Rocker/glider!!

We got our rocker/glider and ottoman yesterday!





It's more burgandy than the pictures let on. New belly pictures posted in the photo album.

BG has been lifting weights and trying using those new muscles to try to escape through my right side. No longer is it cute little kicks, now it's brutal blows and spaz attacks creating internal bruising. The carpal tunnel continues. Today it was so bad when I got up, I couldn't write period, my hand couldn't hold the pen. But only in my right hand. The left has only had one episode of tingling. I've resorted to wearing a brace pretty much constantly at work and most of the time not at work. My next doctor appointment is next Monday, the 8th.

I'm finishing up my last week of first call for the year. Have 2 days of second call next week before leaving for Courtney's wedding.

Oh yeah don't forget to enter your guesses on the BGer's stats! Link to the poll is on the right side tool bar under the photo album.

GD results

Woo Hoo, I passed the 3 hour glucose tolerance test! That means I don't have gestational diabetes. That was the good news for the day, just had to share.

New belly picture to be posted soon, it's getting huge! BG is awake more often now, moving around more frequently, and kicks are getting stronger. She's also starting to do this new stretching of legs thing putting her foot in my ribs.

Yesterday, I started to get this tingly/numb sensation in my right hand when I was charting during my case. Continued today too, more frequently now, and not just when I'm writing, but when I'm doing any fine motor activity. (Actuallly it's tingly and kinda numb now typing.) I'll definitely have to ask the doctor about it. Just think it's kinda odd to show up all the sudden.

EDIT: Looked it up, my hand numbness has a name. Pregnancy-related carpal tunnel syndrome caused by increased fluid retention. (Funny cause my right hand, which is going numb isn't swollen, but my left hand is.)

Okay so I finally got around to doing one of these.

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Update: Doctors appointment, GTT, 3D Ultrasound

CATCH UP:
7.30.08: Wednesday-BG was very active
7.31.08: Thursday was a quiet day.
8.1.08: BG came back with a vengence on Friday. Kicking like mad starting at 3am. Was still breech at this time so the kicks were to the pelvic region. Punches to the round ligament, jabs to the pelvic bone, and entire River Dance numbers on the cervix. Around 10am there was a huge summersault. About that time I was getting ready for work and I got the biggest punch to some internal organ ever! It hurt like mad. I instantly got tears in my eyes and screamed out loud. This internal organ fight continued most of the afternoon. Think BG fell asleep around 5pm during my case, but I was so sore all weekend.
8.2.08: Thankfully BG woke me up Saturday kicking me in the right side. WOO HOO no more breech. I figured it was just a momentary phase, but she seems to like it there for now. We got BG's dresser/changer. It's all set up and full of the expanding wardrobe. Here it is:


8.5.08: Had my usual every 4 week appointment (okay so maybe it was like 3 since my last one, I dunno I don't do the scheduling). This time I saw another new doctor Dr. Hershe. I was one of the last appointments for the day and had a bunch to do at this appointment. I had to take the glucose challenge test. This is where you drink a super sugary drink with a known amount of sugar, and then they draw your blood an hour later and check your glucose level. It's a test for gestational diabetes. At the same time they do a test called the Indirect Coombs test, which you have to have done before you can get your RhoGam shot. I had to go back to get the RhoGam shot the next day (Chris found out his blood type is A+) since they closed before I got back from the lab. But my blood pressure fine (for once), measurements were good, did the ultrasound to check the baby's position and BG is head down now--YAY! The doctor said it's "very unlikely" that the baby will turn breech at this point, which would be completely lovely considering the great pain I was in on Friday.

8.6.08: BG was kicking like mad when we were going to bed. Since the feet are on my right side, I was laying on my left so Chris could feel the kicks. BG didn't let up, so I took the opportunity to poke around and try to see if I could tell if it was a knee, leg, heel, whole foot... I definitely found a foot. It was so cool. A little over an inch and a quarter or so long. BG held it up against my belly between my two fingers just long enough for me to figure out what it was.

8.9.08: Today was super busy! I failed my glucose screening test (by 5 points), so today I had to take the 3 hour Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT). Here's what the test consisted of:
*No food/drink after 8pm. Water is okay. Not too hard, but I really wanted something to eat this morning after waking up at 5:30am.
*Arrive at 7am when the lab opens (okay earlier if you want to be registered and start the test ASAP), so I got there at 6:45 and so glad I did. By 7 the place was standing room only!
*Fasting blood draw (RESULTS: baseline of 81 fasting.)
*100g sugar drink. Don't know what the one before it was, but I think it was 50g. But this one was fruit punch flavored.
*Wander around the hospital for a while. BG was freaking out jumping and spazzing all over the place. Little kick here, head butt there, knee to mom's arm...
*Played mario party on my nintendo ds. Thank goodness I brought that thing. I would have died from boredom!
*1 hour blood draw (RESULTS: 141)
*Texted Chris and my mom multiple times. Kept getting these little throw up burps of fruit punch. Ugh, I hate that! Discovered that Kaiser has wireless internet available on the hospital/clinic sites. SCORE, another way to kill time! By now I think BG went into a sugar coma and totally quit moving.
*2 hour blood draw. By this time I was getting that jittery feeling. (RESULTS: 156, tagged as high, no idea what that means for the final results).
*Some more Mario.
*3 hour draw. She had to stick me in my forearm. Never had blood drawn there before, and it hurt like mad! Was so excited to be done, and be allowed to eat. I made a bee line for the car. A granola bar never tasted so good. (RESULTS: 88)

Went to Ella's 1st Birthday Party. Can't believe it's already been a year. She's already walking!

Then we went to the 3D ultrasound. I really wanted to get one done just for the pictures. I think it's a neat keepsake of something that only happens once. So the good pictures are uploaded in the photo album. BG was stubborn (like Chris and I) and covered the face for the majority of the appointment. Spent most of the appointment napping, with an arm across the face, or a hand in the mouth sucking a thumb, and when the hands moved out of the way BG decided it was time to snuggle up against the placenta. So we only got a few good pictures. We also have a DVD, so we'll have to see how that turned out. Figures as soon as we leave the ultrasound place to go to dinner, the kicking and jumping around started.

Only 12 weeks (or less, since a lot of people have a feeling BG is going to make an early appearance) til we get to meet the BGer.