25 weeks and an ultrasound

We've made it 6 months. We're closing in on entering the third trimester which is really, really hard to believe. You find out you're pregnant and think there's so much time to do everything, then next thing you know you've only got a couple months left with days that seem to be filling faster and faster. We haven't had a chance to plan that 'one last vacation' that everyone recommends so I'm feeling like we need to go somewhere soon!

So this past month is the first month that I've really started to look pregnant (finally!) to where random strangers notice. I've been warned about these strangers by all moms. They are the people that stop you to ask the same old questions...'When are you due?" (I just need to wear the 'Due in October' shirt that my sis in law Amy gave me everywhere I think), 'Do you know what you're having?', 'Have you been feeling good?'. And I've finally experienced the random acts of belly touching by people I don't know. We were up in Ohio last week for my grandma's funeral and I had at least 10 people over the weekend that I don't know come up and touch it...without asking. What is it about a pregnant belly that just draws hands to it? I'm a big 'personal space' person and I was completely thrown off by all the touching. I think I need to add "No touching needed" to my Due in October shirt.

With the finally protruding belly this month, nothing too incredibly drastic has changed. I still feel the little thing moving all the time day and night, and my favorite thing to do is to lay down and watch TV at night just watching the quick bulges as it kicks and then watch the waves it creates when it shifts positions. I think that's one of Chris' favorite things too. He just sits and stares at my stomach waiting for it to move.

I'm still feeling really good and am eating like I always have. I still haven't had any constant cravings so I'm a little disappointed with that. I was really hoping for something fun or crazy to start eating but nothing yet. One thing that has happened this past month is a instant numb left hip as soon as I lay on my right side. I can't lay on it for even 10 seconds without my left hip going numb with that burning, tingly, sleeping feeling. It goes away as soon as I shift away from the right side....so I'm having trouble sleeping only on my left side at night. I just want to roll around to shift positions but can't since I'm not supposed to sleep on my back and the right side is causing issues. Luckily my body pillow is still keeping me comfortable:)

We had another ultrasound today again. Our last one was 6 weeks ago and the bean was measuring pretty big for how far along I was. My doc ordered another ultrasound to see if it's still showing bigger than normal so we can monitor it for down the road. So we went today and got the chance to see him/her again! Unfortunately, Krugie didn't feel like having it's picture taken today. The head was facing directly towards my spine so we couldn't see a shot of it's face at all. Of all times for it to stay in one position and not move, it chooses the day that we get to see it! It just sat there and didn't move for the whole hour...and that never happens on a normal day! So we only got to walk out with a shot of the spine, and one of the little foot up by its head. We both just walked out looking at each other thinking we got hosed on our visit today:). So other than not seeing it's face, everything went well with it. The doctor that reads the ultrasounds will have the results to my doctor for my next appointment next week, so we'll know more then. But I asked the tech before we left about the size that the measurements were showing on the computer. She said, it's reading at approx 2lbs 3 oz. Really. Really? The 'average' size for a 25 week old is 1lb 8oz. That's showing 11oz more than average which is alot! I'm hoping that these ultrasounds aren't accurate! I know the further along you get the more range there is with measurements so I'm hoping that it's really not as big as it's showing! Time will tell:)

This weekend will be finish up the nursery weekend. We've had it painted for a couple weeks but finally got our crib and dresser in there, so hopefully we'll be able to fill in the gaps this weekend. It's so weird and exciting to walk into our office and see a crib set up!

Next week is my glucose tolerance test, to test for gestational diabetes. I'm not looking forward to the fasting after midnight (I wake up starving in the morning!) and drinking the super sugary orange drink to have my blood taken...we'll see how that goes!


Here are our spine and foot pictures from today...

Good bye Nagy...we'll miss you

Today we learned Nagymama(my grandma) passed away. It's been a very long life for her and we will miss her dearly. She had gotten really sick in the last week so we were all prepared for it. All of her kids (my aunts and uncles) were able to be in town to see her for the past few days and I know that's been really helpful for all of them.

Though I know it's rare for someone to know or have any recollection of their great grandparents, I'm still saddened that my kids will never get to know her. They won't get to get her ever-popular birthday cards with a $1 bill and a note saying "Buy you's a coke", or ever get to taste her chicken paprikash, palascinta or green bean soup, or get the Hungarian cook book from her when they get married. They won't get to hear her tell them all kinds of bad words in Hungarian or get to go in her basement to play pool and hang out at Pops' awesome bar. But they will get to hear all of our stories about her and how ornery she was.

I know she's upstairs now probably dancing with Pops to some Hungarian polka music and having the best time. We'll miss you Nagy.

The hospital tour...enough to freak a first time mom out

So last night we took a hospital tour to check out one of the hospitals that we might have the baby at. I'm thinking this is going to be pretty uneventful and really boring but I just wanted to see how this place works.

