Sunday, November 7, 2010

TROJAN FOOTBALL UPDATE: WEEK 11

This week was the last week of Regular Season for the Harnett Central Trojans! They played away at Garner High School. In the first quarter we lost our quarterback to a shoulder injury and he is now out for 4-6 weeks, also several starters were benched for other reasons. So needless to say it was a long game, and quickly was 21-0 in the early  part of the second quarter. The final was 42-0. But it was a great SEASON overall.. 7-4 was their ending record, and they are now playing in the first round of playoffs with a 7th pick and will play SouthEast Raleigh again! They played them in week 10 of the regular season!!

GO TROJANS! So excited to see what will happens at PLAYOFFS and wish everyone the best of LUCK!

~The Turners~

Sunday, October 31, 2010

20 Weeks





.20 Weeks.

Bralyn is now the size of a small Cantaloupe, in my melon-sized belly this week! She is about 10 ounces and 7 1/2 inches. She has lots of room in this Melon size belly and is doing twisting, turning, kicking, punching, and even an occasional somersault!.. I have been feeling her more and more daily! She is one active little one! ;) 

We are half way through the 40 week pregnancy, but 38 weeks is considered full term! So we have somewhere between 18-20 weeks left unless she comes a week or two earlier then that!!

~The Turners~

22 week appointment is on Nov. 12th`

Trojan Football Update Week 9 and 10

TROJAN FOOTBALL

Week 9, we played SSS after a bye week!  It was very COLD!! ok extremely COLD and my feet were frozen!! haha.
Trojans did a great job after a week off, and SSS although in the past a good program, are having an not so great year. Anyway We WON :) 41-8. It was a great fun game for sure.. 
That making us 7-2 going into our last home game and Week 10!

Week 10, was our last home game this past Friday night! It was once again Cold, but this time I didn't freeze as bad. :) I did make it out to the game despite being sick all week!
We played the 2nd place team in the conference (Southeast Raleigh), it was a another sad hard week for the Trojans! There is always could have's and should have's and I could write all day of how we were the better team the first half and could have won easily, but the final score and the outcome is all that matters! 
Trojans lost 43-6. :(  Making us 7-3 as we enter the final regular season game this coming Friday away vs Garner (number 1 team in the conference). 

Great year though TROJANS! :) 

~The Turners~

Playoff bound and it all starts over soon!

Friday, October 29, 2010

19 Weeks

So I am very behind, and Sunday will be 20 weeks, but better late then never!!





 .19 Weeks.

This week Bralyn is hitting the growth charts at 6-7 inches long and a full half a pound in weight! What fruit this week? Bralyn is about the size of a large Mango. A mango dipped in greasy cheese, actually! Vernix caseosa- a greasy white protective substance- that now covers her sensitive skin, protecting it from the surrounding amniotic fluid. Whitout that protection, she would look very wrinkled at birth.  This coating does shed as delivery approaches!  

She is very active now, and I can feel Bralyn after every time I eat! :) I love that feeling!

~The Turners~

We will be 20 weeks and half way through the pregnancy on Sunday!! Can't wait! 

The Perfect Bedding!

I mentioned below we found the perfect Bedding for Bralyn's room!! :)

This is what it is!! Can't wait to get it and put it in her room!


Decorating Bralyn's Room :)

We are having a great time decorating Bralyn's room! We found the PERFECT bedding set and already have her mobile up! Daddy and Mommy wanted to be the first to buy something from the registery! 

Registering was so much fun, and we are already blessed with wonderful friends/family who have sent us great things for Bralyn already!! My Greenville friends were so sweet to give us little presents for Bralyn, she will be one stylish girl in all her Clothes!! :0 

Here are a few pictures of her room so far, the Changing table is still in the process of being built by daddy, but the Crib is up and a her wonderful toy box that was Patrick's when he was a little boy!! :) 


~The Turners~


Update from the Doctor

Very excited to announce that my Doctor called and updated us about the Sonogram they ran a week ago on my Gall Bladder. Great news is that there are no Stones!, but we aren't sure why I am hurting so much everytime I sit and eat. The doctor is going to do another test at my 22 week appointment on the 12th, and will also be checking to make sure my Cervix is ok and little Bralyn is staying where she needs to!


