16-7-2009 - 2nd Baby Appointment and stuff

My mood while writing this blog: happy

Ok, so this is a little outdated. I had my 2nd appointment for this baby June 17th, I saw the nurse practitioner and went through the normal stuff, weighing in (only 2 lbs gained! Yay!), peeing in a cup, measuring the belly, listening to the heartbeat etc. Everything looked good, I measured at 16 cm so about a week ahead of where I was, but I'm not worried about that, a week up or down isn't unusual. I also asked about my glucose test I'd taken at the previous appointment and the urinalasis because I never heard back on them, she said the urine came back fine, but my blood sugar was a little high, and because it was so early in the pregnancy she didn't think it'd be necessary to do the 3-hour test... so she went to go ask a doctor (as mine was on call at the hospital) and he wanted me to take it anyway. The nurse practitioner kept insisting that she thought it was silly to have me go through that so she actually called my doctor and my doctor agreed. Unfortunately my doctor also decided to send me back to Sweet Moms to see the dietician and the nurse again.. ugh! Probably only because my doc wasn't looking at my chart, she just knew the history that the NP told her, if she had known it was me I'm sure she wouldn't have sent me since we'd already discussed in my previous appointment how I knew the diet and was already spot checking my sugars. Anyway, so I've been watching my sugars and until just recently I've been able to eat pretty much anything without any problems, but recently my breakfasts have started getting a little sensitive so I'm watching them closer now. My next appointment is tomorrow (which is why I felt I really should tell you about the 2nd one now, before my 3rd one! lol!) and I see the doctor again. I don't expect anything exciting to happen tomorrow, just a normal appointment, hopefully I haven't gained too much weight! My big ultrasound is on Monday! Only 4 more days! I'm so excited! We're finding out what we're having this time and I haven't seen this bean since 6 weeks 6 days!!! I can't wait to see him/her moving around and looking like a baby! (at 6w6d they just look like a blob!) I will be sure to be on here updating ya'll on what we're having! I'm guessing girl, this baby just doesn't seem as active as my sister's baby boy was at this point, or any of my friend's baby boys were by now... and hubby and I can't settle on a girl's name while we have 3 boys names that I adore and would love to use. Hubby is guessing boy, said he it's just a weak feeling this time, but a feeling of boy, last time he swore up and down girl from the very beginning and was right. Of course I thought girl the whole time last time too... so we were both right! This time I keep going back and forth, so I may be wrong! :) Any guesses??

In other news, my mom found out finally that what was going on with her on and around Mother's Day were Occipital lobe seizures and they were caused by her diabetes being out of control for so long. Apparently when your blood sugar is high sugars build on the neurons and after so long of her blood sugars being out of control enough had built up to start causing seizures. I think it seems to have scared her into taking care of herself a little better, but it's hard to say as I'm not around her regularly (don't live with her). She's in Illinois right now saying good-bye to my grandma who is slowly dying of a slow internal bleed. They are trying to get her strong enough to operate and possibly fix it, they say with older patients who have the slow bleed a lot of the time it is the spleen, so they want to operate but they're not sure if she's a good canidate for the surgery, or if it would hurt her more, so we're waiting. I hope they can do it, and save her for a while longer, for my own selfish reasons... I can't afford to get back to see her and I haven't seen her for 4 years and I really want to see her one more time. I've been praying extra hard for her lately, and if any of you want to send a prayer her direction that'd be awesome!

In happier news, my baby girl is almost weaned. We only BF once in the mornings now, and some mornings she doesn't even want it. It is bittersweet, I'm glad, and my doctor wants me to have her weaned before my 3rd trimester, but it means my baby is growing up and won't need me as much anymore! She's getting so big! She says "car" (sounds like ca ca ca) and "doodle" (my MIL calls one of my cats that), those are her newest words, she still says "mama" and "dada" and "dat" (that) and she says "bubba" now for my best friend's son, she used to babble "bababa" but now she points at his picture on the fridge and says "bubba" too cute!

I think that's all I got for now! I'll update at least on Monday if not tomorrow!