Doctors Appointments

Today Matt and I went to my doctor appointment and my follow up eye appointment. The doctor appointment was just a routine appointment, nothing out of the ordinary. I have gained around 20 pounds though (YIKES!!). I had lost almost 40 before getting pregnant and I was a little disappointed that I'm gaining so much, but I'm sure I'll be able to take it off...I hope. Apparently they don't seem concerned about my weight gain because no one at the office has said anything to me about it. They just weigh me and write it down. Matt and I had written a little bit of our birth plan and showed it to my midwife to see if she had anything for us to think about adding. She wasn't much help in that area, so we will continue to research and try to think of things that should be added. In case you don't know what a birth plan is, it's a form that you fill out explaining what you want and don't want to happen during labor and delivery. Some people want to do things completely natural and don't even want to be asked if they want drugs, so they put that on the birth plan. Some people want to only have certain drugs, or want to be able to move around the room freely (assuming you have no medical reason not to) that goes on the birth plan. Also, who you want in the room, if you want to be allowed to bring things from home to "decorate" the room with to help you feel more relaxed. These things that go on the birth plan help the doctors and nurses figure out what you want and don't want so they aren't bothering you with things in the middle of labor. Obviously, if medical intervention is needed, most of this stuff doesn't matter. They will have to do what they need to. Matt and I are pretty open minded about most everything, so we are easy to work with. We aren't opposed to anything, especially since this is our first baby and we have NO idea how things are going to progress.
We did talk to the midwife a bit about early labor, when to come in, that kind of thing. She took a quick look at my blood sugar numbers, and didn't seem to concerned with them. I explained that I'm still trying to get the hang of how much carbs I can have. Plus, the snacks are really messing me up during the day. Sometimes we don't eat dinner until 7:00p or later because I don't want my after lunch snack to be too close to a meal. It's really hard, I spent over a year training myself to not snack during the day anymore, and now I'm being forced to snack.
My midwife also did another heartbeat ultrasound, and it sounded good. I asked why the baby seems to always hang out on the right side (it's hard on that side about 80% of the time) and she said that babies sometimes favor one side over another....awesome. Makes it hard to lay on my left side when the baby is on my right side and not moving to the left. Silly baby!! So now starts my "every two week" appointments for awhile, then it will be every week. My next appointment is on 11/23 with my regular midwife. They are still trying to get me to meet one more practitioner in the office but she isn't available during that week. They want us to have met everyone that could deliver the baby just in case.

My eye appointment was a follow up from July when I first went in. Some of you may remember, suddenly one day I noticed a blind spot in my right eye. It's only visible when I close my left eye and rapidly blink my right eye. It sounds stupid, but it's there. It hasn't changed, and the eye doctor still couldn't find anything wrong with my eyes. I did tell her that I was recently diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and that might be a factor. She agreed that it could be, but we won't know for sure until after the baby is born. I just have to keep an eye on it (HA! Get it, and EYE), and let her know if the shape changes or if it moves or anything.

Well, Matt and I haven't really looked at baby names in weeks. Just suggestions we have gotten from various people. I think we are pretty dried up with names. Here are the results of last weeks name poll:

Penny: 1
Rebecca: 5
Bethany: 1

Before I post the final name poll (with all winning results) I'm going to look once more around websites, baby name books, etc and see if I can come up with any more names we might consider. Please, if you think of a name let one of us know, we don't turn away names, we think about all of them. I hope the poor baby gets a decent name, if we leave it 'till the last minute she might be named Skeletor or something equally as crazy.
To close I thought I would post another gem from Matt and Chloe. Matt was trying to figure out the baby carrier the other day and thought it would be a hoot to put Chloe in it just to see. Surprisingly, she didn't seem to mind.