29 weeks

29 weeks today! Chugging right along… and speaking of chugging- here I am downing my glucose drink. 

I had my cheering squad telling me "chug mommy chug!" 

Parker this week: he is weighing in at 2.9 lbs, 17 inches! about the size of a small cabbage. My app tells me he may double or even triple in size before he gets here. I honestly don't know where he has room to do that. he is already thumping on my bladder and settling into my ribs!  But he looked (i guess sounded is more accurate since they didn't do an ultrasound) good at the doctor today. 

me this week: let's just say today's appointment was not one of the best ones I have had. I did not pass my glucose test (my sugar was higher than it was allowed to be) so I have to go back next week for the FOUR. HOUR. glucose test. I have to fast, go get my blood drawn, drink twice as much sugar as I drank today, then have my blood drawn every hour after that. not just a finger prick like today- actual needle in arm blood draw. and for four hours. what a waste of a morning:(  so that happened. THEN he tells me my iron is low, and I have to start back on prenatal vitamins. the prenatal gummy vitamins I have been taking (with no iron to protect my stomach and nausea) are apparently not cutting it. soo, no Diclegis and now back to prenatals. I don't anticipate this week going well :(  oh, and to top it off, he tells me I "have gotten too much sun and a sun burn can cause pre term labor". this one seems pretty far fetched for me- but if a sun burn induces labor- better believe at 37 weeks I am going to be on my patio with cooking oil slathered on me;) So, this resulted in me crying in the bathroom at the doctor's office.  My sweet husband was waiting for me in the parking lot after my appointment with Ainsley in tow to make me feel better before I headed off to a wedding shower. She told me 'it's ok Mommy' :)  I start every two week appointments now…we're getting close to the end!  All in all, Parker is healthy and things look pretty good. Praying I don't have gestational diabetes, but if I do, it's definitely not the end of the world.  cravings: *guess ill be putting away that chocolate milk this week!  pickles  bologna