Had my first non stress test this morning - I'll go again on Thursday for another one. Logan is doing just fine and dandy. Was fun to sit and listen to his heartbeat for over a half hour. I click a button every time he moves and they montitor to make sure his heartrate goes up when he moves... as it should. I guess they take his average heartrate and then in order to "pass" he has to get it twice where he goes 15 beats above average. He passed so that is good. This obviously isn't a standard pregnancy thing - but I'm super special because of the diabetes diagnosis.
I'm hooked up to the dopplar thing and another thing monitoring anything going on with my uterus and have a button in my hand and I need to drink a lot of water so I'm holding a glass of water too. Half way through they decide to take my blood pressure. It was a bit high (I'm thinking... duh I'm trying to concentrate on Logan moving, pushing a button, holding a glass of water... a lot going on!)... it was 144/84. Anything over 140/90 is considered high - so it isn't TOO high. To rule out anything with pre-eclampsia (REALLY high BP in pregnancy) they sent me for some bloodwork. I'm thinking everything will come back fine. I have no other symptoms of pre-e so we'll just wait and see. They asked if I had had any unusual swelling (the swelling feet is pretty normal) and I said I didn't, but they checked my weight to make sure it hadn't gone up a bunch since my last appointment (water retention)... nope - the opposite in fact. I was down two more pounds. My total weight gain currently is 2 pounds. So... if Logan weighed 3.5 ish pounds at 29 weeks I personally weigh less than I did when I got pregnant. Funny how that works.
We'll see what I hear back from the bloodwork probably tomorrow. Tonight are baby classes and tomorrow is meeting with a daycare option... Thursday is another non stress test and my 32 week OB appt, Friday is calls to pediatricians... Saturday is a focus group... and Sunday is my first baby shower! ...busy week ahead of us! Just means time is going to go by even faster!
This past weekend was nice and relaxing though. We had a great 4th of July party and the weater couldn't have been better. I was loving it! Saturday Nathan did a lot of work outside and I did a little work inside and outside. He did a TON of trimming of the crazy bushes in back and some limbs hanging over the house so now we have a TON of yard waste. Dad is coming over on Wednesday with a chainsaw and we'll get rid of a lot of that. Sunday we had Tommy's 2nd birthday party!! I can't believe the little guy is two already! He is so smart and just fun to be around. Watching him and his cousin Bennett it was entertainment in itself. I personally liked when Tommy got in the little pool with his regular clothes on... about 20-30 minutes after he got changed out of his bathing suit! CLASSIC! Such a happy boy and it seems like he loved all his presents so that is great! We got a present too - DIAPERS! Kyle so graciously (accidentally) bought newborn diapers for Piper! OOPS! So now we have a pack of those and her left over size 1 diapers! YAY for us!
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