20 weeks! I made it halfway! Shit is starting to get real!
(I ran out of the white letter B’s this week.)
This week 3BB is the size of a beanie baby. There is more discrepancy with the fruits and vegetables this week, so I’m sticking with a beanie baby. This is also the last week that 3BB is measured crown to butt, so the fruits and veggies will start to get a lot longer because she’ll be measured head to toe.
(Also I think one of the sites uses endive as an upcoming example and who the fuck knows the size of endive? I do not. This is not pregnancy for Top Chef contestants.)
This week was the big 20-week ultrasound! 3BB was not cooperative. I had an inkling that all her photogenic-ness in the last ultrasounds would come back to bite me in the butt! She made the tech work for every single measurement.
She was face down and curled into a ball with her little legs behind her head. She did not want to cooperate. Every time the tech went to measure something, she decided she wanted to show us her elbows and knees. I will forgive her because she’s just a cute little beanie baby.
The ultrasound took a bit longer than most. Even the technician was like “you’ve got a real stubborn little miss on your hands”. Like mother, like daughter, I guess. She might not have my DNA, but she does not want to be disturbed when she’s sleeping! It has to be on her terms!
We did get to see everything we needed to. She is 100% a girl. Although when the tech was like “here’s her labia” I was like “that looks like a blob”. Almost all of the stuff looked like tiny blobs. How these techs can tell one blob is a bladder and one blob is a kidney is ASTONISHING. I was so impressed. My mom got to see it all too, and she was impressed too! She’s never been to an ultrasound like this! All her kids were born when they took x-rays!
Everything looks good except one of her kidneys is a little dilated. It needs to be 4 and under and it was 4.2. The tech and my midwife were not super concerned. All the parts and plumbing leading to and from the kidneys were measuring fine. So they will bring me back in for an ultrasound at 28 weeks to see how that kidney is doing. I will have a long discussion with her before that one to not be such a hard-headed little girl!
Right at the end she smiled or yawned (probably was laughing to be all “ha ha suckers!”) and she looks like a little dinosaur baby!
This is obviously the photo I framed.
Here is also a little video of her moving around and waving her foot at us. Sorry for the photo spam, but it’s just so cute and it’s MAH BAYBEE!!
I did buy some maternity clothes this week. I realized that even my stretchy pants are creeping under my belly, so I bought some shirts and long tanks. I also bought a few pair of leggings. You all convinced me.
I also seem to have gotten my fasting numbers under control! I’m up to 24 units of insulin each night and I’ve been in the correct range for the last three mornings. WHEW. Finally!
At my appointment with my midwife (my last one with her until after I give birth because I will 100% be back to see her once I can), she gave me the doctors she recommended. So I officially moved over the the OB office starting with my 24-week appointment. I trust my midwife so I’m sure I’ll like this doctor. So I’m happy about that.
She also was really glad that I hired a doula. She was like “once you move away from a midwife, the care from the doctor when you’re in labor is super limited.” So I’m really glad I decided to hire one.
That’s about it this week! I cannot believe I’m over halfway through this pregnancy. I’m ready to meet 3BB (and be able to eat candy), but also so not ready!
#3BBOnBoard
That pic of your Dino baby is amazing