So we had our 28 week OB appt today, and all seems to be well. Here's whats happening:
- Had the glucose screen for gestational diabetes and will find out the results Friday. Did not think the syrupy drink was as bad as some make it out to be! Kinda tasted like flat orange soda, double strength tang, or melted orange popsicles. Although I was glad they let me have it cold, and didn't make me take in on an empty stomach like they do for some folks.
- Baby is head DOWN. Woo hoo! No guarantees she'll stay stay that way, but its a good start. That explains the constant heavy feeling on my bladder, too.
- The heartbeat was fine, and the doctor acknowledged yet again that she was moving around like crazy. Um, yes, that she is. All. The. Time.
- That leads us to another concern. Will she ever sleep when she comes out? Because right now it appears she is not. Really not at all. Very awake, all the time.
- Asked about the c-section rate for my OB's practice and the highness factor is slightly freaking me out. She stressed that it was under the national average (which is 25% I think?) but not by much. Egads. In the back of my mind I knew it would be up there, but hearing the actual number and her defending it was a little disconcerting. More on this soon, when I review a few books I've been reading and post about how our childbirth classes are going.
- So the leg cramps are back. 4 of them last night! I might have been dehydrated. I was having problems with them before but switching my vitamin taking to nighttime and adding a magnesium supplement had seemed to help a lot. Not last night, however. Ouch.
- Also pretty sure I have been having a few Braxton Hicks-ish cramps. Just a few, every once and awhile. Again could have been due to dehydration, though usually I am pretty good about that. It happened during a walk, and later the same night when she was doing her evening gymnastics routine (training for the Summer Olympics, 2024, though personally I'd prefer she choose another sport. Softball, swimming, or table tennis, perhaps?).
- Does "nesting" include thinking obsessively about moving furniture around the house? I have a huge list of things to be moved as I try to fit the new stuff in and reorganize the old. Lonnie is very good about humoring me, in time, but does not grasp the immediate importance of the situation. What do you mean you cannot move two dressers, a bookshelf, a table and a chair up (or down) our steep but tiny stairwell RIGHT NOW! Why on earth not?
Posted by Kimmer on February 16, 2006 at 04:50 PM PST #
Posted by Lisa on February 20, 2006 at 06:23 AM PST #