Thread: Our miracle, all in God's time- due November 2007

30w5d

So, I am once again rushing around trying to get things done prior to going to my OB appt. Sometimes I think I must do it for fun or excitement 'cause there really is no reason for it. I have had all morning to update this thing.

Yesterday I met with a very detailed endocrinologist who explained to me her thoughts and studies on metformin, glyburide and insulin during pregnancy. It was clear to hear that YES, my fasting numbers are nuts but that all else is usually okay dandy. After hearing all her talk, I decided to go with the insulin pen thingy and shoot up once a night before bed. Funny thing was, I took it last night and guess what? It didn't work! I had a 107 this AM which is waay too high yet again. The doc bases her thoughts of metformin during pregnancy on this one researcher who is presenting her findings next week... she says it may change how she sees that drug during pregnancy. That would make me so mad. That is what I was on to begin with... GRR! I report my results in Friday to the nurse who will likely tell me I need more insulin. Isn't that great?

My OB appt. will consist of weighing me, measuring the baby, listening to the HB and of course taking my BP. Yesterday it was 100/64 which is pretty low even for me. My body is wacky.

I have to go to the diabetic clinic every other Tuesday now until bebe is born as they want to review how my insulin is being managed. THEN, I get to go sometime every week to have an NST done along with an u/s. It is so fun to commute to work AND commute to the hospital. I am going to forget what home looks like I think.

I guess that is it for now. I am writing you from my dining room where I am relocating my 'office' stuff. Our kitchen has a little built in desk. Anyway, my desk upstairs collapsed last week and I had been meaning to move stuff so I guess this is as good of time as any. It will be much more conveinent once baby is here! DH will love all the assignments I will have for him when he gets home!


Ahh pooh, I forget the belly pic from Tuesday. Here goes.


My furbaby:


Mom's furbaby:


Have a good day!

31w3d

My poor neglected journal.

Where do I begin? Seems like I have been so busy doing random things that I don't have time to do "normal" stuff. Not to mention I have been fighting off something and just REALLY tired.

A quick overview... The hospital tour was Saturday and mostly a complete bummer. I was SO annoyed because there was a group of about 10-11 people and this one couple had an interpreter with them. She seemed to have no common sense and would stand in front of the rest of us who were trying to hear what the nurse had to say... GRRR. I had no patience for that. Then I found out that my stupid diabetes gets me a ticket to the high risk unit which among other fun things includes:

At least 8 hospital staff in on the delivery
At least 2 IV's
Limited activity including no walking or showering during labor (the only 3 tubs are in the low risk area)
Of course, no eating
Possibly having to be taken to the operating room should certain circumstances occur

I want to do a natural child birth but as they are so kind in not assisting with that I don't know how it will work out. I was very disappointed that so many of the priviledges given to others are ruled out due to this stupid condition. I also learned that if I test positive for beta strep, the baby has to be in the hospital at least 36 hours where I will more than likely be discharged at 24. They have nesting rooms but they didn't show us those so I don't know what to expect. Hopefully, I won't have to worry about that. Testing isn't for another month or so though...

My fasting numbers have been getting better. Either staying at 94 or today I had my lowest ever at 92. Sometimes the other numbers are still wacky but at least I don't usually fail those!

I rec'd another RSVP today which I was happy about! It is nice to see how many people care and want to come to the shower. I cannot wait!

I need to go walk. I have been neglecting that exercise for 2 days. Baby says 'hi'!

31w6d

Here is the belly shot from 31w4d:


Dh's surgery went well. He is a bit sore and still dealing with all of that but I am glad he is up and moving around and stuff.

Tomorrow is the big u/s! I am very excited about that. Hopefully I will have some REALLY good pics to show off. I have my first NST tomorrow too so I hope that goes swimmingly as well.

I think my mom and I are going to work on the nursery tmw. The curtains arrived and we have some wall hangings to put up and such. FUN, fun fun!

I gotta run and eat dinner. Have a great night!

