Pregnancy: Week 27
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday!
I'm 28 weeks pregnant today, which is a big milestone in that a) I am now in my third trimester! and b) the babies' survival is a much surer thing if they were born now than it has been the past few week.
Here's how the last week has been:
- The whole gestational diabetes thing is going pretty OK. I'm finding it pretty easy to stick to the diet and testing my glucose 4 times/day hurts, but I just don't think about it too much and it isn't that big a deal. The only thing I'm having a little trouble with is when I'm eating out sometimes my blood sugar is higher than it should be. Like one night I had a patty melt and a salad and that was bad, bad, bad. I was thinking, a hamburgur and 2 pieces of bread and veggies, that should be a good meal, but the diabetes educator I met with Friday said the restaurant had probably put sugar in the carmalized onions, and the thousand island dressing had sugar, and the ranch dressing I put on my salad had sugar. Anyway, lesson learned. I need to be VERY careful when not preparing meals at home
- OB appointment on Friday and everything looks great. The babies are 2 lb 11 oz and 2 lb 13 oz, which my OB said was great and Dr. Google says are on the large side for 27 weeks...don't know if that's because of the diabetes or the fact my husband is 6' 6". Anyway, my OB seems pleased so I am happy. The babies are both also head down, and my OB says we can try for a natural delivery as long as the first baby is head down. Glad to hear that
- The fears I had last week about something going wrong have lessened, thank goodness. Today feeling very serene and confident that everything is going to go well from this point forward
- Still some discomfort from a variety of sources. Nausea continues to be bothersome although it's nothing like it was earlier in the pregnancy. My sleep is still off but not as bad as it's been. I've found that if I wake in the middle of the night a hot shower and one Tylenol can help me get back to sleep (if I wake it's usually because my back and/or right hip/knee [old sports injury] are aching)
- Feeling a bit more fatigue. Naps in the afternoons sometimes are a good thing
- Still walking some, but my whole belly area tends to feel uncomfortable/crampy after, so really minimizing exercise...maybe twice a week at this point
- Today I weighed in at +35 lbs from my transfer date--right where I should be. From this point forward I'm supposed to gain about a pound a week for the rest of the pregnancy, which is what I gained on the diabetes diet last week so I'm pretty confident this can happen
- Working on baby quilts with my mom and baby sweaters on my own...I'm so happy I'm able to make so many things for the babies...means a lot to me
Hope everyone has a lovely week!
XO
