Gestational Diabetes - etc. etc. etc.

I has it.

Boo!

I have a class on Thursday through the Naval Hospital. I get to pick up my glucose testing supplies and learn all kinds of fun stuff.

Just another thing to add to the list of things to complicate this pregnancy.

What the bump?

Baby bump at 12 weeks 5 days

If this is 12 weeks, I fear for 37.

My ever-growing personal pharmacy

I had to go buy one of the seven day morning and night pill dispensers to keep it all straight. I was doing okay before they added more pills last week. But now I take my bp med twice a day and I can't take the iron and calcium together. That complicated things a little bit.

What a difference three weeks makes.

At my last ultrasound, the babies were literally just little gray blobs with flutters. Today, I got to see them move! They moved around for a few seconds and then stopped. It was pretty amusing.

Today was my first OB visit. We got all of my meds and supplements taken care of. They changed my blood pressure medication... again. I need to schedule my 3 hr glucose test.

Yuck.

But once I've done that, she will put in a nutrition consult. My goal is to not gain weight. I know this is easier said than done, but I only gained around 23 lbs with each of the boys and I'm heavier now than I started with the boys. I have to be very careful. I'm only 10 weeks now, but we have been going on family walks and as soon as I can really cook again, we'll be overhauling the diet around here.

Here's what we know...

We have what they call di/di twins. Di/di stands for diamniotic/dichorionic or two amniotic sacs, two placentas. 20-30% of di/di twins are identical. So there's still a chance of that. We can't rule anything out for a few months at least.

It's TWINS!

We found out on Friday, May 6th, that we are expecting two babies! I went in for a dating ultrasound and got a surprise. They did push back my due date. It is now December 19th.

I am high risk because of my high blood pressure, so now I'm extra special high risk. We'll see how long the doctor will let me go with this pregnancy. I only made it to 37w6d with Garrett because of my blood pressure.