Baby Magleby #2 on the way!

Well, that pretty much says it all, we're expecting Baby Magleby #2!! Our Due date is June 21, 2011 and we cannot be more excited!! We told Zach right away as soon as we found out because we figured it would take him the entire 9 months to get used to the idea... as most of you know he is extremely leary of babies... he doesn't know what to make of them especially the crying part... he has very sensitive hearing as it is, and is very emotional so when the crying goes on and on it really upsets him. We're hoping that since they baby is ours, and will be here 24/7 he will get used to it, and it won't bother him so much. He seems to be getting excited about the idea.

Down to the nitty gritty... so in hopes of not repeating what happened with Zach's premature birth we've set up a pretty good plan with my OB. He was FANTASTIC at listening to my list of things that I've researched over the last 4 years and wanted to try. He mentioned Incompetent Cervix right off the bat which I have to say was a bit of a relief... because once you know what it is you know what you can do to prevent it... not knowing is the hardest part!! So that being said here is our plan to keep this lil one in here as long as is humanly possible:

1) A Cervical Cerclage. We'll be going in a few weeks to have one placed (once finals are over!). Basically in the case of Incompetent Cervix the cervix can't hold the pressure of the growing baby and it gradually begins opening up and most of the time you don't know it until it's too late. So the purpose of the cerclage is that they sew the cervix shut and (if we make it that long!) they remove it at 37 weeks. In the event where it is placed as a preventative measure rather than a rescue measure (once you've started dilating) it has an 85-90% success rate (success is counted as making it to 37 weeks and beyond).

2) 17p (alpha hydroxyprogesterone) shots. I'll be doing these once a week from weeks 16-36. These are found to be very helpful in pregnancies after preterm births of preventing subsequent preterm births. This was the main thing that I have researched over the last 4 years as the Dr's had previously said no to Incompetent Cervix. I cant even tell you how many case studies, message boards and other websites I've researched this one to death on. I was so excited as soon as my Dr said yes before I even finished talking about it. He said that he has had a lot of good experience with it and was going to recommend it!

I'm feeling very positive about this, and have very good feelings (as well does my Dr) about this pregnancy going farther than we did with Zachary. We go in in a few weeks for an ultrasound which we are SO excited about... I suppose the one good side to a High Risk pregnancy is all the extra ultrasounds, lol. So we'll keep you posted!!