As of right now, I don't really have strong feelings one way or the other on whether it's a boy or a girl. Almost everyone is guessing girl - and I kind of having that feeling too. My dad swears he is having another granddaughter :) But, I also really feel it could be a boy! So who knows - guess we'll know soon enough :) Ben and I also found out recently as we were looking at names and finalizing our top choices that there are a lot more boy names that we like than girl names! There is really only one girl name we love and about 3-4 boy names we really love (still a secret for now...but we'll tell once we know for sure! :) ) Well, August 6th at 12:30pm cannot come soon enough. Luckily we will be on a mini-vacation to Traverse City, Michigan the Thursday through Sunday before that, so hopefully we'll be distracted and the appointment will be here before we know it!
Everything has been going pretty well! I have been feeling really good - I had another appointment last Thursday to meet with the doctor about my gestational diabetes and that went pretty well. You know, it's kind of funny - since I got pregnant, I've lost about 6 pounds (go figure - I can do it now, but not for the last 10 years!). I was never sick or anything, so my weight loss is really coming from the fact that I had to re-do my diet and I have been working out almost every day. I hope I start gaining soon though - I should enjoy it though because I know there will be a time when I want the scale to stop going up and up! But - the positive side is, at least I know this diet I'm on now will work to lose weight post-delivery :) :)
After about 2 weeks of changing to my new diet and exercise, I got a call from the doctor that she wanted me to go ahead and start medicine to help control my blood sugar. As you can imagine, I was completely bummed. I had been working so very hard to control my numbers, and I was little confused why she was already wanting to put me on medicine. Granted, my numbers had been kind of high the previous week because I was traveling pretty much every day. But - there were reasons for the high numbers. When I was home and in my "normal" setting, things had been pretty good.
I really wanted to talk with her at my appointment before starting the medicine, and luckily she agreed. After talking with her, I feel a lot better about starting the medicine. Basically, it's a hormone that's produced in my placenta that causes me to be diabetic during pregnancy. As the placenta gets bigger, as you can imagine there is more and more of this hormone. So, it's kind of an uphill battle that sometimes just eating right and exercising can't control. I looked at my numbers and started to see they were less controlled as the weeks went on (even eating well and exercising at home) - the doctor told me this is a good sign because the placenta is getting bigger! She told me what she looks for in the numbers too - if they are spiked more than half of the time, she knows that some medicine assistance is probably needed. She gave me one more week without the medicine - and that week was up today. I called in my numbers today and will wait for her call to see what she says! I will not be surprised if she has me start meds tomorrow - and I really think I'm okay with that now. I know this needs to be controlled, even if it's not ideal to be on this medicine during pregnancy! I'm going to keep doing what I am doing - eating well and exercising - and hope that the baby stays nice and healthy! :)
Speaking of the baby - I did get to hear the heartbeat at the appointment last Thursday! It took TWO AND A HALF MINUTES to find the heartbeat! Oh my gosh was I nervous - and of course this was the first appointment Ben wasn't able to be at! But finally after what felt like forever, there it was! 155 bpm! :)
I know this post is long, but only one more thing :) I really think that I felt the baby move yesterday!!!!!!! I don't want to get too excited because it might not have been the baby, but it just felt different - something I haven't felt before - right in the spot where the baby is (based on where we found the heartbeat!). So who knows - pretty cool though, excited to feel it more and know for sure that it is our little one! :)
Here are my 15 and 16 week pictures!! Not much of a difference, but I'm definitely getting a noticeable baby bump! It's funny, if you look back at 14 weeks, I look so much bigger than in 15 and 16!! I think my shirt was situated differently in week 14 and it made my belly look bigger than it was! Oh well :)
Week 15
Week 16
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