitted to the hospital for a few hours of observation and labwork. At that time, I was 36 weeks. I was put on a week of bedrest and told that jellybean would be induced the following week when I made it to term at 37 weeks.
David & I were not mentally prepared for the baby to be coming that early, but we had no choice at that point! Every moment I had with the little one still inside me kicking me and pushing against me I cherished because I knew that it would not be long before he would be out and screaming and crying!
The day before our induction, I was on a clear liquid diet starting noon. We were to call into the hospital at 4:30pm to see when we would be able to come in. There weren't any beds, so we kept calling back every few hours to see when we could come. Finally, at midnight, they said for us to be there around 1am! By this time, I was starving and sleepy, but we made the trek out to the med center. We swung by Methodist also so that I could return my parking card and my pager from the ICU rotation that I never got to complete.
Upon arriving, I was hooked up to the monitors, had an IV started, and then one of the nurses inserted Cytotec for cervical dilation since I was only fingertip at that point. Talk about uncomfortable. We spent the night, or what was left of it, trying to get some rest. Early the next morning, I still wasn't dilated very much, so I was given another dose of Cytotec. Prior to that, I hadn't been feeling any contractions and no pain at all, but after the second dose, Pitocin was started to artifically make my uterus contract, and I finally started slowly dilating. The contractions slowly became more and more uncomfortable, and I had dilated to about 2-3 cm.
I finally asked for an epidural when the contractions started getting more uncomfortable. The epidural made me numb from my chest down and I could not move anything at all. The exams after that became very tolerable! That evening, my parents came to visit us around 8pm. They stayed until close to 10pm. At that time, I was only 6cm, so we told them it still might be a while before the baby would arrive. Shortly after they left, I was enjoying a lifesaver popsicle and talking to David when all of a sudden I felt very nauseous and immediately threw up. Our nurse decided it was time to check again, and I was 10cm with anterior lip (close to complete)!! We couldn't believe baby was almost here!
Our OB made it to the hospital about 11pm to help me push. You could say that it was the quietest delivery ever! In between pushes, we were talking and gossiping and joking around. David said he would only cut the baby's cord if it had black hair! haha. We were trying to have the baby out before midnight, but it was difficult to push when I had no feeling below my chest! Finally, at 12:33am, baby jellybean arrived screaming and crying! After getting him checked out and cleaned up, we got to spend some time with him before he went to the nursery.
We got sent to a postpartum room where I had to get hooked up to 24 hours of Magnesium for my preeclampsia... which sucked because they had removed my Foley catheter, so I had to get up literally every hour to pee, and it was 400-500cc each time! When we got to our room, nothing in the room worked, but David was able to fix everything, which led the nurses to ask if he wanted a part time job there :) hehe. At around 4am, we got a call saying that the baby had to go to the NICU because he was breathing too fast, which made us sad because we thought we were going to be able to spend more time with him. We tried to get some sleep after that though.
The baby ended up staying in the NICU for 24 hours where his breathing finally slowed down some. He did not enjoy having a feeding tube down his mouth though! FINALLY, on Friday, we were both discharged home!
The first night home was rough.. he was up all night. The following week, he was readmitted to the NICU at Women's for jaundice, where he had to "suffer" under phototherapy lights for a day. Yeah, he enjoyed getting a tan! Finally, he was back home with mommy... and every day has gotten better. I love canoodling with him and our favorite thing to do is take naps with each other. He loves tummy time on Mommy's chest and he can sleep for hours like that. He is growing so much every day... he no longer fits his newborn onesies!!
We will be celebrating his one month this weekend... I can't believe he's already a month old! As much as I can't wait for him to get bigger so he will be more interactive with us, I know I will probably miss these times, just like I miss being pregnant with him and feeling his little movements. I look at his eyes and I see my wonderful hubby's eyes. His litte mouth and chin reminds me of my sweet Daddy. Everything about him is a conglomeration of the love of me & David. There is so much more... and life is just getting started. I don't know how I'll ever leave him in 2 weeks to go back to work..........
