It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving 2012 is already here and gone. Before we know it, Christmas will be here and then New Years…and then Brooklyn not too long after that! Wow!
We’ve had an exciting and fun week so far. Monday, we had a 4D ultrasound done before my regular appointment. I was so excited to get a sneak peek of what Brooklyn actually looks like! She’s still got some fattening up to do, but we can tell who she’s going to look like! The consensus is that she either has my nose or my sister’s nose, so everyone has been saying she looks “just like me.” I’m horrible at looking at babies and deciding who they look like, so I’m just going with everyone else’s opinion. Guess we’ll find out soon enough anyway! During the ultrasound, Brooklyn put her thumb in her mouth, smiled several times, stretched her head back, and put her hands in front of her face. So cool! I forgot to ask how big she was, but I’m assuming she’s right around 2 lbs. Here are some of the best pictures we got. The whole time, she was nestled up close to the placenta, so we couldn’t get a great shot of her whole face, but the pictures are still good…
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| Having sweet dreams :) |
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| Long fingers!! She got that from both of us… |
I’m glad we ended up doing the 4D ultrasound. It’s not covered by insurance, so we had to pay for it, but it was definitely worth it! Knowing that I had the chance to see what she looks like was too hard to pass up :)
Tuesday, I had the pleasure of doing a 2 hour glucose tolerance test. They test everyone between 24 and 28 weeks for gestational diabetes, so this was the time! The morning started off badly when I got there at 7 AM, and I was already #26 in line for lab work. That meant I got to wait for over an hour just to get started. Basically, they drew my blood and made me drink this nasty sugary gatorade-type drink. Then I had to have blood drawn again in an hour and more blood drawn another hour after that. This was a fasting test, so I couldn’t eat breakfast or anything else until I was completely finished. By about 10 AM, it was almost time for the last blood draw, but I was feeling horrible by then. It had been like 14 hours since I’d eaten anything and had nothing to drink but that sugary drink. Recipe for disaster! I finally left around 10:30 AM and ate something, but the whole rest of the day I had a headache and just felt terrible. I’d heard that if you fail the test, you have to do a 3 hour test the next time with an even MORE sugary drink, so I was hoping and hoping for good results. Luckily, they called Wednesday morning and told me I passed!! Glad to have that behind me :)
Yesterday, of course, was Thanksgiving, and it also marked 27 weeks along! This year, I have so much to be thankful for. We have the best church family, physical family, and friends. We have a baby on the way, and I’ve had a smooth, easy pregnancy so far. We have a comfortable house to live in and good jobs. God has really blessed us!
I wish I could post my 27 week picture and some of our Thanksgiving pictures from yesterday, but unfortunately Blogger is not my friend anymore. Actually, I guess it’s Google. Apparently, I’ve used up my 1 GB of storage for pictures on my blog, and you have to pay for additional storage. Boo! I’m too cheap to do that, and I don’t want to delete any old pictures, so I may be creating a new blog soon. I guess it’s a fitting time to make a new blog since it soon won’t just be “Trav + Erin” anymore! :)
Stay tuned for the latest! If I have to create a new blog, I’ll link to it from here :)
