24 Week appointment

Last Wednesday I had my 24 week doctors appointment. I had to do the glucose tolerance test at that appointment. I was really dreading it. Everyone kept telling me how awful the drink was, and I was prepared to be sick. The doctors office sent the drink home with me and asked that I drink it 30 minutes before my appointment time. All morning I was dreading drinking that orange drink that was sitting in the fridge taunting me. I finally just sucked it up, and drank the entire thing as fast as I could. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. The aftertaste was awful but I survived.

I always try to get in as early in the morning as possible so that I have the least wait time. I didn't wait long and they got me back. Everything looked good once again. These appointments are very simple right now but help to put my mind at ease. His heart rate was 147 and I was still measuring about 1 week behind, which is okay because I had grown 3 cm (they say you should grow approximately 1 cm a week, so 3 weeks of growth in 3 weeks) and all was going well. It was funny, Hudson was hitting at the doppler while he was trying to get the heartrate. He doesn't like things that push against him. I had a few braxton hicks contractions the other day I think and my stomach tightened and released he went crazy.

The part that always makes me a little stressed is when we start talking about when Hudson is going to make his appearance. The bottom line is we just don't know. Every appointment we talk about time frames. Last appointment he said "We just need to make it to 24 weeks and he has a greater then 50% chance of survival." That actually did help me because I felt like okay, we can do this. This time he said "Our goal now is 32 weeks, but if we can wait until 34 weeks it would be better." Then when he said "That's just 10 more weeks." reality hit. We are going to have a baby....sometime this summer, it could be any time. And 10 weeks, that's not that long. (I guess 9 now, hopefully he waits more like 12-13, that would be better!)