Well the scan went well! Bubs is sitting bang on the 50th percentile for growth so they are happy with that. She was poking her tongue out and drinking lol, she looked like a cat lapping up milk! I felt rather faint and horrible while lying down so I had to get up and have a drink haha, then they made me lie on my side. I managed to get a picture, yay. The only thing is, she is breech! Little monkey, so either my MW was wrong when she felt around the other day, or else she has turned again. So hopefully she turns herself back around and heads south! The diabetes doctor was pleased with my progress so we are just going to stick with managing it through diet and I now only have to do finger pricks every second day! YIPPEE!
Got our second antenatal class tonight, next week's one is a hospital visit so that will be interesting.
Right, better get back to it!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
32 weeks
Well, 56 days to go. Yikes!
Scan day tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing my little girl again :) Bet she looks a lot different from the last scan! I hope they can give me a picture because DH can't make it this time, he has to work which is a bit stink because he really wanted to come with me. Hopefully she's growing well in there, she feels like she is, I have feet poking me all the time now and prodding out the sides and up the top of my bump, so she's still head down which is great.
My sugar levels have been pretty good mostly, I have had a couple of high readings but I think they are just related to what I have eaten. So hopefully the doctors will be pleased with that!
On the weekend we went out to the inlaws, and I managed to sew my first item ever! The hanging bassinette that came with the cot needed a new mattress as the other one smells pretty musty so I will be going and getting a new piece of foam cut, and the mattress cover was all stained so DH's nana helped me cut out a new one (from an old valance or sheet) and I sewed it up! Turned out pretty good too for a first attempt, and there was enough material there to make a backup one too incase the first one gets wet or dirty. So that was awesome. And super easy too...so now I just have to get my sewing machine up and running because I want to make other things!
Right, here is my 31 week bump.
Scan day tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing my little girl again :) Bet she looks a lot different from the last scan! I hope they can give me a picture because DH can't make it this time, he has to work which is a bit stink because he really wanted to come with me. Hopefully she's growing well in there, she feels like she is, I have feet poking me all the time now and prodding out the sides and up the top of my bump, so she's still head down which is great.
My sugar levels have been pretty good mostly, I have had a couple of high readings but I think they are just related to what I have eaten. So hopefully the doctors will be pleased with that!
On the weekend we went out to the inlaws, and I managed to sew my first item ever! The hanging bassinette that came with the cot needed a new mattress as the other one smells pretty musty so I will be going and getting a new piece of foam cut, and the mattress cover was all stained so DH's nana helped me cut out a new one (from an old valance or sheet) and I sewed it up! Turned out pretty good too for a first attempt, and there was enough material there to make a backup one too incase the first one gets wet or dirty. So that was awesome. And super easy too...so now I just have to get my sewing machine up and running because I want to make other things!
Right, here is my 31 week bump.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
31 weeks!
Well I never made it back here to update...
Appointments at the hospital went well. I saw the obstetrician team first which was one of the hospital midwives and two students. One of the students tried to take my blood pressure first and she said "wow thats low, do you normally have low blood pressure?" I was like "nope, its normally really good". So she said she would retake it in 5 minutes LOL. Came out normal the second time around. So they had a bit of a talk to me, had a poke around to see if bubs was breech or not (which they think she still was) and listened to the heartbeat. I was measuring 28 weeks there. Then I saw the diabetes specialist, she was pretty impressed with how my sugar levels were looking and I don't need to go back and see her for a month! So thats great news. Then I saw the dietician and she was pretty pleased with how things were going too and she said I don't even need to change my diet a hang of a lot, maybe just modify it so that I'm eating plenty of protein with the carbs so that the sugars get released slower etc. She even said I can still eat chocolate! (just not a lot of it).
So I have a scan and another appointment at the hospital next week to check on bubs growth. Just had my normal midwife appointment today, and YAY looks like baby has turned around and is now head down!! And I have feet poking me up under my ribs lol. So that is cool, lets just hope she stays that way! No wonder I was feeling hideous all day yesterday, sooooo uncomfy and sore. She must have been turning around!
Starting antenatal classes this week so that should be interesting, DH doesnt want to go lol, but I am making him!
