Week 26

Went to the OB yesterday and I took 2/3 of the moms (both my mom and my mother in law) with me. I had to take the glucose test. For those who don't know, here is what they do. They make you drink this sugary concoction and within a hour of drinking it, they take your blood to test for gestational diabetes. Won't get the results back for a while but I think the peapod is okay. After the test, I met the attending OB (the one on duty that day, Dr. Nieves--he was really nice) and he measured my belly (I'm the right size) and we listened to the peapod's heartbeat...and kicks :). It was so funny. First you hear this little fast heartbeat... 140 bpm, then all of a sudden you hear this loud THUMP. I guess the peapod didn't take to kindly to the doc push and feeling on my belly :). The peapod likes to hang out in the lower part of my belly right now. Eventually, I think the wee one will move up more because of lack of room.

Yesterday with the moms, we went to Buy Buy Baby and ordered the nursery furniture, along with picking up a few clothing items and running around the store with a registry gun. Now, that was fun. All pregnant women should experience going to the stores to add to their registry. Doing it online is fun, but the ability to have a personal shopper and run around with that gun is too much fun for words. I think I'm going to roll to Babies R Us today to see if there is anything else I want to add to that registry! :)

I also discovered this week that the peapod likes jazz and Stevie Wonder. When either one is playing, there is a lot of movement going on in the womb :). Seems like the peapod has good taste in music.

I went to bed last night thinking I was catching a cold, but this morning i realized its more of a throat thing. So I'm going to see my general practitioner to see what's going on. Hopefully it's not serious. It would be just my luck if it were something like tonsillitis, but I hope it's not.

To my peapod: If you keep dancing, I promise that I'll keep playing the music you like to hear :). Note - I just received news that your glucose test was normal. No gestational diabetes for you. :). Now if mommy could get rid of this throat infection/mild strep throat, or whatever it is...all will be right in our universe :)