Third Trimester

I am well into my third trimester now and still enjoying this pregnancy.

Since my last post, I  found out that I do have gestational diabetes.  We tried to get it under control by just changing my diet but, that did not work so much.  I was put on a pill call Glyburide and with some slight adjustments we have been able to get my blood sugar under control.  I was a little surprised that I got gestational diabetes with the little weight gain I have had.

I am 32 weeks now and have gained 14 pounds.  My doctor only wanted me to gain a total of 25 pounds so I guess I am on the right track.  I know that in the last few weeks I will put on more and more weight as baby Amelia starts really packing on the pounds.

Randy and I have completed some birthing classes and have a few more to go.  I feel like we knew a lot of the information already but every class we took a little more knowledge home.  Randy got to learn how to swaddle the baby and to change a diaper.  Randy swaddling the baby is quite comical.  His hands are so big and the baby doll was  so small that it looked like he was smashing the baby.  I would recommend for everyone to take the child birth classes that are offered at the hospitals and best of all many of the classes are FREE!

Yesterday I went to Immaculate Conception School's nursery orientation.  The nursery is really cute and there is a ton of staff to watch over the babies.  They really seem to work with the parents schedule as well as maintaining their own schedule.  I thought it was really cute that they had birthday balloons on the wall and had included Amelia with her due date.  They also had a little cubby set up for her already.  She will not even be there until January.

The baby shower will be this month and I am looking forward to seeing all my family and friends!

Our nursery is really coming together and I will be excited when it is complete.  We have an elephant theme forming.  I had my dad cut out some wood elephants to mount letters on.  My mom and I painted the elephants a taupe color and the letters are a light pink.  The plan is to hang them on the wall above her bed so it looks like elephants on parade.  I have a few more things I need to order for the room before I am really happy with it but I guess as long as it is done before she gets here we are good.  I will start posting pictures soon of her little room.

While we are talking about pictures my sister took a few maternity pictures for me with my new camera.  Most of the pictures came out really well and we were able to use some in the nursery.  I think now that I am further along we may do some more pics and see how they come out.