Once again, I had a fairly uneventful prenatal visit. After the next visit, I'll be going in every two weeks instead of every four weeks. Do you know what that means? It means I am only two weeks away from the THIRD TRIMESTER!!! It seems like it has gone fast and slow at the same time. We're both itching to meet our baby but also really want her to stay put until January. We still have tons to do around the house before her grand arrival.
The best part about today's prenatal appointment was finding out that my OB office is back in our PPO network and that the insurance will pay 100% after a single $10 co-pay! The out-of-network benefits are pretty grim (and the in-network are actually better than I thought) so this was fantastic news.
Baby has been moving around a lot and her heart rate sounded nice and strong. My blood pressure is still doing great and blood sugar has been holding fairly steady (minus a few days of poor food choices). The midwife sounded a little concerned that I've only gained 12lbs so far but after we discussed my blood sugar she seemed to think it was OK. I was given a lab order to do the glucose tolerance test some time in the next 4 weeks. From what I've been told, it is kinda like drinking un-gelled orange Jello. Icky. If the results for that come back high, I'll have to do another glucose-related test and based on those results they'll determine whether or not to diagnose gestational diabetes. If I do get a diagnosis, the midwives will refer me to a dietitian and we'll go from there.
Sunday we toured the other local birth center. It was a better tour than I got the first time when I tagged along with our friends who were expecting at the time. We got to see a couple of labor & delivery rooms, saw the jacuzzi tub available for labor, met a NICU doctor, and saw a postpartum room. We're still planning to use the hospital we toured first as not only was it more home-y and had two labor tubs (each in the room with you) instead of one (in what looked like a closet off the hallway), it also is on our PPO network while the other isn't. I pre-registered with the chosen hospital today before my checkup since the OB office is in an attached building.
I've been to two prenatal yoga sessions so far. The first was overwhelming, overheating, and made me feel like I was going to throw up. The second was so very much better. I actually felt refreshed afterward despite waking up at 3:45am and not getting a nap. I will definitely be going back again!
