I'm pretty sure Killian dropped.

I woke up this morning, and my belly was smaller than I remember it being last night... especially considering I was even laying on my back last night and feeling him, and when I woke up, I rolled to my back before rolling out of bed, and I was so much flatter. I got up and walked around my house some, so he could settle like he usually does, and went potty (there was nothing unusual when I went) and I was still feeling like I'm really smaller than I was... so I took a pic, and here's the difference.

29 weeks



29 weeks 2 days (today)



Not a LOT smaller, but there's definitely a difference. I called the triage nurse and talked to her, and she said that baby just most likely dropped, and since I've felt him moving in there a lot, he is probably just fine, but if I have any abnormal "leaking" or any blood, or if I start to feel contractions, or if he stops moving around, that I should come in right away. For now, try not to stress out about it. It happens. But I'll give ya 3 guesses what I'm doing...

June 28th OB visit... with Dr Heins this time :)

This is my first "2 week appointment" and my first appointment after the whole glucose test ordeal. I did not get to see my regular OB, because she was on vacation again, but that turned out to be a really good thing. I saw Dr Heins instead. He was also on call, and he had a baby working his or her way out upstairs, so he was in a hurry, BUT unlike my "usual" OB, he didn't make me feel rushed at all. He heard my questions and gave me thorough answers and even joked with me and talked for a minute or two before he had to go. I like him MUCH more than my usual OB, so for my next appointment, I scheduled with him again. I told him that I would like to refuse the glucose retest, and he was fine with it. He told me he doesn't blame me at all and that he respects my decision. (He said he wouldn't redo it after that either.) The original gyno that I had been seeing before my pregnancy, and that I saw for my "pregnancy confimation" appointment had my weight down wrong as my starting weight for my pregnancy, so Dr H was a little worried, until I had him correct it. My weight is right where it should be. I lost 2 pounds, but that puts me at 25lbs gained, so we're still good. I am at 155lbs now. My pulse was at 82 when they counted it, and my blood pressure is at 108/70, which is still good. Killian's heart rate was slower than it usually is, but it was 125-130bpm, so it was still good. Nothing to worry about. It was a good visit. He said that because I am having a basic, uncomplicated pregnancy, I don't need to be seen again for 3 weeks, and we will re-evaluate at 35 weeks and possibly move to every 2 weeks at that point. Sounds good to me!

29 week belly pics

The continuation of my GTT saga....

Okay, so this a "couple day compilation." But it explains the rest of the crap with the GTT test up until now...

My midwife called me today (June 23rd)... she wants me to redo the test. Only to tell them that I will only fast 8 hours. She wants the hard numbers. And I suggested that I would be more than willing to check my sugars with a meter for a few days, and she just kept telling me I should do the jelly bean test at the hospital. Still terrified, I called the OB's office, to tell them this and to schedule it, and they told me there is no way. The only way they will do the test is with at least 12 hours of fasting. So now what?

Okay, so I called my midwife this morning (June 24th), crying my eyes out because I'm so afraid of going through all that again. She calmed me down and told me to call the hospital and ask them for the results on the three draws they DID get before I t...hrew up. She said that in order to actually fail the test, you have to fail 2 of 4 of the draws. She said that if my numbers on the first three were okay, she won't push me to retest. SOOO I called the OB's office. They were more than happy to give me the numbers, but they fought me on scheduling a retest. They agreed to allow me to fast for only 8 hours, and to use the jelly beans, but they HAVE to discard the results from the first one and I HAVE to retest ASAP. Even with me telling them I'm not doing it, they still scheduled me for an appointment monday morning. The stupidest thing is that my numbers for the first 3 draws were beyond passing. SO I don't see why they can't just accept that and not make me redo the whole stressful, terrifying ordeal.... :/ I called my midwife with the results, and she told me that I should talk to my OB and let her know that I don't want to do it. So I guess that's what I have to do...

3 hour GTT was a major fail.

