It has been far too long since I have written and then actually posted what I wrote. I get half thoughts on a draft and then give up. Life and this pregnancy have me asking so many questions. The first and most important is when will she be here? I am so ready to have a baby to take care of instead of my pregnancy induced issues to take care of. I'm currently still going to PT twice a week. I have been getting help with my pelvic pain. Mostly in the pubic symphysis area. It seems as though its stemming from my SI joint being tight/locked up. So we do exercises and some massage on my lower back each time. And then I have been able to mix in getting help with my carpal tunnel (that has only been around since pregnancy) and plantar fasciitis that just flared up this week. I have assigned weekly exercises for each thing. I am better at doing the stretches than anything, but I struggle with moving enough so it is all a big catch 22. I know my weight is an issue, but I did lose weight before I got pregnant. Just not as much as I would've liked. I have been trying really hard to stay on top of things with the Gestational Diabetes I have going on too. I have been dealing with that since the beginning of October. I started out just taking my blood sugars 4 times a day. Then after a couple weeks of just watching what I eat and taking sugars they wouldn't be controlled with just diet, so I started taking a nighttime insulin. Long acting one (Levemir) in a pen form. I'm pretty sure I have had to increase the dosage every week since starting it. Somewhere along the way they added in Humalog as well with each meal. And then of course I've been increasing dosing with that each week as well. I was informed that I will probably have to continue the course for 6 weeks as I wean myself off of insulin after baby is born too. I had gotten my hopes up that I could quit cold turkey. Darn. No can do. I'm still holding out for a December 26th induction if she doesn't come on her own before then. Everything being so hard to control is just wearing on me mentally. I have also been going in to the doctors office twice a week to get NST's (non stress tests) They basically just hook me up to a couple monitors. They are checking to see if I am having contractions with one band and then with the other band on my belly they are trying to hear the baby's heartbeat for a continued amount of time. It needs to be continually having the ups and downs. She moves so much it's hard to get usually. Which is a good sign in and of itself. On this last tuesday they couldn't get a sufficient NST and so they had me walk over to another room and do a BPP. (biophysical profile ultrasound) Basically they took some measurements of her diaphram moving and heart beating and then checked the cord pulse as well. No measurements with how big she was at that point though. I should've asked why we didn't check that. I think the most surprising thing from my visits is that my blood pressure was low for me. 108/58 isn't too low, but it felt weird for me to hear someone tell me that it was my blood pressure. I guess I have been avoiding salt and eating less and its been mostly good foods, sooo I'm being healthier and I'm on blood pressure medication. Other than the aches and pains of a body growing to hold a child I guess I'm doing alright. My hormones must be messing with my head though. It's all just mental toughness for me right now. I want to be able to go and do things but my body is in pain. And I know I've been extra cranky. I will say its a love hate relationship with feeling so many kicks and movements from the baby. I am glad that I get to go in and hear the heartbeat so much. If anything were to come up I feel like we would catch it quickly. I know they want her to keep inside for the longest time possible, but also they worry about having too big of a baby with a mom having GD. They haven't really ever sounded worried, its all routine, but I know you have to be really objective when talking to patients.
Sooo that is my personal pregnancy related health junk. I am going to get some maternity photos done this coming week. That should be fun....I hope. I didn't do it with little Brett's pregnancy and I think I would regret it if I didn't do it at least once. Who knows if I will have another too.
Today is thanksgiving. Brett just finished a run and is soaking now. I guess we are going to go spend time with his family and then see what else the day has in store for us. I want to make a veggie / cheese/ cracker tray to share. I was just going to work on it when I got to Grandma's house. We will see how that goes. We are brining thanksgiving candy corn to share as well. I also told lil B I would make a cookie dough dip for animal crackers. Allll sorts of stuff I can't eat myself. I need to definitely not forget my insulin pens today. That would be bad.
I guess I didn't up date on any of the other stuff that went down in the last month. My parents came to visit. It was nice to have them around for a week. We still had pretty good weather outside. We worked on starting to get the kids room ready for the baby. My dad helped fix a few things in the bathroom that needed work and he cleaned out our garage. We took a few loads of things to the dump. That might have been my favorite part. YAY...we got rid of so much stuff. We went out to eat a couple times and did a little bit of shopping. We wanted to decorate for christmas while they were here, but thankfully we didn't pull any of that stuff out. Too many big jobs happening all at once. My mom and sister helped throw a baby shower that first weekend in November. We had a pretty good turn out of people in and out. I'm glad it wasn't a whole houseload of people for too long. Made me feel better and safer that we weren't spreading too many germs and socializing too much.
We actually got out the christmas stuff a couple days ago and its a long process since I'm not helping much. Brett got us a new tree from someone online. We love the idea that it is prelit. we will see how it turns out. Perhaps we will decorate it on saturday of this week.
Little Brett is so excited to turn 5 this year. I can't wait to give him all the stuff we got him for his bday. I think he will be pretty excited.
Brett is basically done on campus now. That is crazy. They have a few finals that will be online, but he will be graduating in a virtual ceremony in a couple weeks. I have no idea of the details yet or I would post them. Maybe I will do that later. We have some Christmas cards that we will be sending out that have his graduation photos on them as well. It would've been nice to combine a new baby announcement with it, but that would be a lot to just wait and do them all together, so I said, baby gets her own announcement when the time comes. Maybe we will just take pictures when she gets blessed and then send those out. ohhh that is a big part of what I had my mom do while she was here. She cut my wedding dress all up to make a baby blessing dress out of it. I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out. We spent maybe $75 6 years ago on that dress so its kind of fun to see it get repurposed into a blessing dress for my little girl. And in case you are wondering, no we have no name yet. We sometimes refer to her as the "one who has no name" haha She won't leave the hospital/birthing center without a name though. Only time will tell what name hits us to use that day.
If you stuck around this long....I'm impressed.
Only a few more weeks until christmas and the baby and 2020 is officially over. Bring on 2021.
