January 10, 2010

Good Evening!

Everything is good with me.  I hope everyone else had a good weekend.  It was quite cold here.  Other than that, there isn’t much going on.  My appointment with the doctor went well.

The heartbeat was fine at 148.  I had a cervix check and all was good there.  He did increase my glyburide to taking 5 mg with dinner instead of 2.5 mg.  I was expecting this since my fasting numbers had gotten kind of high.  It seems to be working.  My fasting numbers have gone down since the increase.  I hope this is the last increase until the end of the pregnancy but we will see.  I know things are only going to get harder from here on out.  The last trimester is the hardest on the diabetes.  The demands of my body and the baby get much greater.  I have gained 5 pounds total in the pregnancy so that is great news.  As long as I don’t do too much more, I will feel very accomplished.  At this point, I am certain that the weight I gain is all baby and not me.  I keep getting smaller but my belly gets bigger.  It is very odd.  My shoulders and chest are smaller than they have been in awhile and my butt has all but disappeared.  I am quite excited to see what my body looks like after the birth.  I am also strangely excited to get back to my regular diet for the diabetes.  It will feel more normal than the cravings I currently have.  The doctor also informed me that he would take the baby at 38 weeks by C-section if I didn’t go into labor naturally before then.  He is making plans for every scenario.  He told me there is a high chance of having the baby as early as 32 weeks.  If I go into labor on my own, he wants me to try to have the baby vaginally.  He feels that it will go fast in that case and would be less traumatic on my body. If I go into labor naturally, I will have to have an epidural.   If that isn’t the case, they will do a spinal for the C-section.  I am really mixed on what I prefer to happen.  I would like the experience of a natural birth because I didn’t have that with the first one.  However, I know that would mean that I am having the baby early and that worries me also.  I also am not looking forward to the epidural.  I had a really bad experience with the epidural with my first child.  They didn’t put it in correctly and had to do it a second time.  I also had one side that didn’t seem to get numb enough.  I didn’t really have any bad after effects just get sore around that area every month around my period.  I didn’t get the “big” headache though.  The doctor also told me that at 32 weeks I would start seeing him more than I cared to.  He said I would be in at least once a week for some kind of testing; either a non stress test on the baby or an ultrasound.  At this point, things will start getting crucial.  We will need to constantly check the size of the baby and the state of the baby and me.  We have to make sure we are all up to it.  I would guess that if the baby looks as if it is getting to large, they might go ahead and schedule a c-section to avoid other risks.  I am hoping that isn’t the case.  I have an ultrasound scheduled for January 26.  Hopefully, I will find out if it is a boy or girl by then.  I am also hoping for good news on health and size then also.  The last ultrasound couldn’t see everything but did look good as far as size.  I will keep everyone updated.