Stork'd This is what happens if you go Skinny Dipping during Adult Swim at the Gene Pool.

We had an ultrasound yesterday and because I've got some more amniotic fluid than I should, they took some 4D photos of the little guy.

Looks to me like he has a lot of black hair, and  a smirk. I get to go back in 2 weeks to see if my fluid levels are down. Upon researching the condition, sometimes levels fluctuate and it might have been mine was absolute highest when I was checked. He's showing bigger than they were expecting and so were worried I have gestational diabetes. I don't think I do, because my glucose test came back fine, but we'll see. I have been feeling dizzy lately.

I had to get bloodwork done today for my TSH levels. We'll see how that goes. I need to make an appointment with a new GP or with an endocrinologist.

Finally, since they expect I'm further along, I revised my own due date. Honestly, since I saw the first OB I knew I was due earier than they said. I know my body. And I think that if he showed as smaller earlier on, that was likely because MY thyroid and meds weren't supplying all that he needed.

Went to the doctor last Wednesday and the little guy seems to be doing just fine. His heartbeat is very strong. I'd been having serious sinus pain and after a talk on Christmas morning with a friend, I figured out what is going on. I have a thing called Vasomotor Rhinitis. Basically the blood vessels in my sinuses are maxed out and causing me to feel pressure, even when there's not snot clogging my nostrils. It happens more in pregnancy since ones blood volume goes up by up to 50% and is exacerbated by decreased thyroid function. My TSH levels have been increasing through this pregnancy, so that means my thyroid isn't functioning well/at all. Well no wonder I've been miserable.  Sadly, there's not much I can do about it. The rain that brought the humidity up to above 50% has helped a bit. Other than that, I have to wait it out for the pregnancy part to go away and for my thyroid levels to stabilize after I'm through with the pregnancy. Only 2.75 more months to go.

The little one has been kicking up a storm and stretching a n aweful lot in my belly. It really can hurt at times when he stretches all the way out, pressing his butt way out and has his feet on my innards.

That being said, I'm getting over the cold/flu whatever I had and am feeling 110% better than I was. Here's to impecable health in 2010!

I was so fed up with my OB that I asked Peter's preggo co-worker if she could recommend hers. Well I saw them for the first time today. I'm meeting with the Certified Nurse Midwife. I absolutely love it. I am not getting a bunch of reprimands for not having my MD follow my thyroid every 6 weeks, or a bunch of jerky comments about how I need to finish hospital paperwork and the like. She's down to earth, had a couple kids of her own and actually used to work for the doctor I was fleeing so she knew what I meant about him being pushy. And it appears I'll be seeing her every time I go in, though she won't be delivering  because the local hospital doesn't allow midwives to deliver there, I hear. I'm just glad I won't be seeing 4different doctors that will each say something different every time I go in.

I was so mad when I went to get my labwork done. I had my 1 hour glucose test today, and every time I've had it done elsewhere (see 2 times before) they've let me do whatever I wanted in the interim hour, as long as I was back to get my bloodwork done. So I expected I would be able to drive the 2 minutes it would take to pick up Ingrid from prechool and back and be fine. As I was going to open the door the woman pretty  much accosted me verbally and said I could not leave because they had just administered "medicine." Hello. You gave me a bunch of sugar water, you dufus. I understand the liability issues involved if someone were to go into a diabetic coma from having too much, but I've never shown signs of gestational diabetes. If I'd been told beforehand I would have put off the test, gone and got her, then come back. Instead I had to call Peter at work, see if he could take time off to go get Ingrid from preschool so I wouldn't be levaing her there. That's not an option. I wrote a strongly worded review on the Quest Diagnostics website about the issue.