We love pink, and we love spaghetti! I went for a quick visit to my sister's house, and she gave me some spaghetti sauce and it is so delicious! I love love love her spaghetti sauce, and we really enjoyed a delicious supper with it :) It was really nice to see my niece and nephews, although I didn't stay long (I was tired and still am--I am about to go lay down!)
I went for my ultrasound yesterday and it was a wonderful experience, the machine is not as nice as the one at the hospital, but she did give us a couple of pics, two of them are of the sex, and the tech is 90% sure it's a little girl :) I was shocked, since I really thought this was a boy, I just had a feeling from the beginning....but the pictures certainly look like a girl lol. Her name will be Carly Grace, and we are debating what her second middle name will be (it was going to be April, but it looks like she will be arriving in March lol). I like Carly Grace Rachel or Carly Grace Rhonda but I am really not sure, it could be anything!
I am so so so excited about all the cute little girly things we get to give to our daughter, and everyone says it looks like she has my nose in the ultrasound profiles :) The tech said it looks like she is already acting like a little princess since she was reaching up her arms and stroking her hair in my belly lol. I am so beyond excited for the baby shower coming up....I can't wait!!!!! There is a lot we are planning on doing here to get ready for our daughter (organization wise!) and we'll have to get started soon...
The tech said the baby is measuring as if she is 34-35 weeks gestational age, meanwhile she is only 31 weeks....she is over five pounds already, so I'm pretty sure I will be having an early c-section. I told my sis it's kind of a relief thinking that I won't have to sit and sit and sit and wonder about when I'll go into labour, the pain of labour etc....I am nervous though, I don't want to have an allergic or negative reaction to all the meds they give you for a surgery!
The tech said that judging by the baby's measurements one would think my due date was the first week of March. I can't believe what these people are telling me! It was nice at my sisters today because when I felt Carly kicking away I got my sis to put her hand there and she felt it :)
I missed school all this week, I was just so tired and not up for it, I am going to see if I can get a note from my doc excusing me for the past week. I know how irresponsible to miss all that time but it was so so nice to rest, I have been having a hard time walking, and getting used to taking insulin four times a day and checking my blood sugars seven times a day. They seem to be getting somewhat better, at least they haven't gone as high as they did before!
I hope to kick my butt into gear and actually go to school the coming weeks. It's hard, I really underestimated how much I would just want to stay home and think about my baby lol. I couldn't sleep at all the night before my ultrasound, and it was so wonderful...I thanked the tech a million times for giving me a guess as to the sex of my baby, it made me so happy :) I told her though that if it comes out a boy that is just fine lol. She said she's pretty sure it's little Carly in there giving me all the kicks and moving about!
2008-02-06 (31 weeks)
Early Arrival? Well I had my appointments on Monday, my regular doctor does seem to think that I will need a c-section, and if I'm not crazy I think I heard him say 36 weeks. Maybe he means the end of 36 weeks, which would be the week of March 11. As I feel the huge movements of the baby, and notice the head or feet sticking way out from my belly, I am starting to feel like I'm not up to the challenge that lays ahead. It just feels so overwhelming, I don't feel "good enough" to be someone's mom!
I think part of the issue is that my polyps are really really bugging me lately, I can't wait to have the surgery to remove them (my doc said we can look at that three months after the birth). I would like to see the local ENT guy rather than go to Sudbury, but if the local guy says he is going to use packing for my sinuses than I am going to go to Sudbury instead. That doc didn't use packing, and I was a-ok for a long long time after that surgery. Packing is the worst feeling ever!!!!!!
I think that once my nose is feeling better I will feel more human and more able to be a great mom :) I am excited to see my little baby on Thursday morning, going for another ultrasound, hopefully to find out the sex finally! My goodness it's like it's this important secret code or something and no one will tell me--how ridiculous. I can't wait until Thursday.
I will be extremely happy to welcome my baby home early, as long as their lungs are healthy I am all for more time to hold my little one in my arms :) I haven't been getting to class very well, with all my appointments now, (ob-gyn, regular doctor, extra ultrasounds, and diabetes counselor) and the trouble I've been having with my nasal polyps I have been struggling with getting to class.
