Happy (?) Halloween !!

Well not much is new this week, but I feel like I have not been updating enough so I shall write anyways. I had an appointment with Dr. Young on monday which went partially well and partially not well. I looked fine, belly is measuring on time for my gestational age, and baby sounded great as usual. Good strong regular heartbeat. Definitely still pretty active in there. I did have my 28 week labs done which looked pretty good... except my one hour glucose tolerance test. It was high :( Soooo, now I have to spend Friday morning sitting in the lab for 3 hours to do the "real" test. My personal suspicions are that I will be classified as a gestational diabetic, because that's just how things are going for me with this pregnancy, but I guess we'll find out Friday afternoon. Not great news but I won't jump the gun just yet. In the event I'm right, it should make for a challenging holiday season. Anyone have a recipe for sugar-free pumpkin pie?? ;)
I may update again this weekend if I have the chance, I plan to go out on Friday for a bit for Halloween, so I'm costume searching for now... I hope to get a few good pictures. I'm not one of those people that is brave enough to wear some kind of half shirt with a painted belly... no thanks! I'll come up with something different! Patrick will be in Hilton Head SC for Matt and Patty's wedding this weekend, as he is a groomsman, so I'll be home (and jealous) that I'm not getting to go to the wedding on the beach. Sadness. My sister says to get over it, because as a mom this is just the first of about a million things that I will have to miss because of the baby. I suppose she's right on that one, so I'm over it. I guess.

Don't drink the water...!

Hello all, just checking in today. Not much is new over here, which I guess is a good thing! I still feel fine, no issues this week to report. My co-worker Heather and I took some pics at work the other day, so here we are, belly to belly. Yes, I know, I look huge. I'm 27 weeks now, and Heather is due a couple of weeks before me. In addition to the 2 of us, I believe there are a minimum of maybe 4 or 5 other girls from our 5th floor who are concurrently pregnant as well! It seems to go in cycles, and over this past several months we had another whole group of girls deliver. I think we empolyees on the Family Birthplace could probably keep ourselves in buisiness if it came right down to it.
This weekend we took a quick trip up to Eau Claire so Patrick could take his final exam for his current grad schoool class... I think there are only 3 more classes to go, so he's almost there! Incidentally he got a 95% on the final which is awesome, the class was so hard. Anyways we stopped to go to an Auction in some random town on the way home, and picked up some old tin toys to sell on eBay, as well as a nice antique glass door bookshelf that I will paint or refinish to use for the baby's room. We got it for 45$, a pretty good deal! We tried hard to get one antique toy (that we secretly looked up on eBay from Patrick's Blackberry...going for 1,200.00$ on there !!!) but we were in a bidding war with an antique deealer who clearly knew it was valuable and was willing to bid much higher than we were. Oh well.
Have a good week everyone. :)
By the way... don't forget to vote (on the left) for Boy or Girl. So far it's been a close race!

Baby's first chicken dance...

A quick post about our weekend! We travelled to Patrick's home town of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota to attend Barbie (Patrick's niece) and Dan's wedding. It was a perfect fall day... sunny, all of the trees in full color, you get the picture. Barbie looked gorgeous as you can see, and eveything seemed to be a complete success. The reception was great, even better for Patrick who had his own designated driver for the night :) While I did miss out on the free Schell's beer, I got to eat peanuts and candy corn, which seemed a sufficient replacement for the evening. Barbie and Dan had a surprise "guest" run onto the dance floor to lead them in the chicken dance, and since I think she still may not know who it was, I won't give the secret away. Needless to say it was good entertainment. I think Dan was feeling no pain by that point.

Anyways, I think the baby really liked the chicken dance, as last night shortly afterward was really the first time I felt a good kick.. I mean from the outside. The kid kicked my arm right off my abdomen... so either it liked the chicken dance, or it just wanted more candy corn... I'm not too sure. One or the other I think.

Oh, and I discovered that high heeled boots are pretty much off limits for any more all-day events that might occur between now and my due date...

Better late than never...

I have decided that creating a simple blog would be the easiest way to keep people updated on a regular basis... I love blogs, what a great concept! Of course, truth be told, I'll probably still talk to everyone all the time anyways, but this could be fun... I waited until the age of 36 to have a baby so I should probably try to have as much fun with the remainder of this process as I can!

I am now about 25 6/7 weeks, experiencing the joys of the 3rd trimester, like heartburn, sleeplessness, and fatigue. Serously though, I am overall feeling darn good both physically and mentally... better by the day as I have a fetus that becomes more and more in the category I consider "viable". Considering my profession, it is no surprise that over these few critical weeks, transitioning from a baby that would not survive if delivered, to one that would have a much better chance, I start to breathe a little easier every day. For those who were out of the loop for awhile, I did have the unfortunate experience of having a good bout of preterm labor at 21 weeks, which eventually went away, but was extrordinarily unsettling nonetheless. A scarier 2 weeks I have never experienced. I remain cautious in all my actions at this point, but have gradually been doing more and more over the past couple of weeks. I have been working in my office for the most part at this time, but hope to start seeing patients again sometime soon, maybe even next week... which is GREAT - I do miss being with the babies. Desk work is not my forte... though it is indeed work that needs to be done, and I have found some fun projects.

I had a great meeting with some of the girls this week over dinner at the Bodega about a baby shower, which should be lots of fun. Less like a shower, more like an all-gender inclusive party, which suits me just fine. This week Patrick and I will work on creating some sort of registry or multiple registries if need be... having friends and family in various parts of the country seems to make the process somewhat more complicated (as does agreeing on things we both like!), but I am confident we will come up with something. I will post that info on here once it has been established, so people can easily find the info if desired. A warning that we are not finding out what we are having...despite my begging, Patrick remains stubborn about not knowing, and so I seem to have given up, and so we will enjoy the surprise.

That's all for now, I'm going to try to add some pics and more info later on.