I had my 30 week ob appt today! The nurse was a little flippant w/ me when she weighed me, based on their scale, the same one I was on 2 weeks ago, I’ve lost 4 lbs in two weeks! Heck I might stick w/ this diet post pregnancy w/ those weight loss results! With caleb at this point I dont think I was losing that much that quickly, I was starting to gain weight again at this point. but not w/ this kiddo, I’m the same weight today that I was when I found out I was pregnant in March! that’s freaking nuts! I got a little smart w/ the nurse who was kind of on my case about it, I told her it’s not like I dont look like I”m getting fat. I could see if I had no visible baby belly or something but this child is growing despite my weight loss. Heck my belly looks as big now as it did when I delivered Caleb and I weighed 17 more lbs than I do right now when I delivered Caleb, that makes no sense to me! The doctor wasnt nearly as concerned w/ the weight loss just said lets try to keep it from happening again, like I”m not eating. heck I feel like on this dumb diabetic diet I eat more than I did before, no, I KNOW I eat more now. I eat 3 meals and 3 snacks now, before the diet I barely at 2 meals and maybe 2 snacks.
They did an internal check today, sorry for TMI for you guys out there, but I was having a lot of cramps and pressure so they checked and everything is fine. She marked on my chart that I have a warning for pre term labor due to my symptoms and the spotting I”ve had w/ in the last month. She said to cut out the pelvic activity, you can figure out what that means, doctors orders I dont think I’ll be too ready to follow anytime soon. and it’s not like she was truly worried about labor so I think maybe we’ll see how that one goes. She said next time it happens to drink water and lay down and if it doesnt go away to call, nothing I didnt already know.
as long as I keep my sugar levels in check w/ diet I wont be getting weekly ultrasounds like I did w/ Caleb, I’m almost disappointed about that. Starting at about 32 weeks w/ caleb I had weekly u/s to check on the baby since I was on diabetes meds and my diet wasnt working, this time so far since my sugars are ok they are going to wait it out, she said maybe 36 weeks I’ll get one which is silly since I”ll be delivering 2 weeks after that, but I will be glad to at least get one more u/s before Baby B arrives. I feel very out of sorts with my doctors right now, things are so different than they were w/ Caleb and it’s good that I’m not having as many problems, I just seem to be having different problems than I did w/ the first pregnancy. I know every pregnancy is different but I didnt realzie how different they would be. I am grateful though that overall things are doing well and my blood pressure is under control as are my sugar levels right now! So things are good and looking up. Now if I could just manage to get a good nights sleep and be able to do some housework w/ out cramping all the time I’d be good to go! I was dumb enough to scrub the floors this afternoon, after all she said pelvic rest, thats not the same as bedrest but I guess I should have asked more in detail what that means since now I”m all achy and crampy again! Sometimes I wonder if this kid is going to stay in there another 8 weeks, I never worried about that w/ Caleb. but the dr said it’s normal for more problems like this in a 2nd or later pregnancy becuase we get less rest and have more to take care of w/ the other child(ren). Not to mention she said the cramps and contrax get more painful in subsequent pregnancies too, the things they dont tell you when you go to the dr and discuss wanting to start trying to get pregnant again!
enough pregnancy babble for today, off to do more housework. I’m looking forward to visiting w/ my brother and his family this weekend. I havent seen their new baby in a while and I need a baby fix!! and yeah, it’ll be nice to see the rest of them too!
