26w3d

Today was my 26 week appointment. By all medical standards it went well. By time standards, it sucked... A LOT!! My appointment was at 11:00 but I had my 1 hour glucose test today so they told me to go to the lab first, drink the orange drink and then come upstairs. Their reasoning was that I wouldn't have to wait around doing nothing, instead I could have my appointment and then go back down and have my blood drawn.

Wow... don't we wish it was that easy. I arrived at the lab at about 20 till 11. Since they wanted to give me plenty of time to get back I waited until about 10 till before I drank the sugary substance. All in all it really wasn't that bad. It was REALLY cold but the taste wasn't as awful as I had anticipated. I suppose since my diet consists of LOTS of sugar that could be a factor.

After I drank the orange stuff I headed upstairs to my appointment. I checked in a little before 11:00 and began to wait. And I waited, and I waited, and oh yeah... I waited some more. They finally called my name at 11:35. I told the nurse that I needed to get back downstairs by 11:50 and her only response was if you need to leave let me know and then just come back to the room when you are done. Not, okay I will get the doctor into your room... no... that would be to easy.

My blood pressure was 110/62 and I had gained 4 pounds so she said all looked good there and off she went. So... I waited, and waited, and waited some more. Finally at 11:48 I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to leave and come back so that's what I did. When I got back from the lab the doctor FINALLY came in.

She listened to the little man's heart rate and experienced what we have known for a little while. He doesn't like to be disturbed. As soon as she put the doppler on my stomach he immediately gave it a good wack. Then we had to wait for me to stop laughing so she could finally listen to him. His heart rate was a lot faster than usual, 160, but I suppose it should have been considering he was all hyped up on sugar!! :-)

Finally we got down to business, my weight. Apparently she is concerned that my total weight gain is only 4 pounds. HOWEVER, what she is not taking into account is the 15 pounds that I gained between when we started on this trying to conceive path and when we finally got pregnant. Unfortunately, since I was in there every month their pre-pregnancy weight is me 15 lbs too heavy.

So, her suggestion to me was that she wanted me to gain 5 pounds between now and next appointment and I should do so by eating 6 meals a day. SIX meals? How in the world am I going to fit in six meals?