27weeks3days

Not-so-smoothly sailing into the third trimester...met some new challenges pretty much the day it started. For starters, I failed my one hour glucose test. Granted, I saw that coming because I'm a dumbass who though spaghetti and french bread would make for a good dinner the night before, with non-diet root beer to go with it and a coffee with real sugar and yogurt for breakfast the morning of. Duh. So now I have to go in tomorrow morning at 8:30 for the three hour test...and this time I have to fast starting at midnight. The good news is that we have a chicken meal planned for dinner tonight! ;) I'm not TOO worried. I'm watching my carb intake today just to be safe, but I'm not going overboard.

So when running the labs on my blood for the GT, they saw that I was now anemic. Guess what? The day before they called to tell me that, I started feeling dizzy and nauseous 24/7, tired no matter what, and noticed that I had been sleeping for ten plus hours a night. Woot, anemia. So now I'm on SlowFE, and iron supplement, and it's slowly working its magic. Each day I'm feeling better, with less dizziness and nausea. What a relief!

We've also officially picked out hospital, Via Christi. It's five minutes down the road from the base and it has "Mother and Baby" suites with queen sized beds for after delivery. They offer up a birth plan chart online, so we'll be going over that today or tomorrow and on Saturday morning we'll be taking a tour of the Labor and Delivery center (The NewLife Center). I'm not going to lie, the fact that it's a Catholic hospital (despite any wisecracking from me previously) makes me feel much, much better.

I'm experiencing swelling, which is no bueno. I feel like my hands are pudgy, and they are never ever pudgy! Adding to that, my circulation is officially shot. My left hand falls asleep pretty much every ten minutes or so and my feet go pretty quickly the moment I raise them in a seated position. Not fun. I'm going to mention it to Dr. Breit at our next appointment (next week!)...I'm at the point where I have appointments every two weeks! Whoa nelly.

OH! Before I forget! We have outside movement! Eric can feel the baby all the time now :) It was such an exciting thing, and it still blows my mind. I can feel his little fists/feet pushing up against me and rolling around...sometimes it's kinda creepy, but for the most part I love it :)

How far along? 27 weeks and 3 days
Total weight gain/loss: My arms look super pudgy to me lately, but the rest of me doesn't seem to be getting much bigger...other than my belly, obviously.
Maternity clothes? I still love my sweatpants
Sleep: nightmares. Everything is getting vivid. Dreamt my dad died, dreamt a baby in my care (but not my own) died from some freak natural cause and was brought back to life by eric...I miss the funny vivid dreams from the first two trimesters. These are scary a lot of the time.
Best moment this week: Shaping the Snoogle into a donut shape last night, and using it to lay on my tummy! I love laying on my tummy and playing on the laptop.
Movement: holy shnikies.
Food cravings: peanut butter and jelly
Gender: snakes and snails and puppydog tails
What I miss: having a full range of motion. Belly is officially hindering my leg movement.
What I am looking forward to: touring the hospital!
Weekly Wisdom: husband hugs make everything all better
Milestones: outside movement!