Hello, welcome!
Okay, trying to look a little bit holiday and festive here and my background.
So today is a pregnancy update. I know it has been a while.
I think the last one I had was 22 weeks and now I'm 27 1/2 weeks right now.
So we'll just update you to 27 weeks okay. Sound good?
Okay, a lot has been happening. Um and by the way if you notice my son running around, sorry.
I had to film while he's here, but you know I just have to.
Okay, uh 27 weeks... what is going on with the baby? Let's see.
Alright, so baby is approximately 2 pounds and about 15 inches or 38 centimeters
if you guys use centimeters in the metric system.
So baby's getting up there... about two pounds. That's pretty good.
I mean I feel it and I notice it. You will notice my stomach is getting huge.
Um, let's see it also says that now baby can open and close their eyes easily.
Before they were sealed shut and now they can open and close.
It also says that they can regulate their lungs now, they can control their body temperature,
all of those things. So that is great!
Everything is moving along and just think they're starting to get fatter now... right?
Isn't that's all that's left? Didn't have any ultrasound since the anatomy scan.
So not really sure exactly how big this baby is. I don't know.
but I did have a midwife appointment just recently last week and at that one
they finally did a measurement on my stomach and at that time I was 26 weeks and
I think like a day and I was measuring 25. So she said that's fine.
She said I "have a deep uterus". I don't know what that means.
She said it was hard to... I guess get down to find the proper place.
So the measurements might be a little bit off.
So everything's going well with the baby.
I've been feeling movement quite often and it's funny because I'll try and see
if I can do it, film a little bit of movement, because you can actually clearly see movement
now when the baby is moving sometimes. Because I don't have an anterior placenta.
Mine is considered what's called a posterior placenta. So that means the baby's here
and my placenta is back here. So previously in my other pregnancy it was in the front.
So meaning every time the baby would hit it would hit that placenta and block it.
Now it's behind. So all the movement you can see much more clearly and I definitely feel it more now.
So what is going on with me... because everything is about me!
Not really. Uh I would say sleeping-wise I'm actually sleeping better.
Which is kind of weird. I don't know.
Um, I've had a lot of problems with drinking water.
I'm gonna be totally honest, I am lousy at drinking water... just terrible
and I know it's not good for me. I have my water right over here,
but I just I'll set it somewhere then I go do a bunch of stuff and then I just totally forget about it.
I have been really dry recently, so yeah maybe not the best.
Uh, I finished my glucose test and I passed. Uh, I think the numbers range from like...
well my number was right in the middle. It was 100 and I think they go from say 65 to 135.
So somewhere in that range is considered normal. Mine's right at 100 exactly.
I was like yes! That was.. that was not fun because I had to bring Mikko with me to the lab.
So I went in and it was full of people. Luckily like I had his stroller
and I brought some books and some snacks and stuff like that. Be prepared!
It was only an hour, but still. So I drank the drink, which is delicious.
I mean I'm kind of a sweets person, so I could have drank like five more of those.
So I drank it and then we had to sit there and wait for an hour.
So we just played and he read some books and chatted and did whatever.
Other people you know one by one would leave and finally there's one person left...
another pregnant lady and I'm pretty sure she was doing her three-hour test.
I think, because she was there for awhile before me
and then she was still there after I was there. But anyway, you know then he got up he walked around
then they took my blood and that was it. I think it was a day and a half or two days later
I got my results and I passed! Da do do!
The only thing I noticed on that test, is I think it was um what's called MCHC.
I think the midwife said something about it being related to like iron in your blood.
I was like right at the end of the low part of normal. So meaning I'm not anemic,
but I'm like really close. But she was not concerned at all. But I've always,
always had low iron. No matter if I'm pregnant or not I always had it.
So I'm not really surprised when I'm pregnant. Um so that happened.
Let me think... what else? I would say in general most things have been pretty normal.
I haven't been like nauseous or dizzy. No more nosebleeds. That's done.
But the one thing that's new, which I'm like... I'm not exactly sure how this is gonna go.
