Okay so I’ve been putting off getting the three hour blood glucose test for awhile now (like 2+ months). I finally did it yesterday before my appointment today, and I passed! I passed! I passed! So I don’t have GD this pregnancy, yay!
Bean apparently decided around 2am this morning that she wanted to and punch me a lot. In fact so much that she hasn’t stopped yet 12 hours later. She is being very active today. Normally I feel here a couple of times a day, today there have only been a couple of times I haven’t felt her.
In other news we’ve come up with our name for her. Which I’m not sharing on my blog. While we were in Atlanta she did pick up a nickname, well two, Gigi from most of my family and Esmeralda from my Grandfather. The nicknames have absolutely no relation to what we hope her name will be. In fact the name we have chosen starts with neither G or E, though we do have a G and E name chosen just in case we need them.
Okay so anyone who didn’t see me buying the baby new clothes as soon as I knew gender raise your hand. Anyone? That’s what I thought. So we went out after dinner last night and picked up 2 new outfits for the baby. Amusingly enough neither of them is pink. Here are the baby’s new outfits. I really like both of them especially the Winnie the Pooh one.
I really like the blue fairy princess one too, it is cute.
And her Winnie the Pooh Dress!
We had our ultrasound today, and the baby is looking good! It is also a little girl! Now to think about names, eek!
Whine, with Desmond I had GD (gestational diabetes for those not in the know), well I sort of had it, I failed the three hour test by 1, seriously I needed under a 120 to pass three of the four tests, and I had a 120, so I failed the whole thing. It was a pain and annoying, but I was able to keep it controlled with diet, mainly because I’m still not convinced I had it, but anyways.
So since I had it last time, they gave me the stuff so I could do the 1 hour test before my second appointment this time. So yesterday my Mother in Law came over and I went to take the test, and I failed, whine. I needed under a 130 I had a 136. Which means I have to take the 3 hour test again. Blegh. I am so not happy about that.
Next Monday is my next appointment and I’ll pick up the information then, and probably take the test by the end of the month. I really hope I pass, because I so don’t want to have to take a blood sugar moniter with me to India, because well it just won’t be fun. I was really hoping that it would come in under and I would be fine this time, I still could be, but dang I hate the glucose drink and I don’t wanna take the three hour test, whine.
Well I’m 10 weeks now, actually about half way through the 10th week. All in all, I have no real symptoms, a few food aversion, and some exhaustion, but I tend to blame most of the exhaustion on trying to keep up with Desmond. What little morning sickness I have had has long since passed, not that I had much, I think I had more with Desmond, and that is saying a lot, since I had one true episode with him.
I seriously would doubt I was pregnant if I hadn’t seen the baby’s heart beating and such. It has been fairly stress free so far which is really nice. My next appointment isn’t till September 8th. It will be nice to go in and be checked out and hear the heartbeat.
No real complaints at this point though, the pregnancy is going fairly well and it is kind of weird to think I’m almost through the first trimester already, hopefully I will get some energy back when I hit second trimester. Just keeping everyone updated, no real news on the baby front though. I’m sure there’ll be some more news come October and the 20 weeks ultrasound.
We had my first midwife appointment for the new bean yesterday. It included an ultrasound appointment. The appointment went well over all. It was hard to see the bean, though I will upload the ultrasound pictures eventually. We did see the heartbeat it is at 157 which is great. The fetal pole was measuring a week smaller then where I thought it should have been, but my dates could have been off. My due date was moved to March 16th from the 10th, which I am fine with. I actually prefer a slightly later date, since I am going to try a VBAC and having more time before the bean is due is good, since then I am likely to get less pressure about the baby being late, etc.
After the ultrasound we met with the midwife, well one of them. This is a new one to the practice, she wasn’t there two years ago when I was there with Desmond. I like her a lot, which is nice. The midwife that helped deliver Desmond is no longer there, which is a bit disappointing, she apparently got married and moved to Colorado. Anyways the midwife went over my history and her first question was, “Are you planning on a VBAC?”, which is a nice question to be asked. I told her I was and apparently I can stay with the midwife half of the practice for VBACs, which is nice, I prefer a midwife to an OB when possible.
All in all it was a good appointment, there wasn’t a problem with me going to India at 20ish weeks, and I go back for my next appointment in 6 weeks.
