Glucose test--coming up!

These days, every pregnant woman has to have a glucose test between weeks 24 and 28. The test will help determine if I have gestational diabetes (a fear I've had since the beginning, for some unknown reason!)

My glucose test will be this Wednesday, February 2nd.

I will have to get up at 7:30, drink a 10oz bottle of, well, sugar (it's called Glucose 50 because it has 50 grams of SUGAR!). We have an appointment at 8:30 for me to get blood drawn....the blood needs to be drawn exactly an hour after I finish the drink. Oh, and I have to drink the whole drink within 5 minutes, start to finish! That is a LOT of sugar all at once and SO concentrated! I've read that a lot of people just crash after the glucose test because the spike is so intense so the crash is even more intense than a normal sugar crash!

I have made sure I have nothing else planned for the majority of the day, just incase.

We DO, however, have another appointment at 9:30 for another ultra sound, just to see how the 'lil dude is doing. (We opted out of genetic testing, so the doctor wants to take another look at him just to see how his development is coming along---I'm very anxious for this appointment, so Wednesday morning can't come soon enough!)

Not so big...

Way back in September I took Ramsey to the vet for some routine work and a physical. When I left, I made an appointment for about 5 months later (which will be today). Back then I was worried about how I would get Ramsey to the vet because when it's just me and him, he sits on my lap while I drive. I thought that, at 6.5 months pregnant I'd be too big to fit him and myself into the driver's side of the car. It's so strange to think that I thought I would be that big...I'm not even close to being too big for this car ride with him!

I'm sure I'll look back at this post later and wish I was still as small as my 27 week self...so I'll try to enjoy my comfort while I can!

Working out

One of my biggest challenges during this pregnancy has been working out on a consistent basis. It's really hard to tell if I really wasn't up to it or if I was using the "I can't, I'm pregnant" excuse. I'd like to believe it's mostly the former, but I'm sure the latter snuck in as well!

With that said, I'm still trying to keep myself in shape and active. I don't expect that working out now will allow me to wear pre-pregnancy clothes out of the hospital (hahahahaha!), but I do hope that it will help me feel better and possibly have a more comfortable recovery (?).

Last week was a really good week for me though :) On Monday I did my prenatal yoga (LOVE it!), then on Thursday I went to the gym and did a little cardio and then a light weights class (way harder than it looks and sounds), I went for a walk on Friday and then on Saturday I went to the cardio circuit class at Linda's studio AND I stayed for kickboxing! I have not done kickboxing for MONTHS (since well before I was pregnant). I was tired later on on Saturday, but I felt great while I was doing it!

I have a plan to do yoga on Mondays, the gym class on Thursdays and Linda's studio on Saturdays....and I hope to have the weather continue to improve so I can add a walk in a couple of times a week as well.

The funny thing about my plan is that, as of TODAY, I'm in my 3rd trimester! From what I've heard and read, this is the part of pregnancy when I will feel the biggest, most tired and most uncomfortable....I'm hoping that will hold off for a few weeks at least so I can keep working out a bit :) I'll keep you posted!

Symptoms?

Here is a little list of symptoms I've expected to have at this point but have not yet experienced...

-vomiting along with my early nausea
-loss of balance (although that may still come as I get bigger)
-stretch marks (thank you Mommy and Mommom!)
-skin discoloration (although I heard there is more of that with darker skin than lighter skin)
-joint pain (again, this may increase as my belly size increases!)
-awful moodiness (sure, I've had a few moments, but I expected to be super emotional...so far, so good!)
-bleeding gums


I sure hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot by posting this...I'll let you know if I get any of these as the pregnancy progresses!

25 Weeks 1 Day

January 18, 2010

(Not my most model moment, but just focus on the belly!)

Nursery

After looking LONG and HARD, Cameron and I finally found our nursery furniture! (We found it a while ago...I've clearly been slacking on the posts!).

We found the crib and dresser set at a local store in Apex called Green Pea Baby (we went there over Thanksgiving 2009 when my parents, Ben, Amy and Jack were here). The set is an espresso color, which we think will look really nice in the room and work well for a boy (or a girl in the future). We chose a crib that will convert to a toddler bed and a full size bed later! We may not use the toddler bed but it's great that we can convert it if we want to!

