Oh Sydney...

The other night Sydney was supposed to be in her room doing "reading time" before bed and I heard her say, "MOMMY, MOMMY - I NEED SOME MORE NEMO CHAPSTICK!!" So, I went in her room and said, why do you need more chapstick? She holds up an empty tube and says, "Mine's all gone"
-"Why is yours all gone?"
-"'Cause I put it on my aminals"
-"Why did you put it on your animals?"
-"'Cause they like it."
-"Sydney, we DON'T put chapstick on animals, we put it on little girls. "(James laughing from the living room)
-"Why?"
-"Because animals don't need it."
-'Yes they do."
-"No they don't"
-"Yes they do Mommy"
-"Can you show me where it all is?"
-"Look - on their mouths"
-"Sydney, you did do a good job just getting it on their mouths but don't put chapstick on animals again..."
-"Okay mommy, can I have more Nemo chapstick?"
-"NO - go to sleep!"

You cannot see it really well but the chapstick was around all of the mouths of ALL of her animals.

And just because Syd has really been fun lately I'm putting a picture of her in her dancing outfit - this is becoming a daily routine

Not a Great Appointment Today

We had our appointment with the high-risk doctor this morning. It really did not go very well at all. We had an ultrasound and everything looks great with the baby so far but then we met with the doctor to ask questions and go over stuff for this pregnancy. Because of his answers (or lack thereof) I cried throughout the entire meeting. He had nothing positive to say. Pretty much if I start to have the same symptoms as with the boys (bleeding, fever, etc) there is nothing they can do. He was not willing to do baseline blood tests or vaginal tests. He would have given me the same antibiotic that did not work with Hudson. Luckily our infertility doctor had listened to us and changed to antibiotic to something that will work to take care of the specific bacteria that they found in my blood after the baby was born. He told me my immunine system must be weak but that is typical during a pregnancy but that there was NOTHING I could do to help have a better immunine system (something I do not believe is true). Anyway, he is doing nothing proactive except I get ultrasounds frequently which will tell us nothing - the baby is always fine, cervical lenght always fine. He knows this but is doing this for our peace of mind. He seemed to think there was NOTHING we could do to prevent infection either - again, something I have a hard time believing. So, we will stay on our course of action, doing things (or not doing things) to prevent infections. We will just have to rely on prayer to help us through this one. I sometimes wonder how Sydney was ever born healthy. I really believe that if we can prevent infection, things may be okay. Our due date is April 22 so if we can make it to April we would be so excited. Please pray for our situation. We are very frusterated. We really do not want to go through what we have been through again.

Graduated

We graduated (again) from the infertility doctor!! Our ultrasound today went well. We have one healthy baby - he (or she) was moving arms and legs quite a bit already - fun to watch. Our doctor wants us to meet with the high-risk doctor in the next couple of weeks and wants us to be monitored pretty closely the entire time. Our infertility doctor told us that he wants us to keep him updated and if we are not feeling like we are getting the attention we need that we need to call him and he will make sure stuff gets done for us. We have been very impressed and really appreciate all that he has done for us with this baby and all of the previous ones as well. We hope we never have to go back to see him though :) I am still on lots of different meds and I will continue to be throughout the pregnancy. Hopefully the ones I am on will work this time. We are still praying for proactive, not reactive, doctors and no infections of any kind.