Last appointment with the specialist

Today we are 33 weeks and 5 days. We had our last appointment with the specialist today and it couldn't have gone any better! Both babies still have great fluid levels and they're still growing well and in accordance with each other. Logan is measuring 4 lbs 7 oz. and Paige is measuring 4 lbs 9 oz. Grow babies grow!!! I'm so happy with their weights and I'll be thrilled if they can each pack on at least another pound over the next four weeks.

Four weeks from today we'll be holding these sweet little ones!!! I can't wait!!

33 Week Update

Today I am 33 weeks! Praise God that we've made it another week and these little ones are still in the oven! I had my weekly appointment with my OB this afternoon. She did th NST monitoring again. Both babies heart rates were good and she's still unconcerned by the braxton-hicks contractions I'm having off and on everyday. It's just to be expected at this point. My uterus is annoyed by these little wiggle worms. :-) Thankfully it's still harmless at this point and I just pray that it stays that way. Yesterday was my last day at work, so being at home now should help to alleviate some of the extra irritability in my uterus. I'm still doing a little bit of work from home until the babies come. It sure was nice to work in my PJs this morning! My OB told me last Thursday that I needed to be done with work now. I think this actually came at a good time because my body is definitely starting to get tired and these babies are getting really heavy to carry around!

Today Chris and I got a surprise at our OB visit...she scheduled our c-section! Unless these babies make an appearance on their own within the next four weeks their birthday will be October 25th at 7:30 AM!!! I can't believe we actually have a date. It still seems so surreal. I can't wait to meet them! I also realize now that I only have a few more precious weeks left to carry them. I'm glad that I'll get to take the next several weeks to finish getting everything ready and to enjoy every last minute I have with them in my belly.

Our next ultrasound with the specialist is on Monday and then we see my OB again next Wednesday. I'm really excited about Monday's appointment. We haven't seen them in four weeks! I can't wait to see how much bigger they've gotten since our last ultrasound.

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week and a great weekend! Here's my 33 week picture.

32 Weeks!!!

Today I am 32 weeks! Woohoo!!! It feels so good to make it to this milestone with babies still safely baking away! I am so grateful and thank God every day for getting us closer and closer to a safe, healthy delivery. We don't have another appointment with the specialist for 2 weeks but I do see my OB tomorrow for the NST test. Hopefully that will go well! I should also find out tomorrow what my bed rest is going to entail now that I'm at 32 weeks.

Since my last post, I went to see a different endocrinologist regarding the gestational diabetes. She and my OB both agreed that I need to be on some insulin now because my blood sugars are still a little high after my meals. I started the insulin tonight. Thankfully Chris will be able to give me my morning shots before he leaves for work and he can give me my evening shot before dinner. I'm skipping the lunch shot because I just cannot give shots to myself. I tried for 30 minutes this morning and just couldn't do it. Yes, I know I'm a wimp. I'm an 8 month pregnant wimp, though, and I'm tired of stressing and feeling overwhelmed by this diabetes situation so I'm just going to do the best I can. I'll just make sure that I'm extra cautious with what I eat at lunch so that I can make sure my blood sugar stays low.

At my last appointment with my OB she told me that she would take the babies via a scheduled c-section sometime between October 20-27. That is 5 weeks away! Whoa! I can't believe they will be here so soon. Thankfully we've almost finished the nursery. Just a few minor touches to complete and then I promise to post pics. :-) Here are a few pictures I took last night for my bossy sister who sent me an email demanding new belly pics. :-) (Just kidding Heather)

I don't want to do this anymore

I have decided to "quit" gestational diabetes. I don't like it anymore. My fingers hurt (from the finger pricks), I'm rapidly losing weight, I'm frustrated with my numbers going up and down even when I follow the meal plan perfectly and I'm hungry all the time. So I quit. I just want to curl up in a ball somewhere with these babies and stay there for the next six weeks until they're supposed to be here. I really wanted to enjoy these last few weeks of pregnancy and soak it all in. I don't want to be frustrated and worry that my babies aren't getting what they need.

That's all.

What a week...and it's only Wednesday!

Wow, this has been QUITE the week already and we're only half way through. First things first, though. I'm 30 weeks today! Yay!!!!! I'm so grateful to have two healthy, growing babies still inside of me! Seven more weeks little ones. You can do it! Now, to fill you in on what's been happening this week I'll just start from the beginning.

Monday - The morning started off great with an awesome appointment with the specialist. Mr. Logan is weighing approximately 3 lbs 6 oz. and Miss Paige weighs a whopping 3 lbs 13 oz. My little chunky monkeys! The specialist said that the babies look great, the fluid levels are great so we don't have to go back for another 4 weeks. Awesome! Logan put on quite the show for us that morning. We got to see him sucking on his toes and sticking his hands and feet in his mouth. It was the cutest thing!!! Chris and I had such a good time watching our little man! As for Paige, little miss stubborn continues to lay face down and will not pose for any glamour shots. We think she just wants to be a surprise in October. She wants to keep us guessing as to what she might look like. Little toot! Now, let's fast forward to Monday late afternoon. I was driving home in our neighborhood and was only about 2 minutes from our house when it happened. I accidentally ran into the back of the person in front of me. Oops! I am one of the safest drivers you will ever meet and I had a squeaky clean record up until now. I have NO clue how this happened. The last thing I remember was taking a drink of my water and then the next thing I know I'm slamming into the back of the person in front of me at the light. Ugh. Thankfully neither of us were hurt and the babies were fine too. I called the doctor's office when I got home and they had me go up to labor and delivery to be monitored as a standard precaution. Praise God that both babies were fine and I wasn't having any contractions. They let us go after 1 hour of monitoring. I am still so frustrated with myself that this happened. I seriously think that my brain is just shutting down as we get closer to the end of this pregnancy.