Born on April 22, 2009 at 12:33AM
Weighing 5 lbs 10 oz
Length 18 1/4 inches
Baby Jellybean had an early arrival at 37 weeks due to preeclampsia (pregnancy induced hypertension). I had noticed my fingers and toes feeling really tight over the Easter holidays, and periodic measuring of my blood pressure showed elevations to 140s/90s. At our routine OB appointment, my blood pressure measured 150/100 and I was admitted to the hospital for a few hours of observation and labwork. At that time, I was 36 weeks. I was put on a week of bedrest and told that jellybean would be induced the following week when I made it to term at 37 weeks.
David & I were not mentally prepared for the baby to be coming that early, but we had no choice at that point! Every moment I had with the little one still inside me kicking me and pushing against me I cherished because I knew that it would not be long before he would be out and screaming and crying!
The day before our induction, I was on a clear liquid diet starting noon. We were to call into the hospital at 4:30pm to see when we would be able to come in. There weren't any beds, so we kept calling back every few hours to see when we could come. Finally, at midnight, they said for us to be there around 1am! By this time, I was starving and sleepy, but we made the trek out to the med center. We swung by Methodist also so that I could return my parking card and my pager from the ICU rotation that I never got to complete.
Upon arriving, I was hooked up to the monitors, had an IV started, and then one of the nurses inserted Cytotec for cervical dilation since I was only fingertip at that point. Talk about uncomfortable. We spent the night, or what was left of it, trying to get some rest. Early the next morning, I still wasn't dilated very much, so I was given another dose of Cytotec. Prior to that, I hadn't been feeling any contractions and no pain at all, but after the second dose, Pitocin was started to artifically make my uterus contract, and I finally started slowly dilating. The contractions slowly became more and more uncomfortable, and I had dilated to about 2-3 cm.
I finally asked for an epidural when the contractions started getting more uncomfortable. The epidural made me numb from my chest down and I could not move anything at all. The exams after that became very tolerable! That evening, my parents came to visit us around 8pm. They stayed until close to 10pm. At that time, I was only 6cm, so we told them it still might be a while before the baby would arrive. Shortly after they left, I was enjoying a lifesaver popsicle and talking to David when all of a sudden I felt very nauseous and immediately threw up. Our nurse decided it was time to check again, and I was 10cm with anterior lip (close to complete)!! We couldn't believe baby was almost here!
Our OB made it to the hospital about 11pm to help me push. You could say that it was the quietest delivery ever! In between pushes, we were talking and gossiping and joking around. David said he would only cut the baby's cord if it had black hair! haha. We were trying to have the baby out before midnight, but it was difficult to push when I had no feeling below my chest! Finally, at 12:33am, baby jellybean arrived screaming and crying! After getting him checked out and cleaned up, we got to spend some time with him before he went to the nursery.
We got sent to a postpartum room where I had to get hooked up to 24 hours of Magnesium for my preeclampsia... which sucked because they had removed my Foley catheter, so I had to get up literally every hour to pee, and it was 400-500cc each time! When we got to our room, nothing in the room worked, but David was able to fix everything, which led the nurses to ask if he wanted a part time job there :) hehe. At around 4am, we got a call saying that the baby had to go to the NICU because he was breathing too fast, which made us sad because we thought we were going to be able to spend more time with him. We tried to get some sleep after that though.
The baby ended up staying in the NICU for 24 hours where his breathing finally slowed down some. He did not enjoy having a feeding tube down his mouth though! FINALLY, on Friday, we were both discharged home!
The first night home was rough.. he was up all night. The following week, he was readmitted to the NICU at Women's for jaundice, where he had to "suffer" under phototherapy lights for a day. Yeah, he enjoyed getting a tan! Finally, he was back home with mommy... and every day has gotten better. I love canoodling with him and our favorite thing to do is take naps with each other. He loves tummy time on Mommy's chest and he can sleep for hours like that. He is growing so much every day... he no longer fits his newborn onesies!!
We will be celebrating his one month this weekend... I can't believe he's already a month old! As much as I can't wait for him to get bigger so he will be more interactive with us, I know I will probably miss these times, just like I miss being pregnant with him and feeling his little movements. I look at his eyes and I see my wonderful hubby's eyes. His litte mouth and chin reminds me of my sweet Daddy. Everything about him is a conglomeration of the love of me & David. There is so much more... and life is just getting started. I don't know how I'll ever leave him in 2 weeks to go back to work..........
Sunday, February 22, 2009
3rd trimester!
