32w4d : Oh you poor thing!

here are a couple of entertaining pictures:

gigantic tummy that is now the same size (but different shape and location) as when i delivered my DD at 36 weeks.

here is what's left of a chair i sat in for 15 minutes the other afternoon. my gigantic ass fell straight thru the chair. in my own defense (and trying to keep myself from crying), this chair has been sitting out in the sun all summer. i'm hoping the fabric was weakened and that i did not really destroy a chair with my fat ass alone.

i'm huge. seriously, seriously huge. i'm having trouble walking long distances, which i have to do some of to help manage the GD. my left hip pops out of joint. i'm barely able to bend over to retrieve things from the floor (thank god i have a 2.5yo to help out on that front). twice this week i had a person (woman...always a woman :-) stop me and ask when i was due. when i told her not for another 7ish weeks, i got "oh, you poor thing!".

i also got asked SEVERAL more times if i was sure it was just one. really? at 32 weeks, and in this day and age of techy medicine, you think that i might not have a head count yet? i just tell everyone that my son is big and/or that i'm big/chubby. admitting my love of all things made with sugar and fat (and thus the reason i am fluffy) pretty much stops folks in their tracks, and they stop asking silly questions and/or making silly comments. some people are very, very nice and others are just rude. the size of me does make for interesting conversations and opportunities to meet new people!

on the flip side, i've also had some women tell me i'm all belly (they obviously hadn't seen me walk away yet. while my butt is much smaller than it was with my DD's pg, it is VERY WIDE).

last week, when we went for quinn's 3D sono/4D sono at clearview ultrasound here in ATX, the owner/operator asked me to come back this past saturday to allow training sono techs/owners of the franchise to use me as a guinea pig. apparently, quinn is a great training opportunity b/c he is still in a transverse lie. (he did try to move a couple times this week, but he seems to get stuck, and he's trying to move butt down. (that doesn't help anything, buddy!)). well, i was glad to help out with the training thing, but truthfully, the session was pretty much torture for both me and quinn. a couple of the trainees had never handled a sono wand before. the others were quite professional. but, all in all, quinn wasn't having it and had covered his face with both of his arms/hands and one leg. he was camera shy, which led to uncomfortably long sessions of the techs poking and prodding my tummy in an effort to get him to change his position. the one thing he was happy to show off, though, were his bits. he proudly displayed his gender t/o the session :-)

the GD stuff continues to be a bit of a challenge simply b/c my BGs are hard to control. the docs keep upping my insulin, but my fasting BGs (the one they seem the most concerned about) won't budge. hmmph. i just keep telling myself it's only a few more weeks. one VERY positive side of this GD diet thing is that my weight gain is at a standstill. i have some hope that i will get out of this pg with less weight damage than i had anticipated. and, since i will be used to the %&^$#@ diet by the time quinn arrives, i plan to stay on it to help shed the pg pounds...oh, and those i acquired from my love of all things ice cream ;-p

in other news, quinn's room is nearly done (pics soon). also, my house is rather crazily clean since vacuuming and sweeping and scrubbing are now my forms of post-meal exercises.

next OB appt is in a week, and that's also when i will start having weekly growth scans and non-stress tests (NSTs) for quinn.