Tuesday, December 05, 2006

26 week check up

My sinuses are bugging the crap out of me. I love waking up in the morning to bloody noses. Horray for pregnancy! I mostly feel like crap..but ya know, it's to be expected.
I had a doctor's appointment today (I have one about every 2 weeks..if you haven't noticed). I bombarded her with questions..but it's okay she loves me and thinks my son is awesomely well behaved. They found bacteria of sorts in my 24 hour urine collection..I forget what she called it..but it was less than 10,000..so she said it's not really a big deal..they'll just be putting me on antibiotics when I go into labor so I don't pass it onto the kiddo. She also said they may be putting me on bed rest at the 30 week mark..and no sex after that point either..to which I looked at Orion and said "well..looks like no sex before you deploy" and he looked broken hearted and then she added..wellllll we might be able to if he uses condoms (which we've obviously never used a day in our lives together..but the man wants lovings..so you know he'll do anything for it. haha). She was talking about all kinds of tests they're planning on doing on me in the upcoming weeks..and she seemed to get super excited about one of them because "it's so neat". Hmm. I asked her if I'm high risk or something because ya know..I'm in there every 2 weeks or so..to which she replied no..they're just keeping an extra close eye on my blood pressure..which was actually fantastically awesome today (117/63)..and I told her it was because they were playing Christmas music in the room. She kinda laughed..I was serious. I "get" to do another hour glucose test in 2 weeks before I go in to be seen (woo! michelle will be here for that one! how *fun* for her! hahaha). I gained 3 pounds over the last 2 weeks..and I was kinda bummed about that..but I mean..come on..with Thanksgiving and all of that she said it wasn't bad at all and that she gained 2 and isn't even pregnant. She said not to worry because my weight gain has been great this entire pregnancy (dude..I know! heheh I'm so proud!).
I told her about how the baby finally moved away from my left side and has been doing like flips..and that last night, I could feel his butt from the outside of my belly. It's something I never got to experience with Calix..probably because I didn't know what was going on. She caught a heart acceleration while listening to the heart beat..and I have no idea what that means but she acted like it was neat so..hey, I guess it's neat. I get to do a movement count or something in about 2 weeks to see how long it takes for the kiddo to do 10 movements (I can tell ya right now..it's less than like 2 minutes). I never got to do that with Calix..so I'm kinda excited about that.
I asked her about well..because I've been told I'll have this one early because ya know..I have a history of it now..if she could maybe guess *how* early..or if there's any way to even guess (and after I asked it I was like..hey..that was dumb). She said they'll be looking out for the 32 week mark because that's when I went into labor with Calix..and said she wouldn't be surprised if I didn't last throughout the 35th week or something along those lines...but that I could also make it through the entire pregnancy. I guess we'll see.
Lots of information and technical terms were thrown my way today..so some of this might be a little off..but it's basically what I heard.

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