I had my 3 hour Glucose Tolerance Test on the morning of the 21st at 9:00am... They made me fast for FOURTEEN hours. Yes that's right. 14. The nurse who had scheduled it for me told me I could not eat after 7:00pm the night before. They took nearly an hour after I got to the hospital to do my first "fasting draw" and give me the glucose drink. Within the first 10 minutes after drinking it, I was feeling really lightheaded. The nurse said that was normal, because it was so heavy in sugar. I ended up having to put my head between my knees (well, as best as I could with my belly) to keep from passing out. Fast forward an hour.... they do my second draw. The lab tech said that I looked VERY pale and kind of out of it. I told her I was really dizzy and lightheaded and hot and shaky. She asked me if laying down would help and I thought it would. So they transferred me to Women's Health so I could lay down, and they would have the lab tech come to me for the next draws. The beds in womens health are all the "baby safe" beds, where you are pretty much sitting up anyway, so that didn't help much. I am pretty sure I fainted at some point while I was in that room, but I KNOW I had two medium severity panic attacks while sitting in there. I was just feeling worse and worse the more time that went on. The tech came in and did my third draw and I let her know what was going on, and she said as long as I didn't throw up, we could continue the test. WELL maybe 2 minutes after she leaves the room, I started throwing up. More than any human who has been fasting should. It was TERRIBLE. and painful. I went and told the nurse what happened, and she said they would have to end the test. She was going to find my OB and ask her what she would like to do. She wanted me to go to the ER so they could give me fluids, do a few blood tests, and for observation. They checked peanut's heartbeat with the doppler before they transferred me, and he was looking just fine at 147bpm. Once I got down to Emergency, they gave me an iv... and I had another BAD panic attack. The Dr on ER duty gave me THREE syringes of zofran to stop it, and to keep me from throwing up any more. It actually helped a lot. They had given me a LARGE bag of iv fluid, and wanted me to have the whole bag. Maybe an hour after I was sitting in there, they brought me food, and I could've kissed the nurse who brought it in. Turkey and mashed potatos and steamed carrots and peaches and tomato soup... I ate it ALL. lol. And once the food got to my stomach, I felt just fine again, aside from being really tired. The blood tests must have come back normal, because they discharged me as soon as the bag of fluid was empty (4 hours, on top of the 2 I spent doing the glucose test.... which they couldn't even use because I didn't finish it.) They want me to call to schedule a "jelly belly test" (Which is generally the same as the normal glucose screen thing, only instead of drinking the glucola, you eat 52 jelly belly beans....) for next week, but I am really thinking of refusing it. I do not EVER want to go through what I did today again. It was TERRIFYING!!!

28 week belly pics

I decided to get a little artsy fartsy with this one... but for whatever reason, my camera (which has a mind of it's own ALL THE TIME lol) decided not to focus no matter what I did... so it's kinda blurry.



And in other news: last night was the first time my boobs have leaked. correction: boob. Just the left. How odd. :P

OB Appointment June 16th

Well my appointment with Dr A was super rushed again because she was on her way to deliver a baby, so I saw her VERY briefly, but Killian's heart rate was 148bpm... She did my fundal height measurement, but didn't tell me what it was *grumble* (Here's where I'm glad again that I see the midwife. She INFORMS me of everything, without me having to go "WAAAITTT" as she's darting for the door.) I am at 157lbs according to her scale (ouch.) And my blood pressure was 110/58. Which is still good. BUUUT here's the bad part. I had my gestational diabetes screening this time. The 1 hour one does NOT require you to fast... but what they don't tell you is that if you eat anything, it shouldn't be anything with sugar in it... because it throws off the results. SO guess who failed? My 3 hour test is Tuesday morning. Bright and early. And for that, I have to fast. And I will be locked in the hospital for 3 hours. LOVELY. (I do NOT want to have to relive the "pacing the hospital halls to pass time" times again... NOT good memories.) SO that should be a great time, and I will update when I have the results. On a good note, my HGB levels and the other blood draws were all spot on. At least I know I'm all healthy otherwise! Now... just to pass this pesky GD test....

Midwife appointment June 15th

Yay!! Everything is still looking good! My weight has jumped again (boo) but Ginnie says it's still in a good place. I am now at 154lbs (24lbs gained so far). My blood pressure is still in the healthy range (92/58), and my pulse was in the same range as it's always been (100). Both Annike and Ginnie commented on how tight my abs are (lol!) when they were trying to measure my fundal height, which is 28. They said that'll help when it comes time to push out this little guy. Killian is head down now, and facing my left side. And that's about it for this visit!

My last set of OB/midwife appointments.... update-ish

I just noticed that I haven't actually added anything in from my last set of appointments... (May 18th and 26th) that would be because there is nothing new and or interesting to report lol. My blood pressure is still in the normal range (104/58 on the 18th, 104/78 on the 26th), I am up to 148lbs (which puts me at an 18lb gain so far) and Killian's heart has been in the 145-150 range. Nothing new. I did find out that my next OB appointment will be my gestational diabetes screen (oh joy...) and blood draws for iron and all that jazz... And my midwife and I worked out what we will do if I go past my EDD (she just happens to be leaving the state ON my EDD...) so that's all figured out and I'm comfortable (There is another well known midwife in my area, roughly the same distance away, and she will deliver me at home if I deliver while Ginnie is out of state. I will start seeing her in August, to get acquainted with her and comfortable with her, so I won't be delivering with a stranger, should that scenario arise.) But that's about all that happened there.

27 week belly pics

26 week belly pics

25 week belly pics