Taken in front of Baby Grand in St. Paul
Phew, those Portland posts took me so long that my pregnancy update is a day late - I hope you all weren't TOO upset ;) As of today, there are 100 days til my due date!
The BIG news this week is that I don't have gestational diabetes!!!!!! I had my checkup on Friday - now I'm up 16 pounds, blood pressure was low, and baby's heartbeat was at 145. She also kicked the doppler and the midwife a few times :) Before my checkup I had to chug the orange drink (which wasn't bad at all), and then after the appointment wait until an hour had passed to get my blood drawn. For some reason I was pretty nervous - mostly because I did NOT want to have to take the 3 hour test! Just not eating until after this appointment (done at 9:45am) was hard enough for me... I got a call later in the day saying I passed both tests - the glucose tolerance test, and the one that tells if I'm anemic - yay!! I celebrated by having one of those cookies with the thick icing that are filled with preservatives and stay soft for like a year. Awesome :)
In other pregnancy news, I am just starting to see the faint beginnings of a linea negra (the dark line that goes down the middle of the belly). My mom had this (but no stretch marks!) so I suspect I will too. My belly button is also about ready to flatten and then come out, which kind of grosses me out but I guess that's just the way it goes. While at Hot Mama (where they have $70 t shirts and $180 maternity jeans) my sister pointed out this product to me - frightening.
When my mom came over this weekend, she brought my baby book - we already have Ben's, so I took pics of a few of the photos in there (we don't have a scanner) to try to see what our baby will look like :) Here are a few - I think we actually look kind of similar as babies, so probably a good chance our baby will look kind of like this as well - we shall see!
Erin about a day old
Ben, probably about an hour old :)
Erin a few weeks old
Erin at 4 months
Ben a few months old
The BIG news this week is that I don't have gestational diabetes!!!!!! I had my checkup on Friday - now I'm up 16 pounds, blood pressure was low, and baby's heartbeat was at 145. She also kicked the doppler and the midwife a few times :) Before my checkup I had to chug the orange drink (which wasn't bad at all), and then after the appointment wait until an hour had passed to get my blood drawn. For some reason I was pretty nervous - mostly because I did NOT want to have to take the 3 hour test! Just not eating until after this appointment (done at 9:45am) was hard enough for me... I got a call later in the day saying I passed both tests - the glucose tolerance test, and the one that tells if I'm anemic - yay!! I celebrated by having one of those cookies with the thick icing that are filled with preservatives and stay soft for like a year. Awesome :)
In other pregnancy news, I am just starting to see the faint beginnings of a linea negra (the dark line that goes down the middle of the belly). My mom had this (but no stretch marks!) so I suspect I will too. My belly button is also about ready to flatten and then come out, which kind of grosses me out but I guess that's just the way it goes. While at Hot Mama (where they have $70 t shirts and $180 maternity jeans) my sister pointed out this product to me - frightening.
When my mom came over this weekend, she brought my baby book - we already have Ben's, so I took pics of a few of the photos in there (we don't have a scanner) to try to see what our baby will look like :) Here are a few - I think we actually look kind of similar as babies, so probably a good chance our baby will look kind of like this as well - we shall see!
Erin about a day old
Ben, probably about an hour old :)
Erin a few weeks old
Erin at 4 months
Ben a few months old
1 comments:
Love, love, love these pictures!
Congrats on no GD and realizing that so many things are seriously ridiculously priced {just like wedding planning!}
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