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I had my sonogram yesterday and the doctor saw that the placental bleeding is now very minimal and the baby's heartbeat has decreased but still within normal range.  Praise the Lord and thank you for all your thoughts and prayers for these past months. However, the sonogram also revealed that I have a scanty and therefore inadequate amniotic fluid in my womb.  Amniotic fluid (AF) is the water that enables the development of the baby's lungs and limbs.  The baby drinks it and then excrete it as urine, the mother's lungs purifies it, returns it to the womb and the baby swallows it again, and the cycle goes on.  The AF is also responsible for the development of the baby's muscles and extremities as it facilitates movement.  Low amniotic fluid may be caused by a leaky membrane, high blood pressure, diabetes, dehydration, or worst-- defective kidneys or no kidneys at all of the baby.  Low AF usually results to miscarriage or stillbirth.  So after the sonogr...

First off, thank you, everyone, for your concern and your prayers.  I thought I should write an update right now (really, I'm so tired of this) as some seemed to think that I'm a terminal case (cuz Djin put my name alongside dead people. hehe)  Btw, condolences to the Alamag and AGS family.  I wish we can all read 90-Minutes in Heaven.  It is really a good book to help us process the lost of a loved one. It makes it easier to accept death when you are reminded what heaven is really like and how the people who are already there are incomparably happier than any of us down here and that they are waiting for us.                   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I woke up last Wednesday with a sharp and shooting pain in my right lower abdomen--the kind that makes you grit your teeth and try to keep the tear...