34 weeks and still going strong!

So some very exciting news over the past week and a bit, we passed Nakita's gestation and are now 34 weeks and four days!  I have had good days and bad, it seems to be a bit of a cycle, but not one that I have managed to work out yet! I have my 34 week appointment tomorrow, so we will be having another growth scan, and the usual checks, and as long as things are tracking as they are or no significant changes then we get to keep on going! I promise to try and get up and post an update on tomorrow appointment a lot quicker this time!

This is a summary of my 33 week appointment which was last week ~

Fluid levels ~ have dropped again but are just above 10 so ok to keep going
Dopplers ~ looking consistent with last couple of weeks
Placenta ~ is starting to calcify, but is within the normal range for the amount, it merely highlights that it wouldn't last to 39-40 weeks, when the size is also taken into account.
Growth ~ OB decided to wait another week for a growth scan
Position ~ is firmly bum down and wiggling into an engaged position, but in the best presentation for a breech delivery.
Meds ~ Nifedipine to stay at 100mg and Progesterone at 90mg, the dropping of the dosage isn't working and it isn't worth the risk of dropping it, and will be maintaing both until 36 weeks ~ then we drop the meds and see what happens.
Rest ~ Bed/couch rest to continue - looking at it that we have come 5 weeks and now how 4 at the most to go, so past half way!!
Hospital ~ Our local private hospital will now accept (well two Paeds will) at 35 weeks, so to know that it is less than 2 weeks away is really really cool but would still love to see 37 weeks!

I am so so happy to be here, frustrated with the rest, the couch, missing out on things, but it has been worth it, 6 weeks almost 7 weeks I have been on bed/couch rest, and prior to that modified rest for a majority of the pregnancy, and it has felt like a long time, but so much better than the alternative. To be here at home each night when Roy comes home with Nakita is just wonderful, to sit and read her stories, play with puzzles and sing songs in the evenings on the couch is time we wouldn't have had as much of if we didn't all make sacrifices.

I am so proud of Roy, he has put his gym membership on hold, he take's Nakita to and from daycare everyday, he gets her showered and ready in her PJ's in the evenings and up and ready in the mornings, while I get breakfast ready and bags packed. He takes her to her swimming lessons, walks to the ducks and to the playground, it is so hard to say good bye to them each morning or each time they go out, I want to go out and enjoy all of these things with them, but it has to wait. He does the food shopping and other errands and reminds my to sit or rest, he has been my rock, and our relationship has grown so very stong during this pregnancy, we struggled when I was pregnant with Nakita and for many months afterwards, we lost our way, and feared that they same could happen this time, but it has been different, so very different, and I am so so happy and so proud as to how we have come through this together, stronger and closer.

So while our little Flicker who isn't so little anymore ~ going by the strength of the kicks, has show much fight and determination to be here, make everything we are doing so worthwhile....... And I wouldn't give it up for the world.

After passing Nakita's gestation I don't really have any goals in mind, FT is there but I am just so happy that with all the intervention, medications, scans and rest, we have surpassed nearly every expectation that we were given from the start of this pregnancy, and for that I cannot ask anymore of my body or of Flicker. We will just continue with the meds and rest and see where it lands us, whether it be days or weeks from now it doesn't matter, I am at peace with when ever this pregnancy will end and we will welcome Flicker earthside, and it doesn't matter what ever way Flicker will arrive, VB or CS is of no consiquence.

I have posted this message on my FB a few times over the pregnancy whenever I have been pushing to get over one of the many hurdles but for us it has rung so very true...

What doesn't break you, make's you stronger 

~ I will not be broken, so I can only get stronger......