STATS:
29 weeks 3 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 150
Waist @ bellybutton: 39''
Issues: Baby likes to wedge his feet up in between my ribs.
How Big Is The Baby This Week? he weighs as much as a butternut squash.
Kash had his first set of hiccups over the weekend. They were very rhythmical pulsations in the same spot, but they were much faster than I thought they would be, so at first TJ and I were a little freaked out. I guess I expected them to be more like our hiccups, with more of a pause in between each one, but these were quickly one after another. Though after I thought about, it seemed normal that they would be that fast, since their heartbeat is faster than ours too. They went on for quite a long time, and just when I thought he was done, they'd start back up again. But hiccups are a good sign, so I didn't mind. It means he has begun to practice swallowing the amniotic fluid in order to get his body ready for the outside world.
I had another doctor's appointment this week, I told her about all my "issues" and she gave me a prescription for a muscle relaxer to help my back and to help me sleep better (I just now started having difficulty getting a good night's rest). She said I need to keep something on my feet at all times while I'm standing on them, whether it be shoes or slippers, just so that the bottoms have extra cushion, they are after all carrying around 22 extra pounds. She said that should keep them from hurting me like they did when I cleaned the house last week. However, she said there's not much I can do about my rib pain, they're being stretched apart, so it's just going to hurt. She listened to the baby's heart on the doppler again, everything sounds fine. And she repeated what the ultrasound doctor had told me, that the brain spec has resolved itself and no worries are necessary. She also said that Kash is currently measuring in the 62nd percentile for his growth, which she said is about average. So all looks good!
Oh, and the dermatologist gave me the results of the mole they removed a few weeks ago, it is atypical, which means the cells have begun to change, so they want to take more of the surrounding skin out. Its not cancer or anything like that, they just like to be safe and take the precaution of making sure they get all the affected skin. And the procedure to take care of it is safe for the baby, so no problems there, just another scar to add my canvas.
"Here I Am!"
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
28 weeks
STATS:
28 weeks 3 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 145
Waist @ bellybutton: 38.25''
Issues: Too many to count...
How Big Is The Baby This Week? as heavy as a chinese cabbage, about 2.25 pounds.
This week's post is just going to be filled with complaints, sorry.
#1) I decided to clean the bathrooms and the kitchen this weekend. I usually clean the entire house at one time, but since I've been pregnant I've had to break it in half, the bathrooms and the kitchen one weekend, the bedrooms and the living room the next. Well, looks like I'll have to split it up again because halfway through my cleaning my feet were killing me. It felt like I had been standing on them for 24 hours straight without moving at all. Wait, I don't think you're quite understanding, my feet were in so much pain it was like I had absolutely no fat or tissue on the bottom of them and my feet bones had been smashed up against rocks while I was carrying 400 extra pounds. The bottoms of them were throbbing, massaging and propping them up was not making them feel better. It took about 2 hours of resting them before I felt any relief at all.
#2) My back hurts. OK, I know I've mentioned this before, but compared to the other times my back was hurting, this weeks pain was excruciating. It seemed as though my lower back muscles were just exhausted, the pain would not stop nagging me. Laying down didn't really help, stretching wasn't providing any relief, I didn't know what to do. I ended up just going to bed, and after a few hours of laying there, the pain finally went away. Thank God.
#3) My ribs are killing me. Mostly while I'm sitting at my desk at work. It just feels like they're being smashed together or something, right underneath my boobs. I think that it's actually my ribs stretching apart, trying to make room for all the smooshed organs underneath them, and that's probably causing the surrounding tissue to be inflamed or irritated. And there's probably nothing I can do about it, but I will mention it to my doctor next week. It feels better if I'm standing up or if I stretch backwards, but I can't do that all day while I'm at work, so instead I'm in pain.
#4) I'm exhausted. Pregnant people really should not have to go to work. I CAN NOT get up in the morning, and then all day at work I practically have to staple my eyelids open. I just need to sleep.
#5) I think I continue to get sporadic cervix pain. Though it's hard to say that's what it is since I don't know where you would feel cervix pain or what it usually feels like, but it seems like the only logical explanation for it. It's pretty uncomfortable.
And I think that concludes my complaints for the week. I'm starting to get slightly worried though, I honestly don't think that there is any more space left in my abdomen for this baby to grow. If he gets any bigger I fear that I might explode or something. Seriously. I don't see how this is supposed to work.
Below is my latest belly pic...
28 weeks 3 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 145
Waist @ bellybutton: 38.25''
Issues: Too many to count...
How Big Is The Baby This Week? as heavy as a chinese cabbage, about 2.25 pounds.
This week's post is just going to be filled with complaints, sorry.
