Midwife visit yesterday

It seemed like ages since I last saw my midwife, well it kind of was ages. I mean with everyone in my house going thru colds, flus etc. it was about 6 weeks and that is just too long to go with out seeing Wendy. I really do think I am so blessed to have found her. I now am going to switch doctors by the way.... I will be seeing another male doctor but it is only one instead of the 3 that I see now. For those who know me know I hate seeing a male doctor....... I was told that this Dr. will not give me his opinion at all about me having a home birth, which is excellent because I am so sick of people telling me their opinion on it. If people don't agree with it they should just be quiet and bite their tongue right??? He will give me his honest opinion about the fibroid and if it is as huge and endangering as the others say it is. I am also hoping they can do a test on me called an A1C which will eliminate the 3 hour glucose test that I am suppose to take. You see I ALWAYS have to have the 3 hours test and they ALWAYS come back and tell me that everything is fine and I am just hypoglycemic. Which I tell them at the beginning of every pregnancy and no one really ever listens to me. But anyway, being hypoglycemic it is very very tough to stop eating at 7pm the night before the test and then go to the test, drink a sugary drink and then sit there for 3 hours with an empty stomach. Every time I have done this, I have gotten so dizzy, light headed and just irritable and then when it is time for me to eat I eat a very balanced meal with extra protein but yet my heart still races and it takes a long time to "come down" from the feeling. So really it is not fun at all. So this test that I am hoping he does is just to check your blood back like 3 months ago, I am not 100% sure on all the info so when I have it I will let you all know more.

On another note I have gone 3 weeks now and have not gained any weight. Which is ok with me and the midwife and doctors so I am not going to compiling at all. I do eat, but I eat in little portions a few more times a day. In 30 weeks of pregnancy I have gained a total of 16 pounds. I was told by one of the doctors that he would be happy if I didn't gain any more weight considering my weight right now?????? Ouch kind of hurtful .Which is understandable, I don't care to gain that much more either but he could have said it a little nicer.. They baby is growing alot and is moving so much. If she would only move out of the breech position..... I do have exercised to do to get her to go head down so hopefully those will work.

I am getting more and more excited about the whole home birth thing. I can not believe I get to be in my own home and in my own bed when I have this little girl. I get to walk around as much as I want, I get to eat whatever I want, I get to wear what ever I want, I can have who ever I want with me, I mean I call the shots. I wont have a bunch of nurses coming in and out of my room to do some unnecessary stuff. I wont have to tell my "story' to 10 different nurses, I can have it as quiet as I want it and tell people to stay out if I want... Well we have less than 10 weeks left and I am slowly but surely getting ready for her arrival. Still need to do a lot of organizing and cleaning and I am trying to figure out (also freaking out alot about it) how to get it all done. I have tried this week to do as much as I can but I have been in so much pain its ridiculous. I have to paint Kdy and baby "Z's" room and get her crib and get that up. Have to find a bed for Ry I HAVE to get my kitchen finished, there is just SO much to do before she comes and I am trying not to freak out too bad.

What a pregnancy

I know it has been quite a while since I have been able to write something but trust me you would not of wanted to hear all of the negativity. OK maybe not all negativity but this pregnancy has not been as easy as my other two, that's for sure. This past Monday I got to spend 9 hours in the hospital just to be sent home telling me they can not find the source of my pain. I have had some really bad pains in my kidney area and then some in my vajay-jay area. They were able to explain the pain in the vaginal area but they did a lot of test for the kidneys and came up with nothing. They ruled out Kidney Stones, Kidney infection, a UTI, and something I called Hydronephrosis (which is a build up of urine in the kidneys) but I did get to go through ANOTHER pap and them checking my cervix and the best part was I had an audience to watch. I love interns! So I did however get to have a shot of morphine so ease the pain and that it did. I really don't know for how long because all I remember was well nothing. I slept after I got the shot...

I am going to go in tomorrow for more test and they think it maybe because of the baby and the fibroid pushing against my kidneys so we will see. To me that doesn't make sense but again I am not a doctor. I am not going to let any of this discourage me in anyway though. I will have a homebirth unless my midwife finds anything that could be at risk. I must say though it was pretty nice getting pampered that night. They were very nice nurses and they were bringing all kinds of great stuff, from warm blankets, to warm pack, to pudding and juice. ( that was when I was finally able to eat something) So I started to think oh maybe I should just be in the hospital where they are taking care of everything AND then I smelled the hospital gown, because I thought I had bad B.O. but then I realized it was the gown and not me and then I decided that homebirth would be SO much better than a hospital. LOL

What I have not mentioned yet is that I have 2 fibroids and one of them they are going to be checking every time I go in for my Dr.s appointment. It has grown a good size now so they are going to monitor it so it doesn't get in the way of the growth of the baby. I really can not believe that my other 2 pregnancies went by so good and this one just so much seems to happen. Not huge stuff but I have just had a lot of firsts with this one. I am feeling weird pains and I am ALOT more tired with this one than I was with the others. I could go on and on but I will spare you.

I am very excited however because my really good friend is throwing me a baby shower and I went to Target and Babies R Us to register and let me tell you, I had a blast. I went all pink. We never went all pink with Kdy because well at the time I was so against that color and we also did not want to have to buy all new stuff if we had a boy our second time so we kept a lot of the stuff neutral. But this time I had a blast registering for everything Pink...... I am even really excited to put this little girl in some ruffles and dresses, something I really regret not doing with Kdy.