First, let's play the 'how big is mommy now!' game. =] Wearing the right clothes, I can still pass as just having consumed far too many twinkies, but it's definitely getting harder to hide the fact that I'm pregnant. Not that I'm trying to hide it mind you, I've been looking forward to sporting this baby bump since we first saw that elusive second line waaay back on November 17th!
Backing up a bit, the screening for gestational diabetes came back WONDERFULLY! Blood sugars ended up being a whopping 114 at the one-hour mark and 'normal' is considered anything below 140. Whoot! We were DEFINITELY excited about that! =]
On May 11th though, Mommy ended up having a strange bout of dizziness and went in to urgent care at the phone nurse's promptings. The urgent care doctor that she saw was AWESOME! They ran an EKG along with a large number of blood tests and blood pressure monitorings to see what may have been the cause. The tests came back inconclusive. After that day, Mommy has been experiencing shortness of breath and a racing heart roughly 3 or 4 times a day. She brought it up at her next appointment with her ob/gyn on May 18th and her doctor informed her that the shortness of breath may be typical with third-trimester pregnancy; however, the racing heart is not. So she referred me to an internal medicine doctor and I went back for another appointment on May 19th to visit with him. He felt that the symptoms I was having were highly likely related back to my asthma not being as well-controlled as I thought it was. He sent in a script to get my inhalers replaced and ordered a 24-hour Holter heart monitor and an echocardiogram as well, just to be sure that we weren't overlooking anything heart-related.
I got the results back from the Holter monitor on Monday of this week. The monitor detected no abnormal heartbeats or arrhythmias (yay!); however, it did detect a notably high heart rate 37% of the time. This, as the doctor put on the note, could again, be attributed to my asthma. We just went in this past Monday (June 6th) for the echocardiogram and we haven't heard results back on that yet but, for the most part, Mommy's been feeling okay.
Weight wise, Mommy weighed herself this morning and is currently up about four pounds from her pre-prego weight. At 33 weeks, that's basically NOTHING. Brooklyn herself probably weighs about four pounds herself at this point, not to mention the weight of increased blood flowing through Mommy's circulatory system and increased uterus size!
Another not-so-fun symptom that Mommy has discovered is pelvic pain! It kicked into high gear a few days ago and it definitely hurts to walk right about now!
Also, some very fun things that Mommy and Daddy got to do! On May 26th, we were able to go in for a 3-d ultrasound! The ultrasound technician had a difficult time getting a good picture of her little face because 3-d ultrasounds are best done at about 28 weeks and we were at 31 weeks at the time. This means that Brooklyn was starting to get a little crowded in there and the 3-d ultrasounds turn out best when they're mostly surrounded by fluid. We did get four take-home pictures though! I will be editing this post and uploading them as soon as I get home from work. =] Also, at the echocardiogram on Monday (which happened to be performed by the same ultrasound technician as the 3-d scan), he let us take another look at her after the echo was over. =] She's not moving around too much in there (she's pretty well crammed into a head down position already), but he zoomed in on her little face and we were able to see her tongue moving in her mouth! Definitely amazing!
We are soooo excited to meet this beautiful little girl! 48 days from today until our due date! =]
Check back in a few hours to see the 3-d ultrasound photos and the second blog post! =]
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