Dr. Appointment #5

I am happy to report that I had a good meeting with Dr. McGrew today. My blood pressure and other vital signs continue to be healthy and it took us all of 5 seconds to find the baby’s heart beat with the doppler…boy was it going fast (somewhere between 140-150 beats per minute). The other goods is that I am not retaining any extra water weight (particularly in my ankles). This is good because I have noticed as of late that when I wear my sports socks that they leave little marks around my ankles. I think it just normal dispersion of weight and as long as I don’t wake up one morning with kankles. Baby Beyer is growing healthy and very active.

I must share the only not so exciting piece of news from my visit was that since my last visit (4 weeks ago) I gained 10 pounds…I was very shocked. I noticed in the last 9 days or so that I have really gotten a lot bigger and unfortunately my boobs are also getting larger…which is clearly just very unnecessary. Anyway from weeks 18-19 my weight was still on track and where it should be.  I swear after we went for our ultrasound (at 19 weeks & 3 days) it has been all downhill from there (in regards to the weight gain). The majority of this lovely 10 pounds has come in the past 2 weeks (6 of the pounds to be exact). I wish I could just say that I have been eating a lot of junk food etc. and that this is just what I get…but I can’t even be happy to have been stuffing my face with sweets and have gained the 10 pounds. After I left the doctor I was very emotionally overwhelmed and then spent the next 20 minutes or so (after I called Joe to tell him that the baby was fine) on the phone with my mom sobbing. The whole thing is just very overwhelming only because my weight (up until the past 2 weeks or so) has been very steady and on track….then BOOM ATOMIC BOMB! It is just scares since I am just at 22 weeks that I am still so early on (relatively speaking) in my pregnancy and that something like this would happen. Last week when I felt like I had really gotten bigger (which has now been confirmed based on the weight gain) I was talking with Erin and I asked her how to deal with all of these feelings of getting bigger (being that she has seemingly had an answer/feel good method for just about every other situation so far). She told me that there is nothing I can do, she still hasn’t accepted it, most likely I won’t either, and that I should just blog about it…so now you know why I have been rambling on for several sentences. I understand that weight gain is all part of the process, I just want myself and the baby to be as healthy as possible.

The good news is that this week (prior to this emotionally distressful news) I had increased my work outs and planned to do so (as long as my body will let me). All I can hope is that the work outs will help level out the weight gains for the next several weeks.

In other funny and ironic news I have continued to feel the baby move; however, I have yet to feel the baby move when I am resting/calm. I only seem to feel the baby when I am in a frenzy/running around…there goes my hope that Baby Beyer will be calm like Joe and less of a spaz like me…here’s hoping that we can teach the baby some yoga or relaxing breathing techniques at a young age!