2nd Doctor's Visit

This morning Dan and I were back at the OB's office, for my second check-up. Everything's fine. My official due date is September 10, which means I'm at week-ten-almost-eleven. I gained a pound. One pound. In a month of pregnancy. I was expecting more, since my pants don't fit anymore. But, all right, one pound it is. (Don't expect me to always give weight information. . .but it's only a pound.

The doctor was able to find Polliwog and broadcast his heartbeat. It was amazing. Dan was obviously awed. I told Dan, shortly after passing the home pregnancy test, that it all seems so much more real when you hear the heartbeat. There's the abstract of "baby" but it's so much more concrete when you hear it.

My next appointment is March 26. This one, the dr. set me up for a diabetes screening. I am not looking forward to a diabetes screening, especially since my "prize" for passing it will be to do it again a month later. She recommends this primarily due to my previous experience with gestational diabetes. I started following many of the diabetic dietary rules a month ago, though I'm not as compliant as I probably will need to be in later months.

The ultrasound will be sometime in late April. It'd be nice to know Polliwog's gender. Then I'll have a gender with a pronoun to use at will. I can drop awkward constructions like "he/she" and "him/her." Of course, it's not 100% certain that we'll be able to tell, but those sono-techs know what they're seeing.

And now you know everything I do. :)