28 Weeks

No picture again.  I'll try to take one on Friday when I go for my next appt.


•How far along are you? 28 weeks!  YAY!  This was the very first milestone my dr. wanted me to meet.

•How big is baby?: He weighs two and a quarter pounds (like a Chinese cabbage) and measures 14.8 inches from the top of his head to his heels.

•Maternity clothes: All maternity pants and mostly maternity shirts.

•Gender: BOY!! Evan Michael Baxter. 

•Sleep?: You would think I'd sleep well being on bedrest now, but I actually feel like ever since I went on bedrest, the sleeping just keeps getting worse.

•Best moment this week?: Getting to see Evan on the sono.  Also finding out I passed the 3 hour glucose test and my cervix stayed the same this week!

•Movement?: Tons of movement! He was going crazy this morning during the sono!  Funny thing is, I found out today I have an anterior placenta (not sure how I've missed that in the past).  I was just shocked because usually that makes it harder to feel the baby, but I have absolutely no issues with that.  He makes himself very known in my tummy!

•Food cravings?: Bananas and popsicles

•Food aversions?: Plain grilled chicken

•What I miss: Still a lot at this point.

•Symptoms: Still getting bad headaches and the heartburn continues to be bad as I'm spending so much time laying down now.  No contractions that I feel, but based on my dr. appt, apparently that doesn't mean I'm not having them.

•Milestone: Making it another week with Evan still in my tummy!!!! And surviving my third week of bedrest! Also, this is my first week of my third trimester!!  12 weeks to go!!

Let's see. . .I feel like lots has happened since my last weekly post.  I took my 3 hour glucose test on Monday.  It was awful!  So much worse than the 1 hour one.  The drink was soo much sweeter.  I had a much harder time keeping it down this time.  But I knew if it came back up, I'd have to start all over.  After drinking the super sweet orange drink (that the lady taking my blood told me was the equivalent of eating 5 full size candy bars in 5 min), I had to sit in a chair for 3 hours and get blood taken 4 times.  I have quite the bruise on my arm to show for it.  On Tuesday morning, I saw my dr's number pop up on the phone and when I answered it, the first thing out of my mouth to the nurse was "please don't tell me I failed."  She said she was so excited to call me when she got the results because I was due for some good news.  I had passed with flying colors!!  YAY!! 


I had my regular dr. appt this morning.  I made Shawn come with me as I had pretty much convinced myself that I would be sent to the hospital afterwards.  But luckily I wasn't!!  We started with a sono and the first thing she did was measure my cervix.  I was sooo nervous!  Pretty sure I hardly slept all night because all I could think was that this might be my last night in my bed for a while.  But, it measured 23 mm.  The exact same as last week.  I couldn't be more excited and felt like I could let out a huge sigh of relief.  After that she checked on Evan.  Apparently, we were keeping him up.  We saw him yawn 4 times during the 10-15 minutes that we saw him.  He was busy though.  Kicking me all over the place.  Oh and we did find out 1 fun thing.  Evan already has some hair!  We could see it.  :)  The sono tech also measured the amount of fluid around him.  Starting at my appt last week, the amount of fluid has increased to the upper limits of the normal range.  This can be a sign for gestational diabetes, but since I  passed my test, they aren't too concerned.  They said sometimes that can just happen and they don't know why (yet one more thing they can't explain :)  ).  But my dr. said they will just continue to monitor it. The sono tech didn't check his kidney today, but my assumption is that it's still dilated.  After my sono, I had an NST.  The funny thing is, this is the part I wasn't concerned about at all because I haven't been feeling any contractions.  But unfortunately this is where we received our first bit of bad news this week.  As my dr. said, I showed uterine irritability.  Basically the monitors should have picked up a flat line.  Mine had little consistent hills.  She said they probably weren't real contractions since those would have been much larger hills, but she was still concerned.  She's hoping the sono is what caused it, but to be sure she's making my come back Friday morning for another NST.  So I've guaranteed myself at least 2 more nights at home.  I'm hoping for an uneventful appt. on Friday so I can guarantee another weekend at home.


In nursery news. . .Evan's bedding arrived!!  YAY!  My mom picked it up today and brought it by.  She also got him a cute lamp for his nightstand.  I'll probably wait to post pics of his nursery until it's done.


In Em news. . .Shawn is planning on converting Em's crib to a full size bed on Saturday (which makes me hope for good news at my appt on Friday even more).  Also, school has requested she start trying big girl panties at school!!  Shawn brought some in today, but I guess her teachers didn't see them.  So maybe they will try tomorrow?