Monday, November 8, 2010

Pregnancy and Weight

When I first found out I was pregnant, I was terrified to get larger.  I was at my all time high weight of 336 pounds!  Yowser!  As of this morning I am down to 309.  The doctors are not concerned that the weight loss is having an adverse affect on the baby and have encouraged me to continue to lose at a healthy pace.  I am still not proud of the numbers themselves, but I am ecstatic to be so close to the 200s again!  I am hoping that the doctors are correct and I will only put on ten to fifteen pounds during my last trimester.  If that is the case then I will deliver at a lower weight than the day I found out I was pregnant.  Exciting!!!

Doctors, Sugary Drinks and Bloodwork

Our first appointment with the high risk specialist in Virginia was last Thursday and it went extremely well.  I saw four different physician-type people while I was there (RN, Physician's Assistant, Doctor and the Diabetes Specialist).  All four of them are women and I love that!  I feel so much more comfortable being treated by women than I do men.  One reason being that men cannot possibly relate to what I as a pregnant woman am going through.  I much prefer having someone care for me that has gone through this herself. 

The terrible pain that I was feeling last week has subsided.  I am still feeling discomfort at times, but I'm sure it is nothing unusual. 

Back to doctor stuff....I had two blood work orders (one from my OB here and one from the OB in Virginia) that I had to take care of this morning.  The famous orange glucose beverage was my pal at 6:30 this morning.   That stuff is so extremely nasty.  I have my fingers crossed that I passed.  If I didn't, I'll be drinking it again and getting blood drawn once every hour for three hours.  After the horrible sticking experiences this morning I think I'll pass.  I have a bruise on my right arm that is bigger than my head.  Okay, that is a bit exaggerated but nonetheless it is huge and it hurts.  They finally had to resort to the inside of my wrist to draw blood.  Can you say OUCH.!?  I have to keep reminding myself that it will all be worth it when I am holding our child in my arms.  Pass or fail, I will have another glucose test at twenty-four weeks.  Happy happy, joy joy.

Our next appointment here at the beach is Tuesday, November 16th.  I do not expect anything too terribly exciting to happen.  However, our next appointment in Virginia may prove to be full of excitement.  I'll be nineteen weeks at that appointment which happens to be on my birthday.  I plan to beg for them to take a peek and tell us the sex of the baby.  They assured me that they will be able to tell for sure between 18 and 20 weeks.  I say 19 weeks is just as good a time as any!  :)  So....expect a post December 2nd or soon thereafter revealing the sex and name of our little one.  (The name should come as no surprise!)

Monday, November 1, 2010

Lingering Pain

I spent five hours in the car last Wednesday driving from Kitty Hawk to Washington DC for a work related conference.  6 am was the wake up time Thursday, Friday and Saturday for breakfast, key note speakers and classes all related to the conference.  After the last class of the day let out my co-worker and I met up with her Dad and toured the area and had dinner.  The bedtime Wednesday - Friday was between 11 and midnight.  On top of that, I lugged the following from my car to our hotel room on Wednesday and from our hotel room to my car on Saturday:  suite case on wheels, shoulder bag with school text books, shoulder bag with laptop, briefcase, purse and body pillow.  I then spent another five hours in the car for the drive back to Kitty Hawk on Saturday.  Apparently all of the above contributed to the great pain that I was in all week. 

I returned home around 5 on Saturday.  Our dryer quit working while I was gone and Eddie was sick with a virus the entire time.  We needed to get the sheets washed so that I wouldn't get sick.  With no dryer available, we decided to make a Walmart run and purchase a second set for our bed.  On the way into Walmart my left foot gave out and down I went. 

Upon returning home from Walmart I finally decided that pain had become unbearable and I called my physician.  I was instructed to take one Tylenol, one Tylenol PM, drink lots of water and keep my feet off the floor for the next 36 hours.  Well.....the pain is still lingering.  I am not sure what I have done to myself, but trying to walk has become quite comical.  The pain is not the comical part, but the waddling from side to side and slowness of pace has just started to get to me.

We go to the high risk doctor in Norfolk on Thursday.  I am hoping to get answers to why I am hurting so badly and if the pain will subside.  Will post an update once we know something.

On another note, all of my preggo friends and acquaintances down in Georgia have been finding out the sex of their babies at sixteen weeks.  I on the other hand have to wait until twenty weeks.  That hardly seems fair!  December 12th marks twenty weeks so I'm hoping for an appointment on Monday, December 13th to get the news! :)