Drink the juice!

Today I have to drink the juice (or sugar water) to test for gestational diabetes. It's chilling in the fridge (and was been for 5 weeks) while I am chilling on the couch. Sorry it's been so long since my last post - I am a terrible blogger for two main reasons. 1) I look at a computer all day at work and I dread the thought of looking at one after work (I could blog at work.... Join the group of people in my office who do nothing...) and 2) I hate typing on my phone. I miss phones that didn't have whole front being a touch screen - it gave me a place to hold my phone. Now I drop the stupid thing every fifth word bc I can't really hold on to it. And my phone thinks it knows what I want to type but it is wrong 90% of the time.

So update on being pregnant...
1) Sophia kicks. Alot. And jumps on my bladder. She is staying ultralow which is great - no rib jabs! But it means Justin can't really feel her move and I make frequent potty trips. But I like to feel her kick :)

2) I have had an elevated heart rate for 3 weeks and no idea what is going on. All my tests have come back fine - blood pressure, anemia, thyroid. I go for an echo this afternoon (day full of appointments). It seems worse in the mornings. Quicker to jump and slower to come down. I can hear my heartbeat in my head so it just makes it worse. In the mornings when I get to work I can see the vein along my collar bone pulsing. I don't like any of it at all. Sophia seems unaffected by it which is good.

3) I have been able to keep my weight gain under 10 pounds so far. Which makes me very happy. I want to limit total gain to no more than 20 but closer to 15 if possible. Because of the heart rate stuff I have been much more conscious about making myself eat more veggies and fruits. V8 and salads are becoming a norm now. I am not a veggie person so it is hard for me.

That's all I got. We leave tomorrow for Myrtle Beach for a few days and I cannot wait! Relaxation and water, here we come!