Update from the Drs

After waiting for an hour in the waiting room I finally got in! I tried to keep my cool. I saw one of the new Dr's that they brought on and I'm sure she was just having a hard time getting into the groove. It did mean that I was going to be late getting in to work though. The first thing she said to me was well how are you managing your gestational diabetes? Did you bring in your testing numbers? I guess this means that since I declined the 3 hr they are just going to assume I have gestational diabetes. Whatever, I don't care, it just means that they will monitor me more closely which can't be a bad thing. I gave her my numbers for the past two weeks and she said "Wow, these are really good! You are just managing it with diet?" I told her yes, but the truth of it is I have always been careful of my sugar and carb intake so really I'm not doing anything different. Could it possibly be my numbers look good because I DONT have gestational diabetes?? LOL! Anyway, like I said, I don't care, I will continue to monitor myself just to be sure and so I have numbers to bring in, but I really think I'm fine. I am going to get another ultrasound out of the deal though. When you have gestational diabetes your baby tends to gain more weight, which can make it difficult to deliver. So, Monday the 8th I go in for my check up and ultrasound. I asked if they would induce me early because of the GD and she said they definitely won't let me go to my due date. Woo Hoo! She also checked me and I am dilated 1cm, 50% effaced, she said at station 3 but I think she meant -3 cause she said the baby was still high, and I am not completely soft. Some progress is better than none!

I ended up getting to work almost an hour late, but they were really nice about it and asked how my appt went. Then we went out to lunch, came back and I worked for a few hours. I feel a little crampy after my exam, but that is very normal. We have a busy weekend ahead of us. How cool would it be if I went into labor on Labor Day LOL. Wishful thinking, I don't think I'm that close.

Can't wait for the Dr

I was up this morning at 4:45 with some major back pain. I tried to get comfortable, but finally I just gave up and got up. I went and made myself some tea and realized that I was having contractions. No wonder my back hurt! All I can say is that what I felt was short but painful and it made me really scared! There is NO WAY I am going without an epidural! I know what I was feeling was nothing compared to what I will feel and it was taking my breath away. After being up for about an hour I went and laid back down. The pain subsided and I was able to get another hour of sleep in before I had to wake up to take Howie to be groomed and head in to work. I was SO tired when the alarm went off. I got up and got myself moving and while I could still tell I was having some sporadic contractions they were just making my belly hard, no real pain. That I can live with. I know this can go on for weeks, its just my body getting ready for the real thing, but I hate not knowing when its going to happen! I dropped Howie off and got to see the rocker/recliner that my parents bought for us. Well, I guess mainly me, so I can nurse and sooth Nadia, but I know Jacob will put it to good use too LOL. I headed in to work and got started on updating their website. It took a good part of the day, but its work I enjoy doing, and it kept me busy so that made me happy. We talked a little about how her pregnancies went and she asked how I was doing. I told her about my morning and she said well the sooner she comes the better! I have gotten a lot of the hard tasks done for the bank owned properties so they want to take me out to lunch at a nice restaurant to treat me. They really seem like nice people. She told me not to worry about coming in before my Dr's apt tomorrow and said that I can come in after and work for a couple hours to finish up what I need to before the weekend. She offered to give me the day off, but I have a few things I want to do before the weekend. She also paid me today since the 1st is a holiday. What a nice change! I was constantly having to ask Jesse for my paycheck and never got it when I was supposed to.

Tomorrow I go in to the Dr. They are supposed to do my GBS test and since my sugar levels seemed pretty normal I am just going to bring in my test results with me. They said that they would check for dilation too, I am curious to know where I am at. I know its not a great indicator as to when you will go in to labor, but it will give me some piece of mind. I hope it doesn't hurt! I've heard that sometimes it can hurt. Yikes!

Dropped?

Well, I think I have "dropped" I feel a little, very little, relief in my ribs, but as Jacob pointed out I don't exactly have a long torso, so there isn't much room for her. I will post pictures on here, I grew A LOT and I do think I look lower, but maybe its just all the pressure I am feeling. You tell me what you think!

