6 pounds in 4 weeks!!!!!!

 Ok I know I am not on a diet but to gain six pounds in four weeks is crazy! The baby only weighs 2 pounds so I cannot even blame him. I was doing so good just gaining nothing to one pound every doctor visit and now this. I hope this is the only time this happens or I will be huge by the time I deliver.
 I have been emailing the parents about various things and they had not responded until the other day. I had been writing these long emails and expecting them to read them easily but it has not been as easy as I thought for them. The father can read and write English but it takes him time to do so and he is a busy businessman. He emailed me that he has received my emails but it would be better to talk on the phone with the translator. We should get to speak sometime this weekend, hopefully.  
 Our insurance issues have been cleared up and I am cooling down from being mad about it....as long as it is really fixed. :-)
 I have been feeling good just slower than normal. I need Allen's help to get off the couch which is just funny! The other day he actually pushed my tush up so I could stand up and to be honest if he did not I might of sat back down. I am not totally out of the game I, with the help of my children and neighbor kids we worked in our garden today. I am sore but it was nice to be outside and productive. I think I need to start stretching that might help me be more....movable.    

3rd trimester!!!

 I’m in the 3^rd trimester!!! Yea, I am so happy! I feel as though this has gone by so fast and it will just get even faster with more Doctor appointments to go to.

 I have seen some changes in my body in the last couple weeks. Of course my belly is getting larger which is obvious. One of my new small maternity pants that go over my belly are a little tight on my belly but the legs still fit which is nice. My hair growth has been haywire since I started taking the hormones before I was implanted and finally now it has gone back to normal. I am so happy not to have to shave every single day! I actually feel like I am getting back to normal. We will see how long that feeling lasts.   

24 weeks 4 days

 The ultrasound went good the cardiologist said that everything looked good. He will visit the baby in the hospital to do one more ultrasound on his heart just to be sure. Now I will go for an ultrasound ever four weeks just to check on the growth of the baby. You know I am always happy to do that. 

 The part of today that was not fun was the problem we are having with our insurance company. Allen had insurance through his work for our family but now they are saying that I was never covered. This is after he quit because the store was closing and he got rehired at the store that is replacing it. We were planning on getting the Cobra insurance that would be offered to us this month but if I was never covered I cannot get the Cobra…grrrr. We have to wait 6 months for his new insurance to kick in so we need the Cobra insurance not just for me but our kids. I hope all this gets worked out tomorrow but Allen called the HR department and they did not have the courtesy to call him back today. We will see.

New realization

 I am so excited I just was looking at the calendar and I could have the baby in 15 weeks! As the due date gets closer I just can’t help being excited to deliver the baby and for the parents to finally have him! I still have a lot to do before the baby and the parents come. I have to find a Chinese translator, send the parents a list I have for what the may need, figure out where the parents are going to be staying while they are here, and take a birthing class maybe a hypnosis birthing class if I can find it.   

 Tomorrow I have an ultrasound and there will be a cardiologist there to look at the small calcification spot on one of the baby’s heart valves. The Doctor said that there was nothing to worry about so I hope that cardiologist says the same thing.