thursday.

pretty creative title huh?  I know, you wish you had my awesome "thinking up fabulous titles" skills :)

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So today I had my first doctor's appointment.  10 weeks.  New doctor.  First words he said to me were, "you sure had me worried, didn't think that baby would make it this far."  SO, SO thankful beyond words for that little beating heart. 

I asked lots of questions and he answered them pretty much to my liking :) haha.  We talked about my history, chances of recurrence and the fact that there are no preventative measures that can be taken that have been research based.  Taking a daily aspirin hasn't been shown to help lower blood pressure, just causes more problems so we aren't going that route.  I will follow a normal schedule of doctor visits (every 4 weeks until 30 weeks, then every 2 weeks for a month and then every week after that, if I make it that far), unless things start to look abnormal with my blood pressure or anything else. 

My ultimate goal is to make it to 34 weeks.  A "34 weeker" would be nice a big and healthy :)  Amazing how your perspective changes after having a preemie. 

I did learn something new about hellp syndrome though.  He said that they are now finding out that hellp can be detected as starting out as early as the 1st trimester and then shows itself usually later on (in my case at 31 weeks 5 days)  Just from what I've told him, he believes that my water breaking at 24 weeks is related or was caused by something being wrong with the placenta from the hellp and for some reason the hellp waited another 7 weeks to happen (thankfully!).

He did give me hope by telling me he just had a lady give birth (full term even!) who had a history of hellp and she had a completely normal pregnancy!  Yay, I'm praying for that!

Oh AND he did give me an option to check into a V-Bac if I want to.  We'll see. 

So I was told about these shirts from another preemie momma friend of mine and I should totally get one of 'em!  

....and I promise to NEVER complain! :)

(unfortunately that is one thing that really bothered me after Lincoln was born prematurely, hearing women complain when they were nearing their due date.  Yes I understand it's completely different circumstances but next time know your audience)  Ok rant over :)

And now I'll leave you all with a video of Lincoln's awesome dance moves.  Tyler was singing his "Linc-y doodle" song that he made up after Lincoln was born and Lincoln was dancin' away!  Enjoy!  (Lyrics to the song are below, hehe)

(sang to the tune of yankee doodle, yes my hubby is an amazing song writer, be jealous)
Linc-y doodle when to town
riding in his carseat
stuck the pacifier in his mouth
and then he fell asleep
Linc-y doodle pick him up!
Linc-y doodle, manly
Mind your mommy and your dad
and with Kona be friend-ly!

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We are headed to Chicago for the weekend, meeting some friends of ours, the Moody's, from Wichita!  We are SO excited to see them!  And excited for a fun weekend in Chi-town.  

Hope you all have a great weekend!  I'll be back next week with pictures!