Week 24, And A Good Appointment

Hey everyone! Well we have made it another few weeks! I am now 6 months pregnant. Only 3 more months to go! 106 days left! That sounds like a lot, but 3 months sounds like so little!

Anyway, last Thursdays appointment went well! My mom came with me and we had a lot of fun. We didn't have to wait long, and I did my peeing thing and they weighed me and on into the room! BTW, I've gained another 4 lbs. Which is SO weird because that is exactly what I gained the last two months in a row. So apparently I'm going to gain 4lbs every month, lol. So I am up to 133 now. EEP. 12lbs gained so far. Which compared to some people who have gained like 25 by now, I'm feeling pretty good about!

Once in the room I sit on the little table/bench thing and the nurse takes my blood pressure and this time she asked me if I was feeling the baby moving well. Yup! Then she brought in my glucose test junk. Yeah. Its a bottle of some sort of sugary drink. So 45 minutes before my next appointment I have to drink that stuff. Then after I get there, at exactly an hour after I drank it, they prick my finger and check my blood glucose to see if my sugar is high. If it is, then I have to take a 3 hour test to see if I have gestational diabetes. UGH. If I do have that then they have to put me on a special diet, BUMMER. It also makes your baby grow bigger which means more pain/tearing/pushing, etc. Please God let me pass!! I've been reading that it is not uncommon to fail your first hour test, but that does not mean you have diabetes. In fact, my sis in laws cousin failed it the other day, but passed the other. So I'm going to try not to freak out if I fail the first one!

Anyway after that the doctor was in shortly after and of course was in a hurry again. She asked me if all was well, etc, any questions. Then she got this little measuring tape and measured my tummy! Thats the first for that. I thought they might do that that appointment. Anyway, she said I was measuring 23 cent. which is exactly what I should be! Yeah! They measure from you pubic bone to the top of your uterus. So I was very relieved to hear that we are normal and on target.

After that she put the heartbeat monitor on my belly, and I just though, she didn't put the ultrasound gel on this time, yeah, that stuff is gross. I guess because its getting very easy to hear the heartbeat now. Supposedly Lee can hear it, but he's tried twice with no luck so far.

Anyway she very briefly listened to that and that was it! I was sort of hoping for something a little more exciting for mom, but she didn't mind. She was glad I asked her to come. After that we went out and made my payment (only one more left!!) and then my next appointment, which is 2 days before my baby shower! :)

Anywho, heres the belly pics for week 23 and 24:

If you look close you can see right where my top hand is, in the 2nd pic, my belly rounds out more from it. Hehe, neat! I sure hope by my baby shower (I'll be nearly 28 weeks) that I look good and pregnant! I am getting tired of hearing "you don't even look pregnant!!" Sigh. I know I should shut up and get over it, its better then looking like a cow! Haha.

Oh, I got Lee to take pictures with me the other day too, here are those.




I can't wait until I'm really showing to take some with him at a really pretty location. We have a neat covered bridge that is also near a waterfall and creek, where we took our engagement pictures. And! When we go to the beach we will be able to get some great ones there, as well. Can't wait! I'll be getting close to 30 weeks by then.

So while we were at the hospital I went down to the financial office to try and figure out how much an epidural was going to cost me and of course they didn't know, she gave me a phone number to call. Wish she would have called it then herself! Also, I found out about the insurance for the baby. I applied for it and heard back from them finally after 2 weeks only to find out that they don't insure the baby until its born. So I can't even APPLY and be accepted until she is born! Which means we will be paying out of pocket for the drs visits until they get her set up. UGH! So I guess I need to have the husband on the phone right after we get her name signed and SS#!

The lady at the financial office gave me a number to a lady that knows all about the AllKids program so I will call her and get her advice on what to do. I was told I can try and call the pediatrician I'm going to use and tell them my situation and they may work something out with me. Hopefully they will not bill me until I can get her coverage started, or something.

Okay, I've yammered on enough, I've got a neat video to show yall! This is little Chloe about 30 minutes ago kicking up a storm. At the end I turned the camera so you can see her from the front but then someone came in and I had to cut it off. Look closely at about 10 secs on the left, then at about 20 secs, then about 35 she moves to the right side, lol. Anyway! Here she is, yall have a great week!

22 Weeks!

SO, haven't been doing real well keeping my posting up, have I?? Anywho, I'm 22 weeks now! Getting close to 23. And not near what I thought I'd look like by Easter! Its kind of dissapointing! Oh well, I'm sure once I get big I'll be wishing I wasn't! lol

Anyway, here we are this week:

I took this Tuesday, and today I feel like I've popped even more. I keep looking at my tummy, lol. I bet I will see a difference between this picture and the one I take next week! Oh, Chloe just started moving around, she must want to put her two cents in too! haha

I am happy about my lower stomach getting bigger, but my upper stomach is ALSO getting bigger, and that REALLY is quite annoying. I have this fat roll now when I sit down and it gets in the way! I don't like the feel of it. Not to mentino the look of it! Ugh, Lee says its my uterus/tummy pushing up into it, but I definitely have a layer of fat on there that was not there before, lol. I'm going to be over 130lb when I go to the doctor again next week. Crap, that reminds me, I've got to come up with another $311.00 before then. Sigh. My mom is going to come with me to this appointment, and then Lee's mom is coming to the next months. The appointments are all so much the same now that it really is silly to have Lee get off work early to come with me. Besides, the moms will love hearing the heartbeat.

