Christmas in between doctor appointments

This past week was a pretty crazy one! I updated about my doctor appointment on the 23rd, which was eventful but we also had a sick Molly at home. She woke up at 3 am that day with her first stomach bug. Poor little thing was puking . I felt so bad for her. She was pretty miserable. I did take her to the doctor to make sure she had no infection, which she didn't. Fortunately she was feeling better by evening and woke up being her normal crazy, 2 year old self. So we were able to celebrate most of our holiday festivities. We missed dinner with John's side on the 23rd, but saw his mom and uncles at breakfast Christmas morning.

Molly was so excited that Ho Ho came. Her little mouth just dropped when she came to the living room and saw the toys and presents. It was pretty cute. I'll have to try to upload some of the video. After going through presents from Santa and exchanging gifts with John we got dressed and headed over to his mom's, and then down to my mom's for dinner. We had a good time at my mom's. My cousin and his wife and kids were there as well, which was fun. Molly had some playmates, which was nice. She even got to take a bath with one of them! Then we came home and back to the doctor I went on Friday.

The doctor said the baby is moving around fine and everything looks good, but the glucose numbers going down and not needing much insulin is still a concern. I was still contracting everyone 5 minutes or so, but these could continue for a while without actually go into labor. She said at some point they may just decide to induce me since I am 37 weeks today but hopefully will just go into labor on my own soon. I am supposed to continue doing my movement counts and if those go down or aren't as much I need to call. She also said if I end up to the point of needing no insulin at all I need to call because that seems to be when she will make the decision to induce. I told her I was hoping not to induce since I am hoping to not have an epidural. I'm not excited about getting induced, but we'll see what happens. Of course if the doctor is telling me that the baby needs to come out, I will do whatever is necessary..but I wanted her to know what I was at least hoping for. Maybe just stripping the membranes or just a touch of pitocin will get these contractions to become regular. My mom said that's what happened to her. Of course I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that my water breaks and I know it's time.

The contractions are starting to get slightly more uncomfortable, particularly when I am walking around. We went to the mall yesterday and that was fun...I had to stop a few times to breathe through them. They are only that intense every so often when I'm sitting. My hope right now is that these contractions are dilating me, but I hope that they aren't doing so much that I'll eventually have one big contraction that pushes me over the edge and I'm ready to deliver without even realizing it. Oh, and as far as my glucose numbers go I took a tiny bit of insulin today just to keep my numbers in check since we went to a party. I can say that I would have had to take 3 to 4 times as much insulin a few weeks ago to have the same numbers. I'm debating whether or not to take insulin tonight and see what happens.

I have another appointment on Tuesday, and then another on Friday. Tuesday's appointment is with another doctor in the practice, so it should be interesting to see his take on things. I see the doctor from last week again on Friday, if I make it that far. I'll be going crazy if I'm still having contractions this frequently a week from now. Ugh.

36 week update

I had my weekly nst this afternoon. Baby is doing fine, moving aroound like crazy! I was having pretty big contractions, about every 5-8 minutes....not all that painful, just tightening. The doctor asked if that was more than normal, but its hard to say since they don't hurt alot so I don't always notice them. But I wasn't in a ton of pain during labor until I got to about 7 cms.

The bigger concern is that my glucose numbers have been lower and I don't seem to need insulin for meals if I eat low carb. Before I needed insulin even when I was eating low carb. So the concern is that something is going on with the placenta, and/or getting ready to deliver. Since I am already 36 weeks it seems that it is ok if I go into labor, but she said it is too early to induce unless the baby seems stressed. She ended up doing an internal since I'm contracting and I am about 1 cm and she could feel the babies head. He wiggled when she did, which she said was good.

I have to do formal movement checks, 10 an hour 3x a day. And I go for another NST on Friday, then another on Tuesday.

So we'll see what happens! Still having contractions, I feel the tightening but pretty much the same. I'll let you know if anything changes!

35 week ultrasound

I had a growth check again today, yay!!! So much more exciting than the nsts. At least I get to see the little guy. And I got a 3D photo! Even more exciting. So tell me what you think?

I also had a chance to upload photos from the weekend. We visited with Santa at John's office. Molly was a little shy at first, but after a donut and realizing Santa would give her another toy if she went up to see him, she walked right up. No sitting on his lap, but she chatted with him for a few minutes. Definitely making progress! She is getting exciting for Christmas. Every day we move the Snowflake in our calendar to count down the days, and she knows in 9 days Ho HO comes! Yay!!!! She told me yesterday she wanted something pink....I think we've got that covered..I hope.

Only 5 more weeks!

Yay!!! Coming into the final stretch and getting excited. It is nice to have Christmas and the baby to look forward to. Just about ready for Christmas, I'd say I'm about 90% done with my shopping. Need to pick up a few more odds and ends, but overall doing great. Amazon.com has been my best friend this year.

Other exciting news is that Candace had her baby yesterday! A little boy, Dominic Patrick. So exciting :). So many babies this fall and winter. I can't believe I am next!

Not a whole lot to say here, just wanted to do a quick update. Overall I'm feeling good. My hips are starting to hurt quite a bit at night when I sleep. I remember them being like this last time, doesn't really make me look forward to sleeping. Amy has assured me that the aches and pains go away relatively quickly though, which will be nice. I seemed to remember feeling better shortly after having Molly, but it's so hard to remember. Trying not to get nervous on what this baby is going to do in the sleeping and eating categories, just going to go with the flow and hope for the best.

So that's it from here....and a few photos of our very much a 2 year old.