Hitting the 2 week appointment mark

I know updates have been few and far between lately. We've been crazy busy trying to get stuff done for the baby and for the holidays. Toss in a little work here and there and it makes it hard to get to updating the blog. I'll try to be better about it. :)

I don't have any pictures this time but I do have a Dr.'s update!

Today we had our 30 week appointment today. Baby is measuring right on target for where we are and we're looking forward to February. We've now hit the point in the pregnancy where we no longer go in for monthly checkups but we will be going in every 2 weeks. We'll do that for 6 weeks (until Jan. 6) when we'll have one more ultrasound to check on baby girl (get her weight, etc.) and then we'll go in every week until delivery. We see the light at the end of the 40 week tunnel!

We're headed up to Ocala this weekend for Thanksgiving with my mom's family. We haven't seen my uncle/aunt/cousins in about 10 years so it's a bit of a family reunion. We'll have four generations there if we include little one, which we will, because she does exist even though she's not out yet. I'm sure we'll get pictures and then we'll update for everyone.

Baby Bedding!

We went and picked up little girl's bedding today.  We've been going back and forth between two different sets and finally made a decision this week.  As we were setting it up we kept thinking about how excited we are to be getting so close to having her here!  We're one step closer to getting this nursery finished for her.  (keep in mind that half of the room is still the guest room so what you're seeing will be her half of the room) 

I gave this "snuggle bear" to Mike my freshman year of college for our first Valentine's Day.  I told him (jokingly) that one day we could put it in our baby's crib and we had a good laugh and now here it is!  :)
Inside of the bedding.  The bedding actually came with a different sheet but I liked the look of this one a little better.  The other one has a lot more white in it so it's more likely to get dirty.  We'll switch it back and forth.
Crib and changing table.  Again, if you haven't read the earlier posts about them, we got these on craigslist.  The crib alone was originally over $800 from a little boutique and we got it gently used for under $150.  The changing table another expensive original purchase but the couple threw it in with the crib for $20.  We were so excited about these finds!

27 weeks and appointment update

Belly close up at 26 1/2 weeks.  I feel like I look bigger in person, the pictures don't do my monster belly justice (or maybe I just have a very skewed vision of myself.  :)
27 weeks right before church.  There are fewer pictures this week because I was having a "bad picture day."  We took close to 10 pictures and these were the only two that looked "good enough" for me to stick up here.
And finally a picture that I feel does the belly a bit more justice.  :) Our doodlebug is about 2 lbs this week so she is starting to run out of room in there, and I can definitely FEEL her running out of room as she seems to occupy every area of my stomach.  I can even feel her little hands or feet in my ribs sometimes (NOT fun! :) )

Appointment update:

Drank the oh-so-wonderful glucose syrup drink around 8:15am on Monday morning.  It actually wasn't as horrible as it had been described until the after taste hit and then I was not feeling good.  At 9:15am had my blood drawn and then went in to see the Dr.  Gained quite a bit more weight this month and am up 13 lbs total so far this pregnancy, which, being well over the halfway mark of the pregnancy is really good--it means a lot of my weight is just the weight associated with the baby and I'm not gaining in other places.  

The way the glucose test works is that I drink the goo and then an hour later they test my blood sugar to see how my body is processing the sugar.  If my blood tests under 139 then my body is doing it's job and I don't have to go back in, if it tests over 139 then I have to go back in for the 4 hour glucose test which would mean another day off of work (not good).  According to the Dr. most women fail the initial screening and have to come back in for the actual test (which begs the question- why not just do the big test for everyone?).  I figured they'd call with the results, regardless of what they were, because that's the way the office has always worked.  Well, here I am a week later and still haven't heard and I'm going to assume that no news is good news and that I probably passed!  :)  Yay!  I'm amazed because I was SURE they'd call me back in just because of the way the sugar made me feel.  I'm very happy though.  

I think that's about it for the update this week.  We are counting down the days until our little one should be arriving and we are so excited!