27 Week Specialist Appointment

Today was my follow-up appointment at my specialist office in Atlanta. Our tech looked at our little sweetheart first (and raved about how cute he was). Baby is doing amazing and we could even see him doing his breathing excercises in there. She gave us some pics, see below. My cervix was between 2.5 and 2.7cm, which is much better than last week's 1.7cm when I contracted. I've been faithfully on my terbutaline, I take it everyday at 6am, 12pm, 6pm and 12am. Doc told me I'd be staying on those for a while and he also said that I can't go back to work until further notice. So I have the pleasure of taking my note in tomorrow to my GM and having a conversation about vacation and sick time as well as short term disability pay. Not sure what I have to do in order to get that. I will probably call HR in the morning and see what my options are then go in and talk to my boss about a plan of action. My next appointment is in 2 weeks, so I know I'll be out at least that long for sure. I'm hoping I can go back to work, I really miss my regular customers. One of my regulars who also happens to be Ronnie's boss called him yesterday to check on me. It was really sweet... I'm not sure how my boss will take my extended time away from work, I just hope she sympathizes since she saw what I went through last time. I'm pretty sure I became a different person a little bit after that experience. Not worse, but not better either, just different. Right now I am just happy that my little guy is healthy and doing the things he's supposed to be doing. I read on my update from BabyCenter that if he was born now he'd have an 85% chance of surviving, though not without a lot of medical treatment. I'm pretty sure we'll make it to the mid 30 week range, but that little tid bit was comforting to know.

Profile

Nose and Lips

Face