So we entered 3rd trimester last week. It's hard to believe that in just a little over 2 months, baby Jellybean will be arriving. I've been feeling more consistent fetal movements over the past few weeks... at first, I only felt flutters and movements on the left side of my abdomen, but now I seem to feel movements all over... maybe I'm feeling feet, elbows, butt, who knows!! It's very comforting for me to feel him moving around in there, and sometimes I'll watch my belly and I'll see knobs sticking out, as if he's trying to say hello to mommy!!!
The trick these days as I'm slowly getting bigger n bigger is to not overdo work, to drink LOTS of water (seriously, they say I'm supposed to drink 64 oz of water, that's like 4 big water bottles.. and sometimes I'll drink even more than that cuz I'm so thirsty!), and to try to get as much sleep as I can. This is difficult considering we have our big exam coming up March 7th, and it's been hard to study with everything going on.
My girlfriends & my lovely sister in law are throwing me & David a baby shower next month, and we are SO excited... it's gonna be co-ed, so we're hoping it's gonna be lots of fun!!
It seems like there is so much to do for the baby but we haven't done anything yet. The crib my sis in law gave us is still just leaning against the wall in our bedroom. The only thing we've done is wash all of the clothes sis in law gave us, and that's only cuz my mom was the one who started doing all the washing. I definitely don't know how ready we are for parenthood, but ready or not, Jellybean is gonna be here before we know it.
Speaking of which, I know we're not going to be calling him Jellybean forever, but we haven't picked a name that seems to fit him. Well, that and we don't know what he looks like yet! I can tell he will be like his cute daddy.. but none of the names we've come across seem to capture a "Jellybean" character hahha. We'll keep on looking.
More to update later!
The trick these days as I'm slowly getting bigger n bigger is to not overdo work, to drink LOTS of water (seriously, they say I'm supposed to drink 64 oz of water, that's like 4 big water bottles.. and sometimes I'll drink even more than that cuz I'm so thirsty!), and to try to get as much sleep as I can. This is difficult considering we have our big exam coming up March 7th, and it's been hard to study with everything going on.
My girlfriends & my lovely sister in law are throwing me & David a baby shower next month, and we are SO excited... it's gonna be co-ed, so we're hoping it's gonna be lots of fun!!
It seems like there is so much to do for the baby but we haven't done anything yet. The crib my sis in law gave us is still just leaning against the wall in our bedroom. The only thing we've done is wash all of the clothes sis in law gave us, and that's only cuz my mom was the one who started doing all the washing. I definitely don't know how ready we are for parenthood, but ready or not, Jellybean is gonna be here before we know it.
Speaking of which, I know we're not going to be calling him Jellybean forever, but we haven't picked a name that seems to fit him. Well, that and we don't know what he looks like yet! I can tell he will be like his cute daddy.. but none of the names we've come across seem to capture a "Jellybean" character hahha. We'll keep on looking.
More to update later!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
26 weeks
How your baby's growing:The network of nerves in your baby's ears is better developed and more sensitive than before. He may now be able to hear both your voice and your partner's as you chat with each other. He's inhaling and exhaling small amounts of amniotic fluid, which is essential for the development of his lungs. These so-called breathing movements are also good practice for when he's born and takes that first gulp of air. And he's continuing to put on baby fat. He now weighs about a pound and two-thirds and measures 14 inches (an English hothouse cucumber) from head to heel. If you're having a boy, his testicles are beginning to descend into his scrotum — a trip that will take about two to three days.
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So we hit 6 1/2 months this week! Baby bump is slowly and steadily growing. Jellybean is more and more active. I think a lot of times he is positioned like in the above picture because often I will feel a lot of movement and kicks but I can't feel it on the outside of my tummy. David loves to feel jellybean move when we're laying in bed together and I think JB recognizes Daddy's voice cuz when David talks to him, he'll give us a couple of hard thumps!
The hormones are doing crazy things to my skin though... I have these dry skin patches on my legs and had some a few wks ago on my arms that have gone away... and talk about high school acne :( it's not no matter what I do I can't fight the zits and I never had a problem with zits before (well besides in high school) and I haven't changed my regimen at all... so nasty! Also I've had crazy mood swings where some days I just sit here and feel so disillusioned. Well, not about the baby, but just about everything else. I think the only thing that lifts me out of my funk is hubby.
