The Numbers Game

As a very right-brained person, I have been avoiding, if not completely ignoring, numbers my entire life. They make my head spin. I can't even play card games. Anyway, my HELLP experience caused me to pay attention to numbers and I've overcompensated by obsessing some about them. I can almost see how people take comfort numbers. They're precise. You can measure them and make deductions based on them. Still not my thing, but I get it. So here are the numbers that fly through my head way more often than they should:

• 17: The week that I had my first high-ish bp reading in my HELLP pregnancy. That's in 9 weeks for me, so I'm feeling anxious about that particular week. 
• 130/90: If you have one high blood pressure reading (130/90) prior to 35 weeks gestation, you have a 33% chance of developing preeclampsia in that pregnancy. So far, my highest recorded bp has been 126/85. 
• 13: At 13 weeks, the risk of miscarriage decreases. In my first pregnancy I had a healthy awareness of that possibility, but my new traumatized self is much more aware of that risk. 5 weeks to go.
• 8: I'm running 2 miles twice a week (or more) and aiming for 8 minute miles. This week, I finished 2 miles in 15:36 and 15:49. Not bad for someone who has never had one ounce of interest in competitive running! Oh, and I work out 5-6 days a week, including weight training, cardio and flexibility work. Regular physical activity during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy reduced pre-e risk by 35-45% compared to sedentary.
• 60: The number of grams of protein a pregnant woman should consume. I really struggled a ton and fell short with my vegetarian diet in my first pregnancy, and I often wonder how much that contributed to the "perfect storm" that led to my illness. It's hard for me still, and I am eating some meat to try to help, but I just have a really hard time with ethical, philosophical and environmental issues related to eating animals. I add nuts, chia seeds, quinoa and other sneaky protein sources into a lot of my food but that gets a little old. I've been trying to eat a hard-boiled egg every day, but that often makes me gag and I have to force it down. They say protein powder isn't recognized by your system, but I often supplement at bedtime with some vanilla almond milk with whey protein powder in order to get my number for the day up. I have been eating more cheese than usual and my breakfast cereal has about 10g which is pretty good. I eat high protein bread (5g per slice) and lots of PB. Any other ideas?

My appointment with OB #2 is tomorrow. Wish me luck!!
Amy