The 7 Month Mark

Christmas Eve Jer and I went for our 7 month check-up. This check-up had the potential to bring us all sorts of news! This month I was scheduled to do my glucose screening. That was a load of fun! I went back into the lab and had the choice between orange or fruit punch glucola. It looked like those Rainbow brand fruit drinks you get at the grocery store. I chose orange. It essentially wasn’t much different than drinking flat orange soda...maybe a little sweeter. The fun part was chugging this 12oz bottle of sugary orange flavored water in front of the nurse, then waiting an hour for them to draw blood and do some testing. I haven't heard back from the office on my glucose levels so I am assuming no news is good news! After the glucola chugging, Jer and I went to the waiting room to wait for Dr. Talsky. The office was busy, but much less chaotic than some of our other appointments. We saw Dr. Talsky in record time. That’s when we awaited the big news. Was I still measuring ahead? Did that mean twins? If not, then what did it mean? My head was spinning and I was so ready to figure out what was going on! We went over our usual stuff, then proceeded to the measuring. I measured 30 weeks. This week’s check up put me at 27 weeks to the day. So about 3 weeks ahead. He measured a few times to double check his tape and felt around on my stomach quite a bit to get a feel for the positioning of the baby. He ruled out the idea of twins and then we listened to the heartbeat. Essentially we have a very healthy, nearly 3 pound baby that is doing spectacularly well! Dr. Talsky said everything was going great and to keep doing what I’m doing. I was relieved because he meant everything…from my weight gain to my blood pressure. When we left, we couldn’t have been happier. Our pregnancy was going along wonderfully and we have ONE healthy growing baby! What relief and a blessing! It’s the best Christmas present we got this year.

We see Dr. Talsky again January 16th at 1pm. Our bi-weekly appointments begin after that. We also start Child Birth classes on January 5th. I’m looking forward to a guaranteed evening with Jer for 6 straight weeks. We have a lot coming up! Baby Linley is going to be here before we know it!