Cravings...

I've been craving crab since this weekend, and Adam & I planned on going to SF to have dinner at one of their many crab restaurants Saturday night. However, my lazy butt didn't want to get out of bed and I just couldn't bring myself to justify spending over $100 on a crab dinner. So, we stayed home, finally getting out of bed at around 1pm and headed over the Great Mall instead. We ate dinner at Outback (blech) and watched Horrible Bosses (FUNNY!).

SO last night, I was determined to eat some crab, I drove to the asian grocers after work to pick up some live dungeness crab. I satisfied my craving with some roasted garlic crab and garlic noodles! yay. Those cravings are just intense!!




Another craving I've been having lately is cucumbers with lemon, salt and chili powder. It's so refreshing. I requested Adam keep our fridge stocked with cucumbers on his last grocery run. Love that MAN. <3

Baby Bump Progress

Week 14: Baby is the size of a lemon :)




Week 17: Baby is the size of an onion <3


I missed taking pics of week 15 & 16, life was just so hectic.

It's A....

We had our ultrasound yesterday and it was by the far the best experience I've had with Kaiser so far. Our ultrasound tech was the sweetest, kindest lady ever. We brought along Caleb to experience the whole thing and our tech was just smitten with him. She involved him in the whole process and engaged us in conversation the whole time. She even answered all mine and Caleb's questions while she was measuring the baby. She printed so many pictures for us to take home and she even wrote on the ultrasound for Caleb and gave him his own copy. It was so wonderful!!!! We are beyond excited and seeing my baby boy made this pregancy feel that much more real to me. :)

Second Trimester

I've officially entered into my second trimester. I'm not as anxious and worried as I was in the first. Adam and I are both so excited, yet terrified of becoming parents. I wonder if I can do this again but at the same time I'm so excited to do it again. I just know that I feel so blessed to be given the chance to.




Our baby is the size of a peach already. Got this idea from Sydney @TheDaybook. (Caleb took these pictures)

The Dreaded GD

Saturday morning at 7am, I woke up to get to the Labs early enough to get all my prenatal blood work done. At my last appt my OB told me she would order a sugar test since my blood work from my primary showed that I was pre-diabetic and I had developed gestational diabetes during my pregnancy with Caleb.

I get to the lab and they tell me about all my blood tests and she asks me if I'd been fasting for my sugar test. I said yes. She tells me it's the 3 hour test!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I was not expecting a 3 hour test. I was prepared for a 1 hour test. But I took the test, drank the nasty limeade flavored sugar drink, and wasted my life for 3 full hours. The sugar drank made me nauseous and it took everything in me (plus the threat of having to start all over again) not to get sick. I let them poke my veins 4 times, by the time I left, I looked like a heroin addict with trackmarks.

So, I get my results back, lo and behold, my blood sugar levels were higher than the normal range. Bummer, I have GD again. Last night I get the call from the nurses office to let me know I have to participate in the program and to pick up my meter this Friday. Great, I have to poke myself 4 times a day and monitor my blood sugar levels and watch what I eat. Not good news for a sugar addict like myself. I guess my sugar loving ways have finally caught up to me because here I am with gestational diabetes, again.

Oh well, I will do everything I can; resist the sugar urges, go into withdrawal, just to have a healthy baby in the end. The sacrifices a mother has to make and well before the baby is even here!

Cravings.

What better craving than mango with bagoong. :P deeeelicious.

The Sleepy Bug has bit me.

I am so extremely exhausted ALL the time. Fatigue will just in me in the middle of the day and I feel like I could just drop down and sleep. Not only that but I am nauseous EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. ALL. DAY. LONG.

Just a couple more weeks until I'm out of the first trimester, hopefully it'll be smooth sailing from there. *crossing my fingers, toes, ears and eyes*