27th week

Today Marks the last day of my second trimester. Which indeed means that it is the last day of being 27weeks. Thanks to some lovely preggo acne I decided to skip a pic or two..LOL But here is a picture of me at Doheny beach with (from left to right) Brianna , Shawna , Michelle , Brianna, and Myself at 27 weeks. Enjoy it!

Now for an update. I went in to Sweet Beginnings today after my week of dieting and exercise for my gestational diabetes. She said that my sugar levels are looking good and I am doing well. All with the exception of my morning time fasting readings. So realizing that I have been skipping a few snacks at night or eating them rather early.... may be the cause of my high blood sugar readings in the morning. We decided to move my snacks to a later time and see if that works. If it does not , then I will be taking insulin at night to control my sugars whiles I am sleeping. I am hoping that I don't have to do this ...because it would suck royally. Not to mention I wouldn't be able to give the shots to myself and would have to ask Jason to do it for me. Having someone who likes needles and has been clean for 3 years giving me shots. Makes me a little nervous. Oh well ... life goes on. Wish me luck

Ah Crap!

Last week marked my 26th week of pregnancy. So guess what that means? Time to screen for gestational diabetes. Where you go in and they make you drink this God awful sugar water. Then you wait in a waiting room full of people ( for an hour) who just cant seem to get a handle on their children. That or they just really don't care. And then at the end of the rainbow comes a needle where they draw your blood. Well I got my results back from that screening and they decided that my sugar level was a little too high for them. So guess what that means. I actually have to go in and be tested for gestational diabetes. So they have me come in the next morning after a night of fasting. No water or food what so ever from midnight. Now we all know how cranky I get when I don't get to eat. Let alone me being pregnant. Come on now! But I go in and first things first. They draw blood before I drink the oh so lovely double dose of sugar ( instead of the 50ML its 100ML) water. The chick kinda hurt me on this draw. Then I drink the shit within the allotted 5 minutes , which makes you want to puke , and then its back out to the waiting room again. Now let me tell you something about this waiting room. It is a tiny room stuffed with 11 chairs. Their is people coming in and out constantly. Then you have a preggo chick getting the same test as me done. Only she brought her husband and two kids. GET A FUCKING CLUE! Send your hubby off with the kids , he is a dad he will do just fine. I can understand bringing your kids if you have no one to watch them ... but it's a three and a half hour process. Why the fuck would you bring your whole family. OK anyway ... So I drink this crap and wait ... long story short... I had to have my blood drawn 4 times that day and on top of that, it was all out of the same arm because being pregnant you get all kinds of skin crap. I got a fungus on my other inner elbow so they couldn't use that arm. So needless to say I looked like a junky for about a week after. My arm was so bruised from the 5 needles( one from the original screening a couple days prior) that were in it. So now it is sit and wait for the results. And would you imagine. I have gestational diabetes. So now I get to prick myself in the finger 4 times a day to test my blood sugar. I am on a stink ass diet which so far leaves me feeling hungry constantly. I am sure that my body will adapt to not eating the three normal meals I was used to having to the 6 meals (or shall we say snacks) that it is now getting. But so far I have kept my blood sugar in the normal range. Lets hope I can continue to do so because I don't want to have to go on insulin.

Rock On

Yesterday Michaela was moving around quite a bit. Normally she makes little movements at least once every ten minutes. Some I can barely feel...and others seems strong. But yesterday she seemed to be moving around more frequently and stronger. Every time I feel her moving it makes me feel excited. But last night I noticed something. My belly was rocking around pretty good. Normally she kicks and you can see my belly move a tad. Well last night she would kick and then drag all over. It was like she was seeing tracers off her leg or something so she was waving them around , it wasn't just little bumps. It looked like there was a mosh pit going on in my womb....lol Anyway, It made me overly excited and I thought I would just share that with ya.

Human Pin Cushion

I went to the Dr. last Thursday to do my Glucose screening. Well I received a call yesterday saying that my glucose levels were a tad bit high and that they needed me to come in today to get the glucose tolerance test. So I can't eat from midnight till the test is finished. And the test last three hours.

I come home in the morning to shower and get dressed. Oh wow I can't go in my room because Randy is asleep in my bed. So I end up wearing my dirty cloths from yesterday. I'm hungry and thirsty and I can't have anything. How suck ass! So I get to the Dr's at 8am just in time to sit for a half hour before they draw blood.

Finally they call me back and stick me with the needle. Then they hand me a bottle similar to the one I drank a few days prior only it was double the glucose. It was like drinking melted down sugar. It was disgusting. So I go in the waiting room and start to read. And just in time for me to start dozing off, they call me back for the second draw.

All together today I had my blood drawn 4 times in a 3 hour period. Mind you they could only draw from one arm because I have a fungus on my other arm. So now I have this nasty looking fungus on one arm... and my other arm looks like that of a druggies. It's quite attractive. So now for the time being... my name is now Human Pin Cushion.

24 weeks

I'm laying in bed last night and decide to switch to my right side instead of laying on the left. All the sudden I get this monster kick. I quickly grabbed Jason's hand and stuck it on my belly. He got to feel her kick :-) All this time I was the only one who got to feel her. But as I sit here and watch my belly at the moment and see her going off like a bag-o-popcorn , I realize that now everyone will get to feel her now.

We went to our Dr. appointment yesterday and the Dr. says her heart beat is great and she is the right size for where I am at in my preggers. So thus far she is a healthy little girl. Lets pray that it stays that way. Either way I still love her! But I went for my glucose tolerance screening yesterday. That is always pleasant isn't it? LOL I haven't yet received a call ... so that means they haven't run my blood work yet.... that or everything is fine. I will however keep ya posted.

23 weeks

My little kick boxer is getting stronger and stronger. She likes to kick in the cervix area. It doesn't hurt but it does make me jump when I am not expecting it. Her little kicks are getting more and more frequent. She moves around a lot when I am playing music or when the dogs are barking. I think that Jacks ( The mastiff ) barks scare her. Besides that, there really hasn't been any changes. Everything looks and feels well. I am getting more and more excited as the end nears. I still have a ways to go and I know that the end isn't all roses. But I welcome it! I love my little one tons already!

It's a GIRL

Michaela McMenomy it is! A little girl , I am so excited!

We went in today to do the ultrasound. My sister Reesa came along. I was very nervous that they were going to tell me something was wrong. I am so used to hearing bad news! But guess what. There was only good news. It's a girl! Jason and I had to give each other a high five because we were both hoping for a little girl. Michaela is a very active little one. She wouldn't sit still. So far both ultrasounds that I have had... she has been moving around like it was the thing to do. Very active and a strong heartbeat. Which always makes you feel better :-)