Pregnant With Stockton!!

Wow! It's been way too long since I've updated this. I'm going to go back to last year because I want to remember all of it. My sister was due to have her baby girl in July and I really wanted to be there, well Brooklyn had different plans and decided to come five weeks early on June 7th. We were in Richfield when she called me and told me her water broke. We packed up our stuff and headed for Pocatello. Brooklyn had to be taken c section and spent three weeks in the NICU. Matt had to go home and I stayed and spent the week with my sister. Matt drove up the weekend after to pick me up and Payton was coming back with us to spend the week. After losing our first baby as soon as it was okay I started tracking ovulation and we started trying for another baby. We tried for a few months and nothing happened, I got discouraged and decided I wasn't going to track ovulation anymore and whatever happened,happened. I had Payton here for the week. I was loving having her here. One day I just thought I should take a pregnancy test even though I wasn't even late yet. I took the test and a very light line came up. I was so happy, excited and scared at the same time. I was holding the test under my turtle's heat lamp to see the line. I waited until Matt got home to tell him because I didn't want Payton to hear me on the phone. After what happened last time I didn't want her to know yet. When Matt came home I had him look at the test and then go to wal mart and buy me a digital one to confirm, sure enough it was also positive! I made him get an early test too which was also positive. 

I sent an appointment with my doctor to go in at 8 weeks. My doctor has an ultrasound machine in his office and he is always so great about giving me an ultrasound when I'm nervous. My appt was on Friday and on Thursday I woke up bleeding. My doctor doesn't work on Thursdays so I couldn't get in with him. I called the office and they put me in with another dr there. I was so nervous of course assuming the worse. I went to this dr he took me into the ultrasound machine looked for maybe two minutes and told me he couldn't see anything said he say something that might be a fetus but he couldn't see a heartbeat and said I would have to go to thr hospital. This was at noon and the hospital couldn't get me in until 6. I lost it on the way home I couldn't believe this was happening to me again. I was losing another baby. I assumed the worst. I remember Matt looking at me and telling me he knew everything was going to be okay. He said he knew that dr didn't look long enough and he just didn't do it the same way he had seen our dr do it. I still couldn't accept that. I was sure it was happening to me all over again. Matt always had great faith through this pregnancy. He was then and is always my rock. We went to the hospital at six. The ultrasound tech took us back put that little thing on my stomach and within seconds she said "Well there's your baby and I'm pretty sure that's a heartbeat, give me one second, yep there's your baby's heartbeat" I immediately started crying and said " So my baby's okay!" She told us yes and that as far as she could see everything looked great. I've never been so happy in my life. I was so angry at that dr for not looking harder and putting me through this. At 12 weeks I had another scare with bleeding. I was at school and realized I was bleeding. I freaked out and called my dr. I came home and had Matt come home too. I had a fetal doppler, so he came home and found the baby's heartbeat. It sounded healthy and fine. I went to my dr and he did an ultrasound. He found the baby right away and everything was fine.

We couldn't wait to find out the gender of our baby! Matt is the only boy still living on the Torgerson side so he was really wanting a boy to carry on the name. I didn't care either way. I always thought Stockton was a boy, but I never told Matt because I didn't want to him to be all excited and then be wrong. We went to a place in Vegas that did early gender checks at 14 weeks. We got down there really early and were so excited! The girl didn't look for even a minute before she told us she knew for sure Stockton was a boy. We were so excited! We knew then too that we didn't need to discuss names. I've had the dream of naming my first boy Stockton since I was eight and luckily my husband who is not a sports fan at all agreeded to name him Stockton. We immediately went to the store and bought him his first clothes. This picture is how we announced we were having a boy. 

At 19 weeks we had the ultrasound with the tech who checks everything. Once again I was so nervous, but Matt wasn't he just always said he knew everything was fine, and it was. The tech confirmed he was a boy and that he looked healthy.

At 22 weeks I founds out I had gestational diabetes and I would be seeing a high risk specialist along with my dr for the rest of my pregnancy. I was able to keep good control of the diabetes and actually ended up losing weight because I had to watch my carbs and sugar so closely.  At 29 weeks we had a 3D ultrasound. We loved seeing our little Stockton's cute face.

At 32 weeks I started having non stress tests since I was high risk now with the diabetes. The tests from 32 weeks to 36 weeks were perfect. At 36 weeks my fluid started dropping a lot and my blood pressure went really high. They put me on bed rest at 36 weeks and had me come back twice a week instead of once. I went in at 36 weeks 5 days, my blood pressure was really high, my fluid was low and for some reason Stockton's heartbeat was racing. They sent me to labor and delivery to be monitored. After about an hour everything went down and they sent home and told me to come back Thursday. I asked the girl to ask the dr if he could take me off bed rest so I could go back to work, she just laughed and said "no way."  I went back Thursday and again my fluid was really low. The high risk specialist really wanted me to make it to 38 weeks. I was 37 weeks 1 day. After looking at everything he decided it wouldn't be safe to keep me pregnany anymore and from there he told me I wasn't going home I was going to go to labor and delivery and be induced. I couldn't believe today was the day! I called Matt and told him it was go time!!!!