Pregnant on Plaquenil

Yesterday we had our 38wk checkup. Derek was really tired so my parents came along, while Derek caught up on his sleep(kind of ironic when you think about it, because that should be me) But Derek gets up at 4am or 5am almost every morning, and when he gets home is usually beyond exhausted and just wants to sleep......another reason im glad my mom is here to help! Our appt was ok yesterday, we did another ultrasound to do measurements and Dreycin is at 7.5lbs in the 68% percentile. He wouldn't wake up so I "failed" my biophysical profile and had to be put on the monitors for 30min. He did fine, started waking up as soon as they put the monitors on his/my belly territory! Its almost hard for me to believe that I am actually 38wks, from where I sat over a year ago. my mom and derek went with me last April 2008 to a Rheumatologist for my Lupus at Duke University for a consult about pregnancy. Of course everything we heard was sad at the time, but that is a doctor's job to tell you what you may or may not be up against. After that Derek and I decided we would keep trying (we started when he got home from Iraq Xmas 2007) and when things didnt go our way we stopped and started looking more and more at Adoption. I had a really bad Lupus flare in July 2008 and had to start plaquenil and steroids and for me that was it, I was throwing the towel in, I was done. Derek was heartbroken and angry. It was a tough time for us in our marriage. We were dealing with this and slew of other family drama and his postwar behavior. It was definitely a time of making our relationship better or it was going to be the breaking point. In July I focused on finding employment ironically with mothers and babies, Derek started school. Slowly we moved back into the idea of pregnancy when I found a really good OB/GYN here in Louisville in November 2008. She was so confident that everything would be ok now that my Lupus was being managed with Plaquenil
And that was the reality, if I were to get pregnant what were the risks to staying on all my medications, the ultimate outcome for me was to have a normal healthy baby. During this pregnancy we have had what seems like quite a few scares, 1st with the single umbilical artery then with the lateral ventricle enlargement, but now that we are near the end its more of a reality for me and probably Derek that we are going to have a normal healthy baby boy, Dreycin. So even though I have been pregnant on plaquenil for almost 10months, lupus didnt stop me from becoming a mother.