30 weeks and 70 days to go!
Today was a long day. I had to wake up super early for my glucose test :( I didn’t get to eat all last night. Thank goodness Rachel and I grabbed some Mexican food! First off, I am so grateful for my parents. Since Kyle has been away they’ve been doing everything they can to make things easier for me, including my best friend as well! I do not know how I would have made it through this deployment and pregnancy without them! My parents took me to the birthing center and I had to drink the “punch”…EW. Baby and I were not very happy about having only that for breakfast and the bathroom paid for it. Ha! I had to get my blood drawn 3 times, every vampire’s dream.That drink made me extremely sick and I really didn’t think that I’d be able to hold it down. I came out of the bathroom all purple and green telling the midwives I was about to hurl.
I love my midwives and the medical assistants at the birthing center.
They let me crash in one of the birthing rooms that looked like a hotel room. I was able to relax and get some z’s in. Then when the draining process of the glucose test was over, they brought me snacks and kept asking me if I was alright.
Also, there were 2 women giving birth while I was there and I felt excited, nervous, and scared thinking that I’d be making those exact same sounds in just a few weeks!
We were unable to get a picture of baby boy’s “4 heart chamber” during the anatomical ultrasound before I left for the east, so we had to do one today. Unfortunately, this ultrasound confirmed that my baby is breeched. I went in for my monthly check-up with my midwife this week and he was laying sideways and then today he decided that he want to sit right up. His head is literally right underneath my lowest rib…
I’m worried that he’ll end up staying that way and I won’t be able to give birth naturally, even if people have given birth breech I just don’t think I’d want to take the chance. I’m staying positive though, and hoping for the best! I have 10 weeks to go! Enough time to exercise and pray to the Lord that this baby turns around!
I also got to see his face! The ultra sound tech was extremely sweet, she was only supposed to check his heart but she went ahead and took pictures of his sweet little facey! He was blinking and sticking out his tongue and everything! I was thinking about not going to a 4d ultrasound and just waiting for the “moment” when we first meet. Now seeing him move makes me want to have a better picture of him. He is definitely fattening up and from the looks of it he has his daddy’s butt chin! He’s going to be so handsome! I already know it!