Anyway, little girl is getting very active. I love it though! And she doesn't do it at inconvenient times either. Just mostly during the day and afternoon. Around 9 or 10 sometimes she will wake up a bit for a little while, but thats it. When I get up to go to the bathroom at night (at least 4 times!) she will sometimes move around a bit, but it doesn't last long. She is a good girl so far! I'm hoping she keeps this schedule up! But I also wonder sometimes if maybe she does move around at night and I just don't feel it...but I am a pretty light sleeper. We'll see!

I'm feeling really good. I get a little sleepy at times, and this past week I've had a lot of trouble getting up in the morning, but other then that (and the constant bathroom breaks) I'm doing good! I feel like I've been eating a lot lately, and that sort of worries me, but I've always been such a light eater, its just weird to get up for seconds, or eat more then I usually do, lol. I still try not to overdo it! And then again, at other times I start eating and am immediately full after just a few bites!

Lee finally felt her move the other day! On Sunday I believe. He felt her again last night. I can actually see her push my stomach out now, that is kind of strange, lol, but neat. I'll have to get that on video!

So we have 2 trips tentatively planned for this spring/summer. The first being a backpacking trip the 27th of this month, and the other a beach trip sometime in May or possibly June. I'd rather it be May, but we are at the mercy of dates that the time share is open. We may go to Mobile, AL, Panama City, FL, or Destin FL. The sis in laws mom has to check dates for us. It will be a 4 day thing. And I know I will be happier in May then June since I will be getting real close to my due date by June!

The backpacking trip is still in the talks...I think us two pregnant girls will be okay, but we have to make sure we've got the money too. I'd like to buy a new backpack, there is one at wal mart I like a lot for 70, so I have to come up with that, and then we have food to buy. Lee really needs a new sleeping bag too...

I'm hoping I will be able to wear my hip strap low enough not to interfere with anything. I know girls are supposed to carry high, but I don't feel like she is right now! She is down low 80% of the time still. Maybe it is when your belly is really getting big that it sits higher rather then lower. :shrug: But if I can't get that hip strap working for me, I won't be going, that takes a LOT of the load off your shoulders and without it you are miserable. I should probably ask my doctor Thurs if its okay if I go too...but what if she says no?? Sniff, lol. I have a trail all picked out already that is supposed to be super easy and near the water the whole time. Its only about 3-5 miles that we will be walking. The first part is 2 miles and then after we branch off onto the next trail we can stop at any time and set up camp wherever we find a good spot. Or keep going! And its got waterfalls on it! :D

Kind of along those lines, the sis and law and I started walking 2 miles twice a week at the park last week. I also went one day without her and did a mile. I would have yesterday too but had to work late after I got off here at dads shop over at Fallalary, ugh. I'm so glad I don't work there anymore! She had to go out of town and needed me for a few hours. Anyway, we are walking again today, she is not in as good of shape as me, but shes not bad. She's also about 13 weeks, right in that "ack, I can't breathe" stage, haha. She will be near 17 weeks by the time we go, I felt pretty good then.

So I think I have a bedding set picked out finally. Its super cute, this is it:

The picture is from Amazon.

It has a little lime green in it too, you can't see from that picture. We are planning on doing the walls in a sort of light green, with white below the chair rail. I wan't to get the bedding first though so I can take it to the store with me to pick out a color that coordinates.

I can't wait until our baby shower, that is coming up next month on the 8th. I ordered the invitations, should get them Monday! :D They are ADORABLE, perfect for what I want. I want a laid back, fun, summery atmosphere. Thats why we are calling it a 'baby-que', lol.

Click to make it bigger!

I just love them! I was hoping to get them in before Easter so I could just hand them out to a lot of people I'll be seeing, but dummy me waited too late. Sigh. I guess I'll just have to go around with a book writing down peoples addresses, lol. Especially his family, ugh. I'm thinking I will be giving out at least 25 invitations, and a lot of them will be couples, so we could have quite a party on our hands! I hope so!

My mom and his mom are putting it on, at my parents house. The guys will be out front playing horseshoes, volleyball, football, whatever and then us girls will be in the house or the back porch doing our games, presents, eating fruit. Then after that we will meet up with the guys to eat some hamburgers and potato salad YUM, and then eat cake/ice cream after that. I'm so excited! I know the party is supposed to be about me and the baby and Lee, but I won't be happy if everyone else isn't!

Anywho, guess I will quit with that! Till later!