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I went into work this morning and was just starting as my bosses came in. I think they were surprised I was already there LOL. They got another office in the building so that I could have my own so we got it all set up for me. She also got all of my info to order business cards for me. So far, they are doing much more for me than Jesse had. They are still looking into possibly moving to a different brokerage since the Remax office we are at is kinda small and I guess the broker there isn't really treating them the way he should with as much money as they are bringing in. She said that the offices they are looking at are still close by though. So we will see. Today I just focused on getting some of the tasks done and I worked on some marketing for them. We also talked about what my work hours will be and how much time I will be taking off when the baby comes. She said I am pretty free to come and go as I want as long as everything is getting done. I told her I would do whatever works best for them. I told her that when the baby comes I was planning on taking 2-3 weeks off. With only having to go in 4-5 hours a day I think that I will be able to manage. I HOPE I will LOL! She said we will plan on that, but it's not set in stone. I know I will probably be beat, but I can do it.

The definition of uncomfortable

Holy cow, I feel like everyday Nadia grows 5 inches. I wish that she would drop already! I truly know what people were talking about when they say the last month is tough. She has been moving around like a maniac today and it just plain hurts. Not to mention I thought I was going to pee myself in Walmart from her low blows, funny now, but not so much then! I was reading a book last night and had it propped up on my belly. She must not have liked it because she literally kicked it straight off my stomach! I have still been feeling faint and nauseous, I feel much better if I just sit and relax but I'm starting to get REALLY bored.

I went in to my new job Friday and I think I am going to really like it. They have about 60 properties at a time, but I am not responsible for doing EVERYTHING like I was with Jesse. This is a good thing, I have a feeling this job is just going to be a piece of cake for me. The girl that I am replacing has only been there a month and is moving back to Wisconsin. She has gotten everything very nicely organized so it will be easy for me to take over and know whats going on with each property. I was with her for a few hours in the morning and then Kerri and her husband came in. They asked how everything was going and the girl laughed and said "she knows more than me!" I am thankful for the experience that I got working for Jesse, it really is a blessing to have that knowledge behind me. Kerri's husband Mike did finally ask when I was due. I had told Kerri before my interview, but people forget. I told him the end of September so I'm hoping to have a good 5-6 weeks in me. He joked and said "Oh great, you are going to be all tired!" Kerri said "Yep, but you still have to work to make that money to have those babies!" They are very fun and upbeat, I think I am going to really like working for them. We will see what happens when its time to make the decision, go back to Jesse or stay with them. They are getting me set up in my own office at their Remax office so we aren't on top of each other and their goal is once they feel comfortable enough with me to bring me on the their "team" and license me through the office to sell properties. I'm sure they want to make sure we are a fit before they start shelling money to pay for me to work there. Which is fine by me, I would like a little time myself before signing a contract to work for a brokerage. Anyway, things seem to be looking good, and I just hope they continue this way!

Friday night we went out to dinner to celebrate our good week. Jacob got his new work van and is very excited about it. Soon they will have his new phone ready that he will have to go to training for because it has so much capability. It will send him his jobs throughout the day based on where the GPS shows he is at and will tell him how to get there. It will also act as his work orders so when his job is complete people sign the screen and it sends it directly to his work. It will be nice, because there will be a lot less paperwork and the jobs will be better planned out.

Saturday he had to work and 2 jobs took him until 3 to finish. I was feeling sick so I took the time to just relax. Justin was having a birthday/pool party at his house but I just wasn't up for being out in the 105 degree weather. Jacob went over for a while and came home with movies for us to watch. We watched The Cleaner last night which was a very good movie. Kept me entertained which can be hard to do. Then we watched the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, Jacob loved it, I thought it was o.k. By then it was 11:30, he went out to the living room to play video games and I fell asleep. I woke up at 3 wide and had to go make myself some tea. I stayed up for a while and tried to make myself fall back asleep.

Today was mellow. Went to breakfast, then to Walmart for groceries. Then came home to rest and watch The Bee Movie. It was cute, but not great. As I said earlier Nadia is moving around like crazy today and it just hurts, so I am enjoying laying in bed. Tomorrow my bosses are out of town so I get to work from home. I have to take a class online for 2 hours in the morning about the new billing system and then I might go in to the office for a few hours I'm not sure. I love how flexible they are!