It has been a crazy 2 weeks since finding out I needed to be on restrictions and rest. The Greenville weekend, although great made me very tired, and after returning I found out I had Strep Throat. I am going on 3 days now of being sick, and it isn't so fun while you are pregnant! 
Everytime I couch my poor stomach hurts so bad and cramps, so I am trying to rest and can only take cough medicine every 8 hours! At least through me getting sick it has made me rest and take better care of myself, which needed to happen for Bralyn for sure!

As of now, we are still asking everyone to please pray that I have a great 22 week appointment and that at my 28 week Ultrasound my Placenta has moved and Bralyn is doing GREAT!! :) 
Thank you everyone for your sweet cards and prayers so far, I have faith that everything will go away and restrictions will be lifted!!

~The Turners~

Trip to Greenville

So excited to have gotten the chance to go to Greenville this past weekend and visit old friends, NGU family and my Dad!! :) 
It was a wonderful weekend, but went by way tooo fast!!...

It was Homecoming at NGU, and it was great to go and see old friends there!... They won, and the weather was actually a little warm for late October! It was a lot of fun! I also got to have some boiled peanuts, now Bralyn was excited!!
 I then got to go see my Dad and stay with him while he was speaking at a local church for the week!
We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Outback Saturday night, and I must say Bralyn LOVED it!!
Sunday was a wonderful day, and a great visit with my other Greenville family, the Rochester's, I have missed them so much!!
Sunday night my Family the Deyton's came to church to see me and I was so HAPPY!  I love that family so much, they mean the world to me!!

Monday before heading out of town, I made a stop at NGU to see my Admissions family, and eat lunch in the cafe, and then my final stop was to see Miranda and little Asa, what a sweet little man!! :) I have missed her!!

It was a wonderful trip, and I wish I had had several days to stop and see so many other friends as well, but I guess after Bralyn arrives she will need to go see where Mommy and Daddy went to school and were our hearts are! :) 

~The Turners~

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Placenta Previa

Our doctor called yesterday to go over our ultrasound and yes to confirm, Bralyn is a little GIRL!! ;) .. 

she also wanted to go over something they found in my ultrasound.. My placenta has attached under the baby and over my Cervix. This is called Placenta Pervia.  Definition:
is a complication of pregnancy in which the placenta
grows in the lowest part of the womb (uterus) and covers all or part
of the opening to the cervix.
My doctor asked me not to lift anything and cut back activity. When you have this, the placenta can contract and if that were to happen my cervix could open and I started going into labor.. Bralyn needs to stay inside as long as possible, so we have to keep an eye on it for sure. 
I will have my cervix checked at 22 weeks and then at 28 weeks another ultrasound to check and see if the placenta has moved.  She said that it can move sometimes and if it does it will by 28 weeks. So until then I must take care, rest and do not lift or other activities. 

I looked it up online last night and also spoke to several people, friends who had it and medical friends.  they say 1 in 200 pregnancies get this and that sometimes it does move by 25-28 weeks. WE ARE PRAYING that the PLACENTA MOVES!!
If it doesn't move, we will more then likely have a C-section to protect me from hemorrhaging during delivery and to protect baby! We will not know until after 28 weeks and 3rd Trimester begins!! 

For now we do doctors orders and make sure I take care of myself for Bralyn!..   If I start bleeding or having contractions I am to call or go into the doctor immediately they said. I am carrying very low and since my placenta will continue to grow as well as baby, this is why I must be careful.  However we are praying God allows it to move and we can have a normal delivery and no complications at all until 28 weeks!!



Also, I am having a sonogram on my Gallbladder this week to determine if I have stones, I have been having some pains everytime I eat and the doctor believes it is my gallbladder.. Praying that this pain goes away too!!

But Bralyn is WONDERFUL and growing and moving all over!!



~The Turners~