32w1d

Well, I have some pretty neat pics from yesterday! I had my last 'study' appt. and then it was followed by a Bio-Physical Profile or BPP. Basically all that means is they did yet another u/s and watched for baby's practice breathing, checked my fluid level, which is at 18, (it has to be between 10 and 24), looked for movement and checked for tone.

At the study appt., they were able to get me some 3D pics! The only bad thing is that the cord was in front of the face a bit AND the baby had wedged his/her face into the side of the uterine wall. They did their best and I hope you can tell what you are looking at! Here goes...

I am gonna throw some comparison shots from mommy and daddy so you can see what you think!

And this one was from the regular u/s. I thought it was funny though because the eye is open... Eww!

We put up the curtains in the nursery and hung up one of the wall hangings. My mom is working on the other things we are going to put over the changing table. I am still waiting on a shelf I ordered too but it shouldn't be much longer for that! It is all coming together! I will post some nursery pics later today- or will try to anyway!

I have some pics of the nursery to date... Here they are!


Not too much new here today. DH is pretty sore today and whining a lot. Poor guy. Um, blood sugars are much improved on 7 units of insulin. Makes me happy! I learned that last that I can eat thin crust pizza (not my preference but it will do) and still be in range! Woohoo! Nice to eat something other than PB, chicken and turkey.

Going to walk, shower, shop and watch some sports! Have a good day!

Here is my BP from yesterday at 32w4d...

And I am shrinking to just under 12 TP squares.

Yesterday was a bit of a long day. Yes, it was my bday but it was spent entirely away from home. I was fortunate enough to attend my diabetic clinic, BPP, and a blood draw all before 1pm. Then I ate lunch in my car just before I had to go to work. I didn't get home until 8p and I was sooo tired. The highlight of my day, aside from seeing my baby, was that DH had candles lit for dinner and was dressed up slaving away over the stove/grill. He is cute! His goal was to relax me, I think it worked. He was super relaxed as he had just taken the big "V" for his pain... Since I didn't get to have any cake, he held up a three candle and then a single one candle to symbolize 31 and sang the birthday song to me. How sweet. We are planning to bake a yellow cake with choc. frosting for the baby's birth-day. AHHHHH, SUGAR, how I miss you.

Thanks to all the well wishes I rec'd yesterday! It is good to feel loved.

Today I am off to buy an outfit or at least a shirt to wear to the shower. I am not looking forward to shopping at the maternity store because none of their stupid empire waisted shirts fit my 'girls'. It is really frustrating and tends to make me feel like a pile of poo. Wish me luck there.

I have an OB appt. this afternoon. It should be my final one with this OB since she is only there on Wednesdays and I will soon need to go on Friday instead. I hope I like the new person.

That is enough blabbering for now. Have a nice day. I hope the sun is shining where you are.

32w6d

Okay so yesterday didn't exactly turn out like I might have hoped. I was doing my usual early morning exercise avoidance routine when I thought I should clean the bathrooms. Well, halfway thru 2 of them, I hear the dog barking all weird so I come down to let her out and hear my phone beeping. I look and DH had called twice in 10 minutes so I call him back. Long story short, he was being taken to the ER for bleeding. You might recall he had surgery last Wednesday and apparently the blood was gushing from that area. My wonderful boss drove him over to the ER and I met them there. Well, I packed a banana figuring it couldn't take all day, right? WRONG!!! We were there over 6 hours without being seen. Having been told we were next on the list for 3+ hours but ambulance after ambulance kept coming in... The bleeding had stopped so we called the referring surgeon's office and the on call doc told us to go home. He said if we would have waited once admitted, DH would have been there for 4-5 more hours!! Neither of us had eaten lunch or dinner and for me, that wasn't exactly a good thing. We leave... but, we had to drive waaaay out of our way to go get DH's car from work. The thought was we could stop at a certain restaurant where I know what I can eat carb wise so we go... It is about 25 minutes from where we were. Well, we get to that point and the ramp is closed to get off the e-way. OMG!!! I had had it by that point. Our dog had been home all day with no potty break and we still had another 20 min. until we even got to the truck so I just decided to get the car and go home to eat as it would be approaching 9p or later if we had stopped to eat. I am still so exhausted. I talked to DH minutes ago and he is still waiting to hear if the surgeon wants him to come in today.

