28 weeks - Glucose Test

We are back from Puerto Rico! We had such a great time. I can't believe we actually debated a babymoon. I recommend it to anyone. It was so nice to get away and have time to ourselves for a few days.

We had our OB appointment today. We are at 2 weeks OB appointments, now which means the end is VERY near! We got to hear the heartbeat. That sounds just NEVER gets old. I asked the OB about why I still felt kicks really low. I had a feeling she hadn't turned yet. The OB felt around and said she is pretty sure she laying across my belly! This could be because 1. She is just REALLY comfortable right now or 2. She is maneuvering herself around a fibroid I have on my right side., which may be getting bigger. The OB says it's not a problem now, but we will probably do an ultrasound to take a look and see what is going on. I am super excited that we may get to have a peek at her again at our next appointment. Crossing my fingers!!!

I had my 1 hour glucose test and passed! My number was 123. She said the cutoff is 135 so she said my number was really good. Whew! I must admit I was really worried. I have gained 35 lbs in 28 weeks! I knew a high weight gain with pregnancy puts you at a greater risk for Gestational Diabetes. But, there is no worrying about that! Thank goodness!

We will be starting work on the nursery and painting soon. I will post pictures soon!

25 weeks and Leaving to Puerto Rico!

Well I am 25 weeks...26 weeks on Thursday! I can't believe how fast time is flying by! So far so good. No real complaints. This pregnancy has been pretty easy so far. Only things I can "complain" about are 24/7 heartburn and carpal tunnel. It has gotten so bad at night that I am wear wrist splints on my hands. Michael thinks I look like a bowler! But, They are totally helping. I was suffering through pain in the middle of the night. I would wake up with my hands asleep. I felt like I could cut them off and I wouldn't feel a thing! Other than that, smooth sailing. No issues. Um except the weight gain. OB says its still fine and she isn't worried. Almost 26 weeks and I have gained 30 lbs! We have some major walking to do this summer. I must go back to WW when she is born. I don't care about the weight gain....it just MUST come off after she is born. No excuses!

We are leaving for our Babymoon on Wednesday morning. We are going to Puerto Rico for 5 nights. Our last vacation alone. Funny, we always talk about how much we can't wait until she's here. We can't wait for family vacations, Disney, sand castles etc. Next summer should be interesting. We plan on taking her to Portugal to visit family!

So off in a couple of days. I will be sure to post pictures when we come back.

Here is my lovely 25 week belly picture. Don't I look further along? And you see those lovely stretch marks? Yeah BS cocoa butter doesn't help. I put it on religiously, and NADA! Still got them!

24 weeks! = We have Movement!

So for about 2-3 weeks I have been feeling this butterfly feeling in my stomach. It's sort of felt like that feeling when someone runs up behind you and spooks you. But nobody is doing that! So I knew it was her moving around in there. But today...24 weeks on the dot I felt my first kicks! I couldn't believe it.

First off I can't believe how low it is. I imagined I would feel kicks right in the gut around where my belly button is. WRONG! Its sooooooo low. I second guessed it for a minute. It felt like a muscle spasm at first. But, when it kept happening I knew I was feeling kicks. My mom has been able to feel it and a friend at work. Every time I try to get Michael to feel it she either stops or he isn't around or asleep. Seems like this little girl is already playing games with her Daddy! For now I will enjoy it and hope he gets to feel it too.

Ordered the Nursery Furniture

So we finally ordered the nursery furniture, our stroller and bedding. This was such a process. There is a small Baby Boutique in town. We went there first and found a set we loved! But it was super expensive. And, when you have a husband who runs a company and is always looking at the bottom line and how to save money...well you know where this is going. He wasn't satisfied with the 10% discount they offered us. So we took the brochures on the furniture and went on our way. We called about 5 other local stores (NY, NJ and MA) to compare what their prices were on this set. Well, this boutique was the most reasonable. They had the lowest price on everything. After 3 visits total, Michael spoke with the owner and got him to agree on a 18% discount on everything we bought! Sweet! Although, this didn't come without a huge blowout. We got into a major fight about it. But it blew over. We got everything we wanted at a price we were comfortable with. And, our mom's agreed to buy the nursery furniture, my mom also bought the custom bedding. Mike and I bought the stroller, glider and ottoman. No we just have to wait about 10 weeks for everything to come in, be delivered and set up. Now to start painting! Well here are the pictures of the furniture, and the nursery we are literally copying. I found it online and fell in love with it. We custom ordered the bedding to almost match it exactly! And, the stroller of course. I have coveted the Bugaboo Chameleon since before we even started trying to have a baby.

Picture #1 is the Stroller (Obviously)
Picture #2 is the Furniture
Picture #3 is the Nursery we are basically copying with a few minor changes.

20 week Belly

Here it is. Against my better judgment I am posting this. But here goes nothing. Here it is in all it's glory!

Nothing much to report except 1. A darn stretch mark appeared this morning. I guess what they say is right. All the cocoa butter in the world won't help you with genetics. My mom got them, and I guess I will too. 2. I have a new lovely pregnancy symptom. My hands are falling asleep while I'm sleeping. I read it's pretty common. But, seriously? It's so annoying. I am hoping this is only temporary.

Sugar and Spice...

Sugar and Spice and everything nice. That's what little girls are made of.
It's a girl! We are beyond thrilled. We are so happy we decided to find out what we were having. It was so much fun to see her on the screen again. This was a very long ultrasound. Almost an hour long. So we got to see her for a long time. She was on the move! She kept moving, rolling. She was really cute. Everything went well with our anatomy scan. The doctor says everything looks normal. We are so excited! I think Mike fell in love with another girl today!

Update on me

Sorry I haven't blogged in a few weeks....so here it was has been going on with me. I am now 18 weeks!

I had my latest OB appointment last week. I got weighed in (My least favorite part)...I gained 9 lbs in 4 weeks! OMG! I was totally panicked. I had no idea how this was happening. I told her I was following the eating guidelines I was given at my first appointment. So she had me go through my menu. I didn't get past breakfast, and she put the breaks on.

I have been drinking whole Milk (3- servings of dairy like I was told)....I started to drink whole milk when we started IF treatment and Acupuncture. Well I never stopped. I thought I was doing a good thing. Yeah I must have missed the fine print on the info packet I was given. LOW FAT!!!! Ugh what an idiot. So fast forward a week and a half. I have totally cut out whole milk and switched back to skim milk and cut out OJ all together. And what do you know...I actually lost 2 lbs! So I have found the culprit of my expanding backside. Damn Whole Milk! The goals is the maintain the weight I gained in the last 4 weeks and not gain anymore. 1.5 weeks down and still doing well.

In other news. We did our NT testing a while back in the first trimester. When we got our results we were 1 / 2020 for Downs. DH was totally satisfied with the results. There is a second blood test called the Triple Screen we were offered. Mike thought it was silly and since our chances were 99.95 that everything was fine, we didn't need to do it. I talked to the OB and she said there is no harm in doing it...just do it. So I go against my better judgement and have it done. A week later they call me. The genetic counselor says "I'm surprised the risk went up since your first set of numbers from the NT scan were so low. It's still a negative result, but now its 1 / 234". I almost died. It took me a full day to relax and stop being a basket case. So our chances of everything being fine are now 99.5 %. The chance of the baby having Downs are less that a half percent. Looking back, I wish I would have listened to Mike and just passed up on the Triple Screen.

12/26 is the BIG ultrasound! We have our appointment scheduled. We are praying the baby cooperates and will let us peek. More updates on that next week! Hopefully we will have some good ultrasound pictures to post!