Lots to report in this post. Where to start?? I guess I'll go chronologically. During week 25 we had another doctors appointment. I had gained 7 lbs during the month (oops), there was sugar in my urine, and my uterus was 1 cm higher than it should be. Like I haven't had enough scares during this pregnancy. The doctor wasn't concerned about the weight gain or the uterine growth (which she claims is still normal). Due to the sugar in the urine I was sent for the 1 hour glucose test, which I then failed. So I was sent for the super fun 3 hour glucose tolerance test. The 50g orange drink for the one hour test was bad. The 100 g fruit punch drink for the 3 hour test was just plain evil. Yuck, yuck, yuck! I was dreading the result call because I wanted so desperately to enjoy my baby shower cake made by our good friend
Maria! It turns out I don't have gestational diabetes, I am just glucose intolerant (only the 3 hour post value was out of range). I've met with a diabetes educator and have started blood glucose monitoring and modified my diet to make sure it doesn't progress into gestational diabetes. I've only had one value too high since I started testing and I think that was either a false reading (the test strip had an air bubble) or I just ate too big a portion of mac and cheese that night. Testing has been pretty easy so far. Portioning my carbohydrates isn't so easy. But at least I can still have peanut butter!
During week 26 we had a recheck ultrasound. The baby's lungs still look great. No sign of the fluid returning or compression from where it was originally. While I was thrilled to hear that news, I got an even bigger surprise because Ryan's nosiness got him in trouble! The technician was going to the computer to calculate the baby's size since my uterus was a little higher than normal. At that time the baby was 2 lbs 6 oz, which is in the 73rd percentile. The tech assured us this is still normal and isn't a cause for concern yet. Ryan got nosy about the computer program she was using and while he was trying to peak at the computer screen, the tech opened our chart right in front of him and he saw the baby's
gender!! Not wanting to hurt the tech's feelings and knowing he couldn't have such a big clue and not let me know, he told me we could find out the baby's gender if I wanted. I, of course, said yes!! But you'll have to wait to see the video below for that answer...
So off we headed to NY for our 1st baby shower knowing two things - 1.) I
had to take it easy on Maria's delicious cake and 2.) our baby's
gender. We planned two special reveals for our NY peeps. For my family
and a few close friends I ordered half moons with the appropriate
colored frosting. I made sure to tell them all that we had found out the
baby's gender, but they would have to wait until later that week to
find out what it was. The video below is them opening the box of
halfmoons. I love their expressions!! We planned another reveal for the
baby shower as well. Maria dyed the cake batter the appropriate color
and we made a big spectacle out of cutting the first piece of cake.
Great surprises all around! I'm glad we found out just before the NY
shower trip, so I could tell everyone in person!!
It was really great seeing all our NY family and friends!! I'm so glad so many of our Albany friends were able to make the trip to Ilion for our shower! And thank you Jackie, Mary and Mom for throwing such a wonderful shower! And thank you to Laura, Kim and Andrea for helping out with favors and set up! It was great getting to hang with my girls again! Below are some pictures from our shower. Enjoy!
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| My favorite still image of the big reveal! |
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| Mommy and Daddy to be with the delicious pink half moons! |
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| Super cute baby sock bouquet |
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| Our baby shower cake made by Maria McCall! The turtle layer is white chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting, the bottom layer is white chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting and raspberry filling. MY FAVORITE!! |
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| Winner of the Play Dough Baby Making Challenge - Kelly and Sianna! |
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| Baby blanket made by Mee-maw (Gramma Patti P) |
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| Super cute custom made ugly doll receiving blankets made by Maria McCall! |
Lauryn and I have also done updated baby bump pictures since the last post. My belly will need its own zip code soon! I'm really not sure how 3 more months of growth is supposed to fit in there. Everything seems very cramped as it is!
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| Week 26 baby bump |
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| Week 22 compared to week 26 (and the pink shirt was a girl hint) |
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| My pregnancy buddy, Lauryn. For comparison, she is having a boy and has a perfect basketball belly. My belly goes from my hips to my chest! |
Ryan and I head to Illinois next weekend for the baby shower his family is throwing for us. Baby Girl K is going to be one spoiled tot! I promise to be better at posting so they aren't this long in the future! We start our every 2 week prenatal appointments in May!