Had my baby shower on sunday and I got very spoilt. Had some cool games and lots of food and it was a good day. :)
Well I think that's all for now...will update again later!
Appointments at the hospital went well. I saw the obstetrician team first which was one of the hospital midwives and two students. One of the students tried to take my blood pressure first and she said "wow thats low, do you normally have low blood pressure?" I was like "nope, its normally really good". So she said she would retake it in 5 minutes LOL. Came out normal the second time around. So they had a bit of a talk to me, had a poke around to see if bubs was breech or not (which they think she still was) and listened to the heartbeat. I was measuring 28 weeks there. Then I saw the diabetes specialist, she was pretty impressed with how my sugar levels were looking and I don't need to go back and see her for a month! So thats great news. Then I saw the dietician and she was pretty pleased with how things were going too and she said I don't even need to change my diet a hang of a lot, maybe just modify it so that I'm eating plenty of protein with the carbs so that the sugars get released slower etc. She even said I can still eat chocolate! (just not a lot of it).
So I have a scan and another appointment at the hospital next week to check on bubs growth. Just had my normal midwife appointment today, and YAY looks like baby has turned around and is now head down!! And I have feet poking me up under my ribs lol. So that is cool, lets just hope she stays that way! No wonder I was feeling hideous all day yesterday, sooooo uncomfy and sore. She must have been turning around!
Starting antenatal classes this week so that should be interesting, DH doesnt want to go lol, but I am making him!
Had my baby shower on sunday and I got very spoilt. Had some cool games and lots of food and it was a good day. :)
Well I think that's all for now...will update again later!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
30 week update
So today is the big 30. 10 weeks (or less!) to go! Yikes! I had better get cracking and start getting things finished or else things are going to hit the fan more or less. Well I suppose I'm not doing too bad, I have all the clothes washed and dried, I just need to get some more wintery type things as pretty much all what I have is summery type stuff. And considering the weather has just started turning more autumny and the mornings are quite chilly, I think she will need some warmer stuff!!
Had my midwife visit today, baby is still breech at this stage so I hope she turns soon! She has caught up on her measurements a bit now, at the last appointment at 28 weeks she measured 25.5, and this time she is measuring 28.5 so thats good. I've put on 7kg so far so that's not too bad either.
Have my obstetrician and dietician appointment tomorrow which should be interesting. Will probably get a bit of a slap on the hand for some of my food choices (like the spring rolls I had on saturday that put my levels up to 9.1!! supposed to be under 7.5. whoops). But overall my levels have been pretty good (I think). Getting used to the finger pricking now, it's not particularly pleasant but once you get used to it it's not too bad.
Ooh and it's my baby shower this weekend! So I'm looking forward to that :) Looks like there will be about 13 people there which is cool.
Right, better update my pics - this is 27, 28 and 29 weeks.
It's quite funny, because the 29 week pic looks smaller than the other two! She must have been sitting differently or something, or I just took it at a slightly different angle maybe.
Anyway, think that is all for now. Will try and update on thursday if I remember with how tomorrows appointments go.
Had my midwife visit today, baby is still breech at this stage so I hope she turns soon! She has caught up on her measurements a bit now, at the last appointment at 28 weeks she measured 25.5, and this time she is measuring 28.5 so thats good. I've put on 7kg so far so that's not too bad either.
Have my obstetrician and dietician appointment tomorrow which should be interesting. Will probably get a bit of a slap on the hand for some of my food choices (like the spring rolls I had on saturday that put my levels up to 9.1!! supposed to be under 7.5. whoops). But overall my levels have been pretty good (I think). Getting used to the finger pricking now, it's not particularly pleasant but once you get used to it it's not too bad.
Ooh and it's my baby shower this weekend! So I'm looking forward to that :) Looks like there will be about 13 people there which is cool.
Right, better update my pics - this is 27, 28 and 29 weeks.
It's quite funny, because the 29 week pic looks smaller than the other two! She must have been sitting differently or something, or I just took it at a slightly different angle maybe.
Anyway, think that is all for now. Will try and update on thursday if I remember with how tomorrows appointments go.
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