A friend asked me today via email how I was feeling.
Part of my response included: “…and then I am also feeling unbelievably emotional about having another kid. Mallory is such a fabulous little girl and I’m so afraid about screwing her up by having a baby…”
My friend wrote back: “Relax, it will all be fine. Take a deep breath and eat some chocolate. You guys will be great. Look how great Mallory is, well except for the Fancy Nancy fetish.”
Category: Pregnancy
35w3d Update
Had an appointment this morning (I have started my weekly appointments, OMG!).
Everything looks great – they took at look at the baby via ultrasound and Arlo was breathing and hiccuping and punching away. S/he was more quiet that normal so they almost had to strap on the monitoring things to make sure s/he was moving enough but I guess the nurse saw enough that we got to skip that exercise.
My fluid is 18 (whatever that means) and my blood pressure was good. My weight is 2.5 lbs less than it was at my very last doctor’s appointment with Mallory so …
I must be getting sort of big…
…because the “oh my – when are you due?” questions are starting to come pretty frequently!
I pway with Daddy…I go night-night
Funny story from Tuesday (not sure why I always tell you “…a funny story…” since most things I share here could start with that beginning…but whatever).
Anyway, while eating dinner on Tuesday, we gave Mallory the schedule for the rest of the night (I’d read that it’s good to let her know what to expect). So we said we were going to finish eating, and then take a bath, and then she could play with dad, and then it was night-night time.
Well, bath took a little longer than normal so we got her in her jammies and Rick read …
Baby Arlo update – 32w
We hit the 32 week mark last Friday…I have a follow-up appointment tomorrow to check to make sure things aren’t progressing past the one centimeter dilation I had last week. I have been feeling really good the past week to here’s to hoping all is well.
The baby continues to punch & kick the crap out of my uterus and it’s getting really annoying. Rick finally got to see an elbow or knee or something jut out and run across (or is it under?) my belly and that really grossed him out. I always tell him that since I have to …
Well, that was fun. For fake.
I had a doctor’s appointment Monday, not with my favorite Dr B, but with one of the doctors in her former group. The medical assistant who took my blood pressure, etc, asked how I was doing and I told her about Dr B’s concerns about my “uterine activity”; the MA asked if I wanted to be checked (for dilation) and I told her that if this doctor thought it was necessary, then that would be fine. Well, in walked the unfriendly doctor – she saw I was undressed from the waist down, and barely asked questions, and then she checked …
Baby Arlo update – 30 weeks
I just realized that I haven’t given a Baby Arlo update in a few weeks.
Last week I was having some weird pains. Last Sunday morning (1/11) I woke up with two very painful contractions/cramps, like I had to ball up and not breathe for about 10-15 seconds. I had another one on Monday morning. Later in the week I was having some different kind of pains and after checking with Dr Google on the internets, determined I was having Braxton-Hicks contractions.
I talked to my doctor last Thursday (1/15) and she said not to classify them as Braxton-Hicks or …
Don't forget to vote
Ok, I’ve already posted this before but I know there are some blog readers out there who haven’t voted yet.
So check out the ExpectNet.com link to the right and cast your vote for Baby Arlo’s stats :-)
Slacker!
Um, I was scolding a fellow friend & blogger for having gone so long between posts and I think that I have been absent longer than she has. Oops!! OK, I just checked, we are tied (last post for both of us was January 6).
But, I don’t know what to blog about this week. It’s been such a normal (i.e. BORING) week that while Mallory continues to send me into hysterics with her constant chatter, nothing has stood out as being blog-worthy, because if it was, you’d have read about it here. I don’t think I’ve taken any pictures this …
Baby Arlo – 28 weeks
I had a doctor’s appointment today; and because I mentioned to my doctor that I was feeling “huge” (meaning I couldn’t reach down to scratch my foot), she said to meet her in the ultrasound clinic and we’d do a quick fetal growth scan. Sweet!
Baby Arlo is measuring 3lbs, 4ozs, which is in the 80th percentile. Some of the measurements she was doing showed I was measuring 31-ish weeks…and I’m only 28-ish weeks. That made me mildly nervous but Dr B was not worried at all. The baby is also breech right now and she is also not worried about …