Ok well it seems like every week brings a new situation with this pregnancy. On Sunday night, around 11:30 I was having a sever pain on the right side of my stomach. At first I was not sure if it was labor or not. After about five minutes of the pain, I knew it was not labor. Labor pain is all over your stomach, and this pain stayed in the same spot and did not go away. I tried to change positions to see if that would help the pain go away. Well of course it did not work. I was up all night trying to deal with this pain. Monday I went to work thinking that by being up and teaching the pain would go away, but once again I was wrong. So I finally called the doctor to see if they could help me ease this pain. So I was talking with the nurse and she said that it was probably the way the baby was positioned and she was probably on a nerve. Then she said that she would talk to the doctor and call me back. So about 20 minutes later, she called back and the first thing that she asked was when was the last time I felt the baby move. Well I had not felt her move at all on Monday, so they wanted me to come to the clinic as soon as I could get there. As you can imagine, I started to get nervous and of course, my husband could not get away from work right then to come so that made it worse. When I got to the clinic they took me right back and hooked me up to the fetal monitor again. I got to lay there for almost two hours for them to get enough information to make sure that the baby was not under any stress. Once I was hooked up the baby finally moved and the pain went away immediately. It was amazing how much better I felt once she moved. The best news was that the baby is fine and not under any stress. I was exhausted yesterday after all that was over. I slept better last night then I have in the last few weeks or so. Sleeping has become as much of a chore as walking. It felt really good to have slept all night long. It was such a better morning when I woke up this morning. Thank goodness!!!

Last week on Wednesday afternoon, I had yet another doctor appointment. It seems like I have been going to the doctor every week for the last three months. Well in reality, since the episode of the high blood pressure and being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, I have been every week. Usually you do not start going to the doctor once a week until you are about thirty five weeks pregnant. My doctor has been very cautious about this pregnancy. I know a lot of it has to do with my age. I highly recommend having your family when you are young, your body handles it much better when you are young. So anyway back to the appointment last week, I was hooked up to the fetal monitor to make sure that the baby was not under any stress. I sat in the room for thirty minutes listening to her heart beat and her moving all around. For some reason, as soon as they put on the monitor, she became very active. She was kicking and it felt like doing flips the whole time the monitor was hooked up. I was a little nervous because every time my husband has not been able to attend the appointments, I seem to get bad news. So I told him that he was no longer allowed to miss any more appointments. However, he was not able to go last week because of a project at work he had to stay for, and this time, I did not get bad news. Thank goodness. So this coming week, we will have another appointment and again I will be hooked up to the monitor to make sure the baby is under no stress and doing fine. Every week I cross my fingers that the news is good and we will not have to deliver early. That has been my biggest fear during this whole pregnancy. I just want her to be healthy and safe!!!

Well according to the due date my doctor gave me I am 34 weeks and 5 days pregnant. That puts my due day on May 17, 2010. However, I went to the doctor on Thursday and had an ultra sound done and the ultra sound says that my due date is now May 8th, 2010. This was kinda shocking news. Although the doctor never offically changed my due date, it is kind of making me worry. I have to finish my student teaching and present my Senior project on May 4th. If I can make it until then, I will be ok. I just need the baby to hang in there until May 4th. From this point on, with every doctor appointment, they will either do an ultra sound or hook me up to the fetal monitor to keep an eye on the babies growth. On a lighter note, I had my first baby shower last weekend. It was great to see all of my friends. They were all so sweet to not only bring the baby a present, but they brought Sydney a big sister present so she would not feel left out. We still need lots of things to be completely ready for the new baby. People tend to buy clothes, bows, and cute shoes when they find out that the baby is going to be a girl. Not that I am complaining because I love all of those things as well. It is fun to dress the baby in all the cute clothes. However, we need the praticail things like bottles, pacifiers, diapers, and burp clothes. My husband's work is throwing us a shower so hopefully we will get some more essentials. If not it will be ok, we will just fill in with what we need that we did not get from the two showers. I cannot wait for the Kinsley to get here. But still keeping my fingers crossed that she does not come until after May 4, 2010. Anytime after that will be just fine with me!!

