Had a prenatal appt today. Went well. Heard the baby's heart beat on the doppler monitor. It was 130 beats/minute, which is good. All my blood work came back normal for all the stuff they tested for. Apparently I am not anemic and the doctor told me to keep doing what I am doing. Super! Not sure what that is though. I thought I had gained weight with the ice cream and pizza we had but I have not gained a pound. Love to hear that.
Yesterday had a bit of an episode. We had the day off because of the ridiculous amount of snow. Will take some pictures to attach here to show all of you. Chris' parents came up over the weekend and said that we had more snow than they had in Alton. I was so mad because for the last 5 years of living in Alton Bay, we got slammed with snow and had crazy winters and Dover had pretty mild ones. The first winter we move here and we get more snow. Thanks Mother Nature for that. Last week when we had the last snow storm (was it just last week) I looked out the window and saw Chris looking like he was in pain from shoveling. I decided, against the wishes of my doctor, to go out and help him. I was always out there before and I felt really bad. I was really careful for all of you who just thought that. It was pretty light snow so it was easy to do. My dad had gotten us this electric shovel thing that only works in about 4-5 inches of snow so I used that to help him out too. I just felt bad. The snow piles are higher than my car so it was hard for him to shovel and get it over his head so that it just didn't come back on the driveway. This week, in anticipation of the ridiculous snow storm, he decided to check Craigslist (our favorite place, even the dog was purchased off of Craiglist) for a snow blower. He found one and bought it Monday night. Just in time. He said he went out Tuesday and after about 10 minutes he was all done. Sweet!!!
So anyway back to my episode. We watched a movie about 4ish and I had an apple at the start of it. By the end of the movie I was starving, so I started cooking dinner. I pretty much had it done and then I got this sensation that I was going to pass out. I ran into the room and laid down. I felt better. Chris brought my dinner in to me and I started to eat. I felt a lot better after that. I mentioned that to the doctor and she said that pregnancy sometimes causes you to be hypo glycemic so to keep snacking every couple of hours. I have been pretty good at this at work but sometimes I slack off on the weekends or when I have a day off in the middle of the week. Will try to be more careful with that. I have also been trying to drink more water. It is not too bad for me since I used to drink so much before.
I also asked the doctor about when I might start to show. On my 12 week day, I was going to take a picture of my belly to see the changes every month but I just felt like I was fat because as some of you may have noticed, I was not the skinniest of people before I got pregnant. I was working on that but oh well not any more. So I just felt like I would just look fat. She said that around 16-20 weeks is when your uterus moves up to your belly button area so then it will look like I am showing. So I will start taking pictures starting week 16 and post them up here.
I have my next appt next month when I will be 17 weeks and then probably the one after that I will have the ultrasound to find out what it is.
Hope this finds all of you well.
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