Welp, i'm in the "home stretch" now, 28 weeks (and 4 days) aka the 3rd (and final) trimester!! Remember last post when I said things were starting to feel very very real? Add about 20 'verys' to that!! We have so much left to do and only about 12 weeks left to do it!! Aside from some clothes and the cloth diaper stash, we don't have anything ready and it's killing me that I can't do anything to prepare! I'm trying to wait until after the baby shower, which will be in a few weeks, before I start 'nesting' and buying more stuff..but I want to have her room and everything ready NOW! So in the mean time, I started working on a baby book/scrapbook for her!
Last week we had another ultrasound to check on her. We hadn't planned on another one unless something needed to be checked on as we approached her arrival, but on Monday I was walking out of my parents house and my foot rolled off the sidewalk. I was able to catch myself and didn't fall on or hit my stomach on anything, but I still called Becca (our midwife) just to let her know what happened. She told me to drink somw juice (to sugar Lennon up a bit ) and count Lennon's movements for 20 mins after I was done with the juice. Of course, my little tap dancer did not want to move when we needed her to (stubborn, just like her mama) so to double check to make sure she was doing okay, Becca ordered an ultrasound ASAP, which was the next morning. By that morning Lennon was moving a ton, but I decided to go to the ultrasound, just to be sure...and to see my baby girl! Everything was fine, as we had suspected it would be and our baby girl had gotten so big since the last time I got to see her! The tech said she was measuring at 28w1d (I was 27w3d at the time), and weighed around 2lbs 10oz.. so according to the ultrasound, she's a big girl already (like we're at all surprised) However, ultrasound measurements can be off by quite a bit, so i'm not too terribly concearned ! Speaking of 'girl', she was also more than happy to let us see that she is for sure a girl... she definitely was not shy like last time!! By far the best parts of the ultrasound was seeing her yawn a few times (seriously, it was adorable) and getting so see what looks to be the cutest and most kissable little lips ever..(I may also be a little bias here! ) The pic on the left is her full face and the pic on the right is the lower half (lips and nose) of her perfect little face that I just can't wait to see!
Also,she has become quite the wild child in utero! She's active most of the day and pretty much all night! The other day I decided to do a "kick count" during a particularly active time. 16 kicks in just 5 mins!
And she def didn't stop after 5 mins, she kicked and punched for probably the next 30 mins! I just love feeling her move, at least for now since she's not quite kicking my ribs yet!
Yesterday I had my 28 week check-up, Lennon is doing great and growing like she should. Becca felt for her position and she is already head down, so i'm hoping she stays that way and her heart rate was in her normal range at 150. She was also being pretty active during the appt (i'm sure partly due to the glucose drink that I had to drink for the glucose test) and as usual was kicking and squirming while the midwives were checking her heart rate, Becca commented that she is already very "social", which i'm hoping is a trait she'll keep after she's born. I'm sure she'll also be hardheaded and very opinionated , just like me and her Nena. Also like I mentioned, I took my glucose tolerance test at my appt yesterday. The drink was pretty nasty, much worse at the end when I had to chug it to get in down in the 5 mins allowed to drink it. I'm really nervous about getting the results back, since PCOS puts you at a much higher risk for gestational diabetes and I know that I haven't been eating as quite good as I should be. I should hopefully find out in the next day or two what the results are.
So that's about it for now. Well except to update my 'stats':
How far along? 28w4d
How big is baby? About the size of a large eggplant.
How I'm feeling? Nervous, excited, anxious.
Weight Gain? Up about 3lbs from my last appt (right on target!) which makes a total of about 11lbs so far.
How I'm changing? Still just looking pregnant-er by the day.
Symptoms: Heartburn and just starting to get generally uncomfortable. But nothing too bad!
Highlights from the past few weeks: Getting to see her during the ultrasound, even though it was not planned or under the best of circumstances, and of course finding out everything was okay! Also, me check up yesterday with Becca, I always look foward to my appointments.
Oh and I almost forgot the bump pic:
now.. that's all!
