28 weeks! yippee!!! what a milestone....i had my OB appointment today and everything is looking "perfect" in my OB's words- although with gestational diabetes, on insulin 4 times per day, with hands so swollen my rings dont fit, and feet so swollen im only wearing backless clogs so i can slip them off my feet easily when im sitting at my desk, and with a total of approximately 3 hours of sleep per night, perfect is probably not the word i would use to describe it.
i do have to say that i am extremely happy and the baby seems to be doing great, so that is a BIG relief! and im making due with my mile long list of complaints....i know every little pain, every little instant of exhaustion, every minute of this pregnancy is worth it and i'll forget every second of unhappiness when i have a beautiful (hopefully healthy) baby in my arms....
im not unhappy, dont get me wrong. i think im just so tired all the time i can hardly think of anything else! i am not really sure how i get through my days...how i function well at work (although i know my judgement is NOT compromised), and what i do with the extra time im awake at night! (i am already halfway through "breaking dawn"- book 4 in the twilight series- so i guess thats where my time goes! good thing i have something interesting to do when i wish i was sleeping!).
when i was 23 weeks, i started contracting. i saw my OB immediately because i was absolutely horrified at what was happening- especially since i have never actually had a real contraction because when i was pregnant with levi, my two inductions failed and i had no labor at all, hence the c-section in the end....but i felt i was truly contracting at 23 weeks and i was panic stricken, which made things worse. it turns out, the baby was transverse and the uterus was trying its hardest to move the baby to a more comfortable and roomy position, and my OB was absolutely wonderful reassuring me that it was normal and that i should relax for a day or two and i would be fine (which, obviously i was). but it scared me and since then, i have not let jeff touch me for fear that it could set off contractions again. (sorry jeff, and sorry everyone if you all think that is TMI).
its really funny....again, maybe too much information for some of you....BUT, with my last pregnancy, when i was in my second trimester especially, all i wanted to do all day, every day, was have sex. sex in the morning. sex at night. sex after work. sex in the shower. i wanted to watch porn. i tried some insane positions when my belly got in the way. i was a sex crazed maniac- literally. so when jeff and i decided to try to get pregnant again, he was absolutely beside himself excited about me getting pregnant- for obvious reasons.....well- sorry jeff. this pregnancy is what i call ABSOLUTELY opposite. i have no interest in sex whatsoever. i have no interest in cuddling, touching, holding, even lying next to each other in bed! i have banished jeff to 1/4 of the king size bed, i take up 3/4 of the bed and if he invades my space, i kick and push until he retreats.
everyone says that the type of pregnancy you have has no bearing on what sex the baby is....but this one is so different than the last, could it mean im having a girl? i guess we'll find out in about 12 weeks.....
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