Quick doctor visit

I have become a paranoid mommy. If you read my post yesterday, you saw that I've been worried about Noah's decreased movement. Today was more of the same. He hadn't moved all morning. At around 10:30am, I asked April's opinion on the matter....I pressed here and there on my belly and finally after about five minutes of poking, he finally moved a little bit but that was it. April called her friend that works in L&D and she said to call my doctor. I did and they of course wanted to see me right away.

The nurse immediately found Noah's heartbeat and said it was normal. Then they hooked me up to a monitor to do a non-stress test.


Noah HATES being pressed on. So everytime the nurse would find his heartbeat, she would strap the lower belt on tight and he would move away from it. April and I waited and waited and waited....

This was my view:


They eventually got enough information from the non-stress test and said everything looked fine from it. Then my doctor did a quick ultrasound to make sure everything looked ok. As it turns out, Noah is sitting upright with his head at the top of my belly and his hiney pointing down BUT his feet are up by his head! So I'm not feeling him kick that much because he can't kick with his feet up by his head. So everything is just fine, I just have a stubborn flexible baby!

The good news is........I lost ONE POUND!!! YAY ME!!!! I was so excited! Not having an appetite for a week was a good thing for me! I am still going back to the doctor Wednesday for my 4D ultrasound but I don't have to see my doctor again then unless I just want to.

Check back tomorrow (hopefully!) for pictures from my second baby shower!

28 weeks

How far along: 28 weeks!

Total weight gain/loss: Plus 28 pounds as of last week. I go to the doctor on Wednesday and I'll get an updated weight then....I'm hoping that with me being sick and not having much of an appetite, I won't have gained that much!

Maternity clothes: Some of my maternity shirts are becoming too short!

Stretch marks: Same ones...

Sleep: Pretty crappy. Everything hurts these days so it's hard finding a comfortable position.

Best moment this week: My second baby shower!

Movement: He's slowing down a bit. He still moves around every day, but just not as much as he used to. I plan on talking to the doctor about it Wednesday though.

Food cravings: Nothing. My appetite has been horrible this week after Monday's drama.

Gender: After all the stuff I got at my shower today, he BETTER be a boy!

Labor signs: Nothing.

Belly button in or out: Out

What I miss: Good sleep

What I am looking forward to: Our 4D ultrasound next week!

Weekly wisdom: If you are sick, eat things you don't LOVE. Because once you throw it up, you'll never want to see it again.

Milestone: We are now in the third trimester! The home stretch!

Lunch meeting

I had a very important lunch meeting to attend today. I was really stressing out about it because it was with a very important client of mine. A top dog. Someone that I really needed to impress. We talked a while about business strategies, critical commonly made errors and evictions. She wasn't that into the conversation I was presenting at first. She listened, but she kept looking away. I was pretty worried that I had totally bombed this very important lunch meeting......





but I think she still digs me.

Baby shower pictures

As promised, here they are!

I LOVE my lamb swing!


My little sister/gift-writer-downer


This cracks me up....


My happy face! (And Reece to the left, supervising)

April and Reece

I hate that this is blurry because it would have been a really cute picture!

My hostess, Wendy, one set of her twins, my Mom and April

Reece likes comfy pillows!

So there you go! I feel MUCH better today. Thank yall for worrying about me! Noah has gotten a lot of energy from our four day weekend and has been kicking the FOOL out of his momma today! He kicks so hard it hurts! I guess it's payback from drugging him up on Monday!

Hospital Visit

I woke up Sunday morning not quite feeling like myself. But on Sunday mornings I am usually running around so much that I end up not feeling great anyway, so I figured I was just doing too much before church. I made it through the morning and my shower that afternoon. That night, Brad and I went to bed as normal. I woke up around 2am with what I thought was VERY bad indigestion. So I got up and went to sit in my recliner. I figured that if I sat up for a while, the indigestion would get better. About 30 minutes later, my mouth started watering and I made a mad dash to the bathroom to throw up.

I felt better afterwards and assumed that I had just eaten too much for supper the night before. I went to get back in my recliner and no matter what position I got in, I couldn't get comfortable. So then I tried moving to the couch. No luck. Then I decided to just go back to bed. I made it about half way there when my mouth started watering again. So BACK to the bathroom I went to throw up AGAIN. And so it began. From 2:30am-8:00am, I threw up 5-6 times. NOT FUN.

I called my doctor's office and they called me in some medicine. Until I got the medicine, I kept throwing up. My doctor said that if I wasn't better by that evening, I would have to go to the hospital to get an iv. WELL....about 5pm when Brad got home from work, I checked my temperature and it was 100.4. So off to the hospital we went.

Now in the past year, with the fertility treatments we did, I got pretty used to being stuck with a needle. I was used to the pain and in fact, it really doesn't even hurt anymore. Getting an iv is completely different that having blood drawn people! I almost came up OFF THE BED when the nurse gave me the iv. And then I came this close to passing out!



They drew some blood (and my blood was dark purple/black! Weird!) but everything came back normal. So they are guessing I just had some sort of stomach virus. I got some iv fluids and as we were leaving the hospital, the nurse topped me off with some phenergan. I love that stuff. I don't even remember the car ride home or Brad putting me to bed.

I woke up this morning feeling about 30% better. I'm not feeling sickly anymore, I'm just REALLY sore and achy all over. But I'm on the mend. And we got to hear Noah's heartbeat for a good 30 minutes last night in the hospital!

So I'm sitting here drinking my Sprite. Happy Tuesday yall! At least I think it's Tuesday...

27 weeks

Where did my butt go??

How far along: 27 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: Up 28 pounds. That's right. TWENTY EIGHT POUNDS!
Maternity clothes: Still wearing them!
Stretch marks: Same ones.....
Sleep: I tried going to sleep in my recliner but I couldn't ever get comfortable. This past week, I've been waking up at like 1 or 2am, WIDE awake and ready to go for some reason.
Best moment this week: Hearing Noah's heartbeat at the doctor AND my first shower!
Movement: Moving like crazy. Saturday morning around 4am, Noah woke me up doing his aerobics! I got up and out of bed because I seriously thought Noah would wake Brad up. He was moving the whole bed!!
Food cravings: Twix
Gender: BOY!
Labor signs: None
Belly button in or out: Mostly out
What I miss: Being skinny
What I am looking forward to: My shower next weekend!
Weekly wisdom: Elevate your feet as much as possible. Otherwise, your feet will swell up and HURT.
Milestone: We have officially completed all of our childbirth/breastfeeding/infant classes! Yay!

Noah and I went to the doctor on Friday. His heartrate was 150 bpm and yes, I gained 10 pounds in three weeks. So I've gained a total of 28 pounds....my doctor hasn't said anything to me about it yet but that doesn't mean I think it's ok! It sucks! But anyway, everything was great with Noah. We go back in two weeks for another appointment and for our 4D ultrasound! Yay for that! I'll post pictures from my shower as soon as I get my swollen hands on them!

Seriously?

So I'm shopping at Lowe's. I stop at the end of an aisle to look at something. An old man walks by me and lets out a loud "WOOOOOOO WEEE!!!!" I turn toward him thinking he was about to pass out or something and he is staring at me. He asks, "WHEN are you DUE?" I look at him like he is freakin NUTS and say "February 13th". Then he says, "WOO. You have a while to go!" And then he turns around and walks off! WHAT THE CRAP!!!!!!!!!