Update on Labs

I never got a call about my labs yesterday so I decided to call this morning. Spearfish had my labs from the appointment I had on Monday but said they had not heard from Gillette hospital yet so she called them to get the rest of the results for me.

She said all of my blood work came back fine on Monday and on Wednesday, and my urine did not show any protein spillage, so I am not pre-eclamptic at this point. She said they could tell something in my urine though that showed I had some pre-hypertension. I was really curious as to how they could detect hypertension through the urine, after looking online I found that albumin/creatinine levels are somewhat elevated in urine with pre-hypertension.

She did say that I tested positive for Group B Strep though so I will need to be on antibiotics during labor. I did not have this with Lydia so I was a little surprised and disappointed that I had it. But she said you can have it with one and not the other and visa versa, even so much as to say you can have it and not having it multiple times during the duration of a pregnancy, so that is why they wait to test women at the very end of their pregnancies. Between 35-37 weeks.

I have a feeling that if I have any more blood pressure issues at my coming appointments that they may want to induce me early. I am really hoping that they won't be that high from now on. I have been taking my blood pressure throughout the day every day now and they have always been below 120/80. Normally around 117-120/72-75.

I will update again after my 37 week appointment on Tuesday. I can't believe I will be considered full term in just a few days. This has just flown by. We will be holding our baby boy in just a few short weeks, if even that long...