32 Weeks (8 months)

Today was my check in at the OBGYN. I am going on 32 weeks, so that leaves 8 weeks to go. Two months seem like a long time, but at the same time, it’s going to go by so quickly. We still have to pre-register at the hospital, pack my hospital bag, and make arrangements for Jayden when the time comes. We’ve got to get the car seats installed, bring down the bassinet from the attic and get a toddler bed for Jayden. I guess we’d better get crankin’.

Now for my stats! Thankfully, even though I failed my one hour glucose test, I passed the three hour version. Thank you, God. I was worried about that. I just can’t help myself. I have such a sweet tooth with this pregnancy. It’s incredible. Of course, Dr. Casavant says I should still watch my sugar intake. I’ll try my best. My weight was at 217 ½ which was down a ½ pound from my last check up 2 weeks ago. At this point with Jayden, I was weighing 213 pounds so I’m over my target weight by 4 ½ pounds. I’d like to give a special thanks to November (Thanksgiving) and December (Christmas), which was when I gained 6 pounds each. Anyway, the baby’s heart rate was at 140 and she was measuring 32 weeks, or right on track. At my last visit, 2 weeks ago, she was measuring 1 week ahead.

I asked the doctor under what circumstances would he schedule a delivery. He’s pretty much open to scheduling it as early as 39 weeks. I am not sure how I feel about this. I’m just tossing it around for now. In a way, I’d like the baby to come when she’s ready, but on the other hand it would be nice to know in advance and plan ahead who is going to stay with Jayden and who we’d like to invite to the birth etc. On the other hand, with Jayden, he was three weeks early. Scheduling would have done us no good and if we had invited someone to the delivery, they would have missed it. I am not sure what to do.

Jayden's Ears and Words

I ended up taking Jayden to the doctor this morning. He slept pretty poorly last night. He still had no fever, but it’s been three nights of runny nose, coughing, sneezing, and cranky baby. Enough. Good thing too ‘cause it was the beginning of an ear infection. This is his fifth one this year. Dr. Jill says one more infection and he’ll have to see an ear, nose, and throat specialist. We’ll see what happens. We also talked about Jayden’s speech, or his lack of speech, but she’s not concerned.
1.) Boys take longer to develop their words.
2.) Because we are teaching him Spanish and English, his speech development could be slow, but now is the perfect time to learn both languages and she’s fully supportive of that.
3.) Repetitive ear infections could damage hearing and slow learning, but that’s yet to be seen.
Bottom line is that she’s not concerned and she will re-asses at his two year check up. Right now, Jayden is going on 21 months are his words include:
* Mama
* Dada
* Ni-ni (Night-Night)
* Gracias (This used to be his standard response to everything, but now he only uses it once in a blue moon.)
* Yes
* No
* Yeah!
* Ok.
* Uh-oh
I guess that’s not too bad. I was just worried that if he was behind the other kids, when the baby was born, he could slow down even more or worse go back to baby talk. Oh well, I worry too much I guess.