Our Nursery!

Dh and I are pretty much finished with Levi's bedroom!!!

It was quite the collaborative project. He really did most of the work! I am so impressed :)

For the pictures on the wall, I printed off images online that I liked, and loosely traced some of them, dh took my sketches and free-hand drew them on the wall or on graph paper, then I came home and tweaked the lines until we were both happy. He did all of the painting, except the leaves on the tree, which I made sponge cut-outs of, and we both sponge-painted on.

Oh, and of course Bailey was there to supervise!

No GD for me!

The short of the story: My blood sugar level was on the high side of normal, I passed!

The results of my 1-hr were just posted online: 131mg/dL

I wanted to know what this meant so I googled it and found that most sources say something along these lines:

"A blood glucose of 140mg/dL will identify 80% of women with gestational diabetes. When that cutoff is lowered to 130mg/dL the yield increases to 90%. If your blood glucose level was greater than 130 mg/dL, your provider will likely recommend you take another diabetes screening test..." (http://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/pregnancy-diabetes).

So I emailed my doctor and she responded that she uses the 140mg/dL cut off. So I don't have to take the 3-hr test, and I can still eat carbs and sugar!

My only concern is that because my result was kinda borderline, that I might have or still develop GD. How would I know if this happened? Could something bad happen if I had it and continued to eat my normal diet?

3rd Trimester!

Things are moving along. I am now 27 weeks pregnant, and officially in the 3rd trimester! 13 more weeks to go!

Things are still going well for the most part. My ribs still hurt, but I don't think anything I do will be able to stop that. I tried going to the chiropractor, but it was pretty useless. All he really did was crack my back. I don't think I will be returning. I also took my OB's recommendation and bought a bra with a larger band size and started taking Calcium/vitamin D supplements. Nothing helps. But, it could be worse right? And this little boy is so worth it!

I had another ob appointment this morning, and everything is going well. Baby Levi is head down now, with a nice strong heartbeat. Even though I have a bad cough, she said my lungs sounded good. My total weight gain is at 12 lbs, 6 of which have been in the last 3 1/2 weeks (I think I ate too many cookies last weekend!) And the doctor said when she completes the paperwork for my short-term disability (STD) leave, she is going to recommend the full 12 weeks off work :)

I also asked her about her vacation schedule. I wanted to make sure she wasn't going to be gone in mid-May! She said she is at a conference starting on May 26th, but if Levi doesn't come on his own before May 21st, he will be born that day! (Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad! You get to be grandparents!)

While I was at the clinic, I had to drink this cup of thick, syrupy, fruit punch flavored glucose drink too. After waiting for an hour, the lab took some blood and they are going to test for gestational diabetes. I should find out the results today or Monday at the latest.

Hopefully I pass! It's almost Shamrock Shake season, and I look forward to those all year!

In other news at our home - DH has made great progress on the nursery! He has all the walls painted and has started sketching the tree and woodland animal silohettes that he is going to paint. We picked up the crib on Monday and set that up, and I do believe BIL is going to be helping hubby move the fold-out couch downstairs tonight (he doesn't know it yet though)! I will post some photos when we get it more complete!

I think that is all for now, I will try to post more often now that work has slowed down some!

Life has been crazy!

I haven't had time to do any of my normal time-consuming projects the last month or so. Work has been soooo busy. I have even worked the last few weekends. Our annual national convention is occuring as I write. I am working behind the scenes, so I actually have a little bit of time to breathe!

And time to type :) My blog is lonely and I feel like I don't know anyone when I log onto the SAL board these days. So many new girls! I am super happy they are all there, but I feel bad that I am so out of touch with everyone!

At anyrate, things have been going very well. I really enjoy being pregnant, and I try not to complain because I think I am lucky to have avoided most of the negative symptoms being pregnant usually comes with.

That being said - my back and ribs are still killing me. And I am learning that normal, everyday activities take so much more energy than I ever realized. I kindof feel like when I had mono in high school. I just kept going and going, and then when I actually rested, it hit me how beat I really was. Even walking down stairs here at the event center is wierd, because I can tell that my center of gravity is off, and I balance differently when walking down them.

I am not unhappy because of these things, but life sure is different!

My little boy has been pretty active the last couple days, and I absolutely LOVE feeling him and watching my belly move! We also got the 1st round of painting done in the nursery, and my crib came in yesterday, so hopefully we'll be able to put it together on Monday!

Things are progressing and coming together, it's just all so exciting :)

but, now back to work I go!