New Baby Drama

Well as most of you know we have had a challenging couple weeks. Lets start from the begining ...On Dec 27th I texted my husband a picture of a positive pregnancy test with "Guess What Daddy?!" We had been trying for a few months and were very excited, he brought me home flowers that night and we cried with excitment.
As most of you know I am epellptic and have been since I was 14 and was on bedrest with my last pregnancy with my son and they had to take him out 3 weeks early beacuse i had 3 sezuires and painful fiberoids that made me bleed. So this pregnancy we wanted to be extra careful. Around 6 weeks I started getting the horrible morning sickness but more nauesa than vomitting and we increased my sezuire meds trliptal which are ok during pregnancy but not really tested so there is always a risk for birth defects but a greater risk is to have a sezuire and lose the baby. At 8 weeks the nausea and vomitting hit really hard and I had some blood spotting so we went in early and had a ultrasound but everything turned out fine other than a small tear from implantation.

At 9 weeks I had a horrible night where I was upchucking all night and all morning and couldn't keep my oral sezuire meds down, so i called my doctors and told me to go to the ER. So I called my husband at work he came home and straight to the hospital we went. We walked into the waiting room and next thing I know i woke up in a strecher with like 5 nurses looking at me. I guess I had a sezuire on the waiting room floor. So the gave me IV fluids and increased my sezuire meds also giving me more dissloving anti nausea meds. I had another small sezuire in the ER But of course my main concern was the baby and if we lost it. They immediatly roll me into the ultrasound room and check the baby. I will never forget the sigh of releif I felt when I heard that strong heartbeat and I just started bawling. Baby was wiggling and going strong! We were sent home that night finally hydrated and lil less nausea.

Through the next few weeks I had good and bad days. some days I would have morning sickness all day and others just nausea. Just as i thought I was getting better around 12 weeks thats when the worst hit. Last thursday I started feeling really crappy again and was up all night again upchucking everything and couldn't keep my sezuire meds down again so we called the doctors again and was sent to the ER. Josh came from work again and we dropped our 15 month old with the neighbors and went back to the hospital. Sadly we pulled up to the ER and I had a sezuire in the car. So the doctors got home health set up. the nurse came that night and started teaching Josh how to run my IV.

Its been almost a week now and I am extremly weak and have lots of meds and fluids running in me every few hours. I still can't hold any foods or liquids down but my hubby has been so wonderful on taking care of me. i have to get a new IV every 3 days now and its been a challange when my veins are stubborn, I have had lots of blown veins. The only thing getting me through this is the ultrssound picture on my IV pole. I know this baby is going to be so strong and specail. I did have another sezuire at home yesterday but all is well and i am just super drugged up. Thank you all for your prayers and love. I love my Josh so much for all his wonderful support and becoming my sexy nurse :) I will keep you posted1 Thank you to my sis for comimg up and taking care of my brayden and me while Josh works..lots of love xoxox