I am taking insulin four times a day now, and it seems to be helping my sugars a lot. I got down to 4.8 before a meal which is actually a normal level woo hoo!! My feet have been tingling very uncomfortably for a while now, and after starting insulin, they are not tingling anymore at all. It's such a relief, I have read tingling feet are a sign of high blood sugars. My feet are big now though, not with noticeable swelling, but I did have to buy a big pair of shoes because I just can't wear my regular ones at all.
I think February is going to go by very quickly, then perhaps my little one will be delivered in March. I am so excited, and nervous, and as I watch my belly move and get into weird shapes, it is seeming more real. I don't think anything could prepare me for what I am getting myself into, but I can't wait. I think this baby is a boy, itty bitty Pete, so we'll see this Thursday (hope hope!)
We canceled our 3D ultrasound in Sudbury since the weather was so bad a couple of days before the appointment that the roads out of town were closed. If I didn't give them 24 hours notice before canceling, they would have charged my credit card, so I didn't want to take the chance. I am happy I am getting some extra ultrasounds here though :)
2008-02-01 (30 weeks)
Hoping for my healthy baby So the past couple of days I have allowed myself to imagine what it would be like if my little one was born say at the beginning of March! Would be 35 weeks then...maybe as big as a 38 week old baby. Of course, in my fantasies the baby is perfectly healthy even being born early. I love my little one so so much and I just want he or she to come when they are healthy...I totally would not mind an extra month to spend with my little one as long as they are healthy!!!!!! In fact I would love it :)
My sis tells me that for sure I will go full term since she did (actually overdue with two out of three), and she makes a good point. I just feel so big and full of baby already that April seems so so far away. I think the time will go fast though, and I still have so much to do to get ready.
I am having a hard time walking now compared to before, I have never seen someone walk so slow as I do now. I just can't take very big strides. When I get up from sitting down I have to stand there and deal with pain for a minute until everything adjusts, same when I get up from lying down. It's funny I sleep on my right side (I just cannot sleep on my left side, it takes my breath away for some reason), and when I wake up the baby's head or bum sticks way up right beside my belly button. It looks like the effects of gravity and happens every morning. I hope it's alright to find it cute and it's nothing to worry about!
I have two appointments on Monday, one at my regular doctors and one at the diabetes counselor. I am interested and nervous to see if they will put me on insulin, my sugars are questionably high so they might decide not to chance it. I don't know, I just want my baby to be healthy.
That's it for now...I will update after my appointments (hoping for smooth appointments with good news!)
2008-01-29 (30 weeks)
Post Appointment Entry So I saw my ob-gyn yesterday, he said the ultrasound tech made no mention of the sex of the baby so he didn't even know to tell me. I am definitely going to the other ultrasound on February 7--I can't wait to find out if this is a boy or a girl! I don't know why this is such an extraordinary request lol.
The doc said that I should be on insulin, and my blood sugar went over 14 yesterday, so I tend to agree with him. I see the diabetes counselor on Wednesday and she'll probably get me all set up with insulin. I am nervous about it but looking forward to hopefully having lower sugars. It's not that I eat a bunch of chocolate and get high readings, these high readings are coming after eating some eggs and toast so I don't know. Of course, my diet is not perfect but it never will be so no use pretending to not need insulin!
The baby is measuring three weeks ahead, so it's the size of a 33 week old rather than a 30 week old. Hopefully the growth slows down so that the baby ends up being a normal size once my blood sugars are under control. Again I got warned about the possibility of a c-section--I don't mind a scheduled c-section, what I don't want is to labour for sixteen hours then be told we're going for the c-section. If they're going to warn me about it for two months then they should just schedule it. Obviously!!!!!
I am hoping to meet a friend today who is also expecting, to go out for lunch, hopefully this freezing rain weather we are having doesn't interfere with that. I miss visiting with her since I have felt so crappy for the last couple of months. She's sick now too but I'm hoping she's past the infectious stage since I really miss her!
Well I should go lay down for a couple of hours before school. The baby just gave me a couple of hard kicks :) I love feeling that, and so far despite being startled sometimes the kicks haven't hurt me at all. I've felt a few more braxton hicks contractions (I think), so hopefully everything is practicing as it should for the real deal labour.
Anyway, I have been crabby the past couple of days, I hope today is a great day!