Soooo bad

Well we were all excited about signing up for childbirth classes and the baby your baby class. As I said in an earlier post the teacher of the childbirth prep class was just horrible! I have never been one that was good at sitting through classes, but I thought since this was something we were really excited about it would be different. Well..... I'm sorry to say that we have skipped the last two classes LOL. Brianna gave me some books to read when I first became pregnant and I have been doing a lot of research on my own and to tell you the truth she wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know. So after skipping that class this week we decided that we better go to the baby your baby class. I thought they would teach you important things like taking care of the umbilical cord and things like that. I have been feeling really weird this week. Nauseous and light headed, I feel like I am going to pass out. The weird thing is that it seems to be worse after I eat, weird! Anyway, after forcing myself to get ready we head off to the class. It is supposed to be from 6-9. We get there, Jacob signs us in and gets us our name tags. In 1 1/2 hours all we had covered is what you need to do before the baby comes. Duh!! Get a car seat, buy baby stuff, set up the nursery. At the second break I looked at Jacob and was like lets get out of here! There was NO WAY I could've made it through another 1 1/2 of that! I guess we are just not cut out for baby classes. I was feeling so sick and I felt like the class was just stupid. Do people really not know these things?!

I felt really crampy and sick all last night. I was even dreaming that I was having contractions LOL. Obviously they didn't hurt that bad though, they did wake me up but I was able to go back to sleep. I still feel pretty weird today, I hope it goes away soon. I start my new job tomorrow. I am pretty excited. I kept saying if Nadia is going to come she needs to come now or wait a month! I don't want to just start this job and then be out in a week or two!

So Surprised

Well I went in for my second interview today. It is a husband and wife team and I had only interviewed with the wife previously. I met her husband today and they seem like they would be good people to work for. I was the only one with experience in bank owned properties that they were interviewing. It has to help that I already know the computer program that they use. Anyway, I just got a call and they hired me! I start Thursday! I am so surprised, I had a good feeling about my interviews, but I honestly didn't think that anyone would hire me being this close to having a baby. All I can say is that our family is definitely being watched over! They did decide to go with a different pay structure, but I will still be making the same or more than I was before. I am pretty excited! I think that I will only have to work Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional Friday hours. The office is only a 15 min drive away, which for Phoenix is unheard of! I think it will be good for me to get out of the house. I dreaded going in to work for Jesse mainly because of the hour drive each way and the fact that everything I needed to do my job was at the house since I was working out of it. Needless to say we are relieved, I am still going to be bringing in money which will give us a little cushion. I probably won't take as much time off from work as I had planned once Nadia comes, but working only 2 days a week, I think that I can make it. Women have done it in the past and so can I!

Interview and the Dr's

Friday I had a Dr's appointment first thing in the morning. I went to the new office that is right by the hospital that I will deliver at. It is a REALLY nice office. The Dr I saw I have never seen before and they must have had another Dr join the practice because I could hear them talking outside of my room. "She gained 4 pounds in 2 weeks, its says here she hasn't gone in for her 3 hour glucose test." Then they come in and ask me if I had done my test. I explained that I was working full time and going to school so that's why I hadn't gone in. Why I didn't add that the other Dr said I could monitor myself at home I don't know.... The lady was really nice about it but said I should go in ASAP to do the test. I'm annoyed, but at the same time don't want to be putting Nadia at risk. I was under the impression that ladies with GD generally gain weight very quickly, even with my 4 pound jump in 2 weeks I still have only gained 16 pounds. I don't consider that a lot of weight. So, I went and bought a tester, I have been testing myself and will continue to for the next 2 weeks. If after a few days I seem high then I am going to go in, but if my numbers are normal like they had been I am just going to bring in my results and show it to them. They didn't check me for dilation, but they said the next time they will be doing my GBS test and they will check me then if I would like.

After my Dr's appointment I had a few hours to kill before my interview. I could've just gone home, but I really didn't feel like driving all the way back home then to the interview. I went and looked around Kirklands and Target, and kept myself from buying anything. I went on to my interview and it seemed to go well. The lady is much more organized and it is doing the same thing I was but handling 4 banks properties and expediting a lot of the "meaningless" tasks to someone else. That means I wouldn't have to go sit at a house and wait for the gas to be turned on, or drive to it just to see if someone is living there or not. I would be doing more of the important tasks, not to mention the pay is more. She was going to make a decision by Friday night, but decided her and her husband needed to talk it over. I got a call today from her saying that they narrowed it down to 3 people and would like for us to come in again for a second interview. So tomorrow at 11 I will be going back in to talk with her. Honestly, I am surprised that I am even still in the running LOL. There are a lot of other things that she offered and explained but I will leave all of that until later. Lets see what happens first!

