7 Month Check up

Everything still looks good.  I am right at 28 inches for 28 weeks, although I did gain 6 pounds in two weeks...Read the posts below and I think you will understand why.  My doctor was able to feel where her head, spine, and feet were. This explained why I felt like I was getting kicked in the lungs all day.  I was!  During the last two weeks I have been convinced that she was going through a growth spurt  I was basically awake long enough to eat in between naps.  My proof that I was right is that I am now awake much more frequently, and she feels bigger.  Her kicks & rolls are much more forceful.  J.R. can finally feel her moving (very exciting for him), and I can see my belly rippling from her feet and elbows.  I also had to do a blood glucose test this visit.  For those of you who don't know what this entails, basically I had to chug a straight glucose drink which tasted like cough syrup minus the alcohol and get my blood drawn an hour later.  I hate needles, (I am having trouble reading the section on epidurals in my pregnancy book because it's basically describing a needle going in your spine!) and I warn all of my nurses and LPNs that I need them to keep talking to me and keep me distracted while they draw my blood.  The woman who did it this time was fantastic!  I barely felt it at all.  So in a few weeks I'll know if I'm at risk for gestational diabetes.  That's my update from this visit!  I go back for more in two weeks.