Pregnancy Journals

Emmea12uk · May 15th, 2008, 15:42 PM

The last lonely bit!

Despite the blood sugar blip on my first day, I actually managed very well for the rest of the week and my blood sugar only went high one more time. I was eating so healthily and enjoying it, but the ice cream craving still didn’t go away, and only got worse! The less sugar in my diet the more I wanted it!

On the first Tuesday before I was due to go back in to see the diabetes midwife, I had to pop in and meet my new midwife, for an antenatal and also a bp check. Everything was great and she was so nice! FH was on target, the heartbeat was perfect and my bp had dropped! She told me how he was lying and I could just picture him in there. I left feeling really positive, and popped into the shop to buy a magnum on the way home – which didn’t seem to affect my blood sugar at all!

The next day, I had my appointment with the diabetes midwife and my pregnancy brain started kicking in! I got to the hospital 30 minutes early, but then drove around the car park for 20 minutes before giving up and deciding to park in the hospital nearby, as there was not a single space free! When I got to the other hospital, there was a massive queue just to get in the car park – after I made it in, there were no spaces, but I managed to pinch one off of someone who was leaving and legged it over to the hospital I had my appointment in. Just as I got there, I realised I had forgotten my purse and would not be able to get out the car park! I reached for my phone, and I had forgotten that too! I managed to find 20p in my purse so ran to the phone box – but the minimum it would take was 40p!

So, late for my appointment I was totally panicking about how I would get out the car park! After, I made it to the front of another massive queue at the reception, I was lead into a clinic and then saw the midwife who was very very satisfied that I had been able to control my blood sugar levels by diet alone, and confirmed I would not need medication (no icky insulin injections!!) and could be discharged to look after myself! This also meant that Tommy should be fine too – none of the side effects of diabetes should affect him! They also took my bp and it was even lower than the day before!

So… ecstatic, I walked over to the other hospital and used the telecom on the pay machine to beg my way out of the carpark, whilst a queue of people formed behind me. I was soooo embarrassed! The intercom told me to go to the carpark exit and push the intercom there. So I did, and some idiot behind me starting honking his horn at me and shouting abuse so I couldn’t hear a thing the lady was saying! There was a free exit next to me, so I had no idea what his problem was. He carried on screaming and yelling and eventually the barrier came up and I got out. I was so upset by this man’s behaviour that it almost spoiled my good mood…almost that was until I hit a queue of traffic at some roadworks…then my mood sunk. What a stinky day! I just wanted some lunch and it was already 16:00! Still it was a lovely sunny day.

Thursday morning and there is an email waiting from me from Mike – it said “I have a surprise for you”, so I eagerly wrote back knowing he may still be online and he wrote back “I will be home two weeks early! A week on Sunday!!!” I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo over the moon! And start thinking of all the things I need to do before he gets home! He is finally going to see his new home, and me! Looking like a huge whale!! I started counting the days, hours seconds untill I go to meet him at the airport!

Friday, my sister had arranged a BBQ and baby shower for me at my new house so I spent the day preparing for that, and had a wonderful time. So many presents! All cute and tiny baby clothes! Everything goes off without a hitch and the weather even holds out!

The following Tuesday, 5 days until Mike comes home, I went for my bp check and my midwife confirmed it was back to normal! Again I am on such a high – two days until my scan, which I was feeling positive about – I couldn’t wait to see his face again! In the meantime his kicks are ever stronger and we can now play the poking game, where he kicks and I try and poke his feet! He then keeps poking and wriggling!! I can also feel his head was still down, as he hiccupped up to four times a day! The Braxton hicks also really started kicking in! It all made me so excited that things could happen very soon!

The big day of the 33 week scan arrived and I met my sister at the hospital feeling fairly positive. My consultant, and specialist midwife greeted me and started the scanning. She pointed out the heartbeat, the cyst etc. He looked so tightly packed in there that I found it hard to make anything out. As I was so sick last time and wasn’t able to see his face, I asked to see it this time, and it was so beautiful! He had such chubby cheeks just like me! I felt so in love! His nose was so cute and I swore I could even make out his eyelashes. The sonographer then asked if she could test out the 4d software at which I was over the moon! I got to see so much more and she even printed the pictures off – which I have attached below.

On the more important side, the scan revealed the ventricles in his head had not gotten worse and still only showed mild hydrocephalus which could still disappear on its own. His head had grown the normal amount but was still very very small, but they showed no concern. His legs had continued to grow far quicker than the rest of him and he had put on a bit of chub, weighing 4.5lbs, an almost average size baby! Expected to be 7.7lbs at birth.

This time, both his feet seemed to be showing signs of mild talipes – which meant he would probably require surgery at 9 months.

Overall, I left cooing over my new photos and feeling really positive again! As soon as I got home, Mike phoned and I passed on the news – I couldn’t believe I would be seeing him in only 3 days!

elles28 · May 15th, 2008, 15:52 PM

Wow great pics

doctordeesmrs · May 15th, 2008, 15:53 PM

Glad everything going well. Great pics.

Simon'sMum · May 15th, 2008, 16:11 PM

I'm so happy for you! You deserve great days like these. And your little Tommy does have really cute chubby cheeks! I wish you more and more happy sunny days!

Ema · May 15th, 2008, 16:49 PM

Great pics hun xx

Amanda · May 15th, 2008, 17:37 PM

That's really put a smile on my face! Great news at the hospital, great news about your blood sugar, great news that Mike is coming home early, and amazing scan pictures!!!

Thanks for updating us, and enjoy the reunion!