week 28

average size: 13.6 to 14.8 inches, 1.5 to 2.2 lbs.
what's going on with baby: "She's starting to develop more fat, so her wrinkly skin will start to get smoother. Her lungs are mature enough that she'd probably survive if she was born now. Wow!"


here i am at 28 weeks!

she grew a TON since the last photo at 24 weeks!

i mean...seriously?! haha...she is just pushing straight out! i've felt a lot of low stretching in my uterus this past month, so i guess that explains it! i'm really glad i'm taking photos like this because i don't notice the big changes when i see/feel my bump everyday. it's really cool to see the change over time!

well, today was the HUGE appointment day with the glucose test, ultrasound, and monthly midwife check-up. let's start with the glucose test:

this morning i wanted to make sure to avoid sugars and carbs, so i made myself some scrambled eggs for breakfast at 10am, and i just drank water after that until it was time to drink the glucose drink (1:45pm). 

as for the drink...IT WAS EASY.

it tasted totally FINE to me! i know a lot of girls complain about the taste, and it IS very sweet, but, it just tasted like sweet orange hi-c! or, it actually REALLY reminded me of those "fla-vor-ice" push-up popsicles that you have in the summer! i was supposed to have the whole bottle drunk within 5 minutes of starting, and i drank the whole thing in 59.7 seconds lol...EASY! not bad at all. 

the ultrasound location is about 30 minutes away from us, so we left at 2pm, because i wanted to make sure we got there with some time to spare before they had to draw my blood 1 hour later (at 2:46). good thing we left at 2! we got there at 2:40! traffic seemed worse than usual for whatever reason. so, she took my blood, said they will have the results in a few days, and that they will only call me if i didn't pass, so no news is good news! hopefully i don't get a phone call! lol...and then the fun part came! we got to see our little girl on the ultrasound screen!

i had to have another ultrasound because we needed to check to see if my placenta moved away from my cervix. it only needed to move 1cm, and it moved 4cm!!! SO YAY!!!! we're all clear for a vaginal delivery again :) SO happy and relieved about that. of course other things can happen to cause a c-section to be necessary, but at least i know this won't be the problem! 

she also looked at my ovaries, and of course baby too :) you know what? i keep saying "baby" or "little girl" still hahaha...her name is going to be remi :) i know i've mentioned it on facebook a few times already, but i dont think i said it on here! so yeah! remi :) 

anyway!

she said remi is looking great! she scanned a few things, and measured all her parts again. here's what she told us:

- she's 2 pounds and 10 ounces right now! she's in the 50-75th percentile for growth which is a great spot to be in because it's the average range for growth

- her thighs are already 56mm (2.2") long! the tech mentioned, "long legs!" again hahaha...i was wondering if she was going to say something about them since she said she had long legs at our 20 week appointment too

- her heartbeat was 150, which is great. before scanning her heart, she mentioned how it might be a little high because i basically just drank the most sugary drink in the world for the glucose test, but she said, "oh! no! she's handling it nicely with a heartbeat of 150!" so that was good too!

- she was in the "head down" position which is great for delivery. i'm sure she'll still move around, but at least she's getting used to the idea of being in that position! her back/butt was up against my right side, and her feet were right on my ribcage. the tech asked if i could feel her on my ribs, but i couldn't! i'm sure eventually i will, but for right now, i'm glad i can't haha...i've heard kicks to the ribs can be brutal!

- she's measuring right on time. i'm 28 weeks, 1 day today, and she measured at 28 weeks, 2 days

- and the tech said she's got some chubby cheeks already! starting to fill out and gain more of that baby fat which is great :) here's a pic of her face! it's on it's side, with the top of her head closest to the right side of the photo. you can see her eye sockets, her little nose, and her mouth is open. her hands are by her mouth :)

for fun, i asked the tech if she ever looked at the pubic bone with the ultrasound wand if women complained about pubic bone pain, but she said the ultrasound won't pick up adult bones since the ultrasound is only sound waves bouncing back. she can see baby bones because they are still basically like cartilage. later on in pregnancy they can't even get a good look at baby bones because by that point they ossify, and turn into more solid bone. so, oh well. i was hoping to see how far my pubic bone has shifted hahaha...i'm happy remi is still looking healthy though!!! that's all that's really important! 

afterwards, i knew i'd be hungry because it had been 5 hours since i had some scrambled eggs, so i packed a snack to eat on the way to our midwife appointment. really glad i did that! the midwife appointment went great as well. just the usual check-up to make sure everything is going great, and allow me to ask questions if i have any. we listened to her heartbeat, so that was nice too :) now we meet with her every 2 weeks instead of once a month! that means we're getting closer to the end!!! so exciting! i'm also supposed to pay more attention to her kicks by this point. for example, she's been kicking a lot at night, so if i notice her not doing that, i'm supposed to notify them immediately, and they will check-in on her and monitor me to make sure she's okay. 

other than all THAT, i was really "nesting" a lot this week. our house has an attic, but we don't keep our stuff in it since it's filled with our landlord's junk, so we use one of the bedrooms in the house as an "attic" since we need storage space. suddenly, i decided it needed to be all re-organized, so i really cleared through it all, and put everything in it's own place lol...our daughter wont even ever be going into this room!!! WE barely do! i just felt it had to be done lol...so now it looks nice and neat and i'm happy :) i've also been cutting all those loops in the rug i crocheted, and i'm about 1/3 of the way done. it still takes a long time, but it's not as bad as crocheting. 

tuesday night i had a dream i was shopping at sephora and i was feeling our little girl kick me while i was shopping. turns out, she was actually kicking around in real life while i was sleeping, and it just transferred over into my dream! haha...so that was funny and weird at the same time. 

actually in general, she has been much more active, and seems to like to move around a lot right at bedtime. erik has now felt her MANY times, and there were even a few days this past week where he felt a lot of rapid-fire punches/kicks! she is definitely getting stronger, and still seems to prefer my far right side as her kicking spot. guess she must be comfy there! 

well, that's it for this week (and i guess that's a lot!). next week we have two visits to two different hospitals to see which one we prefer to deliver at :) excited for that!