It’s been over a month already?

July 24, 2010 haphilp
Tags: diet, family, pregnant

I can’t believe I haven’t posted in so long!  I wanted to at least document each OB appointment I had…

I had my 25 week appointment on June 29th.  That was just the standard appointment — pee in a cup, get weighed, blood pressure, fundal height measurement, hear the baby’s heartbeat.  Turns out at that appointment I measured 2 weeks ahead in my fundal height, and otherwise everything was fine — besides the doc saying I had gained a bit too much, but having been gaining slowly before that, as long as that trend didn’t continue it was ok.  Then they scheduled me for my glucose tolerance test (GTT) 3 weeks after that.

So then this week, on July 20th, I went in for that appointment.  The GTT wasn’t too bad, really.  I was hungry, since it was first thing in the morning and I had to fast for at least 3 hours before, and the drink wasn’t great, but it didn’t make me feel sick or anything.  During the 1 hour wait before they took my blood, I was seen by the PA, who said that my fundal height was measuring 4 weeks ahead.  EEP!  So because of that, they’re going to do an ultrasound at my next appointment to check her size.  Gestational diabetes could cause larger babies, but the next day, I got a call saying that I had passed my GTT!  So, no gestational diabetes.  The nurse said I barely passed, but passing is better than not, and I hear most people who fail go on to pass the 3 hour test anyway, so I’m not going to feel bad about it, nyah.

My next appointment is Monday, August 2nd…which means we are now at OB appointments every 2 weeks instead of every month.  I can’t believe I’m already there.  In the third trimester.  And thinking that the baby might be born early…we need to get a move on with the nursery!  Here’s hoping she’s still a girl when we get the ultrasound that day. 

The baby continues to move around a lot.  I’ve started having to do kick counts, but my doctor is relatively lenient about them — I just need to count 4 movements within an hour.  That’s usually no problem whatsoever with this little girl.

I found out this evening I might be having two baby showers.  My mother-in-law suggested having one in my husband’s home town for all his aunts and everything on that side, and my best friend has been planning one where we live, too.  So, that’s interesting.

I’m behind on finding daycare, but we’ve decided to use our family doctor’s practice for a pediatrician, so all we have to do there is give them a call, I guess.  I also need to send in my paperwork for pre-registration at the hospital.  I *think* that’s about all I need to do at this point…

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