25 Weeks 5 Days

100 days until my due date! I can't believe that we are in double digits tomorrow...I feel like celebrating and yet at the same time I feel like screaming into a pillow! I also have graduated to an eggplant! It is quite the upgrade if you ask me...lol.

Also, I had to take a 3 hour Glucose Tolerence Test (GTT) today, after I failed the 1 hour one last Tuesday at my regular appointment.. They called with the results and said that I passed with flying colors. I was very happy to hear that, since I am so not ready to give up ice cream or start dieting yet. Let me enjoy three more months of all the horrible foods I won't be eating for a long time after the baby comes.

24 Weeks 2 Days

These weeks just seem to be cruising by. School is out for everyone in MN, and we have our last graduation party to attend tomorrow for Auntie S. I'm excited to wear one of my new maternity dresses and to have the little one be loved by its family. I tried to get Auntie M to feel some punches last night, but it seems that the baby gets  a little shy when others are around...that or it is just as lazy as me these days.

It does seem like some of the 1st Trimester symptoms have come back. I find myself getting more tired and have less motivation again. I also found myself in a major cleaning spree this morning that I can only attribute to nesting because if was way out of character for me...unfortunately the motivation has now passed.

On another note, I have decided to move forward with my med-free birth plan and am now in talks with a doula/hypnobabies teacher. She is the only hypnobabies instructor in the state of MN. I have decided to still read the hypnobirthing material, but from the research I have done I really feel like my calling is more towards the hypnobabies curriculum. I'm going to plan a phone date with her this week to move on with the process, and will update on that later.

Also this week the baby is still a papaya...boo for stunted growth! Except I did read somewhere that it was now the size of a standard letter, but really who wants to look at a piece of paper?! Have a great weekend!

23 Weeks 1 Day

Happy Friday! So far it has been an amazing one, filled with my favorite food: Subway and then an amazing massage in my OWN living room. I am really feeling like a princess today, and it is such a nice change of pace after last Friday. I figured I would re-tell my story one more time, since this has been a pretty "big" one for me in my pregnancy.

Here it goes:

Last Friday I met my mom at Costco to pick up a few things for the annual Memorial Party. We got all sorts of things: buns, water, fruit, etc..and after seeing all the goodness we decided to head over to a new restaurant, Burger Jones. It was really good food. I had a cheeseburger and a chocolate malt and ate way more than I should have probably, but it was really that good I just couldn't stop!

After lunch, we went to a few consignment stores to look for some maternity clothes and came up empty handed...weird I know! (I really am trying, I guess I'm just a snot about used things) I stopped and got kitty litter and went home. I still felt super full and just felt like I needed to vomit from all of the food. After an hour or so of being SO uncomfortable and Nate being SO sick of hearing me complain I decided I would let nature take its course and I puked. I thought, 'oh good now I can get on with the cleaning and stuff now that I feel better.'...boy was I wrong! It seems that all that did was open the flood gates. Within 10 minutes I was back in the bathroom purging whatever else was left in there. This went on for a couple hours before Nate finally convinced me to call my doctor. I really hate bothering people, and I hate it even more being a FTM (first time mom) thinking that I am over reacting to things...because Lord knows there are those ladies out there and I refuse to be one of them!

My doctor said I needed to head right into Labor & Delivery, which is where Nate sped to get me to as fast as he could. It was quite the bonding time for him and I. It was almost a trial run of being in labor with me vomiting in the truck while he tries to drive (in the rain of course) and rub my back to comfort me at the same time! The one nice thing about being pregnant I guess is even on a holiday weekend you don't have to wait in the waiting room, you just go straight to the delivery ward and they give you a room and wait on you hand and foot. The nurses were amazing, and I'm so happy that I will be delivering there too!

They hooked me up to an IV right away to start fluids, and started to monitor my uterus which was irritable and having some minor contractions (scary!!). Unfortunately, I didn't stop with the vomiting and pretty much felt miserable the whole time. Thankfully I had a nurse that really advocated for me and when the doctors wanted to keep me over night she fought for me to go home, which is what I knew I really needed. They gave me a prescription for more Zofran (anti-nausea med) and sent Nate and I on our way.

By Saturday I was feeling 100% better, not feeling good, but way better then I had. Nate was a wonderful doctor and had me on strict bed rest for the next day to make sure I would be okay for Sunday. Thank God for having wonderful family and friends! My mom, Nate's mom, and even Ernie pitched in to clean the house and finish the shopping while I was resting. It was really torture for me, but Nate made sure everyone knew to make sure I rested...which I did!

Sunday came and the party went well, I even stayed the whole time! At my check up on Tuesday they said that all of my levels were back to normal and I was up a pound so they were very happy seeing that they need to make sure the baby is gaining right now.



On another note...the baby is now a papaya...whatever in the world that is?!