Amy's Mind Scribble

As of today we are now in the double digits — 99 more days!! Hard to believe it was 250+ in the beginning. Tomorrow is officially 26 weeks. Next week I go for my glucose test, which I’m not looking forward to, and follow up blood work. Then, the next week is my 28 week appt. Then, 2 weeks later is our 30 week ultrasound! Whew!

I signed us up for the various classes offered at the hospital this week, the same time, they had us sign up for a “tour”, which I feel like is kind of silly. Any other time you go to the hospital, you don’t take a tour first. Not sure if we’ll go to all of them or not, but we’re signed up just in case!

Instructions Not Included (Baby Care Class) 9/9 – 6-8pm
Breastfeeding 9/16 – 6-8pm
Prenatal Tour & Orientation 9/2 – 6pm
Childbirth Awareness 8/21 – 10:30am-3:30pm
Infant/Child CPR Class by the Red Cross 9/23 – 6-10pm

The first three are free, but the last two are $110 total. I guess I should be glad they didn’t cost more.

It’s been a really busy week here. I’ve been working quite a bit for DomainIt lately, so things have been extra busy. It’s nice to have the extra money right now because we’ve had so many expenses. This week I got my last 3 checks from them and unfortunately they’re all gone. We finally ordered the garage door, which should be replaced within the next 3 weeks. It will be so, so, so nice to not have to park in the driveway on the hill anymore (it’s getting hard to get in and out of that car on the hill!), but it sucks because that’s $1340 that could have gone to something else (a new couch?!?! or what it really should have gone too – credit cards). Ugh. Anyway, we still have to fix the back door, which will be another $500 or so. We were going to do that with the remainder of the money, but then we found a great deal on a camcorder, which we want for when the baby comes, so we ordered that! The back door will have to wait until next month I guess. It’s a pain to use since it’s constantly off it’s track and we go in and out of it so much, but it’s at least tolerable, unlike the garage door. Why, oh why, do things have to constantly break?

Here’s the new toy we got though. Can’t wait to take videos of her!

I better get back to work now… need to make more money after everything we’ve spent in June & July or else we may be eating nothing but PB&J for awhile!

So, tomorrow is 25 weeks! Just 3 1/2 months left!! Or 105 days according one website. So strange considering it was something like 260 days when we first found out. Time seemed to go so slow, but now it seems like it’s flown by. Only 2 (or is it 3) weeks and it’s the 3rd trimester!

We went to Babies ‘R Us today to return a roll of wallpaper border and they had Halloween costumes out. That was strange to see because it seems so early and even stranger because hopefully this little one (still un-named) will be here then!!

Next we headed to Gymboree… Thanks to our little shopping expeditions to Gymboree’s Big Red Balloon clearance sales during our long trip, we had Gymbucks to spend today. Basically it gave us 50% off (you spend $50, and you get $25 off per gymbuck), which brings their insanely high prices down to a little more reasonable price. Plus, we had an additional 20% coupon from Parents magazine. So, I at first picked up some pink baby outfit that she could use this fall, but then Ben found this doggy stuff and said we had to get that instead. The other outfits were really cute, but if he liked this one better, that was fine with me too. It all started with the little denim doggy skirt that he found and thought was really, really cute. Then he found the two t-shirts (red and white ones) to go with that. Then he saw the doggy purse, so we had to get another doggy outfit so that she could use that more. Not that she needs a purse at 1 but it was too cute to pass up. Anyway, we ended up with 3 outfits (2 of the skirt/t-shirts one just 2 different sizes), plus the extra stuff. Oh, the red ruffle skirt & shirt outfit we did not get the shoes and hat.

After Gymboree, we went to JC Penney’s to pick up our crib’s conversion rails that had come in. No furniture yet, but we have the rails to turn the crib into a full size bed.

It’s been an exciting week baby-wise with ordering the furniture and Ben finally feeling her for the first time! I’m also feeling a little relieved, kind of the way I felt when I finally got to the 2nd trimester. I’ve read that before 24 weeks there’s nothing really they can do for the baby if something goes wrong, but according to the mayo clinic site, once you hit 24 weeks, they have a good chance with medical help. I can’t believe that I’m only weeks from the 3rd trimester… time is really flying lately.

Today was my 24 week appointment. My last one was at 19 weeks, but was supposed to be at 20 weeks. this has been the longest stretch (5 weeks) that we’ve gone without any type of appointment or being able to see or hear the baby. I think it’ll be the longest stretch we have as well because I go in 2-3 weeks (my choice) for my glucose testing and thyroid bloodwork, then a week later for my regular appt, then 2 weeks later for our 30 week ultrasound. When she scheduled all of this today I just felt really nervous when she said 30 weeks. That’s just crazy that we’re almost to that point.

So, everything went fine. I got on the scale and was up 5.5 lbs, which after traveling for 3 of the last five weeks and eating out a lot of those 3 weeks, I guess isn’t too bad. I’m now up a total of 7.5-8lbs. Blood pressure was after that and was fine though it must have been a little higher than last time because she told me to calm down (how can you totally calm down after seeing a gain on the scale like that?!?) Peed in the cup next and everything was good there. When I saw the doc, I heard her heartbeat.. nice and steady at 160. They measured me for the first time, but gave me no info on that so I’m guessing it was normal. Other than that, she gave me a new prescription for my thyroid meds (they upped them yet again) and scheduled my next several appointments.

October seems to be coming up on us fast. Now if only we could finally pick out a name.

We ordered the baby furniture last night! We won’t get it until September though. AND.. Ben finally felt the baby move for the first time! He’s usually not very patient, but she kicked him almost as soon as he put his hand on my stomach. I think it kind of shocked him.