MM - BBGC - Life After WLS

When?

Dana just asked if I have my babies before their due dates.  I really wouldn't know - I've been induced three times.  Baby #1, induced near due date, with high blood pressure.  She was 7 lbs. 12 oz.  Baby #2. induced at  not quite 39 weeks, high blood pressure & rapid heartbeat.  He was 8 lbs.  Baby #3, induced at 38 weeks, high blood pressure & rapid heartbeat, 8 lbs. 12 oz.  I don't know what would have happened had I been just allowed to go into labor, I've been generally "sick"  and sent to the hospital at my prenatal appointment and induced the next day.  I'm not dealing with high blood pressure this time, which seems to be what causes problems.  I'm more than 100 lbs. lighter than previous pregnancies, so there's the cure for the high blood pressure, huh?  Anyways - other than the anemia, I'm "healthy" - so whenever it happens, I guess... it happens.  Though, tommorrow would be nice?

I should have at least gotten a dinner first.

Because, I was violated without so much as a glass of wine.  No news, really.  Dilated two centimeters and baby's head is ready to go.  OB says she's dropped and in place.   She made it sound like I'd go right there - she was all, "Well, she was six and a half pounds two weeks ago, and she's in place... so..." 

We did have a quick non-stress test, because the baby's movement wasn't really frantic today, but she's fine.  (She kicked the monitor off.)  I also got a quick blood sugar check, since I never had the prenatal diabetes testing done. (Remember, I refused to take the glucose drink or the jelly bean test back when it was required, due to the gastric bypass and the side effects of eating that large amount of sugar.)  My blood sugar was 77, and I had eaten prior to the appointment, so it's good.  (I didn't tell her WHAT I ate, but it was a post-meal blood sugar level.  (I had eaten 4 oz. cottage cheese, a peanut butter cup & 4 oz. sugar free pudding within the morning before the appointment. )  I think I tend to be more hypoglycemic than diabetic anyway since WLS.  I have hypoglycemic symptoms much much more since WLS.  Oh, and I'm actually down a couple of pounds!  I weighed in with shoes on and was less than last week/same scale.  So, anytime, baby, you can come out to play.  Now is more preferred than later, since my main sources of baby-sitting Are Going On A Cruise Ship for like, ten days, at my due date.  So, Right Now would be acceptable.  I just need one good full day of labor that produces an infant, with babysitters, and they can go to the Bermuda Triangle or wherever it is they're going.  My nine year old daughter is concerned about this - she wants to make sure that her younger sibs are with grandma, because "they'd be scared at the hospital, Mom."  As for her, I think she'd like to be there, and I'll let her, if she wants to, at the very least the moment the baby arrives, she's seen it all in full-color on TV anyways - she knows what's up.

Taking bets.

Sure, I'll take bets on the baby.  It's not like I'm going to see money from it, so g'head, place yer bets. 

• Date:
• Time:
• Baby's Weight:
• Length:

Winna gets, uhh, my undying affection? 

Though, the bet I'm more interested in - is how many pounds will *I* drop just after she's born?!  I'm betting on twenty pounds.  The rest, I'll claim responsibility for.  As soon as I get home, get un-IV'ed and lose all the water I'll undoubtedly have in the hospital (along with any other freebies, like a blood transfusion!), I'll add a weight ticker back up.  I'm thinking I'm going to be starting at about 175 lbs for my "re-diet."  It Could Be Worse.  Really.  I was really close to pushing that before I got hugely pregnant anyway.  My previous 150 lbs as goal, 130-135 lbs after plastic surgery goal.  The smallest I ever saw was 147 lbs for like, a day.  I hovered near 160-165 lbs for the longest time pre-two-pregnancies, so it's all very do-able.  Nursing a baby steals about 500 calories per day, and I can't physically eat too too much, so it means I will still be able to eat actual FOOD as long as I'm a moo-cow for the babe, and probably will lose weight just by that.  I do plan on eating better (bye bye empty calories, at least most of 'em), and charting my meals on Fitday again.  I may sub some meals with protein bars or shakes, which I gave up completely during pregnancy (depending on chemicals in them, and if I'm making enough milk...)

It's all in how you look at it.

Thanks to an email from MySpace - the name I picked* now has a teasability factor added.  Thank you.  Although, this one is funny.

*- because it's always subject to change.

Baby Alien.

The other day I posted a "photo" of the fetus on my MySpace page.  I thought for certain it would was obviously be understood as a joke - since it was, you know, an ALIEN, like from space?!  Well, it wasn't.  I had a few people ask me if the photo was "one of those 4-D ultrasounds or something?" because it was slightly disturbing.  The whole thing was that the actual ultrasound scans from a couple of weeks ago freaked ME out, because they looked slightly alien-ish, and it's been a joke in my little world since.  I always have this fear of giving birth to a Something rather than a Someone, and at the end of pregnancy I have actual nightmares about pushing a baby out, only to look down and be greeted by this:

Anyway, I should know better, since the last two times I've had a baby girl, they've been very non-alien-like and very human.  I only hope we're so lucky this time.