{"id":2005,"date":"2012-03-08T23:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T06:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2012-03-08T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T06:21:45","slug":"a-baby-story-week-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"A baby story: Week 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week 26: Baby’s the size of a head of lettuce!<\/h3>\n

It seems that time is starting to catch up with us–for the first few months time seemed to drag on with all of the worrying and unknowns about the first trimester especially but time is really starting to pick up the pace around here!\u00a0 We’re 6.5 months along and the days seem to be going by just a wee bit quicker and our to do list seems to be getting longer by the hour.\u00a0 Lots left to do and we’re just trying to tackle one thing at a time.<\/p>\n

We had our prenatal appointment last Friday and my belly was measuring a bit ahead of schedule 27-28 weeks (we’re not sure how accurate the measurement was, but it was interesting nonetheless!)\u00a0 I was also told that I’ve developed mild anemia so I need to add an iron supplement to my daily prenatal vitamin.\u00a0 I also did the one hour glucose screening to see if I have developed gestational diabetes and the results came in slightly elevated so today I had to go in for the three hour glucose screening for a more definitive diagnosis.\u00a0 This involved my fasting since 11:30pm the night before (I was instructed to eat a half sandwich and a glass of [almond] milk), going into the lab at 8am for a pre-test blood drawing, drinking a super sweet orange soda-type drink, then sitting in the lobby for three hours and getting my blood drawn on alternating arms three more times.\u00a0 It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be and I got a lot of reading done, but I was pretty darn hungry by the time 11am rolled around.\u00a0 I should have results tomorrow and we’re hoping for the best!<\/p>\n

This week we made some pretty major progress in terms of planning for the birth itself.\u00a0 Something I’ve wanted since before we were pregnant was to hire a doula and I’m so happy that it’s looking like this will become a reality for me.\u00a0 What is a doula, you ask?\u00a0 (I gotta be honest, before a friend was pregnant a couple of years ago I had never heard of such a thing myself…)\u00a0 So a doula isn’t a doctor or a midwife but instead you could say she is a birth coach.\u00a0 She will meet with us three times prior to the birth, she will be on call two weeks prior and two weeks after our due date so that she can be present for our labor and birth along with a couple of hours after Sirena’s born, and then she will meet with us at least once in our first week or so of new parenthood to check in on us and help with breastfeeding as well.\u00a0 The most important part of this for us is her presence during the labor\/birth for a few reasons:<\/p>\n