#1) I decided to clean the bathrooms and the kitchen this weekend. I usually clean the entire house at one time, but since I've been pregnant I've had to break it in half, the bathrooms and the kitchen one weekend, the bedrooms and the living room the next. Well, looks like I'll have to split it up again because halfway through my cleaning my feet were killing me. It felt like I had been standing on them for 24 hours straight without moving at all. Wait, I don't think you're quite understanding, my feet were in so much pain it was like I had absolutely no fat or tissue on the bottom of them and my feet bones had been smashed up against rocks while I was carrying 400 extra pounds. The bottoms of them were throbbing, massaging and propping them up was not making them feel better. It took about 2 hours of resting them before I felt any relief at all.
#2) My back hurts. OK, I know I've mentioned this before, but compared to the other times my back was hurting, this weeks pain was excruciating. It seemed as though my lower back muscles were just exhausted, the pain would not stop nagging me. Laying down didn't really help, stretching wasn't providing any relief, I didn't know what to do. I ended up just going to bed, and after a few hours of laying there, the pain finally went away. Thank God.
#3) My ribs are killing me. Mostly while I'm sitting at my desk at work. It just feels like they're being smashed together or something, right underneath my boobs. I think that it's actually my ribs stretching apart, trying to make room for all the smooshed organs underneath them, and that's probably causing the surrounding tissue to be inflamed or irritated. And there's probably nothing I can do about it, but I will mention it to my doctor next week. It feels better if I'm standing up or if I stretch backwards, but I can't do that all day while I'm at work, so instead I'm in pain.
#4) I'm exhausted. Pregnant people really should not have to go to work. I CAN NOT get up in the morning, and then all day at work I practically have to staple my eyelids open. I just need to sleep.
#5) I think I continue to get sporadic cervix pain. Though it's hard to say that's what it is since I don't know where you would feel cervix pain or what it usually feels like, but it seems like the only logical explanation for it. It's pretty uncomfortable.
And I think that concludes my complaints for the week. I'm starting to get slightly worried though, I honestly don't think that there is any more space left in my abdomen for this baby to grow. If he gets any bigger I fear that I might explode or something. Seriously. I don't see how this is supposed to work.
Below is my latest belly pic...
Friday, May 16, 2008
27 weeks
STATS:
27 weeks 2 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 144
Waist @ bellybutton: 37.5''
Issues: I think I got my first taste of swollen feet last night. I had to park farther away from my college class than usual, and I think the cause could have been my long walk through the campus in the hot sun with a heavy ass backpack.
How Big Is The Baby This Week? about as heavy as a head of cauliflower (2 pounds).
So I had quite a few doctor's appointments this week. Tuesday I had my normal routine appointment with the OBGYN. Nothing very eventful happened. She asked me how I was feeling, checked the babies heartbeat on the doppler, and measured my uterus. All looked good. I asked her about my diastasis recti and told her about my concern regarding the muscles not fusing back together after the baby's born, and she said that a lot of the time they don't, and even with special exercises they may never go back the way they were. Not what I wanted to hear. But I have now graduated from monthly checkups to bi-weekly checkups, so I'll get to know that everything is still going OK every 2 weeks now.
On Wednesday I had a dermatologist appointment to get a mole checked out that developed a black spot in it. I know it's common for your skin to change during pregnancy, but I've had moles change on me before, and this one didn't look right. The doctor agreed, so I had to have it taken off. I'll find out if it's anything to worry about in about a week. I then asked the doctor if she could write me another prescription for my acne medications, since mine were expiring, she said "sure", and asked me which one's I was taking. I told her. She said "oh, you can't use that while you're pregnant". WHAT!? When I first found out I was pregnant I asked my normal doctor, my OBGYN, and my dermatologist if my acne medicines were still safe to use and they all said yes! That's great. Now I'm afraid I've given my baby an extra finger or something. Although it's unlikely that it did any harm, since the amount of medicine absorbed through my face isn't much, it still pisses me off.
And on Thursday I had another ultrasound to look at Kash's brain again. Did I mention how hot those rooms are? They're freakin hot. The tech spent a lot of time looking at everything again. And the baby wouldn't quit shaking his head so I'm sure that didn't aid in the process. She gave me some pictures, but I've come to find out that the ultrasound techs give really crappy pictures. She gave me two profiles that are kinda grainy, and then she gave me two pictures of the back of his neck. Why the hell would I want a picture of the back his neck? Then the doctor came in to do a quick check herself. She explained that the reason I was asked back was because (just as I had suspected) during the last visit she had confused the sides of his brain and which had the spot on it originally. She just wanted to do a double check. And she basically said the same thing as the previous two visits, that's it's really nothing to worry about, and that it has practically resolved itself. The she gave me a few pictures, 2 more (better) profiles, and one of him looking directly at the camera. That one is kinda creepy cause he just looks like a skeleton, you can see his teeth and his nose bone and his eye sockets. TJ had a hard time making anything out, so don't feel bad if you can't see it either. His head is tilted to your right, if that helps. And TJ swears that he has my lips by looking at this profile, I think we'll have to wait and see...