To top it all off, I was suppose to have my final meeting with the OB I had been seeing for my entire pregnancy yesterday. Well, I had to cancel due to the activities of the day. The reason I am switching is b/c they are overbooked and she has no room for me for my remaining weeks. I was hoping to let her know this personally yesterday to see what she could do about it, if anything. I don't even know now who will be seeing me come delivery! SO FRUSTRATING!!!! Anyhoot, I had to R/S for today with some other doc, not even the one I will be seeing from now on. Not the greatest continuity of care.

Yes, the dresser is being delivered today! Hopefully there won't be any problems there. I am still aiming to get out to shop for something to wear to the shower but as you can kinda tell, I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment. I could do that tmw. but I have yet another doc appt. tmw. and am a bit worried about putting off the shopping for that long in case I can't find anything and then have to PANIC!

How are things on your end?

33w

Had my NST today. It was very uneventful which is a good thing. Baby didn't like the belts they had on me and was very squirmy. Heart rate varied from 137 all the way to 161. I was hooked up for about 40 minutes or so. BORING! I did have one contraction which I didn't even feel. I was surprised when she said that there had been one! I like my new doc. She seems to have good bedside manner.

I think I am mostly gonna take it easy today. I was up last night because I couldn't sleep. I am feeling so run down.

I took some pics of me today if you are interested. I know mostly I always cut off my head. Since I was actually dressed and done, I figured this was a good time.

I know the pose is stupid but hey, I took them myself. Gotta love how the shirt makes my boobs look 10x bigger than normal.



OH! The dresser...


So long for now! Hope to see you Sunday.

33w1d

48 days and counting!

My birth board had a link to a quiz about delivery and this is what it told me:

"Get your bags packed early just in case you need them. Make sure your partner has a phone available when he's away because this baby just might come early. We predict your baby will come 2-3 weeks early. Your baby will most likely be born in the morning. Justmommies predicts that your baby will weigh approximately 7.8 pounds and that your labor will be about 14 hours long."

I actually like that report! We'll just have to wait and see how accurate it is. I have added further items to our suitcase for the hospital. I hope to complete the packing sometime this coming week. We bought new slippers for the event as we both needed them pretty badly. Mine are so cute.

I hope I am able to get some decent sleep tonight. I wonder if the anticipation and nervousness about my shower will keep me up? Maybe the animal crackers I just ate will be the culprit? We went out and bought some clothes for DH to wear tmw.- he will be at the shower for the gift opening. I hope he gets to eat some too or he will be a crank case.

On a side note, I had tuna today. I ate tuna sandwiches for lunch and dinner. It was good! BUT, I had an almost big "d" episode earlier and think it was probably the tuna. I hope it goes away but my tummy has been a little yucka at times. Wouldn't that be bad if I was sick tmw.? UGH!

I will be sure to post pics as soon as I find the time. Toodaloo!

33w3d

Well, I had a WONDERFUL baby shower! Thank you SO much to my mom and my gal, sweetcheeks. I appreciate all of the hard work, planning, and decorating you did. Thanks to sweetcheeks' momma too as I have heard you were a great help!

I was pretty anxious at the beginning of it all but I relaxed, enjoyed myself and had a fun, FUN, fun time. It was nice having DH there even if he was 'hitting' on big Shirl all day.

I want to get these pics up for those of you anxiously awaiting them. There are a ton!

SHOWER GAME GIFT TABLE/BABY GIFT TABLE

CAKE/TABLE CENTERPIECES (MADE BY MOMMA)

CAKE TABLE/CAKE TOPPER/FAVORS

ME & SWEETCHEEKS/DH & SHIRL/SWEETCHEEKS JR.

ME & DH & OUR GIFTS!

2ND SHOT SHOWS DADDY TO BE 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE' BELT!

HOME AND ALL PILED UP!

WOW! Thanks for lookin' but that was a lot of work. I will try to post again tmw. with belly pics and stuff. Have a good night.