Well we went to the doctor last week and the baby is measuring big which means that there might be a chance I will deliver early. I just hope that it won't happen to early. I really need to finish my requirements so that I can still graduate. When a person has gestational diabetes, the babies put on weight faster then when the mother does not. Because of this fact, I am measuring about two weeks more then I am pregnant. From here on out, every time I go to the doctor they will either do an ultrasound and/or hook me up to the baby monitor. The ultrasound will give a more accurate measurement of the size of the baby then just using the tape measure to measure the growth of the baby. The fetal monitor will make sure that they babies heart rate and other vital signs are good. Together with the ultra sound, this will provide the doctor with the information necessary to make the decision if there will be an earlier delivery. I am having trouble sleeping because I am so worried about this. I can't afford for the delivery to be too early. I still have to meet the requirements for my Advanced Comp and SIOP classes. Not to mention my student teaching requirements. I was lucky that my mentor teacher let me do my last solo week early so at least that is done, which was the most important requirement that I had for this placement. From this point I still have six weeks and two days to the predicted due date. I just hope that I can make it to the beginning of May. If the baby can wait until after May 1, then I think I will have everything done for school and it will be fine if she comes early. Keeping my fingers crossed and trying not to stress out about it. I need to make plans with my teachers just in case the baby comes before classes are over. That is on top of my to do list so there is a plan in place. Wish me luck!!!

Well my husband and I finally picked a name for our bundle of joy that will be here in May. Her name is going to be Kinsley Maire. It took us forever to agree on her name. I am not sure why this time was such a challenge. When we were expecting our first daughter it did not take us this long to agree on her name. Her name is Sydney Brooklyn and she is six years old. She is super excited about becoming a big sister. Every day she askes me when will her baby sister be here. It is so cute. After finally agreeing on her name, we went to register at Target for baby items that we will need. We thought that we were going to be ahead of the game since we kept the big items from when Sydney was a baby, but I forgot how much stuff you need to take care of a baby. We did not save any bottles, pacifiers, bibs, bouncy seat, or burp cloths. There were so many new things that were not around when Sydney was a baby. For example, there is a bath pad you put in the tub to help support the baby, but more then that it will let you know if the water temperature is too hot or not. If the water is too hot, the pad will turn blue and if the water is a good temperature the pad stays white. This way you never have to guess about if it is too hot or too cold. Another invention is the Bumbo seat. This is a seat that I can place Kinsley in to help her sit up even though she cannot sit up alone yet. It is made of a type of rubber and will not slip on slippery surfaces and will not tip over when the baby moves around. It is a safe place to put her if she gets tired of laying down. We are getting so excited the closer the date comes. It will be here before I know it. The next few weeks will be full of anticipation and lots of work to do. I will be graduate (I hope) about nine days before the due date. Time will fly by I am sure!!

Today I am going to write about what has been happening the last two weeks with my pregnancy. First, let me start off my saying how blessed I feel to be having this second baby. A little background information is that the doctors told my husband and I that we could not have anymore children after the birth of our daughter, Sydney. So to be pregnant again is something that we wished for. I went to my check up appointment on Thursday Februray 11th, 2010. I felt fine and thought that is was going to be just another routine appointment, boy was I wrong. The nurse took my blood pressure and it was high (140 over 85). This concerned the doctor and she said that she was worried that I had pre-eclampsia. This meant that I was going to have to go on bed rest and see the doctor twice a week until the baby was born. They would also give me some medicine to make sure that the babies lungs were developing faster so if I had to deliver early the baby could breath on it own. This sent me over the edge as you can imagine. For more the then obvious reason, this meant that I was going to be about 9 weeks from graduation and may not be able to graduate. So for the next four days I got to sit and worry about my health, the babies health, and weather I was going to be able to graduate or not. Nothing like adding more stress to the situation. On the following Tuesday, I got the best news I could get...no bed rest test results came back negative. Needless to say, I am keeping a close eye on my blood pressure to make sure it stays low from now on.