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<\/p>\nMy stretches of silence have been due to a gaming addiction. I’m having way too much fun playing the mage and squishing things (or, rather, blasting them with fireballs). Ahhh, so relaxing. But sadly 6 hours can go by really quickly when you’re engrossed in a game (and the hubby is kind enough to watch sports upstairs and leave you to while away the time).<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning was my 20 week appointment. How crazy is that? I wasn’t nervous this time, because baby was kicking me while I sat in the waiting room.<\/p>\n
Blood pressure was normal, but weigh-in was less than they’d like to see – I think only a 1 lb gain over the past 4 weeks, which makes it 6lbs total. I spoke to the nutritionist, just looking for some ideas on small, simple, protein foods. I’ve been struggling, especially with feeling sick and cutting out dairy again – I’m pretty sure that’s why I’ve gained little to no weight the past week or two (actually I lost a tiny bit from 19 to 20 weeks). I was encouraged to eat tuna once a week, salmon, eggs, peanut butter, and milk. (I’m just not a big meat eater, especially when pregnant. Chicken is so goddamn boring.) The midwife wasn’t concerned about my weight, but I know I need to continue gaining at a nice steady rate for the baby’s health, so I just want to make sure I eat right.<\/p>\n
The midwife – who knows and remembers my history – ran through some questions about birth, pediatrician (what? agghh), feeding plans. And then she looked up and said to me, “I know this is a stupid question, but I have to ask it. Are you planning on birth control after the baby is born?” And then we both just laughed.<\/p>\n
She did consult with the MFM doctor and went over his plan for me, which they will follow – it is the same as before. Growth ultrasounds every 4 weeks from here on out, and starting at 34 weeks weekly checks with bio-physical profiles and non-stress tests (alternating weeks). Also starting at 28 weeks they want me to do daily kick counts – which I was planning on doing anyways but I found it interesting that the doctors mentioned it. I’m not sure if I’m pleased that they brought it up, or annoyed that no one mentioned them to me when I was pregnant with Devin… a little of both, probably.<\/p>\n
I told her how active this little girl is, how she has her active periods already, how I can feel quite a bit though I wasn’t expecting to yet. She flipped through my ultrasound report from last week, confirmed that everything looks good, absolutely nothing of note – and she confirmed that the heart is fine, and that I am probably correct in my suspicion that they took a while with the heart because the baby wouldn’t let them get one particular picture that they wanted. This appointment she measured my fundal height (right where it should be, as I already know – my uterus is to my belly button), and then of course checked the heartrate with the doppler. Nice and loud and strong, then baby started moving away from it, hehe.<\/p>\n
Then she told the receptionist to book my ultrasound appointments for the next several months. She suggested I book the ultrasound and midwife appointment together so I don’t have to go back and forth to the hospital all the time and can get them both taken care of at once. At first this sounded like a good idea, but in order to do that I had to move my appointment day to monday instead of tuesday due to my work schedule (I can do a short morning appointment, but if I don’t get there until noon I’ll be bogged down until 9pm) – mondays are far far more flexible for me, they’re my “free” day. Except the midwife that I love doesn’t work mondays. So now I have these appointments booked through April with other midwives and I’m starting to think I shouldn’t have done that. I know the other ones could be just as fine, but I found someone whom I’m comfortable with, do I really want to mess with that?<\/p>\n
An interesting thing I noticed: the midwife doesn’t just hand me the booking instructions and send me to the front desk – she takes the paperwork to the receptionist herself, and then she stands there with me, chit-chatting, while my appointment is being booked… which turned out to be a really good thing. Normally the process is short, a quick hi-bye, but yesterday it took a while to get all those different appointments booked in together. It’s a high counter so I was standing there just letting the receptionist type in the computer, waiting for my printout of appointment dates and times, when I got dizzy. Now I do get those dizzy spells once in a while, usually I just stand still and blink a few times and I’m fine. But this time it didn’t pass. I said, “I’m feeling really dizzy…” as my vision greyed out. They sat me down in the chair behind me; still I couldn’t see and my head was throbbing. I was also wicked hot, just pulsing heat – I got out of my coat and scarf and someone ran to get a cold cloth for my forehead and neck. Slowly everything leveled out again. The midwife came back in with crackers, peanut butter and a cup of juice. After that I felt right as rain – and just a little bit foolish, especially considering it happened because I hadn’t eaten breakfast yet. I hate making a scene and I felt like some damsel in distress… but I guess there are times when you just have no choice in the matter and you have to let people help you out a little.<\/p>\n
And that was my exciting day. Or at least the exciting baby part of my day – the work part was not so exciting.<\/p>\n
Happy half-way mark to me! The second trimester is certainly going by faster than the first.<\/p>\n
This is my view from up here, circa 20 weeks.<\/p>\n
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And these are my nails. I didn’t want to cut them until I got a picture. LOL My natural nails, with just a clearcoat on. I’m very sad to cut them, but they are impeding my typing and that’s just no good.<\/p>\n
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