Drama Bean

Y’all. I’m 35 weeks preggers today and our c-section has been scheduled for 4 weeks from today. ::Holy Moly:: #homestretch

This pregnancy has been way harder than my pregnancy with Campbell Man. But Idk if it’s the pregnancy itself that’s been harder or the fact that I’m preggers with a feral 2yo dinosaur. Because honestly, it could be either! Ha. Bean has def made his/her presence known the past 35 weeks, though. That’s for sure. Just look at that ultrasound picture. Bean is throwing up deuces! #falmpalm

We’ve also had TWO hospital visits already for this child. TWO. Bean isn’t even earthside and I’m already meeting my medical deductibles. (TL:DR - baby is fine; just dramatic) Our first visit was around 11 weeks preggers when I had some heavy bleeding. That turned out just to be the hematoma I had that would NOT go away. #Rude. Then, at 32.5 weeks preggers, I get admitted for a lovely 24 hour stay on Christmas Eve Eve. Happy Holidays to us… Around the beginning of December, Kirk noticed that I would start breathing heavy - more than normal preggers heavy breathing - when we were just lounging around the house. Come to find out, my Apple watch can track my 02 levels! Say whaaaaat?! Also come to find out, my 02 levels drop below the normal 95% & above when I’m at rest, which medically, makes NO sense. After some digging, we found that my watch has been tracking my levels since August 2025 and since then, I would have random bouts of my 02 in the low 90s, sometimes even into the 80s. What bothered me the most about this was that when it happens, I get a pressure in my chest; like Campbell is trying to sit on me. Of course, I just figured I’m preggers and Bean is positioned in a way that makes it more difficult to breathe when I’m sitting down. I didn’t even message Dr. Paine when I first noticed the pressure because I really didn’t think it was an abnormal symptom of being hella preggers. I knew we had an appt coming up, so that’s when I mentioned it. Dr. Paine even said herself that had I not known my 02 levels and just told her I was finding it harder to breathe, her response would have been “you’re pregnant”. BUT. Because we knew my 02 levels and we knew they would drop as low as 87-88%, she sent me to the OB Emergency Dept (OBED) to run some test just to rule out that it’s nothing serious. Insert our 24hour hold - errr, stay - at the hospital. They ran blood work, 3 different nose swabs, an EKG, an Echo, chest x-ray, ultrasound of both legs, a walking test, supplemental oxygen, overnight monitoring, constant monitoring on Bean, and guess what? Everything came back NORMAL. Except for my RSV nose swab. That came back positive, but that tracks because Campbell had it around the same time. Unfortunately, that doesn’t explain my O2 drop.

So here we are, about a month after I first noticed the pressure in my chest (& Kirk noticed me huffing while being a couch potato) without any answers as to why it happens or why it continues to happen. If I sit too long at my desk at work, or too long on the couch watching TV, or even standing too still for too long, my O2 drops. Fun fact: as I sit here typing this blog post, my O2 is at 92%. Cool, cool, cool. I had a sleep study consult, but that doc also thinks it’s just Bean and said to wait to do the sleep study until after the baby is here. I also have an appt with pulmonology about a week before I give birth, so I’m not sure how helpful that appointment is going to be either. Sigh…

In other GOOD news, Bean officially has godparents! We asked my sister-in-law (& Kirk’s 1st cousin), Adrienne, during Thanksgiving if she’d be Bean’s Nanny and we asked Kirk’s nephew (& godchild), Lukie, during Christmas to be Bean’s Paran. Both are super excited to step into such an important role. Kirk & I couldn’t be more pleased with our decision to ask these two and that they both said YES. #Hooray!

I likely won’t do another blog update until after Bean’s arrival, so please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we get closer to Bean’s Birthday. And, of course, we’ll share pics & the name as soon as we’re ready. Thanks for being along for this journey!