My day in a nutshell...

Wednesday is my Dr. day. Today we were there for about 1 1/2 hours. The ultrasound was fine (I have one every week). I'm on the high end of normal for amniotic fluid but that's typical with gestational diabetes. It's still a boy... I don't know why but every week it's almost like the Dr. goes out of his way and prints me out a picture of his boy parts... The estimated weight of this baby is currently 6 lbs. 8 oz. so I'm sure that he'll be bigger than Shalon. She was 7 lbs. 1 oz. The baby has put 1 1/2 lbs. on in the last 2 weeks. I still have 3 1/2 weeks to go...

After the ultrasound it was on to the "non stress test". This is a very active baby but today he wasn't feeling it as I was hooked up to the monitors, so after the first 15 min. (when I was supposed to be done) they decided I should drink some apple juice (talk about sweet when I don't really have sweets). That really got him moving. However then they were having a hard time with his heartbeat. So all in all I was hooked up for 45-60 minutes. Then they deteremined things were fine and I could go home.

Shalon was really pretty good considering she was running on not a lot of sleep. Last night she got up around 11 with a fever. I dosed her up on Tylenol and laid next to her in bed. I dozed on and off until 1:30 am and decided I wanted my own bed. I slept in my bed until 4 and then was up with Shalon again. I finally made it back to my bed about 6:15 am. After all of our running around today ( I had to get some errands done after my Dr. appt.) I brought Shalon home and put her to bed. When she woke up from her nap I took her temp. and it was 102. I decided to take her to the Dr. She's been sick with a cold for a week or so. They said to just keep treating it with Tylenol and hopefully it breaks soon. I think Shalon's had it with Dr.'s :)

That's my day in a nutshell...