We’re ready for Josh!!
Today is Sunday, August 24 and we’ve got less than 4 weeks left before our precious baby boy will make his long awaited appearance and come home to join our family. After some long nights of doing laundry and lots of use of Trav’s laser level, the nursery is finally complete and we are ready for him to come home….well, at least as far as having all our gear ready.
In other news, we weathered Tropical Storm Fay unscathed; we never even lost power. Trav’s mom, Anna, came with her dog Moose since her house at the beach lost power on the first day of the storm. We played games and watched the Olympics and were pretty entertained watching the trees across the pond whip around in the wind.
As far as how I’m doing with the gestational diabetes, we haven’t quite got it down to a science yet. My body has become more insulin resistant, which means that the perinatologist has put me on a very low dose of oral medication twice a day to regulate my sugar levels. That’s great, except that sometimes the pill makes my blood sugar plummet, making me kind of clammy and shaky until I get some food. This also means that I have to start seeing the specialist twice a week for them to check the baby’s heart rate and growth more frequently. We were able to get in to see the doctor just before Fay rolled into town and we got to have another Level II Ultrasound. The good news is that Joshua looks fantastic. He’s a big boy – 6 lbs, 14 ounces at 36 weeks – but big babies run in Trav’s family and the tech assured us that this did NOT look like growth due to diabetes because he doesn’t have any warning signs, like his stomach being bigger than everything else or an increase in amniotic fluid. So we’re very pleased to say that everything is looking perfect as we head into these last couple of weeks.
I’ve included some pictures we took around the house of our handy work. We hope you all are doing super and we look forward to keeping you posted in these final 24 days till Jellybean makes his debut on the world.
Crisi 🙂