We just recently... it's only been like a few days. So I would say just before 27 weeks.
We'll just say it was right around 27 weeks.
I'm suspecting that I have a very, very mild case of SPD.
Which is whatever this is... I don't remember the spelling of that whole thing.
But it means that your body is releasing too much of hormone called relaxin.
Which just means that like your muscles, your joints, things like that become much more loose.
I noticed that Monday I had to drive about two hours... one way two hours.. for the vet appointment for our cat.
Which I will leave a link down below. We still have a GoFundMe set up for that
treatment because it's quite expensive. So if you can help, that would be great!
But anyway, I'll leave that down below.
So we did that drive and I took me and Mikko and the cat.
We drove the two hours and then we stayed there for about another hour and a half more.
Then we had to come back. So another two hours driving. So total of what..
four hours of just driving almost straight I think. We arrived home. I took the cat.
I took Mikko brought him inside and then I noticed about an hour to two hours later
I noticed when I tried to get up...
Okay you're just gonna see a little head over here. So and we came back I noticed when I tried to get up
there was pain and I mean pain. Not my hips, not my pelvic area specifically,
but more I'd say right around like my pubic bone... that area.
It felt like someone was like kicking, poking, stabbing something.
It was pretty much like it almost hurt to walk at all. I was really, really painful.
I tried to like move my legs it was awful.
It was really bad. So I called the midwife and I said "do you think I could have maybe pulled a muscle?"
So there's a lot of pain in that pubic bone area. I called a midwife and I said
"do you think I could have pulled a muscle or...? she said "it could be SPD.."
But I didn't think it would happen that quickly
and my midwife said
"well you know... how many weeks are you at?" I said I'm 27 weeks today and she said
"well it could be just that you hurt yourself or it could be the beginning of SPD."
So she said it is possible it's SPD but I didn't think it would happen that quickly.
She said "well it could just be that you know with the combination of
your body already being ready to release that and you sitting for so long..."
and honestly I was holding my pee for like probably four hours
because I just kept forgetting to go the bathroom and I went home blah, blah, blah.
So anyways all of that together could have just allowed the SPD to happen.
I've noticed that like the first day it was really bad and then it's gone down a little bit less.
It's usually in the morning when I wake up I'm good and then throughout the day
I notice it becomes worse and if I sit for more than I'd say an hour and a half straight,
then when I try to get up I have some pain. Like at work for example,
you usually get up about every hour take a break, but every once in a while
you know you get stuck in a call and I'll sit there and then forget and take my...
not take my break. Then two hours later I get up and it's not so good.
So that's what I would say is the main thing that's been happening.
But other than that baby's been doing fine. I've been sleeping relatively okay.
I'm tired but you know things are moving along and almost third trimester.
I think it starts at 28 weeks... I think... or 27... 28. Already I don't know.
I'm not sure exactly which one it is but yay and soon it's gonna be Christmas.
If you guys celebrate Christmas, yeah we will be home for Christmas because of...
well it's a long story. It has to do with the cat and blah, blah, blah.
Which he didn't get his treatment yet. It has been delayed. So we are still collecting money for that.
Uh, yeah we will be heading out to see Jenna's family for the first weekend in January.
I think it's the first weekend... well it's for my son Mikko's birthday. It'll be on the 5th.
So we're gonna visit them for a long weekend... Thursday, Friday, Saturday, back Sunday...
or we're leaving Wednesday. So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, back Sunday. Just to celebrate his birthday
and it should be pretty fun. I think that is it. So I guess I will show you the belly now.
It is big. Everyone looks at me like woo and I'm like yeah... thanks.
Anyways let's see.
Okay, well that is everything. Hopefully you have enjoyed this pregnancy update.
Let me know how often you want me to do them?
I know it's been like what.. five weeks weeks since I've done one.
I just I get so behind with so many different things and emotional things happening and blah, blah, blah.
So anyways... let me know how often you want me to do that.
If you have any other information you want me to include...products that I'm using,
baby things that I got, I can include that too if you want.
So uh yeah see you later, bye bye!