t-shirt, jeans, hanging chair, rug

I’m now 30 (almost 31) weeks pregnant so I thought I’d give another little update. This pregnancy has been pretty easy all things considered and is really just flying by. If I had it my way I’d turn back time and get started on things a little sooner… since that’s impossible we’re just going to have to jam from here on out.

Nursery – No progress there. Well, no noticeable progress. We do have a crib (in a box in another room) and some odds and ends. The rocking chair, changing table/dresser, book shelves and corner shelf will all be staying in the room so he doesn’t really need too much more. We’re currently looking for a mattress, we got Crosby this one and will probably do the same this time.

Crosby’s room – I mentioned in a previous post that we were clearing out our current guest room to make it Crosby’s. A few weeks ago we spent the day doing just that. Lots of manual labor for Jeff… and trips to donate items. We have another donation pickup scheduled for next week for bigger items. Then after they’re cleared out we can start moving her in. Oh yeah, we ordered blackout shades for the room so we’re waiting for those to come in too.

Weight gain – I’ve officially gained more with this baby than I did with Crosby. I’m trying not to let that bug me and hope instead it makes him bigger and a better eater from the get go. It’s so hard to see the number on the scale go up at each appointment but I know it’s for a great reason.

Gestational Diabetes – Since I had GD with Crosby I was first tested in my second trimester this time. I ended up failing the one hour test and passing the three-hour, which meant it was game on for eating over the holidays. Last month I needed to test again and went straight to the three-hour. I was so ready for the GD diagnoses to come, but when it came back negative I was almost upset. I’d been telling myself the whole time I could eat whatever I wanted over the holidays and then I’d go back on the strict diet and be able to have a healthy pregnancy like I did last time. I guess I realized that not having a reason to be on the diet made it impossible and was frustrated with my weight gain. I’m still trying to eat healthy, but it’s a lot harder when you feel like there’s no real reason to.

from left – 24, 27 and 30 weeks

workout set via Beach Riot 

blanket, basket, swaddle blanket, hats, tan shoes, black shoes 

my pj’s

I’m almost 37 weeks pregnant and really starting to feel it. HA! Actually I feel pretty good but swear I doubled in size the last few weeks and don’t know how I’m going to get any bigger. I mentioned in my last bump-date post that I have Gestational Diabetes as well as something called Marginal Cord Insertion, you can read that here.

hat, dress c/o, necklace c/o, purse, shoes

Happy Friday! Hope you have fun plans to look forward to this weekend, we’re supposed to get more record setting rain here today so naturally I’m flashing back to sunnier days last weekend. Jeff and I celebrated a relaxing little babymoon about an hour down the coast at The Hyatt Regency La Jolla. It was the perfect travel distance for me at over 8 months pregnant – no long car rides, no flights, no complaints. We were so spoiled all weekend, I want to go back and do it all over again!

I know I’ve said this a few times, but I can’t believe how fast my pregnancy has flown by. The next month or so might really drag but so far it’s been lightening speed. Last weekend we took our maternity photos with Taylor Cole. It was really special because I’ve shot with her times before… first for my blog, then our rehearsal dinner and now these. I know we’ll love these pictures forever and can’t wait to show them to our baby girl.

I also wanted to share a bump-date because a lot has been happening in the past few months. Things that are more personal than I normally share, but feel like I should because I know others go through similar things as well.

A few months ago after we had our 20 week anatomy scan we learned I have something called Marginal Cord Insertion. This means the umbilical cord attached to the side of the placenta instead of where it normally does in the middle. Because of this growth later in the pregnancy may be slowed down and I’ll start going to my doctor for monitoring twice a week in just a couple of weeks. This is pretty rare, only in something like 7% of pregnancies, most of those being pregnancies with multiples.

There’s nothing I can do about it now, but I’ve been told to take it easy and not to work out. It was actually funny, I thought she was going to lecture me on my lack of exercise but she told me to keep doing what I’m doing.

A few weeks later I went in for my one hour glucose test and failed. I didn’t think too much of it because a lot of my friends failed their one hour as well but went on to pass the three-hour. So I made an appointment and went to a lab for the three-hour test. The day after I took it I got a call that I failed that too and have Gestational Diabetes. I was so shocked and didn’t really know what to do with myself. I eat pretty healthy and haven’t gained much weight this pregnancy, I just didn’t know how it could happen. Since then I’ve met with a specialist and nutritionist, have cut down on my carb and sugar intake, write down every single thing I eat and started testing my blood sugar several times a day. It’s far from fun but it’s a good sacrifice for a healthy baby.

The funny thing about the two is they completely contradict one another. With Marginal Cord a concern is I could have a very small baby and with Gestational Diabetes that I could have a large baby. We’ve been joking that maybe they’ll cancel each other out and we’ll have an average size baby.

All that aside I still can’t really complain, the first half of my pregnancy was a breeze. I’m hoping the next eight weeks continue to fly by so we can meet this baby!

dress

on Jeff: shirt, blazer, pants

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Well that was a long one, thanks for reading if you made it this far!