Fun in Prego Land

I couldnt think of a title so i thought i would just be silly and put the above one. Partially due to the fact that I got the results of my Gestational diabetes test back and low and behold I am once again for the 3rd time out of my 5 pregnancies officially diagnosed with it. So on Monday i go to get all my supplies, glucometer, testing strips and all that fun stuff. I also get an appointment with the nutritionist at some point in the week. Like I said in my last post, its a good thing i eat or at least have the knowledge to eat better. Funny thing is (i may have mentioned this before) that i prayed before we found out we were prego that i would be able to be self controled and not gain a ton of weight especially since i had extrea "fluff" already. Well amen, here's to answered prayes, casue with this diet i shouldnt gain much. In my last trimester with Ashlyn i think i gained 5 pounds.

Today Ashlyn and I went on a date. Antonio took Devin and a preteen boy from church out bowling. We went shopping, she desperatly needed winter stuff and last weekend whent he high was 55 we were lacking some essentials. So i figured before we get our next cold spell , its 90 today, we better get some clothes. We had a really good time, she is really growing up. We went and had lunch at applebees and it was super yummy. Not a whole lot of resteraunts close by around here, you mostly have to go down the hill to Palm Springs for the good stuff. For some reason we hadnt went to applebees yet, not sure why, but it was good.

Not much else going on around here, i did take some pictures the other day but havent got around to downloading them yet and i really need to go sit in front of the TV and veg so i absolutly cannot do it right now. maybe Monday, we'll see LOL.

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Well, we have had an interesting week. Mommy and kids have all been a mess, not sure whats going on but I know it will work itself out. On Tuesday my belly kept getting really crampy at about 3:30 it really started to make me not feel so good, so i spent the night at home while the family went to bible talk. I was getting concerned that i was having real contractions, it was so hard to tell. Cause it wasn't anything timeable and it seemed to never go away. So I just layed on my left side drank some water and Gatorade and prayed God would make it obvious to me is i needed to go in. I ended up going to bed and woke up fine, but I noticed yesterday that i need to listen to my body and sit down often. I also noticed that my belly seemed to have grown over night so i am thinking that baby might be having a growth spurt. This being the third child you would think i would feel like a pro and nothing minor would concern me, but that is not the case, I actually feel more concerned this time around. And everything is more intense this time. My midwife told me that i need to make sure i get enough rest or when i get to the end i am going to feel like i have been hit by a truck (too bad i already feel like that some days). Seeing my belly grow is very exciting and I am feeling baby a little bit. They are very soft kicks at this point and they are very sporadic(sp?) it is exciting to feel it. I have been letting the kids feel my belly when i lay on my back, you can really feel the hardness of my uterus then, and they are really amazed. Ashlyn is really into the baby, she is at that age i guess. I told her that the baby can hear now so she loves to talk to my belly and kiss it, so cute. On Monday we had to go to the lab so i could do my glucose test, which i was supposed to do a long time ago but being sick and busy i put it off oooppps, i have to get it done early cause i had gestational diabetes with ashlyn and one of the pregnancies we miscarried. So the midwife called and i failed it, my levels were elevated so now i get to go back for a 3 hour test to see if i have GD this time around. I was telling Antonio that its a good thing i eat a lot better now then i did when i prego with ashlyn cause it wont be such a shock to the system when i have to eat the special way. I pretty much eat that way now with a few exceptions everyday so it wont be to big of a deal, but with the first pregnancy i ate a lot of carbs (and had the extra weight gain to prove it) so it was like being tortured eating the special diet. It was defiantly the start to learning how to eat better, so an amen is order i guess. Today we all seem to be doing better so hopefully today will be a turning point in our crazy week. Hope all of yours has went a little better than ours!!!

OB Appointment

We had our 16 week appointment today. The kids joined me and did pretty well over all. Devin was very funny and silly, of course. When she was trying to find the heartbeat Ashlyn, I think, asked me to tell her the names we have, so I did and then Devin piped in with his choices on names. He said if its a boy it will be Doo Doo and when it gets older he''ll call it Captain Bones. and then he decided if its a boy it will be Stinky and if its a girl it will be Pinky. It was very funny, I told him when we got home (after he repeated the names to me for the 3rd time) that we are gonna stick with Dillin if its a boy and Kailyn if its a girl. He said ok i like Dillin. I guess he thinks he gets a say in all this, I will let him think that it's fine.

So as she was trying to find the heart beat she had troubles, she would start to get it and then baby would move. So she diecided to just get the ultrasound machine. The funny/ironic thing about this was that in the car right as we were pulling into a parking spot at the hospitol Ashlyn was trying to explain to Devin that we might find out what sex the baby is next time but that they wouldnt be able to go. Devin was a little sad and said he wanted to see the baby and i was like i know bud i am sorry but the room is little and only daddy can come. So fast forward to the room and getting ultrasound, God really gave us a little blessing cause the kids got to see the baby. It was moving around lots and even looked like it waved at us. Ashlyn was so excited she was right up next to the screen just a talking to the midwife, Devin instisted on sitting with me on the table. It's amazing how much baby has grown since the 8 week ultrasound. I definatly want to get as little procedures and ultra sounds as possible done and try to go about things as naturally as I can, but this was super exciting.