I’m incredibly bad at updating lately.\u00a0 I don’t know if it’s that nothing is really happening, or I forget to jot down every little thing that happens so I actually remember to write about it later.\u00a0 Probably a combination of the two.<\/p>\n
First, the OB appointment.\u00a0 When I got there, I didn’t have to pee yet (for once), so, since I was early, I thought I’d wait five to ten and then go try to pee in the cup.\u00a0 Sure enough, the nurse (a different one, the one who I met at my verrrryyy first visit before my blood was drawn) called me back while I was in the potty.\u00a0 I wasn’t intercepted on my way back to the waiting room, so I just waited to get called back again.<\/p>\n
Weighed first as usual.\u00a0 I’ve gained about 14 lbs so far.\u00a0 Nurse took my blood pressure.\u00a0 They never tell me what it is, and I haven’t bothered asking.\u00a0 They just say, “good.”\u00a0 Not that blood pressure was ever an issue pre-preg.\u00a0 I guess they’d tell me if anything was off.<\/p>\n
Then I got the information for the glucola test, which I get to enjoy next time.\u00a0 For those who haven’t had a kid in the last few years (I’ve had to explain this to everyone in the previous generation), they screen all prego women for gestational diabetes now.\u00a0 It’s a non-fasting (thank goodness) blood glucose test to see if they need to do additional testing to see if I have gestational diabetes.\u00a0 They’ll also check my iron and see if I’ll need RhoGAM.\u00a0 I’m not worried about the gestational diabetes, I’m not worried about having blood drawn.\u00a0 But I WAS worried about having to drink a nasty, sugary concoction.\u00a0 Thankfully, I’m hearing from various sources that the glucola really isn’t bad at all.\u00a0 I just have to get it down in 5 minutes, then wait an hour for them to draw my blood.<\/p>\n
The doctor came in quickly after the nurse left.\u00a0 She measured my fundal height:\u00a0 27 cm.\u00a0 Then she started palpating my tummy to see how the baby was positioned.\u00a0 She wasn’t 100%, but she thinks lil girl might be head down.\u00a0 Corroborating evidence: increased pressure on my bladder lately (though really, it’s not TOO bad…I’m sure it’ll be getting a lot worse) and the location of her kicks (usually <\/em>kind of on my left side, though they can be anywhere).\u00a0 At 26 weeks and a few days, though, I’m sure she can (and probably will) move around a bit before she settles into that position later in the pregnancy.\u00a0 I don’t really care what she does right now, so long as she finds that position acceptable when it’s time to be born. =)<\/p>\n I don’t think baby girl really appreciated all the prodding around in her space, though, because she wasn’t very agreeable when the Dr tried to get her heartbeat.\u00a0 She kept moving around, and she kicked the fetal Doppler a few times. =)\u00a0 Finally got it: 150 bpm.<\/p>\n So far, so good!\u00a0 My next appointment is in TWO weeks: December 7 @ 2:45.\u00a0 Into the third trimester<\/em> (OMG) and appointments every two weeks.\u00a0 (Did I already say…OMG????)<\/p>\n Other random things from the last couple of weeks:<\/p>\n Baby is incredibly <\/em>active at times.\u00a0 Sometimes, when she gets going, she kicks HARD!\u00a0 And in rapid succession.\u00a0 One night she was doing this after we went to bed, so I put Pete’s hand on my side.\u00a0 He was like, Whoa!\u00a0 …Is she angry???<\/em> It made me smile.<\/p>\n Got to play with another sweet baby girl.\u00a0 A dear friend was visiting the area, so we got to meet her 5 month old.\u00a0 She was super cute and lots of fun. =)<\/p>\n Weird pregnancy symptom that I had for a couple of days: bloody nose.\u00a0 Not like, gushing.\u00a0 But definitely inconvenient.\u00a0 Usually it’s just kinda bloody boogers, but this time it was running.\u00a0 (Yay, another opportunity to gross you out.)\u00a0 It’s normal, but it’s not one of the things you normally think about.<\/p>\n Trying to figure out what baby things we’ll need\/want.\u00a0 It’s a huge headache for people like us who thoroughly research every little thing.\u00a0 So when there’s a LOT to get, and it’s almost all stuff we don’t know anything about, it’s overwhelming and it takes forever.\u00a0 But we’re making progress.<\/p>\n Lots of people ask about my pregnancy now.\u00a0 I guess I’ll be due for another belly pic in the next update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m incredibly bad at updating lately.\u00a0 I don’t know if it’s that nothing is really happening, or I forget to jot down every little thing that happens so I actually remember to write about it later.\u00a0 Probably a combination of the two. First, the OB appointment.\u00a0 When I got there, I didn’t have to pee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}