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.