chubba cheeks....

I work for a doctor's office and every day at my job have to ask patients to plan on a 3 hour appointment for their first visit with us. Well, today I received  dose of my own medicine as I visited with a specialist on Maternal and Fetal Medicine to manage my Gestation Diabetes.

I first met with their on staff dietitian. She was super nice, very helpful with her explaining things and seemed confident that I would be able to control the GD with diet alone. I received a blood glucose meter and diet plan for counting my carbohydrates. I have to check my sugar 4 times a day, record them and fax to the specialist weekly. They will look at my numbers to make sure I am staying on track and don't need medication. They also checked my urine to be sure sugar wasn't spilling out into there (learn something new every day!) and then the bonus of all of this......ULTRASOUND! It's always such a joy to see our peanut on screen, and it will forever amaze me what they can see. My US tech was great, she told me everything she was taking pictures of and even was willing to double check the gender, ya know, just to be REALLY sure! And I could tell right away when they zeroed in on her face, she is looking a LOT like her big brother did - especially those CHUBBA CHEEKS!  Baby D is about 4 lbs, her heart rate was at 147 and she is measuring in the 43rd percentile for overall growth. All her parts look good and no abnormalities at this time. All in all she is very health and strong. I have another scheduled US in month to make sure she is still growing on track and ensure she is not growing too much too fast.

Tyler is still super excited and continues to ask when she's going to come out "cuz he just loves her so much!"  (his words not mine) This weekend we (and by we I mean me) got his old cradle painted so now at least if she does come early she will have a place to sleep.

Allen is coming along with the race car, which is good because believe it or not first practice is just ONE week from Saturday! Eek! He better get cracking. Although it is soon, I am excited, because it sure would be nice to have a finished bedroom (and living room!) in the basement before she comes! It's about to warm up here the next couple weeks, so we'll finally be able to start to get R dun! (and by we, I mean Allen)

As for me, I will just do what I am told by the docs, suffer through these 'awesome' allergies and try to patiently await my little ballerina's arrival. HAHA! It's starting to hit us all, the reality of expanding our family. I pray God will give me the strength to take it all on!