Tuesday was uneventful. Thank goodness! Now for today. I had my appointment at the diab.etes center this afternoon. My blood sugars were great when they checked me an hour after my lunch. Yay! I received some good info from the nutritionist and was given my blood glucose monitor. That's about the only good that came from this appointment. First of all, the place was disgusting!!! It felt so unsanitary and I just wanted to run and get me and my babies out of there! I unfortunately had to go to one of the locations in a not so great part of town today because they were the only clinic that could get me in this week. I will NOT be going there again. I will most definitely make sure I can go to one of the other locations next time. Yuck! I tested my blood levels an hour after dinner tonight as instructed and I was well below the limit. Yay for me! Hopefully this continues and that way I won't have to go on insulin. I'll keep you posted.

I'll leave you with a 30 week belly shot and yes, it's a bare belly pic! gasp! Please excuse the outfit. I asked Chris to make sure he only got my belly in the pic, but he said he wanted to show the true magnitude of the ever growing torpedo belly. Gotta love him!

Big Fat Fail...Again

I took the 3 hour glucose test yesterday. YUCK!!! I was miserable all morning. I was so nauseous and light-headed the whole time. Chris was so sweet. He came and sat with me for the last hour and then we went to lunch afterwards...at Olive Garden. :-) I figured, what the heck, why not have one last scrumptious meal just in case I ended up failing the test. Speaking of failing the test that is exactly what happened. As the nurse said today "you failed the test pretty significantly". Superb! If I'm going to do something I might as well do it all the way! Apparently I passed the first blood draw, failed the second blood draw by one point and then completely blew the third blood draw out of the water with a big.fat.fail. I officially have gest.ational diab.etes. :-(

I now have to wait for the diabe.tes center to call me tomorrow to schedule an appointment ASAP. I will meet with a nutritionist and they will develop a meal plan for me and I will be taught how to monitor my blood sugar throughout the day. I know this is not the end of the world but I'm still really bummed. I think the unknown of this whole condition is what's bothering me, plus the related complications that can develop for me and the babies after delivery. I'm worried that I won't be able to get enough calories on my new meal plan to continue to feed the babies properly. I'm just so ready to have this appointment and find out exactly what all this is going to entail.

So, a small, fairly minor bump in the road. Tonight I will continue to be bummed, but tomorrow I'll put my big girl pants back on and move forward. :-) Thank goodness the weekend is almost here!

Big Fat Fail

I had my 28 week appointment with my OB last week and she ran a couple of different tests. The first test was the glucose tolerance test. The lab work I did that day also tested my iron levels. Finally, she did a fetal fibronectin test. This is a test where they scrape some cells from your cervix and then send them off to the lab to be analyzed. If the test comes back positive it basically doesn't mean anything. You could potentially go into preterm labor or you could be just fine. However, if the test comes back negative that means there's a 95% reassurance that you won't go into preterm labor within the next two weeks.

Now for the results. The fetal fibronectin test was negative. Yay! My iron levels are low and I'm anemic. This did not surprise me at all considering I'm carrying twins. I just have to take an iron supplement every day. No big deal. Now for the shocker...at least for me. I FAILED my glucose screening test and when I say fail I mean a big.fat.FAIL! I now get to experience the wonderful 3 hour glucose test this Wednesday morning. Yay for me! To say I was shocked that I failed the test is an understatement. I have been so good this whole pregnancy about what I've put in my body. I've been even more conservative than my OB told me to be. So how on earth do I fail the test??? One thing I did find out from the nurse and several other people is that it was out of my hands. Being pregnant with twins has just put too much strain on my pancreas and my body is not able to process the blood sugar properly. If I fail my test on Wednesday I will be labeled as having gest.ational dia.betes and I will be sent to a diab.etes center to have a meal plan mapped out and I will be taught how to check my blood sugar throughout the day. Doesn't that sound like fun? I am just hoping and praying that I somehow pass my test on Wednesday. I don't mind modifying my diet more if necessary, but I really don't want to have gest.ational diab.etes. There's just too many other risk factors that come into play with that for me and the babies.

I have been in such a funk over this since I got the results on Friday. I feel like I've already failed the babies even though I know I didn't do anything to cause this. I just keep trying to remind myself that things could be so much worse. This is just a small bump in the road and it's no the end of the world. The babies are healthy, growing and showing no signs of trying to make an early debut. For these things I am so grateful and I thank God every day for these precious miracles and that they're still developing and growing well.

Well, wish me luck on Wednesday! I'll let you know how it goes.