We ALSO found an AMAZING glider from Green Pea Baby too. This chair is incredible! It's large enough to cuddle up in and, in the future, it will have enough space for a mommy or a daddy and a little kid. I can already imagine reading to our little boy in this chair when he's not a baby anymore. Another benefit of this chair is that it is comfortable and soft, but not so soft that you sink all the way into the chair and can never get up! We plan on/expect to spend a lot of time in this chair, so we are really looking forward to this chair.

Another piece of the puzzle that we were having trouble finding was bedding....but we found that too! We didn't want a theme at first, but then we realized that using a color and dots/circles as a theme would box us in too much. Once we thought about having a theme, Cameron remembered that Pottery Barn Kids had some great options. We chose Eli's Elephant....and we LOOOOOVE it!!! Now I see elephants all over and I love them! :)

We also had the nursery painted on Friday! We had a chair rail installed (using the same company who added the wainscoting and painting in other areas of our house). We chose a darker green for below the chair rail and a lighter green above. It looks very good....not TOO baby but it's still clearly a nursery/kid's room.

We will share pictures once we have more than just the paint and bedding in our house! All three pieces of furniture are going to be delivered together....hopefully in the next 3 weeks or less!!!

Funny Student Stories #3

I was asked yesterday, "So, 2 or 3 more days until your baby Mrs. Moccari?" (This is a very smart girl, so I told her it was actually 17 more weeks, so then we worked on calculting how many more months).

Name suggestions from yesterday:
-Steven/Stephen (they didn't spell it for me)
-A.J. (not short for anything, just A.J.)
-Pinny (who knows?!)

"Mrs. Moccari, you still look kind of the same as before." (Then I took off my jacket). "Oh, I guess not really."

Prenatal Yoga

My friend and coworker, Joanna, teaches a few yoga classes...including a prenatal yoga class! I took my very first class last night and (thanks in part to the great yoga mat I got for Christmas from Santa Flannery), it went pretty well. I have a long way to go to be able to say that I "do" yoga, but it's a start. My muscles are not used to be used in a yoga way...more of a strength training way, so I need to do some retraining. And even though I have hardly been working out these past 23 weeks, I still have muscles, which sometimes get in the way of some yoga poses! Who knew?!

My class is on Mondays from 5:30-6:30, so it's a nice way to start the week. There were only three other women in the class---one at 18 weeks, me at 23 weeks, one at 26 weeks and another at 32 weeks. Joanna said that she gets a wide range from pretty much 18-40 weeks. It's a drop-in class, so there may be more or less women there next week.

I like this yoga class because in addition to being some exercise (it's very gentle though, so it's not as if I'm burning 100s of calories!), it's helping to get my body ready for labor and delivery, which I think is pretty cool. Joanna has been through yoga training (of course) and child birth, so she knows and understands how what she is having us do will aid us later when it's time to have the baby!

My plan is to keep going as long as I have the energy...which I'm hoping will be up until the end (or close to it). So, I have 15 or 16 more Mondays.....(kinda weird...).

Happy New Year!!!

We have a very exciting year ahead of us! Happy New Year to everyone!

22 weeks, 2 days (12.29.10)

22 weeks 2 days (December 29, 2010)

Update

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted. I had a pretty busy time during the last week of school before break...report cards, fun Polar Express day, and keeping the kids somewhat focused when all they could think about was Santa Claus! I was pretty focused on school and getting to December 22nd!

On the 22nd Cameron and I made our way to Chicago for a wonderful Christmas with the family. I hardly even got on the computer while I was in Chicago!!!

I have also not updated because I couldn't think of much to write about! This pregnancy is going SO well, I'm convinced that I will just have to have a terrible labor or something, to make up for how things are going now! (Hopefully not, but I can't believe how few issues I'm having!)

So far I still look pretty "normal" from the back, am enjoying the 2nd trimester and I don't have stretch marks! I Am trying to get back to the gym more while I still can (and I'm not too tired). I'm hoping to get a bit more tone back after my lack of working out during the whole first trimester! I'm not being too hard on myself though :)

(Sorry for the randomness of this post!)