Third Trimester

This week starts the third trimester, woo hoo! That means only about 3 more months until Baby T arrives! A few things to look forward to during this last part of the pregnancy: childbirth classes, finishing the nursery, hopefully passing my glucose test, starting to buy diapers, baby clothes, and all of that fun stuff, putting together a lot more baby things, and hopefully resting before Baby T's arrival! Of course, the most exciting part is after this trimester is over the baby will be here! At some point during these next 13 weeks we need to pick a name too. It's a lot harder than I would have thought, but I know we'll find just the right one soon enough. Below is the comparison between how I looked at the start of the second trimester (15 weeks) to now (almost 27 weeks). Whoa! I can't imagine what my belly will look like in another 3 months :)

18 Pounds and Counting

I had my 26 week appointment yesterday. Apparently I gained 5.5 pounds in a month, which is a bit on the hefty side, but I'm only at a total of 18 pounds so the doctor says I'm pretty much right on track. She looked at my belly and realized most of the weight is right where its suppose to be, so I'm not really that concerned. Tomorrow starts my two day carb diet, which may increase the pounds anyway. Everything else looked/sounded good. My belly is measuring 27 cm, so Baby T should be doing good in there. His heartbeat sounded good and my iron counts and blood pressure were awesome. So overall, a good check-up. Next week is the big week of the 3-hour glucose test and that's the next hurdle to cross. Wish me luck!

Double Digits!!!

Tomorrow I'm officially in double digits for the countdown to Baby T! Today is 100 days until his estimated arrival and tomorrow.....99! The little guy will be here before we know it. I'm getting really impatient with all of the nursery progress and putting together baby stuff. I'm sure it'll go fast, heck 99 days is nothing :)

Take a deep breath...

One more week and I'm officially into the third trimester, can you believe it?!?! Let's hope the third trimester is pretty easy going, I'm not sure what to expect. I'm heading back to irritable land again, not sure if its because I have too much going on right now or just my hormones being mean, but boy oh boy was it a rough day at the grocery store. I'm a weirdo and don't usually mind the grocery store, but today everything seemed to make me mad. People fly around that store with their big ol' carts like there is no one else there OR they just stand right in the middle of the isle looking at something on the shelf and blocking the whole isle. There should be a class on grocery store etiquette and possibly a cart driving course. It took everything I had today to not open my mouth and say something (I know what you're thinking, I usually don't have this problem and keep my thoughts and feelings to myself...however I think at one point I did open my mouth, but luckily no words came out, whew!). So in the end I behaved and accomplished my goals and now we have food for the week. I'm hoping next week is less eventful and more peaceful. Anyway, I'm hoping this isn't how I'm going to be for the rest of the pregnancy, I do notice myself saying thoughts out loud lately that I would normally keep to myself. Let's hope I don't offend anyone and if I do, can I just play the P card?? :) I just ate a wonderful dinner of spaghetti and my moms meatballs, mmm mmm good. That made everything better! Time to do more work for school. I'm outttta here! (I miss baseball already...only 80-some more days! hah)

Fail.

No news is good news, so when I had a voicemail from the doctor today I knew it was no good. Apparently to pass the gestational diabetes test your results need to be below 140, well mine was 143. Seriously? I missed it by 3!?!? All because of those 3 little numbers I have to go back to do the 3 hour version. Not cool. On top of all that I have to take a day off of work to have it done. I'm hoping since my results for this test were so close to passing that I should be fine for the next one, but I'm still not looking forward to it. The doctor said they'll send me the specifics, but basically I'll follow a special diet for two days prior to the test, fast for 12 hours the night before, go get my blood taken, drink more sugary drink, and then get my blood taken again every hour for 3 hours. So November 17th I have a date with the lab, until then I guess I should watch what I eat? Not sure, they didn't really say I need to change anything for right now, but I'll still try to cut back on sweets and carbs - all the good stuff! Blah.

My "little" Eggplant

Well, I'm in month 6! Holy cow, seems like just yesterday I was still puking and excited that Baby T was the size of a blueberry! Now that I'm in week 25 Baby T has graduated to the next fruit/veggie and he is approximately the size of an eggplant for this entire month. To celebrate the occasion I walked past the eggplants this afternoon at the grocery store and thought, wow thats my baby boy. This puts me only 3 months away from the dreaded watermelon! I'm having flashbacks of my insane-ness from this summer. In all seriousness though, eggplants are pretty big and Baby T is approximately 13-14 inches in length this month and will go from about 1.5 to 2.2 pounds in just four short weeks. I can tell he is getting bigger because I am feeling him kick/move everyday. I usually never feel him at work, but since today was a long, boring day of meetings and nonsense I actually felt him move several times during the day. (Usually after I ate candy to keep me from falling asleep at my seat) It's all so real now...surprising it took this long, haha. The crib really did it for me and makes me smile every time I go by that room :)

Goodbye Guestroom, Hello Nursery!

Well we've been busy this weekend. Friday night the extra bedroom was empty with white walls, today its the nursery! We finished all the painting and put together the furniture (with the help of Mike) and it really is the nursery now! I'll admit, with my hormones raging, I am getting a bit emotional about it all. I'm so excited and I just want to hang out in that room. The two different colors of paint look just about the same at night, but in the sunlight you can tell the difference. The crib and dresser look awesome, although the dresser is missing the knobs - they forgot to send them in the box and hopefully they can mail them out pretty soon. But I'm really happy with how things have turned out so far. Now I can focus on decorating, we're thinking geometric decals on the wall maybe, then we'll need curtains and I think I'm going to tie the wardrobe in with a curtain as the "door" to the closet part. We'll see, lots of time still to work on all of that. Baby T is kicking as I type this, I think he likes it already :)