4/17

I had my rhogam shot today. I was a little worried since a few women on this site have complained about how much it hurt. It was so quick and I hardly felt it. It hurt my butt more to be sitting in the hospital waiting for a few hours! I went out last night with my sister in law and mother in law. It was great to get out of the house and I always enjoy spending time with them. I am so glad that me and my sister in law are both pregnant at the same time with our first children. It makes me feel a little less alone since I don't really know any other women that are pregnant. I am glad this has all brought us even closer together. I am so lucky to have a supportive family on both sides. I have my birthing class tomorrow and am very excited. D Day is getting closer and closer. I am very happy right now. I have felt more energetic lately. I think it helped when I switched my prenatal vitamins. I have definitely felt more achey but it is all worth it. Buddy is kicking me all day and I still love it! I am getting so excited for my baby shower. I am going to order the invites today and Chips work designed an email to send out today too. I am very fortunate to get 2 baby showers! I feel so special!

4/14

4/10

We have all been talking about our registries online and it really reminds me how close we are getting. I am so glad we have this website as a support system. I had to do some stuff around the house. I feel such pressure to get it all done, that I am not going to have enough time. My tummy started getting pains from bending over so much and lifting a few things. (nothing too heavy but still it adds up) I got a good amount of stuff done. Tomorrow we have friends coming over. They are trying to get pregnant now so I am excited to build our friendship. It will help that we will all be parents. We don't have many friends now that are parents. I looked online the other day at Gymboree. I will be a stay at home mom so I think that I will sign up for some classes with me and baby. It helps with development of all different ages of babies and children. I also think it will be a good way for me to meet some local mommies. I need some mom friends!

4/9

I got the results to my glucose and anemia tests.. NEGATIVE!! YAY!! I was so worried since I have been tired and gained a lot of weight that I would have both. Also my mom and her mom had GD so I was at a little higher risk. I am so relieved I don't have to do the 3 hr glucose test! I am also not as tired this week as I was the past few weeks. I think I have just hit the point in pregnancy that you do get a little more tired. I have listened to my body more and am feeling good. Buddy is moving around like crazy. He is so low most of the time kicking/pinching my bladder and groin, OUCH! I am so excited and so relieved about my tests. Had a hair appt today and love my hair. If you are having a down day I recommend going to get your hair done.. It makes you feel so much better!

4/8

I am actually feeling pretty good today. The usual aches and pains and a little tired but not as much as I was a week or so ago. I have physical therapy today to help with the fact that I have herniated discs. I took a week off of therapy because I needed a break and was getting more and more fatigued. I think it was the right move. I am looking forward to going in because she will massage the muscles that get tight in my lower back. I feel good about this past weekend, we have been working little by little every weekend to get stuff done around the house. The nursery is almost cleared out (we had to move the guest bedroom out of the nursery to a diff room) so we can paint pretty soon! I can't wait to paint!! We are doing a safari/jungle theme and are going to paint a mural on the wall. I will take pics when we are done. I should have gotten the results of my glucose and anemia test by now so I will have to call the doctor today. It is frustrating because they are supposed to call me and it is pretty important to know. I am a little frustrated at my weight gain. I have gianed 40pounds. I am trying to eat a little better but it never matters. I just gain and gain. My diet is not much different than my pre-pregnancy diet but I pack on the pounds since I have been pregnant. I am trying to focus on being healthy more than anything else.

4/5

4/3

I had my 1 hour glucose test today. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I would recommend scheduling it for the morning so you don't have to fast for too long. Also, ask your doctor for the drink on an appointment before the actual test. I didn't have to wait an hour in the doctors office. I drank it and timed it out so I got to the doctors 15 min early in case the lab was backed up. The drink wasn't gross either. It is definitel manageable. I am looking forward to getting my results in the next few days to this test and my anemia test. As I am typing my baby Buddy is jiggling my belly around like CRAZY!

4/1

I went back to doctor today because I was still concerned about how fatigued I have been. I was just there a week ago and the doctor (not my normal one) told me to wait a month to test for anemia. Well the doctor today tested for anemia and I am doing my glucose testing on thursday. I am glad to get it all done and fix any problems there may be. Both my mom and her mom had gestational diabetes so I am a little worried. I hope I'm ok. If not though I will do anything to keep my baby boy healthy. The doctor said I may also be tired because the baby is in a BIG growth period right now and that may be zapping from my energy. I just want piece of mind either way. Plus if I am anemic of have gestational diabetes I want to treat them right away. Otherwise all is going great. I measured to date. I think it's so neat that you can measure any given woman and it will correspond to how many weeks pregnant she is. I have taken it easy this week because we did so much to our house over the weekend. I overdid it a little. A lot. All I have to focus on this week is my doctor appointments, myself and my baby Buddy. I also need to go sometime soon to have the Rhogam screen and possibly shot. I am negative so there's a great chance I will need it. There is so much that goes along with pregnancy that I never knew about. Chip finally felt Buddy move a few nights ago. He said, "Wow, that was a BIG one!" I was like, you're telling me?!? He has been able to see the baby move for the past few weeks. Oddly, even though my placenta was in front at my 20 week ultrasound I have been able to see his movements since about 21 weeks. I used to see it once a day. I now see him jiggling my belly every few hrs at the least. The strangest thing is that he doesn't kick as much if a hand is on my belly, even my hand. I have seen more kicks than I have felt with my hand. I still love feeling him kick, it has only been uncomfortable a few times. It is so amazing to feel your baby inside you. I wish dad's could get this joy. Even though there are rough parts to it, I still love being pregnant.

3/29

I wonder if anyone else is feeling rushed to get house improvements done? I would do it all in a day if I could.. but of course it's not possible. I am so sore from moving some of our stuff from our closets upstairs to our new downstairs closet. I am glad at how much I got done though. My parents came over today and helped Chip move our HUGE bed (2 twins=1 king AND its an adjustable, VERY HEAVY) nightstands and dresser downstairs. Our new room looks great. Chip even painted it this weekend. I have been putting him to work. I feel so bad. I am a tough boss sometimes but I think thats because I can't help as much as I'd like but I am stressed to get it all done. I keep reminding myself that there's still lots of time left. We have a few months to get stuff done, we don't need to do it all in one weekend. We have made great progress though. I am very happy. I feel like we are getting our new life in order. We have been taking lots of trips dropping off stuff to donation center. We are cleaning out our life. It feels great though, you should try it.

3/27

It's like my belly grew a foot overnight! It is HUGE today!! I went in to Chip's work today so all his coworkers could see my pregnant belly. They will be throwing me a work baby shower in May so I wanted to make my face a little more well known. I have noticed that people look at my belly first then my face!! Even in public! It is finally very obvious to the world that I am pregnant. Still feeling a little tired. I'm going to try to get more iron in my diet until they test me for anemia in a month. There is so much to do around the house before baby Buddy is here. It feels like pregnancy is going by so fast now too. We have a 3 bedroom condo and are moving our bedroom downstairs to be next to the room which will be the nursery. We haven't started on the nursery yet either. We are also painting a lot of rooms still and getting new carpet in next month or so. (Don't worry, I will be out of the house for a good week or 2 while carpet airs out) It seems like a lot and I want the house to be in a good place when Buddy arrives. I don't want to worry about house projects instead I want us both to be able to fully focus on him. A coworker of Chip even said he wished he had done more around house the last few months of his wife's pregnancy instead of just hanging out because that stuff still hasn't gotten done. His daughter is now 2!! I hate that I can't help as much with these projects (like painting and moving stuff) and have to delegate instead.