Jacobs boss had heard that we are paying nearly $700 a month for health insurance and gave us this website for free health care in AZ. I had looked into this earlier, but I'm pretty sure we don't meet the income requirements. It also can take up to 20 days to be approved, so I'm not really sure if we are going to pursue it even though I would be a great relief to not have to pay $700. His boss also said that he is going to start giving Jacob jobs where he will make more commission because he doesn't want him to leave the company. I'm not sure he realizes that Jacob is making almost double at this company than the last, but hey, more money is always good! Jacob works very hard for them and they appreciate that, so its nice that they are showing it.

We had a laid back weekend, I got our hospital bag together and set up the pack-n-play in our room. Today we went to my parents and swam. They wanted to celebrate me passing my test so they made a nice dinner. Now we are home relaxing. I hope I can sleep tonight! Sleep is becoming more and more impossible with this big ole belly and getting up to pee every hour!

Time to celebrate

I wish that I could go out and have some drinks!!! I passed my state and national tests for my real estate license and I just want to celebrate! I am pretty proud of myself that I was able to do it on my first try, the pass rate is only 50%. My moms friend kept telling her how hard school and the test is and that they shouldn't expect me to pass. She is the type of person that likes to be better than everyone and I think deep down she was hoping I would fail. Too bad for her :) I called my boss and told him and he was very excited for me as well. Now I just can't wait to get to use my license. Guess I have a few months for that.

Tomorrow I have my Dr's appt. I am 34 weeks and everyday I get more and more uncomfortable. She is definitely running out of room, her favorite spot to kick is my ribs and favorite spot to punch is my cervix. Talk about painful! I don't know when they start checking for dilation, but I kinda hope they do tomorrow. I want to know where I am at.

Call me crazy, but I also have a job interview tomorrow. I know it is silly, and I told the lady that I was pregnant and when I was due, but she still wanted me to come in for the interview. She said its a 30 hour a week position and I can pretty much choose the hours. It is for a real estate company that isn't too far away from the house. Of course I told her that I plan on returning to work once the baby is born. I'm not sure where I will be returning to, if it will be with Jesse or somewhere else, but if things fall through with him it would be nice to have a back up. I really don't expect to get hired. In my opinion you would have to be out of your mind to hire someone as pregnant as me, but you never know, so we will see what happens. The money would be nice, there are still a few items we need for Nadia.

Relieved???

This weekend was pretty laid back. I went grocery shopping while Jacob was at work, and I can't believe how hard it is for me to do something as simple as that. I'm thinking its not a good idea for me to do that by myself anymore. Saturday night Jacob got home about 730 and we watched Definitely, Maybe and Death Sentence. I had some weird dreams after that last one, but that seems to be pretty normal now :)

Sunday we went to breakfast as usual and then to my parents. Jacob had to fix my Dads pool pump and then we swam and enjoyed the weather. Jacob relaxed outside for quite a while and then around 5 we headed back home. I feel so bad for him, he hardly gets any down time. Next weekend he gets off and from there on out he will get every other weekend off. We are pretty excited about that!

Today I went up to Scottsdale and trained my replacement. Its kinda funny because she is the one that trained me in the first place and now the roles are reversed. I'm not sure if I feel relived about not having to work or worried about the money I won't be bringing in. I will still stay on part-time, but there isn't a whole lot for me to do, so I don't imagine I will make very much. Realistically, this is probably a good thing since my brain seems to have disappeared lately. I need to concentrate on passing my test to get my license! I have been practicing on this website one of my friends gave me and some of the questions on there I have never seen and have no clue what the answers are. I am going to try to go through as many of them as possible so that I will have a little better chance on my test. There is really no rush for me to pass, I decided that I am not going to activate my license until after the baby comes and I am ready for work. I don't want to have to pay dues for the months that I won't be working. I do want to pass it as soon as possible though so I don't lose all the info.