27 weeks 2 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 144
Waist @ bellybutton: 37.5''
Issues: I think I got my first taste of swollen feet last night. I had to park farther away from my college class than usual, and I think the cause could have been my long walk through the campus in the hot sun with a heavy ass backpack.
How Big Is The Baby This Week? about as heavy as a head of cauliflower (2 pounds).
So I had quite a few doctor's appointments this week. Tuesday I had my normal routine appointment with the OBGYN. Nothing very eventful happened. She asked me how I was feeling, checked the babies heartbeat on the doppler, and measured my uterus. All looked good. I asked her about my diastasis recti and told her about my concern regarding the muscles not fusing back together after the baby's born, and she said that a lot of the time they don't, and even with special exercises they may never go back the way they were. Not what I wanted to hear. But I have now graduated from monthly checkups to bi-weekly checkups, so I'll get to know that everything is still going OK every 2 weeks now.
On Wednesday I had a dermatologist appointment to get a mole checked out that developed a black spot in it. I know it's common for your skin to change during pregnancy, but I've had moles change on me before, and this one didn't look right. The doctor agreed, so I had to have it taken off. I'll find out if it's anything to worry about in about a week. I then asked the doctor if she could write me another prescription for my acne medications, since mine were expiring, she said "sure", and asked me which one's I was taking. I told her. She said "oh, you can't use that while you're pregnant". WHAT!? When I first found out I was pregnant I asked my normal doctor, my OBGYN, and my dermatologist if my acne medicines were still safe to use and they all said yes! That's great. Now I'm afraid I've given my baby an extra finger or something. Although it's unlikely that it did any harm, since the amount of medicine absorbed through my face isn't much, it still pisses me off.
And on Thursday I had another ultrasound to look at Kash's brain again. Did I mention how hot those rooms are? They're freakin hot. The tech spent a lot of time looking at everything again. And the baby wouldn't quit shaking his head so I'm sure that didn't aid in the process. She gave me some pictures, but I've come to find out that the ultrasound techs give really crappy pictures. She gave me two profiles that are kinda grainy, and then she gave me two pictures of the back of his neck. Why the hell would I want a picture of the back his neck? Then the doctor came in to do a quick check herself. She explained that the reason I was asked back was because (just as I had suspected) during the last visit she had confused the sides of his brain and which had the spot on it originally. She just wanted to do a double check. And she basically said the same thing as the previous two visits, that's it's really nothing to worry about, and that it has practically resolved itself. The she gave me a few pictures, 2 more (better) profiles, and one of him looking directly at the camera. That one is kinda creepy cause he just looks like a skeleton, you can see his teeth and his nose bone and his eye sockets. TJ had a hard time making anything out, so don't feel bad if you can't see it either. His head is tilted to your right, if that helps. And TJ swears that he has my lips by looking at this profile, I think we'll have to wait and see...
Friday, May 9, 2008
26 weeks
STATS:
26 weeks 5 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 143
Waist @ bellybutton: 37.25''
Issues: same ol' same ol', my back hurts.
How Big Is The Baby This Week? about the length of a cucumber, and he weighs over a pound and a half.
Well, the doctor called last weekend with the results of my gestational diabetes test, which was negative. However, it turns out that I have developed anemia. So, now I get to take 2 iron pills a day, along with some vitamin C. Add this to my prenatal vitamin, my omega 3 supplement, and my magnesium pill, and my daily pill regimen has gone from 2-3 a day to 5-6 a day. Oh joy.
The baby is getting stronger, his kicks are starting to hurt a little bit. I'm considering lowering my intake of milk (j/k). But it's weird, sometimes I'll see my stomach move from a kick or a punch, but I won't feel it from the inside. I'm not quite sure how that's possible?
Here are my latest pictures:
26 weeks 5 days
Starting weight: 128
Weight: 143
Waist @ bellybutton: 37.25''
Issues: same ol' same ol', my back hurts.
How Big Is The Baby This Week? about the length of a cucumber, and he weighs over a pound and a half.
Well, the doctor called last weekend with the results of my gestational diabetes test, which was negative. However, it turns out that I have developed anemia. So, now I get to take 2 iron pills a day, along with some vitamin C. Add this to my prenatal vitamin, my omega 3 supplement, and my magnesium pill, and my daily pill regimen has gone from 2-3 a day to 5-6 a day. Oh joy.
The baby is getting stronger, his kicks are starting to hurt a little bit. I'm considering lowering my intake of milk (j/k). But it's weird, sometimes I'll see my stomach move from a kick or a punch, but I won't feel it from the inside. I'm not quite sure how that's possible?
Here are my latest pictures:
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