Original due date

So today is the day of my original due date - which is kind of weird to think about that if I hadn't had a miscarriage, I'd have a baby by now.  In some ways I can't imagine having another baby at this point and I don't feel ready, but that's probably also because I'm not huge and totally uncomfortable yet! (I'm only slightly uncomfortable - with my incredibly short torso he's already kicking at my ribs...plus I can already feel that he gets the hiccups sometimes, which I very much dislike).  But then again, it also kind of feels like I've already been pregnant for a LONG time and then that makes me a little sad that I still have about 3 months to go.  And by the time he's born, if you factor in the miscarriage I will have been pregnant for almost 1 year.  Ugh.  Good thing I have relatively easy pregnancies - I count that blessing all the time!

So instead of celebrating our baby's birth date, I'm celebrating 27 weeks.  I have the great fun of doing the glucose test and rhogam shot this week - just a bit of sarcasm there ;)  Just pray for me that I pass the glucose test - I'll probably cry if I have to do the 3 hour test, and I'll DEFINITELY cry if I have somehow ended up with gestational diabetes.  There's varying numbers on this, but between 2 and 10 percent of pregnant women develop it.  Even 10% isn't that high, but still enough to scare me and I don't want to have to prick my finger several times a day.  So here's to hoping I make it past this hump.  The good news is that I only have about 13 weeks left!  Also, I finally hit my pre-pregnancy weight - at least the weight I was before I had Holland!  Haha!  Nursing was the best weight loss program ever (at least for me)!  I lost an additional 15 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight after Holland, gained 1 pound and stayed steady there for about 2 years, gained another pound from the miscarriage, so at 27 weeks I've now gained the other 13.  I forgot what it was like to be 132...and I'm hoping nursing will work the same magic on me again :)