Dr Appointment Updates

Well, had my Dr. Appointment today. And I just have one question....why is it that during the day I pee a zillion times, pretty much every 2 hours, but when I have to give a 'sample' I dry up completely. SHEESH! Anyway, got into the room, and the Dr. came in. He looked at my chart and said that I had passed the 3 hr glucose test. YEA!! No meds or anything crazy like that needed.

He said he was very glad about my weight. With as much as I gained with PCOS, he is only estimating 10-15 lb gain. He said it may even be the end of my 2nd trimester before I start moving up the scale. He doesn't want me to gain a lot, but the baby will help my body determine how much I should gain. It was quite funny when I had asked him about not gaining anything, but 'parts' of me are getting smaller. He said that babies are the worlds best parasites - cause they feed on the stored fats in your body. Since I have the extra fat stored from PCOS, I got plenty for the baby to feed on - EAT UP!! After the question and answer, he had me lay back and he was poking my belly a bit, then said that my uterus size is right on track,

After the poking, I thought he was done. But then he must have heard my silent prayer - cause out came the doppler. ::Sigh:: He got the heart beat really quick. Beating strong- my little washing machine- and he said the beats were strong and even. Very pleased with everything.

So, I cleaned up, and we set the date for the Growth and Anatomy scan (boy?/girl?) and my next Dr. Appointment for the same date - August 27th. 4 more weeks, and I will {{Hopefully}} find out what we are having - as long as the baby works with us. I will be getting the Scan on DVD, so I will be able to post the video once we get home. VERY EXCITING!!! We can't wait. Tim is taking the day off and going to go with me. The appointment is early morning, so we are going to go to the 2 appointments, and then we both have chiropractor appointments that afternoon. Busy Day!

Anyway, thank you to everyone for their prayers regarding the Glucose Test. I was very nervous about it, but turns out everything is fine. Just hope that the same will be said when I take the tests over again in 8-10 weeks (like a normal person).

♥ J & Lil Bean ♥

First Baby-ish Gift from my MIL

**Sorry, was going to do this last night, but went to dinner at my parents house with my SIL and Nephew.**

My MIL, Pam (Hubby's Mom) said that she wanted to drop off the gifts she got us when she was on vacation back in June. She said that she kept forgetting to get them to us. Hubby and I were at dinner, and then going to the grocery, so MIL dropped it off at the house. When we got home, we had a little bundle of gifts waiting for us.

Turns out, right next to the resort my MIL was staying at was a 'build a bear' type place, and she had to go and check it out.The bear she made was very cute. It has jeans, tennis shoes, and has a T-shirt that says 'Born to Love Grandma'. MIL said that there is a purple star in with the stuffing that is her 'wish' for the baby. Purple is her favorite color, so that is why she chose it.

I love it. She named it Little Bean, and it even has a birth certificate that has the name on it.

She made the bear a little bracelet that says Little Bean on it.
In the 'cradle' that comes with it - she had added 2 CDs of baby lulibies, a 'Camo' onesie, a Bengal Bib, and a yellow blanket with Winnie the Pooh on it. There was also a Gray long sleeve shirt that said 'Oh Baby' on it for me.

Very cute indeed. I can already tell that this baby is going to be SPOILED!!! As I was looking at everything, I was very squeeful.

I can just imagine how I will be at the babyshower - it is going to be sickening. LOL.

♥ J & Lil Bean ♥

Garden Updates!!

Well, what can I say...we have been pretty blessed this year with the garden. We just did our 3rd pick of Green Beans - and god somewhere around 33 gallons of un-snapped beans between everyone. We got beans coming from all sides. Never have we had such a harvest....and they are still blooming. I am running out of jars at this point. We usually can the pints, cause that is all Tim and I need, but we canned some quarts too for company, reunions, etc. However, I am now out of pint jars - mom is out too, and we are going to be canning the rest in quarts unless I can find a place to sell them off. I am very thankful for the amount that has came from the garden...and especially thankful for my mom and Grandma Brown - who have been doing all the canning. Per Grandma B - I am not allowed to do any of the canning as my lids will not seal (wives tale). However, when she was pregnant - none of hers sealed. Better be safe not sorry. Give Grandma something to do during the day, and my mom takes over if there is any left. Mom mainly does the picking, and all 3 of us snap. I can pretty much only snap and clean - that's it.

