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So while I use this blog so that people who know and care about me can keep up to date, I often find it  tedious to keep explaining things. With that said I'm keeping this one short.  I was recently hospitalized again. I went in because of the pressure I felt to my spleen from the uterus and was riduclously scared that it was going to burst randomly. While in the hospital my spleen was checked and is still at 16cms, but my blood levels dropped dramatically and I had to get a immediate blood transfusion. It has also been decided that I will not be delivering vaginally due to the amount of pressure my spleen will have to take during pushing. This news did not make me happy. I was given steroids to grow his lungs and we are waiting to hit 32 weeks before a scheduled C-section. The hope is that I will be able to live with the pain until then, but at this rate, I'm not optimistic about that at all. The pain is astronomical and the more I deal with the pain the more upset and angr...

A few people have asked me am I going to be able to deliver vaginally. Now, I did think that I had addressed this in one of my previous blogs, but maybe I didn't. So here is the deal. Because I have Sickle C Disease, I am at a greater risk of clotting. And due to the risk of clotting associated with c-sections, this doubles my chance of clotting in my limbs and even having a blood clot travel to my lungs (pulmonary embolism) which could kill me. Therefore, I will be induced and delivering vaginally unless my team and I decide my life or the baby's life is at risk.  So, for those of you who automatically assumed I was having a c-section, you assumed incorrectly. We are getting this little man out the old fashion way!