showers of food and Dr's

Had our first baby shower - it was fun..... We ended up getting a lot of great things - our stroller/car seat combo, bathtub, highchair, bouncer.....and other great things. Having some baby items around the house sure is making this very real....... when i was opening up some gifts i just started to think about how far we have come and i still am amazed that i am here, pregnant. That in a few short months we will have an amazing lil' girl here in our arms. The room is starting to come together as well - my dad came and installed the ceiling fan and now hubby just needs to get the crib together and then i can get the bookcase in there and the glider......


So i met with a nutritionist intake person on friday and i feel much better about what i'm doing. I do carbs by a point system, so like a banana is 2pts....and i need 2pts of carbs at breakfast and snacks. So for example, i usually now eat a piece of toast, which is 1pt with some PB on it (PB is free food)and then veggies or a hard boiled egg (which are free) and then a glass of milk, which is another point, so that's 2pts of Carbs. It's not horrible, but it's hard to eat carbs when i feel like it's making TreeHugger work harder...but i suppose that's just when my sugars are high is when she has to work hard. So far they've been pretty good. I do notice they are higher if i eat cereal, so i try not to eat that in the morning anymore.

This week has been pretty go go go, between doctors and appointments and finding out all this stuff that's going on.....then had 1 shower on saturday and then Easter on Sunday..... i think pregnancy is just catching up to me and i'm exhausted and run down. I started to not feel good yesterday late afternoon - it was like i felt kinda shaky or that i might pass out, my sugars were fine, so i knew it wasn't that, but i didn't like the feeling and it took awhile to shake it.... i ended up going to bed early, cuz my body was just DONE. I had a horrible time sleeping last night, got up every 2hrs starting at 930pm to pee....and on top of that, my feet swelled for the 1st time.... :( I'm thinking it was all the standing and walking around i did the last 3 days. I did take today off of work cuz i just wasn't feeling good.

I have my ultrasound for my thyroid tomorrow morning, i guess it can all be connected to the blood pressure issues i was having and the diabetes....so i was going to put it off a little, wanted to kinda deal with one thing at a time, but after my feet swelled a little yesterday, i decided that i won't wait and that my sugars are doing well and now lets get the thyroid checked out cuz maybe that will help prevent pre-e. UGH.

There's just so much going on with all the differrent doctors.....i don't even want to begin to see the bills when they start rolling in....