Went to my Dr. appt today (1 day early-rescheduled due to having to go into office tomorrow) and baby is weighing about 6 lbs 7oz. (if I'm not mistaken) and he's actually smaller than I thought! I REALLY need to go back and look at Gabriel's ultrasounds although I don't think I was as good about writting down his weight on the ultrasound images the Dr. would print out for me as I was with Alani since I got pregnant pretty close of when Alani was born. Anyway I gained like 2 pounds, was 240.6 so it's more like 2.4 cause last week I was 238.2. I need to stay away from that mexican sweet bread plus I've been eating something at night every night. I wake up super hungry and can't go back to sleep unless I have some cereal or slice of bread with peanut butter. I need to watch it this week not really cause I care about gaining another pound or two but because I don't want him to get so big these last couple of weeks. Next week I'll be 38 weeks and Dr. is going to rupture my membranes. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!! He said usually after he does that women go into labor within 48 hours. That means that he would be here like on Saturday 2/2 which I think is Super Bowl sunday. I told my husband that would be kinda cool cause we'd be watching the game at the hospital and we could just chill there. I think I'd be able to go home on Monday. But you know what they say about plans. If the membrane sweep doesn't work though I think he'll be born more on the 8th or 9th which would be the next week (at 39 weeks). Alani was born at 39 weeks 3 days but my water actually broke at 39 weeks 2 days and I was pretty healthy with her like I am now with this one so I don't think Dr. will push for induction at my 39 week appt (2/7). I think he'll let me go until baby is ready then will talk about induction IF I was to make it to my due date on 2/14. I really don't think so. I told Serg that I feel like my water bag is bulging when I go to the bathroom. He told me I better pack my bag and doesn't think I'll make it to next week's appt. for some reason. I think he's just getting really excited. I'm suree I'll make it till next week's appt. Whenever he IS born, I'm still excited and can't wait to see him! I'm in the home stretch!
I'll be 37 weeks tomorrow and considered full term. I came into the office today because we have an important meeting plus it's my last week coming into the office which seems so weird! I'll be here again on Thursday (instead of Wed) since my co-workers are throwing me a lunch/baby shindig which is nice. I work with mostly men so one of the only girls here actually organized it. Not sure I'll be getting any baby gifts but lunch is good enough AND I already have everything praise the Lord. God is good and we saw Him make himself so obviously there for us and we don't deserve it. Not at all. We re-committed to getting to spend more time with Him all week and we plan to start ASAP. We went out to Five Guys burgers last night and Gabriel wanted to read from his kids bible story books after dinner when we got home so we read Adam and Eve. We always kid that he's the most spiritual one at home which is sad because he's only 6. At the table (dinner or lunch) he's always like "ok let's give blessings". We talked about needing to get into our bible reading/studying more so his appetite for the Lord stays with him. So I'm waiting for my Dr. to contact me, I have an appt. scheduled for Thurs. but since I'll be here in Westlake Village I can't be in Harbor City too. I have an NST appt. too so I'll need to reschedule that as soon as I know when they can fit me in. Dr. is supposed to measure and give me baby weight estimate this week. I'm hoping he hasn't gotten too big but this weekend I had THE worst stomach/belly button pain that I could not even bend over or stand for a long time. Supposedly the pain is from muscles stretching/tearing so I'm thinking he grew. I control my sugars when I know what they are. Sometimes I try and avoid taking my blood sugar cause when I KNOW they are high I panic. I've been taking them pretty frequently these past couple of days after meals especially so I've been spending some time on the elliptical as well to try and get my high numbers down. I am on 90 NPH insulin before bed, like 22 R insulin before lunch and about 18 R before dinner. I have to keep increasing it like every 2 days. Weight was 238 last Thursday (1/17) @ Dr's office which was the same weight from 1/10 and I weighed myself yesterday on my scale and I don't think I have gained any. My scale is wacky like I've mentioned so I'm really just counting on what the Dr's scale reads. I'll come back and update with Dr's prediction of baby weight and my weight gain for this week...yikes.
I had a Dr. appt yesterday and I was terrified because my BMI scale showed a 7 or 8 pound weight gain from 12/5 to 1/2/13 so I thought I'm in big trouble with Dr. I usually try to wear THE lightest clothing possible lol to minimize the weight gain on the scale but I wear the same things over and over again, mainly the skirts with different tops but still...so yesterday I wore my Old Navy dress again that I wore out for my birthday cause it was already ironed and it's super comfortable. I put my hair up in a ponytail and straightened it. Weight on scale actually only showed a 4 pound weight gain which is exactly on point (1 pound per week gain). The Dr. said he was "surprised" being that it was the holidays and everyone was coming in with larger than normal weight gain so that God! My appointments are now weekly though so I REALLY need to be good and I have an NST appt. today at 4pm. He weighed the baby and he said he was 5 pounds 2 oz which is very much on point. I told him about the weight "estimate" he had given me with Gabriel and that he ended up weighing 2 1/2 more pounds than he had estimated...he said something interesting and I think I actually read it somewhere..he said our weight "estimate" at 34 weeks is actually the last "actual" baby estimate they can give. Anything past 34 weeks could be off by 2 pounds SO if I keep my sugars in check and my eating in check from now until I give birth the baby SHOULD weigh about 8 pounds 4oz or so. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. He would be my smallest baby which should be an easier delivery. I am going to try hard (as I think back to the 1/4 of a meatball sandwich for breakfast....it was SOOOO good though). My sugars were 96 fasting this AM but I got up at 3am and had a cookie and some milk because baby was going nuts. My sugars were prob low...he usually gets up when they are really low or really high. Serg and the kids went up to Big Bear/San Bernardino Mountains yesterday with Chanton where Alexis is at Winter Camp and they had a ball. This was the first time they had been in the snow so they were SO excited when they got back home they were all talking at the same time about how cool it was. I hope we can go back at least one more time before the baby is born when there is more snow so they can enjoy themselves. Not so sure though because I know time is going to FLY by. I was home yesterday just working. I cleaned up after work, folded clothes, made myself some hot wings for dinner with rice and maccaroni and cheese (my Dr. appt days are my days off-cheat days). I watched a few episodes of The First 48 and a Criminal Minds with Alani. I slept on her bed with her for a few hours cause Sergio was knocked out on our bed and was so tired he was snoring LOUD. Their new bed is firm so I eventually came to my own bed. My alarm clock is off 1/2 hour so I got up and clocked in to work late...oh well. So this week I'm going to work out everyday and try to be really good with eating. I don't want to gain any weight this week or just a minimal amount of weight...like 1/2 a pound vs. 1 pound since I'm a little over..I was reading the "weight gain" guidelines yesterday and for 34 weeks it says I should have gained 21-27 pounds and I think I've gained 29. It's not a big deal at all because this is the smallest amount of weight I have gained with ANY of my kids but I do want to try hard to eat healthy and work out to keep my sugars on the lower end. One thing I did notice was that my blood pressure was a little high when the nurse first took it, it was 136 over something...she retook it though and it went down to 123 or something like that. So I need to lay off the salt too and I'll probably take 3 BP pills at each meal time to keep it in check. We'll see. Ok well boring post but wanted to document... Hospital tour is coming up soon! Next Tues!!
