Mom’s blood pressure has been going up, although the past few days it seems to have been down a bit. She has been taking baths with cause you to diurese a bit, so maybe that’s been helping. A lot of bed rest and such of course. The major concern has been pre-eclampsia of course. a few doctor visits ago, mom took a 24hour urine test and peed a 240 for protein levels. The upper limit for normal is 300, and there is less concern about being close to that threshold as you get closer to the end of pregnancy. However, it needed to be monitored and kept down, so she went on bedrest.

Well, good news, the recent appointment shows that her protein levels have gone down after another 24 hour test. Mom did a good job trying to take it easy, so that probably is why. Though apparently tomorrow it could all go in the shitter without warning, so hope for the best. Unfortunately the only way to cure pre-eclampsia is to give birth, so if she become pre-eclamptic, the race is on to see how many extra days of baby cooking we can get. The longer she cooks, the better.

Pre-eclampsia is not why a C-sec was scheduled though. Ashley is breach. Breach is not good, and is really hard on the baby and mother during birth. There are things that can be done, which are rarely effective, such as aversion which is to try to rotate the baby by pressing on the womb, but that is only effective 50% of the time, is quite painful, and is risky to the baby. Our OB is against aversion because it never seems to come out well in her experience.

So the C-sec is scheduled for August 7th, but if the baby flips, and mom stays out of pre-eclampsia land, then it will instead become an induced labor on that day, unless mom’s proteins and BP completely stabilize, then we just go the nature route. So most likely Ashley is going to be born on Aug 7th by c-sec, or as late as Aug 8th if by induction.

Insurance wise, there is now a question. Since we do not have maternity coverage, but obviously have full medical, insurance might cover the c-sec if it is medically necessary. The question is if breach is medically necessary. Pre-eclampsia is for sure, since it technically puts the mother at risk, and the only way to cure it is birth. So I guess we could hope for pre-eclampsia 10 minutes before the c-sec… lol