I'm a little late with the seven month update for a couple of reasons. The first being that my Father-in-law has unexpectedly been diagnosed with leukemia this past week. My husband went to West Virginia to be with him and to help out his Mom, so this left me with no one to take my official seven month picture. I had to wait until this weekend and have my Dad take my picture. For those of you who have asked, I don't know much about the leukemia except that chemo treatments will be starting soon and with him being so medically fragile it doesn't appear he will leave the hospital anytime soon. We're just taking it day by day, but like everything else my Father-in-law does, he will fight through this and be fine.
My second excuse however is a wonderful one! I had a baby shower this weekend! It was so much fun and I received so many cute baby things! The wonderful hostesses, LeAnn, Vickie, and Shannon purchased a miniature Christmas tree for me and asked the party goers to bring an ornament to decorate the tree! What a super awesome idea! I received the cutest ornaments! I can't thank those ladies enough for such a wonderful shower! The food was great, seeing friends that I hadn't seen in three years was great, receiving small little baby things was great! Needless to say, it was great! :)
My seven month doctor's appointment was last week and the doctor said I'm slightly anemic. Not so much so that he wants me on iron tablets, but enough so that he told me to eat more iron rich foods (how do you make chicken livers taste good? Yuck!). So that's something I need to keep an eye on. What's funny about him saying that is that throughout this pregnancy I've eaten more red meat than I ever have before (I'm not really a red meat fan). So one would conclude that I am taking in more iron than before I was pregnant, but I guess the baby needs even more than my measly red meat meals can handle.
I should also report that I am officially back up to the weight I was in 2005 before I went on Weight Watchers and lost 45 pounds. This makes me sad. :( I know what you're going to say, everyone has been saying it, "it's a different kind of weight". Well it's still weight isn't it? I was happy that even though the scale tipped that number, it only made for a three pound increase this month. That eased the pain a little. I just know that after this baby comes I will have an uphill battle to lose weight again. The 45 pounds in 2005-2006 was had enough to lose, but maybe if I'm prepared now it won't be so bad. This appointment also included the ever wonderful glucose test. But of course with the activity in my life I have forgotten to call the doctor's office and find out the results of the test. Hopefully my blood sugar is a-okay. I would hate to have gestational diabetes. They say having gestational diabetes means you are more likely to have Type 2 diabetes later in life. Yuck! Needles, and pricks, and numbers, oh my!
Okay this post has gone on long enough. Just know everything is fine. The baby enjoys doing somersaults in my belly, which hurt at times, and I'm as big as a house! Above this post is a photo of me, my mom, and the lovely ladies who hosted the baby shower yesterday! Thanks again ladies!
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