Almost the Final Testing

Wednesday I had my gestational diabetes test.  The glucola is still as icky as I remember but this time I put it in the freezer and made it a slushy and it was more tolerable.  With the blood drawn for the GD test they also ran a TSH, Free T4, hemoglobin and hematocrit.  With K I was fine on the GD test but was on iron supplements from 10 weeks and was up to 3 a day by this point.  But good news this time around - everything is normal! No special diets or iron supplements and my thyroid meds stay at the same dose =)  I think the only testing left is the group b strep culture at 36 weeks.   

After three weeks of snow storms (every Tuesday weirdly enough) we are expecting a full weekend of sunshine and temperatures in the 70's.  I see the park and maybe the zoo in our future!  

Fetal Echo & 27 Weeks

On Friday, right at 27 weeks, we had a fetal echo cardiogram done.  After looking at the research I realize this was just to be EXTRA cautious but it was another viewing of the little guy so what the heck.  The summary was, his heart looks perfect =)  Here is the only pic they gave us since most of the 40 minute u/s was spent zoomed in on the heart.  You can see all his ribs on the left side are starting to calcify a lot more than at the 20w u/s and his little mouth is open as he intakes fluid to practice breathing.

And the bump is really starting to grow now! 

I'm still feeling good and sleeping well.  Every once in a while I'll have a day when he's really low and it's not the most comfortable but for the most part we're doing great.  I'm having crazy dreams but that's par for the course for me when preggo.  Next OB is the 29th, which is also exactly 1 month from when K turns three, OMG!  I have the park reserved but not many other plans made just yet.  Better get on that...

Scheduled!

Just got off the phone with my OB and my c-section is scheduled for 11:30 am on Tuesday, July 16th.  An official day, so exciting!  Our hope is that we can have a normal morning drop off that day (check-in at the hospital isn't until 9:30) with K and she can enjoy a normal week at school while I'm in the hospital doing the hardest part of recovery.  M will pick her up at her normal time in the afternoons and bring her to the hospital for dinner time and then go home for the normal bedtime routine while I get help from the nurses with C. I should be home by the weekend.  Of course if he decides to come earlier my c-section will be done then.  But as my regular readers know, this girl loves to have a plan =)

Also scheduled is our fetal echo for this Friday right at 27 weeks.  I'll be sure to update on how it goes.  I don't expect any surprises *fingers crossed*

Here's K and I at the park last weekend, loving some warmer spring weather.  Not today though - it's  gotten cold again and is snowing, which isn't suppose to stop until Thursday *sigh*

25 Weeks & OB

I hit the 25 week mark last Friday and here's the belly:

I have gained a lot of weight in the last month but am at a total of 16.5 pound gain, which is 1 pound more than my 1st pregnancy.  Pretty much right on track I think.  Just hope the gain slows down like it did last time around.  

Had my OB checkup today and my belly is measuring right on and he sounds perfect =)  She also had the follow tid-bits:

• Apparently IVF babies can be at a slightly higher risk of cardio issues and she mentioned a fetal echo-cardiogram.  Not sure why someone didn't mention this earlier since it's usually done between 18 and 24 weeks but I'm going to see if I can get something scheduled.  
• My gestational diabetes test will need to be done between April 17 and 26
• I need to stop baby aspirin at 36 weeks
• We are going to schedule my c-section for 7/16 but if I go into labor early it will happen then
• For the awful smell during my c-section (think burning skin, ewww!) I can put essential oil under my nose and with the oxygen mask on it should be about all I can smell
• Unless K is sick she can absolutely come to the hospital no matter if there is still flu flying around or not

Hard to believe I'm less than a week away from third trimester!

Three Part Easter

Part I - Friday K had an egg hunt at school.  Each parent was suppose to bring in 12 eggs full of something without peanuts (allergies).  On the way home she was telling me all about the "sneaky, sneaky Easter bunny" and was busy picking out which egg in her bucket full of goodies  she would open.  Here she is making the final call:

Part II - Saturday morning we went to a local egg hunt for 1 & 2 year olds.  They could get free pics with the Easter bunny before the hunt but there was NO way she wanted to go near him.  Instead we sat by this tree and watched:

They spread snacks out in a really little area:

And it was pretty crowded during the hunt:

But she got another bucket of goodies and was happy:

After her nap that afternoon we dyed eggs.  Luckily we decided to do it in the driveway so we didn't care how much dye spilled.  It also let us play in the yard while letting the eggs sit in the dye because honestly, who has patience for that?  Not a almost 3 year old, I can tell you that =)

Part III - Sunday we hosted brunch for 11 (my parents, my brother and his girls, my in-laws and BIL).  It was a busy morning but so fun.  K got four Easter baskets in all and was loving it.  After brunch we had a hunt for her in the front yard.  She's the only little one in our family (cousins are much older) so she was the center of attention.  

I was her designated basket holder.

When we got inside she helped sort the dyed eggs out so they could go back in the refrigerator and got to pick out one of the plastic eggs to open.

After the hunt she wanted to change out of her dress and we played in the front blowing bubbles until nap time.

Whew, now that the photo bomb is over...we hope you all had a wonderful Easter!  And all I can say is today should be a day off work for recovery =)