A few days back, we had a good rain (which we needed) however, the wind blew so hard that it knocked my corn to the ground. I only had about 15-20 stalks still standing. I was crushed (no pun intended) cause one of my fav foods is Sweetcorn on the Cob - I can just eat that as a meal by itself. It looked like someone drove their car over my corn - laying pretty much flat. Well, I prayed - and the sun came out. Most of th stalks are back upright- there is a section in the middle that is still laying down a bit, but it looks like the ears are filling out, so I am starting to feel good about it. We will see how they look in a few weeks when they are ready. I can't wait!!

Well, it is close to bed time, and I am pooped. I will post another blog tomorrow - my MIL brought us the gifts she has been saving for us - congrats on the baby gifts - so I had a big SQUEEFUL Mommy Moment! Can't wait to share pictures about it.

G'night

♥ J & Lil Bean ♥

Room Updates, Bad Dreams and my Glucose Fail

Well, on the house front - the rooms are empty!! WHOOT!!! But everything is now in the basement, including the spare room bed. So the house looks a bit empty - like we were getting ready to move. We are hoping Dad will come out within the next few weeks to put the wood in the Dining and Kitchen rooms, and start tearing out the carpet in the bedrooms. While we were at Lowes getting the boards that will go where the carpet was in the dining room to level the floor with the existing kitchen floor. Gotta have a pretty level area to but the wood down. While we were at Lowes, we decided to re-paint the bedrooms while they are empty. However, just being in Lowes paint center, flooring center, anywhere in Lowes really, makes me start to feel sick. Luckily Hubby called his Dad, and asked if he would come in an paint. YEA!! He said he would paint one room at a time - which is good so I don't get too much in fumes. We will have the ceiling fans on in the rooms, and just have him open the windows and close the door when he leaves - that way we can keep the fumes going out. May even put fan in the window, but we will see. I am just thankful that he agreed to do it. It will keep me out of the room and away from the fumes.

I have also been having some bad dreams recently. Mostly they are weird, and don't really make much sense. I have had a few where my closest friend, Brooke, went with me to a Dr. appointment, but then some guys attempted to kidnap her from my car when we were driving home. I think it was the fact that I haven't gotten to talk to her, or hang out with her for a while that prompted the dreams. Since we move out of town, it has gotten harder and harder to get together. Especially since it is about 40 minutes between our houses. Not to mention, with my 'no-baby-blues' I spent a lot of time to myself, and hiding in the house.

Well, today was a doosie. To start with, the only dreams I have ever had about the baby was what we were having, and that there would be 2 (boy and a girl by the way). But today was BAD. I had a dream that I lost the baby. I was at my parents house, and was getting into the shower - and noticed some spotting. So I run into the kitchen (still buck naked) and start freaking out asking Mom (nurse) what to do. She said that they had to get the baby out - So I start freaking out again saying that nothing is wrong with the baby, and I just need to go to the doctor. So I decide to go ahead and take a shower, but as I was stepping in, I sneezed. Now, without going into too much detail, think of how it looks if you turn a ketchup bottle upside down, and squeeze hard and fast. Yea, pretty gross, and really freaked me out. This is when I woke up. My heart was racing, and I was breathing fast - starts of a full blown panic attack. I haven't had one in a few years, but was able to calm down before things got out of hand. Unfortunately Tim was already out of bed, and it was about 20 minutes before my alarm went off, so he wasn't there in the bed with me. but after a few calm breaths, I was OK. It still bothered me a little, but I am trying to put it behind me. I will definitely be asking the Dr. to locate the heartbeat if he doesn't do it on his own, just to put my mind at ease.

On top of that, this morning I got a call from the Dr's office. So last week, at my nurse meeting, I agreed to do the 1 hour glucose test. Because of my PCOS, I have an increased chance of Gestational Diabetes. So to be safe, they tested me early, to try and head off any issues. Well, the results came back, and I failed. So tomorrow I am taking the dreaded 3 hour test. I have to fast from 7:30 pm until test time at 7:30 am. Now, for those of you that have been following along, I am notorious for getting a bit fuzzy when I get my blood drawn. Well, 12 hrs of fasting, 1 bottle of sugar drink, and a blood draw every hour for 3 hours, it is going to be a trial tomorrow. Please pray for me that I don't A) throw up - cause I will have to come back and do it again another day and B) not pass out from lack of food, and 3 individual blood draws. Hopefully they will have my test results by Thursday afternoon when I go to see the Dr. I am a bit anxious, so I can't wait until the results come in. If the levels are still too high, they may put me back on the Met, and I would have to test my own blood sugar. But I am just trying to get tomorrow done, then worry about the results.

Anyway, gotta go to bed now cause I gotta get up earlier than normal to make it to the lab early enough.

