Wow! I don't normally spend much time doing fb, so I don't usually have many posts on my wall, but hey, just tell the world you are pregnant @ 48 & all of a sudden the activity on your page goes WAY up! I can pretend I'm a popular chick. LOL!
Ok well, as some people know I was on a weight loss program, taking things very slowly. Have dropped 36 lbs, but that's taken over a year, and I'm still obese, but hey no longer morbidly obese. But really still @ least need to lose another 70 lbs. Guess the dr might frown upon that at this particular juncture. I guess no matter how heavy you are, they don't want you to loose weight while pregnant. Ok now I understand that towards the end when baby is packing on half a lb per week, but I would think it would be ok during the first trimester. I mean, right now, my little blessing is the size of a poppy seed, And if I could just drop 10 lbs I would be under 200, which I haven't been in 20 years, and wouldn't that be healthier to reduce my BMI? To me that makes sense cuz right now the baby doesn't need calories. And I'm not talking about crash dieting or anything, just sensible healthy eating, which you're supposed to do when you're pregnant anyway.
Today was pretty uneventful as I've done absolutely zippo, zilch, nothing. I don't feel sick. Just tired and have no energy to get my backside off the couch. Also, am starting to get dizzy sometimes. Not sure if that's just pregnancy or if I might still be anemic. I was pretty severely anemic a couple months back cuz of heavy bleeding from a fibroid. Even after they did d and c and I went a whole month without any bleeding, hemoglobin levels hadn't improved any. They were still 7.8, which is pretty low, but I'm guessing since I took meds during my last cycle that caused it to be much lighter, as in I was able to actually have a life AND my period at the same time cuz I didn't have to run to the bathroom every hour. (I apologize to any people of the male gender who may see this and be thinking TMI, but hey you ARE reading a pregnancy blog, so you might occasionally run across tidbits like this or see the word "uterus".) that my hemoglobin would at least be somewhat better. But ob dr doesn't wanna see me for another 4 weeks, so I won't be getting blood checked until then. But I guess that's ok. I mean, I'm pretty sure high 7s for hg isn't like life threatening or anything.
My house is a mess, but I'm not gonna stress over it. For now, I'm just too exhausted to do anything about it. Probably the combo of pregnancy at this age and maybe still anemia. Still, I struggle with feeling guilty when I haven't "accomplished" anything with my day. Oh well.
I'm changing clinics because the ob/gyn drs in my current clinic are a lot younger and less experienced than the guy I had last time, and because my pregnancy is considered very high risk, I want to be confident that I have the most knowledgeable, experienced one in town. And this guy knows his stuff but doesn't have the misconception that he is God. So anyway, I called to talk to the ob nurse cuz I had some questions, and she remembered who I was! That totally surprised me cuz it was 7 and a half years ago. And they deliver like a gazillion babies a year, so that would make me, let's see, after 7 years, 1 out of 7 gazillion people. Now, I'm not sure if it's a good thing to stand out among 7 gazillion well enough that someone remembers you 7 years later. Will need to ponder that one for a while.
I'm kinda bummed that I will have to have a c section. I would much rather try vbac. But they don't do those here. I would have to go to one of the big hospitals in Minneapolis, which means I'd have to see a Minneapolis dr for my prenatal care, and by the second half of my pregnancy those health care people are always watching me like a hawk and making me come in like every stinkin week. And I don't wanna have to be doing that 45 minute to an hour drive all the time. I'd rather stay here where the hospital and dr are like 5 minutes from my house (unless of course, we happen to be enroute during a train crossing) Then it's more like 5 hours. Ok maybe not quite, but it SEEMS that way, esp if you are running late and/or have to pee.
Well, that's enough for tonight. I'm getting heartburn. Yep, I'm pregnant alright. Never had heartburn in my life til 21 years ago when I was pregnant with my first. But my kids are so worth everything I went thru during pregnancy and childbirth. I'd do it all again in a New York minute. Hey! I am doing it again, but hopefully this will be a much smoother ride. But we will do what we need to do and take it one day @ a time and work some fun into this journey! Gotta be on the trip, might as well enjoy the ride!
Annette
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