31 Week Check Up

So yesterday I had another two week check up with my midwife.  (Getting to hear Baby Love's heart beat every two weeks is great, but I could deal without peeing in a cup every time.)  Everything is still going great and Baby Love seems to be growing well.  I passed my Glucose tolerance test (which is a screening test for Gestational Diabetes) several weeks ago with flying colors.  In fact, I was a serious overachiever and my midwife was shocked by my results.  (Pretty sure I haven't overachieved at anything since my early college years...so that made me feel quite pleased with myself.)  Basically they make you drink a sickeningly sweet (not to mention toxic orange colored) drink and check your blood sugar after an hour to see how well your body removes the sugar from your blood stream.  If you fail, you have to go back and take another 3 hour test with multiple blood draws, that checks your blood sugar over the course of 3 hours.  SO glad I don't have to endure that one, especially because I think you have to fast for the 3 hour test.  And you don't want to mess with a fasting pregnant lady!  I saw a woman there in the middle of her 3 hour test while I was doing the 1 hour test and she looked absolutely miserable.  Plus I don't know if it was because of the drink or just coincidental, but I felt horrible for the rest of the day, so I can't imagine how I would feel after the 3 hour test.    

My midwife said that I continue to look great both on paper (weight, blood pressure, glucose test, etc.) and in person.  Also she thinks that little Baby Love is in the head down position now.  Up until yesterday I thought she was in the breech position (she was at our 20 week anatomy scan), and my midwife hadn't been able to feel her head in my lower abdomen yet.  Although that's perfectly normal, most babies don't turn upside down until 32+ weeks, it's comforting to know that she is already in the right position because breech babies that don't turn in time are pretty much a first class (okay, probably more like a coach) ticket to the OR and a lovely C-section.  And my midwife suspects that she will likely stay head down for the remainder of the pregnancy.  So I just hope she does!  All I know is that she is a super busy girl, kicking, moving and rolling around and kindly pressing her cute little head up against my bladder.  And recently I think she has started to get the hiccups.  I love feeling all these movements because I know it means she is active and healthy.  And when she cooperates, Phil is able to put his hand on my belly and feel all her little spastic movements too.   I really wish I had a hidden camera inside my uterus as I am very curious as to what she is up to in there all day (and night!).

Here's a pic of me from a couple of days ago in the nursery.  Phil just finished touching up the stripes so her room is just waiting for furniture now!  And I think that my cute little baby bump has officially turned into a hump.  It's hard to believe that there is still two more months of growing to do.  Both Phil and I find it hard to believe that I can actually get any bigger.  We're just waiting for the Turkey Timer (aka my belly button) to pop!  Hopefully it will hang in there a little bit longer!