Spoiled

Tuesday after a long day at work we went to our first "Child birth prep class" The teacher was horribly boring and it lasted 2 1/2 hours. I don't know if we are going to make it through 3 more of her classes. Thankfully some of the people in the class kept it light hearted including Jacob. They did have us watch a childbirth video and I really didn't need to see all that, neither did Jacob. After the video the teacher said that a lot of Dads think that when the baby is crowning they don't have a top of their head. Their little head squishes up to get through and apparently they mistake that look for brains. As soon as she said that Jacob chimed in with "that's what I thought it looked like!" It was quite funny. Then they had us doing stretches which you did need a class to teach you how to do. While all us ladies are on all fours Jacob couldn't help but to say "I think this is what got us in the situation" followed by "and its all we have seen and will see for the next month" Everyone started cracking up of course, and I thought the poor teacher was going to die. All of the other guys chimed in with "that's exactly what we were thinking!" So those were the highlights of the class. It was over at 9:30 and we came out to a monster monsoon. Jacob ran to get the car and in just the short distance I had to go once he pulled up I was soaked.


I have been soooo spoiled by getting to work from home! This week I have been up in Scottsdale working and it is just taking ALL that I have. I have started having some contractions, although they are sporadic. I called my boss today and told him that I was just going to have to work from home today. At this point if I don't get a full day in, I don't care. I was in such pain last night and so swollen that it just isn't worth it. I feel bad for ladies that have to continue working in their last month of pregnancy. It is so hard. I am not sleeping at night, I am sore, swollen and miserable, unless I am at home :) Not that all of that goes away, but it is somehow easier to tolerate, plus I can lay down if I need to. I know I mentioned before that my brain just isn't working right, but I am making some major mistakes at work and it is embarrassing not to mention not good! I just feel so stupid. Even after double checking my work I am messing up. I listed a property at 1.3M yesterday that was supposed to be 13.5M. If hadn't been caught so early I would have been in some DEEP trouble. I asked him to double check everything I was doing, I knew what the price was, I just missed a 0, a very important 0! I told him it probably wasn't a good idea to give me anything important to do.

We got Nadia's new letters, of course I can't remember if I said that already LOL Here is a picture of them. I think they are just adorable.

And here is a video from my birthing board. I can't believe how much you can see the baby move. It's crazy!

2 steps closer

Well Friday I passed two of my tests and today I passed the last two that I had to take at the school. Now I just need to study my butt off and pass the National and State exams. They were booked out over a week, and its all the way in downtown Phoenix, so I'm a little nervous, but I'm ready!

Saturday we had the birth center tour. The hospital is really nice, brand new everything. I am really impressed and excited that I switched to this hospital. It was nice getting to see everything. I wanted to see all the babies in the nursery, but there were none in there. At first I was confused, but then they explained that at this hospital baby stays in room unless you request otherwise or there are health issues. The rooms are HUGE and all private, which I am happy about and they have a bed for Jacob to sleep in :) I am so ready to have this baby, although I'm sure once its time to push I will get scared. LOL

Once Jacob got home he showered and we met my parents down at the casino. We had dinner with them and gambled a little. Jacob did very well, but we didn't want to lose any money so after a couple hours we were done. It was already 11 and its about an hour drive from home, so home we went.

Sunday we slept in and then went to breakfast as usual. We went to The Egg and I and as always the food was good, but our waitress was no good, forgot half of what we ordered. Afterwards we went to Babies R Us. We still have a lot of things that we need for the baby. My Mom keeps trying to talk me into having another baby shower here, but I really would rather not. I would rather have a "Welcome Baby" party once she is here. We didn't end up buying anything, we need to save money right now. I haven't been getting in a lot of hours at work since I started school.

After I was finished taking my tests today my boss wanted me to go up to Scottsdale. Since we have sold most of the bank owned properties that we had he wants me to come up to Scottsdale and work so I can still get hours in. He goes out of town again next week, so thankfully I will only have to do this while he's here. I had to laugh, today he sent me to GNC, Home Depot, Office Max and Pier One. It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so tired and it wasn't so HOT outside!! Tomorrow won't be as much running around, thankfully.