A couple weeks back Olivia took a glucose test for diabetes, which is apparently quite common among pregnant women. She had to drink a bottle of sickeningly sweet water and then have her blood drawn. Not fun. I didn’t think she’d be able to get it all down, but she prevailed. We got the results in a few days, and thankfully Olivia does not have diabetes. However, she now needs to take iron supplements for the remainder of the pregnancy because her iron count was a bit low.
On our appointment this past Monday, baby’s heartbeat was lower, only 140 BPM. Baby is about two and a half pounds now, and over seventeen inches long! It is starting to get cramped in there, and instead of little kicks, now we can really feel the baby stretch, roll, and jab Olivia’s ribs and bladder. The movements are so drastic it really looks like a little person trying to get out now. We have quite the active baby! Olivia is also starting to have Braxton Hicks contractions from time to time, which are quite painful.
We’ve been spending loads of time lately figuring out everything we need. A lot of stuff has gone up on our registry, but we still have way more to figure out. One of the things we are still uncertain about is which type of cloth diapers we want to go with. We’ve already decided against disposable diapers, but it turns out there are tons of options for cloth diapers, and we are still sorting through them. Any advice you have on the balance between cost and convenience of the different types would be much appreciated.
Olivia is leaving Wednesday for the baby shower, and she is really excited to see everyone and have a fun time.
Finally, we decided we just had to know what the sex was, so we called the doctor up and asked: click here to see the gender.