ob and NST

I had my 35 weeks Ob appt and NST today and baby M is still doing well! He was dancing up a storm during my NSt, what a show off! His heart rates were good and I was not having any contractions at the time. Of course, right?1 It figures that when I am at the office I am contraction free but other times I have bad ones haha!

Next week I get the group b strep test. Fun fun at the Ob! (sarcastic undertone was huge there).

So I was supposed to get my c-section date today but it wasn't ready. WTF! I hate waiting but what can I do? The secretary submitted two dates to the hospital last week and Dr. MacDonald wants it to be when she is there and we are just waiting for a reply. They will call when they hear back or I will get it next week.

Since my body has been gearing up for labor lately my doc said if I do happen to go into labor before the scheduled c-section I will still have to have the c-section. UGH. I was hoping that if I went into labor before 38 weeks we could just go with the flow but when you take insulin your blood sugars can get crazy during labor and she doesn't want to risk me passing out because I have low blood sugar during labor. Eating would help but judging on how I practically barfed all over the place once contractions began, I am going to trust her judgement.

Speaking of nausea, I feel sick off and on lately. My OB says morning sickness can return if you had it in the first trimester, especially if it was moderate. Anyone else remember how sick I felt then? It seems like forever ago but I had some nast morning sickness until I was about 20 weeks pregnant.

I have my appointment with the MFM and my BPP on Friday. I love seeing my big boy on screen!

At my appointment today, and like always, my OB asked me about the baby's movement. I said he always worries me because he doesn't move all that much, especially compared to Cailin. She said it was totally normal as long as I was feeling movement that was normal for this baby. He does usually move when I really concentrate hard and lay on my left side. She then added that with her babies one of them moved a lot and was rather feisty in utero and the other was more lazy and laid back and they remained that way as children and teens (her kids are like 16/17 or something). One of them is the more academic one while the other is very very athletic and he was that way in utero, that he was the one who moved around more. I really enjoy that she has little stories like this, and shares them once in a while. I hear so many people complain about their pregnancies or they are so obsessed with them, that they seem so foreign.

I didn't want to go off on a little tangent but I am going to anyways. Why do people automatically assume that Cailin and Baby M were "accidents"? Is it because me and Dan are both youngish? Is it because we haven't been married very long? Is it because they are close in age? I really don't get it! Poeple have even asked me if I was pregnant before we got married. (umm, first you are a frigging idiot if you think that because we got married in August, and she was born and was due in June. It would add up that I was not pregnant at my wedding. Second, it isn't your business.)

 We can set the record straight about both pregnancies here and now. Before we got married we talked about having children and we both agreed that we wanted to be done having kids before I was 30. We had 5 years to get pregnant and have babies. After talking about it we decided that since it takes an average couple 6-12 months of solid "trying" to get pregnant to conceive that we would start that path especially since it was possible that it would take longer than we wanted for it to happen. We were very lucky that we got pregnant instantly. When I say instantly, I mean, now you can do the math, it happened quickly, Cailin was planned. It was a surprise she came along so quickly, but she was indeed planned. Now as far as baby M goes, people ask me about him all the time (including some certain people I see medically, not to mention any specific ass-hole diabetes nurses I see at Mt. Auburn Hospital) if he was planned. Again, yes he was.

As just about everyone knows, I am an only child and hate every second of it. I hated it as a child and I hate it now as well. My parents wanted only one child so they could give me everything they didn't have and I am not faulting them for that. I am happy with the way I was raised, and I got everything I could have ever wanted. I was loved and provided for in every way. The only thing I miss is a sibling. I never had that permanent friend that all of my friends and cousins had. Sure I had friends who did not like their brothers and sisters but they still had that bond. I never got to experience that and it is something I really am lacking. As a kid I always wanted someone to play with. While I had friends it wasnt the same. Now that I am an adult I miss having a sibling to be good friends with and raise kids together. I also feel bad that Cailin and baby M will not have any family members close in age because I dont have any siblings myself. Dan is more or less in the same boat since he and his brother are far apart in age.

Getting back to baby M's pregnancy, yes he was planned. Like Cailin he came very quickly as well. Since me and Dan dont have siblings or are very far apart in age from our siblings we wanted our children to be as close as possible, especially in school. In order for them to be a year apart in school I had 4 solid months to get pregnant and since I was nursing Cailin the odds of that happening were low. It seems like our master plan was set from the beginning since we conceived baby M while I was nursing and that he would be one grade behind Cailin in school. We got pregnant with him at the last possible second, since his original due date was August 27, then was moved to August 25. (He had to be born on or before august 31 to be a year apart from Cailin in school). Now he will arrive around or before August 18.

So to sum up a lengthy blog post, baby M is doing well, I am doing well, and Cailin and baby M were both planned and were not "accidents". Cailin's god-parents, Val and Mike are here for over a month form Arizona and we will be busy with them this weekend so I don't know if I will have a spare moment to update on Friday's NST and the c-section date until next week. I will be sure to keep y'all in the loop about those things plus our busy weekend when I can!