32 weeks

I had my monthly appointment a few weeks ago, and am a little behind updating!  I'm now going every two weeks, so I go again on Thursday to check on baby #2.  It seemed like everything was going good with the pregnancy, especially after being cleared of the placenta previa during our last sonogram.  Of course, there had to be something that wasn't quite right at the last appointment.

The doctor came in, and measured my belly (like he has for the last two appointments now), using his tape measure.  This last time, when he measured me, he got a funny look on his face after measuring my belly.  He straightened out the tape measure, and moved it around a little (to find just the right spots, I think), and took another measurement.  Again, he had an odd look on his face.  He measured me for a third time before telling me that my belly is measuring small.  He went over to the computer and entered some numbers and then looked at my weight gain.  I had gained 7 pounds over the last month!  He turned around and looked at me, and said: "Well, it's not because you're not gaining weight!  You're just tall and skinny, and you hide your weight well." 

There were those words again....tall and skinny.  I don't think any woman will ever get tired of hearing they're "skinny", especially when they're bloated, have a huge belly, and can't walk without waddling.  Thank you so much Dr. Huston.  Those were just the words I wanted to hear! 

He said that if I'm still measuring small at my next appointment that they'll probably do another sonogram.  He made the comment that because I had just had a sonogram on Feb. 15th, and the baby was measuring according to that in the 60th percentile, he was going to trust the sonogram measurements more than his "1900's tape measure". 

When I was pregnant with Ainsley, I had the opposite problem.  My belly always measured fine, but the sonogram measurements were always small.  Go figure!

32 weeks

I think it's funny that I have the exact opposite problem as Jamie.  She's due six days before me, and at her last appointment, the doctor told her she's measuring ahead of schedule.  I think that's just because she's carrying around my monster size nephew! 

This baby is a major pain in my right side!  She digs some body part (I'm guessing a leg) into my right rib cage.  I'm pretty sure her head is still really low, and I can definitely feel hard spots now, which I assume are elbows/knees/feet/hands.  If Ainsley sees me feeling or pushing on my belly, she has to run over and put her hand on my belly.  It's pretty cute!

Sleep is becoming an issue.  I get up at least five times throughout the night to go to the bathroom.  I swear, this baby knows right where my bladder is and thinks it's fun to sit on it!  Ainsley comes in bed with us every night around 2, so I also have her grabbing my hair and kicking me throughout the night. There is no comfortable position.  If I lay on my side for too long, my hip starts to kill me.  If I lay on my back, the nerve in my lower back starts to hurt.  I can't lay on my stomach, and trying to move from one side to the other is a chore.  I'm not kidding!  It's a lot of work to roll from one side to the other with a belly that sticks out, all while trying not to get in "that position" that will irritate the nerve in my back making the whole process even worse. Only 8 more weeks, then I have absolutely no sleep to look forward to with a newborn!

It's getting harder to breathe.   I can't eat as much as I could, which isn't such a bad thing, I guess.  I waddle when I walk.  My fingers are like sausages.  I've already taken my wedding ring off, and there's no way I'll be able to get it back on until after I've had the baby.  My face is getting rounder every day.  After I take a pair of socks off, I have a ring around my calf where the top elastic of the sock was.  I only have a few pair of shoes I can actually fit my fat feet into at this point.  My feet hurt because they're so swollen.  If I do too much physical labor, my entire body hurts, especially my back.  None of my bras fit any more, but I refuse to go out and buy new.  I'm sure if I really thought about it, I could add a few more problems to my ever growing list of pregnancy problems!

I'll start going to the doctor once a week starting late March.  The doctor informed me at my last appointment, that when I start going weekly, they will hook me up to a monitor for half an hour at each appointment to listen to the baby's heartbeat.  He said that they do that for all women that went through IVF.  I know I didn't have to do that with Ainsley, so it must be some new thing they're doing.  Of course, for some reason, they like to watch the IVF patients a little closer than regular patients.  I guess that's not such a bad thing...

If we ask Ainsley where the baby is, she'll point to my belly.  If we ask her what the baby's name is, she replies "Girl" with a big smile on her face.  I've tried explaining, that yes, the baby is a girl, but that's not her name!  Maybe one of these days she'll get it!