Anyway, more to update later... post call today so I've been just sleeping on and off today. David's working late tonight so I'll be asleep by the time he comes home, booo.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
24 weeks
How your baby's growing:Your baby's growing steadily, having gained about 4 ounces since last week. That puts him at just over a pound. Since he's almost a foot long (picture an ear of corn), he cuts a pretty lean figure at this point, but his body is filling out proportionally and he'll soon start to plump up. His brain is also growing quickly now, and his taste buds are continuing to develop. His lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" as well as cells that produce surfactant, a substance that will help his air sacs inflate once he hits the outside world. His skin is still thin and translucent, but that will start to change soon.
See what your baby looks like this week. (Or see what fraternal twins look like in the womb this week.)
Note: Every baby develops a little differently — even in the womb. Our information is designed to give you a general idea of your baby's development.
How your life's changing:In the past few weeks, the top of your uterus has risen above your belly button and is now about the size of a soccer ball.
Most women have a glucose screening test (also called a glucose challenge test or GCT) between now and 28 weeks. This test checks for gestational diabetes, a pregnancy-related high-blood-sugar condition. Untreated diabetes increases your risk of having a difficult vaginal delivery or needing a cesarean section because it causes your baby to grow too large, especially in his upper body. It also raises your baby's odds for other complications like low blood sugar right after birth. A positive result on your GCT doesn't mean you have gestational diabetes, but it does mean that you'll need to take the glucose tolerance test (GTT) to find out for sure.
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So yes, feeling definite fetal movements, which is so exciting for me. Now I'm also beginning to feel it just by palpation... this just started maybe yesterday or the day before yesterday, so David hasn't felt it just yet. I've been working nights now, so I'm staying at my condo for the week. Jellyb's a nocturnal baby; most of his movements I feel at night and early in the morning and it's just the funniest feeling ever. It's almost alien-like cuz I'll just lay my hand across my belly and all of a sudden I'll feel a small thumping against my hand. I feel like he's just squirming all around, stretching and getting comfy inside.
I feel like I'm so behind on baby stuff, though. The only baby stuff I have so far is stuff from my sis in law -- a crib that isn't put together yet and some crib sheets. I went to Target last week to browse stuff and buy stuff for my friend's baby shower, but I didn't find the need to get anythign for jellybean yet. I'm supposed to go baby registry shopping this weekend w/ my sis in law, so I guess that's when I'll register for lots of stuff.
I've already gained around 20 lbs so far but I still barely look preggers even tho I'm already 6 months. The fat just distributed evenly throughout my body I guess. Altho I am wearing all maternity clothes cuz they're just more comfy.
Anyway, I'm tired and gonna go lay down in the call room. More to update laterss.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Jellybean!
If you haven't heard the news yet, David & I are expecting! Our jumpin jellybean is arriving May 12, 2009! Hard to believe he'll be here in a few months. Yes, it is a bouncin baby boy! David is very excited! Everything so far is going well. Jellybean has been treatin his mommy very well. Occasionally, he likes to give a good kick to let mommy know he's in there doing his acrobatics. But for the most part, he's been good. All I want him to do is concentrate on growing and being healthy :)
We're 23 weeks this week and rapidly approaching the 3rd trimester. We haven't done anything as far as baby preparation, so hopefully next month we'll start to get all that together. Who knew there was so much to prepare for?! Isn't that what my parents are for? ;) Kidding. We'll go get started on our baby registry at the end of the month!
More to update later!
We're 23 weeks this week and rapidly approaching the 3rd trimester. We haven't done anything as far as baby preparation, so hopefully next month we'll start to get all that together. Who knew there was so much to prepare for?! Isn't that what my parents are for? ;) Kidding. We'll go get started on our baby registry at the end of the month!
More to update later!
Monday, August 4, 2008
what's been going on the past few months... let's see... i finished my intern year at galveston and began my 2nd year of training. it's been going well. i'm in the ICU this month, so it's a little bit scary but it's been fun so far. not much else has been going on. i have the day off tomorrow because of tropical storm edouard so maybe it will be a little bit exciting tomorrow. we'll see.
casper is as usual keeping us busy. he is our little baby!
casper is as usual keeping us busy. he is our little baby!
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