G'night
♥ Jessica & Lil Bean ♥

Sorry no posts recently.

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. We are preparing for my vacation the end of August. I am off for 7 days - where we are getting carpet installed THROUGHOUT the house....yes, the WHOLE UP STAIRS. So, needless to say I have been trying to get the nursery cleaned out (was storing stuff from the basement overhaul that we never moved back down stairs...aka...junk) and get the non-essential stuff packed up so we can rip carpet out in a few weekends from now. We are also getting the laminate flooring in the Kitchen/Dining room area, so we went and picked that out - and it is sitting in the Spare Room. Tim ripped out the remaining baseboard heaters, and we are going to cut out the thermostats that went with them the same day we rip the carpet up. We will also patch the holes from wire, replace the missing baseboard, and touch up paint while the carpet is up. Well, I won't be doing any of that stuff, except running the sweeper when the carpet and tack strips are removed. No painting for me! We are still trying to decide if we are just going to paint the nursery a cream color - or wait and do a color once we find out what we are having. Oh well, gotta get the rooms cleaned out first. Got quite a few bags to take to good will. Mostly clothes that I will 'Never' be back in - size 2-4 from the modeling days, along with some of the 6-8 that didn't wear when I could fit into them. Some of my 10s I am keeping - just in case I can get back in them after the pregnancy - we will see how PCOS acts after the baby is here. Tim even got rid of some of his T-shirts that he doesn't wear anymore, or are too small. I swear that man has more clothes than I do - most of them were from high school!

Not only are we working inside, but God has been working on the outside. Our garden is GROWING. We have already canned 69 pint jars of green beans, and our sweetcorn will be ready in a few weeks. We have ears starting!! I am so excited....I have been dying for silver queen corn!! Well, I can't really say 'WE' have been canning - since I am not allowed to touch anything when we start to can. I can clean and break the beans, but when it comes to the canning, I am not allowed to touch anything - Grandma's rules. When she was pregnant with my uncle, none of her lids sealed. So, better be safe than sorry - Mom and Grandma have been doing my canning for me. Mom and I are splitting everything from the garden anyway, I just feel like they have been doing all the work. However, Mom said that I have been providing the food and cookies (warm after dinner dessert) so we can call it even.

On the baby front - nothing new. The queasy feeling is getting less - however my appetite is still not back. Still have a few things I can't even think about eating. I haven't gained any weight, however I only have 2 notches on my belt left. Some of you have been asking for Baby Bump Pictures - I'm sorry. I don't want to post belly pictures till it looks like I am pregnant -not just 'fluffy' around the midsection. The bump is still below my belly button, so no pictures until it rises. I'm still tired though. I work for a few hours on stuff, and then have to go sit/lay down cause I am dead on my feet. Makes getting ready for the vacation very hard. I finally get to have my appointment with the nurse this week on Wednesday (even though I will be 15 1/2 weeks preg) for her to go over all the specifics, do's and don'ts, start a birth plan, etc. Should be interesting. I will have a few more questions to ask her this time (TMI-FYI: some help in the #2 department, how to prevent/spot a hemroid before it gets bad, etc). If anyone has some good questions that you think I should ask - post them below!

Well, I gotta get ready for bed - starting another work week tomorrow ::GROAN:: The weekends are just not long enough, and I can't seem to sleep good when I don't have an alarm to wake up to.

G'night
♥ J & Lil Bean ♥

Pregnancy Survey

I was reading another pregnant blogger MSC from GP and she did a pregnancy survey, so I thought I would do it also.


How far along? 13 1/2 weeks **Sorry had to edit - forgot what week I was on!**
Total weight gain/loss: -5 lbs.
Maternity clothes? They're not a necessity at this point, but I have gotten my friend - Jessica also - all of her Maternity clothes since she is not planning on more babies. I am willing to take anyone elses if they wanna get rid of!!
Stretch marks? One - but don't know if it was from the PCOS 50 lb weight gain. before pregnancy
Sleep: ok, but keep having weird dreams.
Best moment this week: Not been a great week so far - really emotional.
Movement: none really - TMYFYI...would like a little movement in the #2 area!!
Food cravings: french fries - and any food I don't have to cook.
Food aversions (added this!): changes from day to day
Gender: TBD.
Labor Signs: Thank God No!!
Belly Button in or out? In.
What I miss: Not being able to eat anything I want due to sickness.
What I am looking forward to: everything!!
Weekly Wisdom: what?
Milestones: loosened my belt another notch! Thank goodness I lost 20 lbs before pg - got plenty of room!!