As of Saturday April 27th, I am 23 weeks along. I can't believe I am already more than halfway there! I have a doctors appointment this afternoon, and I am curious about how much weight I have gained. I suspect only 5 or 6 pounds total, because I can still wear most of my clothes with a belly band. I will say that I bought some maternity jeans (above) and they are already getting snug though. Right now the baby is about 7-8 inches long and weighs about a pound. But from this point on the baby will be growing exponentially. I think because of my "paleo" type diet, I won't gain much myself.
I think my doctor is going to discuss the gestational diabetes test with me. Because I've had digestive imbalances (bacterial overgrowths) that are currently under control, I'm going to ask him to do an alternative, such as buying a monitor and testing my blood off an on and recording it in a diary. Reason being, if I drink all of that super-sugary glucose drink, those bacteria will multiply and will promote infection, and that will not be good for me or baby. I have an extreme intolerance to processed sugars. So we will see what his thoughts are on that today. I read about 10% of women develop gestational diabetes, many with little to no symptoms until it starts to affect them late in pregnancy, so monitoring my sugar (if I don't do the glucose test) would be a smart thing to do. But with my lack of eating simple carbs and low-sugar intake, I can't imagine this will affect me.
I also want to get a CD of the ultrasound today. Last time I only got print outs and when I tried to scan them, they were fuzzy; otherwise I would have posted them on the blog site. We got some great shots of the baby last time - one where the baby was looking directly at us, where you could see all the facial definition, it was really cool. So I hope to get some good shots today for everyone to see.
Until then!
Momma V
