We'll be 30 weeks pregnant on Monday 1/4/09
(which reminds me - HAPPY NEW YEAR!).
I decided I need to start adding more pregnancy updates to our blog - if just for posterity. When I was pregnant with Evyn I kept an online pregnancy journal (I'll have to link to it later - the site that is hosting it is down right now). Each week I would print out my entries and paste them into a book - it's been a joy to thumb back through that old book now! For a bunch of reasons, I never got around to starting a journal for this baby. So I'll be adding more details here - feel free to skip past them if they are boring!
Tuesday I had my 1-hour glucose tolerance test to rule out gestational diabetes. I passed! I didn't think I would - I failed when I was pregnant with Evyn, and had to follow up with a 3-hour test, which was awful, although I did pass. So glad I don't have to repeat that this time!
My iron levels are still coming back very low, though. I have always been quite anemic, but especially so in pregnancy. Since I will be breastfeeding this baby like I did with Evyn, it's pretty important to get my levels up to par. Easier said than done; after Evyn was born, I had to give her iron drops every day because my body just wasn't absorbing the supplements - and let me tell you, those iron drops are terrible! She cried and gagged every time I tried to give them to her, poor thing.
Another thing they have been monitoring is my blood pressure, which generally runs pretty low. Thankfully we've been doing great with this pregnancy, staying well within the normal range (in fact, not low at all!). At this latest checkup I was at 117/60.
I'm hanging out at +9 pounds, and baby is measuring on target, heartbeat is 139 BMP. Reflux is much worse than it was when I was carrying Evyn - it's even happening in my sleep, yuck!
S/he is still doing acrobatics, - changing position nearly every day. Today s/he is down but diagonal - head near my right hip, feet in my left ribs. Every morning when I wake up I like to take a few minutes to play with the baby (s/he usually wakes up shortly after I do). I wait for a kick or an elbow jab, then I gently poke back to get him/her to reveal their position to me. I think it's a hoot - Scott, on the other hand, tells me to "stop bothering" the baby - ha!
Officially we have 10 more weeks to go, but I am determined to be ready for him/her by 38 weeks (God willing!). Right now the baby's room is still full of office furniture and in desperate need of some fresh paint. All the baby things are still packed away waaaaay back in a corner of the basement.
We have no car seat, no stroller, and our cosleeper bed is still at my cousin's house. No diapers, no onesies, no hospital bag packed! I'm really feeling the time crunch and hoping to tick a few of these things off my to-do list this week.
Prenatal checkups are every 2 weeks now - I go back Jan. 14th.
Next update should be a little shorter :)
1 comment:
Congrats on making it to 30 weeks, and you'll do fine about getting all the stuff done before baby gets here. You'll probably start 'nesting' soon, if you haven't already.
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