So we all meet in the main lobby and our nurse tour guide takes us all upstairs to the birthing center. There are about 8 of us on tour and we all get off the elevator to our first stop of looking in the nursery. About a minute into it all, around the corner comes a nurse running a very pregnant mom in a wheelchair to one of the observation rooms as she is (sorry it's gross) vomiting into a huge bowl in her lap. Now when I say vomiting, I mean she has a BIG bowl in her lap already filled with vomit as she is vomiting even more into it as she passes us. I don't know how much stuff was in that poor woman's stomach but it was alot! All of us to-be moms look at each other with that 'holy crap (insert curse word instead)' look on our faces. We could hear her moaning down the hall once she turned the corner as a doctor sprints passed us and we hear nurses calling her name saying 'Faye, Faye, can you hear me, Faye!" and over the loud speaker is 'Rapid response Birth Center, rapid response Birth Center'. Awesome.

So our nurse tour guide lady just kind of says 'wow, busy night tonight' and 'it's not usually like this'...Lord, I hope not! She decides to take us down the hall to the waiting room so that things can calm down and we are out of the way for the doctors. As we all pile into the room we hear sick Faye screaming...screaming. Jesus Lord, I do not want to have this baby anymore. What in the world could be happening down there? If that's not enough to scare you about having a kid, I dont know what is. So we stay in the room for a while then continue our tour.

We then go to the LDRP (Labor Delivery Recovery Postpartum) room for her to show us everything. This is the one room that moms have for their entire stay which is pretty nice. That way, you're not moving around to different rooms. Not that it was really shocking, and I really wouldn't have paid much attention to any of this if I were already in labor without having seen the room prior to my arrival. But when you lift the sheets back on the bed, raise the bed, lift the back of the bed, detach the bottom half of the bed, and raise the stirrups, and there's just this delivery bed staring at you, it's a little freaky looking...especially with the nice red Biohazard bag just hanging out below the edge of the bed waiting to catch 'stuff'. I mean, I watch all these shows on TLC but when you just see the bed hanging out waiting there it's just weird. We did like it that she took us through how everything works and how a typical delivery works so it answers alot of questions.

After this room (quite some time had passed) she took us down the hall where sick Faye was taken to show us the Observation room where you would go if you are checked into the hospital for any reason prior to labor where they can just watch and monitor you. This is where Faye was so we weren't allowed to actually check the room out. The nurse in that area says we were not allowed to go in because it's 'really messy' in there. Seriously, what is wrong with poor Faye...why is the room so 'messy'?? Again, all of us just look at each other. I know not every pregnancy is happy and perfect but when you see someone sick like that it really just makes you think all these scary thoughts. Crazy.

So that was basically our visit last night. Much more eventful than we anticipated.

22 weeks

I had my monthly dr. appointment today. Every time I go I always think they are going to do more than just measure my stomach and listen to the heartbeat and always seem to be a little diappointed when they don't...like I'm expecting something really cool to happen and then..nothing. I'm just greedy I think.

So first thing today at the visit the doctor talks about the 'big' baby on the ultrasound from a couple weeks ago. She's not necessarily concerned...yet. She did say Krugie was definitely measuring big for it's due date and wants me to have another ultrasound in three weeks to see how it measures then. If it's still measuring much more ahead of where it typically should be then they are going to start to monitor me more closely and probably send me for more ultrasounds as we progress along. She said it's possible that it may have just measured big that early on but that it could kind of level off as we go. Or he/she could just keep it up and be pretty hefty. I guess having an ultrasound a little further along will be more accurate than that first one so that will help them guess what's going to happen down the road. I'm ok with seeing new pictures of him/her so send me for more tests!

I asked her how the whole having the baby thing would work if it's getting too big. She said that if we get to the point where he/she is measuring 10lbs (holy crap) and I'm not showing any signs of my cervix thinning then they would probably do a planned c-section to get the bean out. If we get to where it's measuring 10lbs and I am starting to show signs of labor then they would possibly induce me to get it going a little faster. So those are the worst case scenarios at this point. I think it's kind of funny because none of this stuff happened when our parents were having us. They just had the baby when they had it and there weren't all of the 'what if's'....crazy doctors! I hope that if it does get to be that big that I'll start to go into labor and avoid the whole c-section thing...that's the last thing I want if I have a choice.

So other than that little 'issue' everything else seems to be fine. I've gained a total of 11 lbs so we're on track there. The heartbeat sounds really good..when she could find it. Darn thing moves around so much that she kept losing the sound. So then she proceeded to say 'wow, you're really active in there'. Yet again, I know. Now the fun thing to do is to display its athletic abilities the most right when I'm laying down to sleep at night...like it's recess time and the kids just run around crazy all over the place because they're free.

Speaking of moving around so much again, we can now finally see my stomach move when it kicks which is pretty neat. It's kind of cool laying there then all of a sudden see your belly pop up real quick on one side.

No other issues to report on my end. I'm still feeling really good and definitely popping out much more now. Even within the last week and a half I've grown alot, by my standards...though I would have thought with the giant in there that I'd be bigger. I guess I have lots of free room in there! We're already in the very high 90's here so I'm not looking forward to summer, especially August and September, with the Brun sweat genes I have. I think I'll just keep an ice pack attached to me at all times:)