24 Weeks!

How Far Along: 24 Weeks!
Maternity Clothes: Yep
Stretch Marks: Not yet....fingers crossed....
Sleep: Meh...hit and miss, depending on the night
Best Moment of the Week: Finding out baby girl is perfectly healthy after a bit of a scare.
Miss Anything: nope
Movement: yep, the kicks are starting to feel stronger lately
Food Cravings: Still sweets. I made brownies last week, but I only ate one and took the rest to work!
Anything making you queasy or sick: nope
Showing: yeppers
Gender Prediction: Girl!
Labor Signs: Nope
Belly Button In or Out? In....but it appears to be getting much less shallow...
Wedding Rings On or Off: On, but I've been taking them off at night as my fingers seem to swell a bit when I'm sleeping
Happy or Moody Most of the Time: I think if I'm being honest, I have to say moody this week :(
Looking forward to: Not much this week....I really wish I had a holiday or something to look forward to, everyone at work is off for March Break with their kids. 

So, this has been an interesting week to say the least. On Tuesday morning, I met with a new midwife, Minke, who will be my back up if my midwife, Jess, is away or at another delivery. I heard from someone at work that Minke is amazing, and they wanted to use her but couldn't because she's been off on a maternity leave. So, I did really like her and will be comfortable if she ends up being at my delivery. The appointment went fine, until it came time to measure my belly. My 20-week appointment was the first one where Jess measured. At that time, she told me your belly should measure about the same number of weeks you are. So, at 20 weeks my belly was 20cm which was perfect!

Well....Minke measured my belly a couple of times, and I could tell something was off. She told me that she wanted to get Jess to come in and measure, to make sure they were measuring the same way. So...I heard her interrupt Jess' other appointment, and then the two of them were whispering in the hallway. I think I started to freak out a bit at this point. So, Jess measured me, and she had the same reaction....I was measuring 29cm at 23 weeks. My belly grew 9cm in three weeks, and they seemed concerned. So, they called the ultrasound place and made an appointment for me to go in the next morning. They didn't really tell me what the possibilities were, so I was freaking out! I googled it of course, and lots of possibilities came up - big baby, too much amniotic fluid, gestational diabetes, etc.

We went for the ultrasound on Wednesday morning, but of course the technician didn't say anything. She did say "good luck" as I was leaving, which didn't make me feel any better. We did see baby girl moving around lots and opening and closing her mouth. She looked good to us!  On Thursday morning, Jess called me with the results, and baby girl is perfectly healthy. All the results were normal in fact, baby is measuring at the 57th percentile. So, as of now, there is no explanation for why I grew so quickly, she's hoping I'll be smaller at my next appointment. Also - on a positive note, my placenta has moved, so I no longer have a low-lying placenta..yay!

My work week was completely crazy this week. I spent the whole week searching for a set of triplets. The mother told me one died, and the other two were at Sick Kids in Toronto. I literally spent two days playing detective trying to find them and figure out what the hell was going on. Turns out - there never were any babies.....ahhh! I'm relieved I don't have to worry about the babies anymore, but was very frustrated with all the lies and the amount of time I spent working on it. 

I took most of the day off on Friday which was nice. We bought a dresser at Ikea that we'll use a change table. We also went to Snuggle Bugz and bought a car seat as they were having a sale....holy expensive! We're going to be poor by the time this baby gets here. That being said, I really love the car seat we got.

Until next week....