We made it to the due date

My 39 week appointment went great last week. I may have offended the endocrinologist when I was so happy about not seeing her again (until my follow up in January). I seriously could not contain myself though!

At the ultrasound he weighed in at 6.7 lbs (25th percentile) and everyone was really happy! My ob gave me great news: no inducing until 10 days overdue. I gave her great news: no more then one appointment per week, with how long we have to travel it just won't work. 

My blood pressure was weird 128/90 but after 5 minutes of lying on my side it had started to go down. They said it could be my lack of sleep (1.5 hrs) and the fact my stomach (CF GI issues) was hurting. 

I weighed 125 lbs. exactly 10 lbs more then my pre-pregnancy weight. 

Skip forward 3 days (Sunday). I get my first taste of labor or preterm labor as some call it. Abe & I get super excited and it stops. *sad face* 

Today. MY DUE DATE HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!

First we get our ultrasound. Baby is 7.12 lbs (over estimate most likely) - 40th percentile. 

This week I lost a pound and weigh 124. They don't say anything so neither do I! 

After taking my blood pressure (92/56) the nurse mentions that the ob will want to check me, I laugh and say she might want to but she won't because I'll say no. She looks shocked but says ok. Yay me. I'm not sure if she told my ob or my ob knows me better but she never asked!

Next appointment is in one week. 

**note to baby: please come before then, Love mom & dad. 

3rd Trimester

I've made it to the 3rd trimester!!

27 Weeks 5 days

I'm shocked the doctors haven't made a bigger deal about my weight... Last appointment I pulled the old CF clinic trick, eat a big meal before & do not use the washroom until after the weigh in... Their scale said 125 lbs. I've only gotten as high as 121 lbs on both my home & parents scale. With my starting weight at 115 lbs I'm happy to be getting no complaints!

Lung function has not gone down, it actually has gone up! We'll see if I'm as lucky during these last few months of pregnancy. 

He is sitting really low and I'm very thankful for that. 

My sugar levels have been great and the endocrinologist has been very happy with my numbers. 

June 13, 2013

My lungs have been bothering me a bit these last couple says with a dry cough. Anything I cough up is clear so that makes me happy! I've lowered my garlic intake to reduce the chance of bleeding issues during & after birth and I think that's why I got the cough. 

I've managed to schedule all my doctor appointments to one day every 3 weeks... It's quite a relief. Hoping it stays this way for at least another 2 months.

Bump Ahead!

Happy 23rd Birthday to my beloved Abe!!!

~Help. 

I had started Letrozole (fertility drug) in September. December was my last month. I prayed & hoped it would work but I didn't get my hopes up, Abe & I were already planning ahead. We'd wait a year - save up some money for artificial insemination. Abe would get one more summer with me in bikinis. 

~Suspicion. 

Being the Christmas holidays I wasn't really paying attention to timing and when I checked my cycle beads app I realized... Hey I'm 4 days late, with this drug I was always very punctual, sometimes even early. 

Then I started to think, my boobs were more sore then usual, I'd been napping a lot & peeing like crazy! 

Silly me didn't have a pregnancy test around but I did have an ovulation one and after googling it the next morning I decided to see what it would say. Well it was positive. 

I got my husband to buy a pregnancy test before work, I'd take it the next morning. 

~The Test. 

Abe was very particular he wanted us to find out at the same time. 

So I took the test & placed it on the sink & we waited... Both looked... A very dark plus sign was all I saw, I WAS FINALLY PREGNANT!

We told all our family members within the next few days. I called the fertility clinic & they set up an appointment for an ultrasound - February 13th. 

I called CF clinic & got in touch with the dietitian & physiotherapist. 

~More pills. 

I right away ordered my favorite prenatal vitamins from iherb - New Chapter Organics Perfect Prenatal: Multi Vitamin, Herbs, Minerals. I also starting drinking a cup a day of mama's red raspberry brew, as I've hit my second trimester I'm taking 2 cups a day. Ordered vitamin B6 (100 mg daily) & ginger (1 capsule a day) to keep morning sickness away, my sisters have had horrible morning sickness during their pregnancies.

9 weeks old

~Thankful. 

I'm so very thankful that I've only thrown up once and if I don't let myself get too hungry I don't get nauseated either!

~Our little sweetheart. 

February 13th seemed to take forever to come but it finally did! We got to see our sweet baby move its little hands & I saw the heart pumping. The ultrasound machine didn't have sound & it was too early to hear the heartbeat anyways. 

Doctor Elliot confirmed what my apps had said, our due date is September 19th. He also referred me to the high risk pregnancy specialist I'll be seeing, that appointment is March 21st, 6 days before my 25th birthday!