TC and I are debating on whether we should pay the extra money to find out what the gender is at 16 weeks or wait until the 20-24 week appointment. Me being the impatient person that I am, CANNOT wait! Lol! But we will discuss it and decide before my 16 week appointment which in November 20th. :D
The past few days have been a little hard though. Baby is perfectly fine, so no worries there. I have a conversion disorder which causes me to have what is called "events" that mimick seizures. I haven't had an event in a few months but the past 5 nights in a row, I've had them and then get really bad muscle spasms in m stomach and back. Mine are caused by stress but I can't think of anything that I would have been stressed out about the past 5 days but then again, your body reacts differently and you could be stressed but never know it. The OB said she has had 2 other patients other than me that have this disorder and that 1 of them had to be on bed rest her entire pregnancy because hers was really bad. Mine's not that bad anymore. It used to be really bad when I was on medicine for epilepsy when I shouldn't have been but that's when they thought I had epilepsy. I can usually tell when they're coming on depending on my stress level. I'll feel them coming on and can sit down in time before I have one. But sometimes, I can't feel them on quick enough to sit down which is where I fall and hit my head or hurt myself and what not. The muscle spasms were concerning me for the baby's sake but my OB said that as long as I'm not falling or bleeding, the baby is perfectly fine because the womb acts as a big muscle that protects the baby so that made me feel so much better! I just pray that I don't fall where I'm gonna have to be on bed rest! I just wanna cry! :'(
The difference between seizures and events are seizures are caused by brain waves breaking, events are psychological. I was diagnosed with epilepsy on July 30th, 2009. For 2 years, I was pretty much a lab rat, and I was on at least 10 different medications. My neurologist at the time would try one medicine for a few months and once that one decided not to work, it was off to a different kind of medicine. It was frustraing to say the least. That whole time, I'd have 4-10 (what was then called) seizures a day! After months of trying to get omitted to MUSC in Charleston, on April 11th, 2011 I was finally omitted for a 3-5 day evalation and depending on what the doctors would find during my evaluation, possible surgery was in the question. After 3 days, they found out that I didn't have epilepsy but instead, I had a conversion disorder. The doctors described that police officers, military men and women, firefighters, etc., go through things on a daily basis that not everyone goes through....and the things that I have been through, not everyone has been through which causes this disorder.
So nonetheless, it's been an emotional few days. I pray that I don't have any events tonight. That would be amazing! These muscle spasms afterwards are just killer and I'm so sore it's not even funny! :(
Other than all that chaos, the baby is perfect! They did the Nuchal Translucency test this morning. If yall don't know what that is, it's a test they do where they measure the baby's neck to determine any deformities or mental handicaps. That turned out normal thank the Lord! The heart beat is 159 so it's strong and steady.
TC and I are planning on having a gender reveal party once the time comes to find out the sex of our baby. But TC and I are planning on knowing the sex before our family and friends do. We're planning on not having the one ultrasound screen that is for us to be turned on and we're getting the ultrasound technician to put whether it's a boy or a girl in a sealed envelope. Once our appointment is done, we are meeting up with my best friend, Gretchen, who is going to take the envelope, open to see the gender, and then go get either blue or pink balloons. While she does that, TC and I are going to stay busy. Gretchen is going to fill a cardboard box up with the balloons and she's going to take pictures of us while we open it and see what we're having. Then either that night or a few days after, we're having the gender reveal party for our family and friends to find out. We're getting a plain cake made and we're going to get the bakery to fill the cake with either pink or blue icing. We'll already know the sex, but we'll cut the cake for our family and friends to find out. I CAN'T WAIT!!! :D
OH also! My cousin, Stephanie's, gender reveal party was this past Sunday and she is having a.....GIRL!!! :D
Alrighty, I'm gonna spend some cuddle time with my man, watch some tv, and go to bed soon. Gotta a semi big day tomorrow (but watch, I'll nap through half of it lol).
Stephanie and Justin's Gender Reveal Party 10-14-12
12 weeks, 4 days. Our little plum :D
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