Hey ladies! So sorry I have been MIA for a few weeks, there has been so much going on, it has been hard to keep up with life in general! I'm still working on poor Hayleigh's birth story and hope to have it done in a couple of days!
Nichole--oh hun, I am so sorry to hear about the GD diagnosis
. As you may recall, I was diagnosed with GD pretty early on back when I was pregnant with Grace. I ended up having to be on insulin due to my fasting levels (the level you cannot control with diet), and I know the last thing you want to be dealing with right now is more medication/shots! I wish I could be of more help on the diet side with regard to the anemia, unfortunately I have very little knowledge there. On the GD side, I was given a diet and list of foods from my dietician--the key for me was staying away from carbs, especially breads. Pastas for some reason never seemed to affect me, but breads were my downfall, especially bagels! I remember eating a lot of salads and veggies with her, which was actually easy for me to do because I craved cucumbers, lol!
Love--I hope your new ob gets you some answers and so happy to hear that the procedure will be covered!! you are always in my thoughts and prayers, I hope this is a new step in the right direction to get you the answers you need and your rainbow baby!
milos--so good to hear from you and I hope your little man is starting to give you some rest! Grace did not sleep on her own through the night in her crib until 1 month before Hayleigh arrived, we were very nervous about how we were going to manage sleeping arrangements had she not adjusted, it was a close call! haha
New--35 weeks!! Not much longer now hun, I am soooooo very excited for you!!! Good to hear you are finally done with work, so you can enjoy these last few weeks--make sure you get a lot of sleep and rest, as much as you can (try to avoid the heat if you can to help with those swollen ankles)--I am sure a lot of people have told you that, but it's true! You will not get a lot of it once your little man is here!!!
Lil--hope all is well with you too hun, you should be about 20 weeks now, if I recall correctly!
Imp--hope all is going well with you, you should almost be 3rd tri now, right?
AFM: So much to update! I feel like I am in a dreamworld (a very happy one!) with my two little girls--they are so precious and perfect (at least to me!), I feel so blessed every day to have them in my life!! Grace is adjusting very well to being a big sister, only a couple of incidents of jealousy, and that is mostly when she sees me pick up Hayleigh and she decides that she wants to be held as well. She will sometimes have a meltdown if I tell her no because Hayleigh is feeding, etc. I have found that redirecting her works most times, but other times, I try to snuggle up next to her while holding Hayleigh to let her know she is still my girl too! She started back at school 3 days a week last week and adjusted well to getting back into her routine. I have to admit that I love having her 2 days out of the week, even if it makes my day hectic and crazy trying to juggle 2 under 2 and working from home!
Hayleigh is indeed another little princess just like her big sister. She looks so much like Grace, but their personalities are definitely different! Grace was a pretty laid back baby, not so much Miss Hayleigh!! Hayleigh is pretty vocal and makes herself known when she wants fed/picked up/changed, etc. She's also very active, squirming all over the place and constantly trying to hold her head up and look around. She's also fixing to be Daddy's girl--she will be throwing a right fit for me, then he will say something and she will suddenly go dead quiet and look around for him to come pick her up. I can't be jealous, he looks so thrilled when she does that, haha - Grace has been a Momma's girl from the start, so it warms my heart to see how excited he is, because I know the feeling!!
Feeding has been going ok. I don't have a lot of time to do BFing directly with the boob like I did with Grace, so a lot of Hayleigh's feedings have been with expressed milk by bottle. She fortunately, like Grace, has taken to both bottle and boob without any confusion. My milk supply has been so much better this time around, I am able to store a TON of milk in the freezer right now, which I am so happy about because I started to slow down production-wise around 10 months with Grace and had to use some stored breastmilk. This time around, if that happens, I will be more prepared! Im just so happy I have not had to supplement any formula since we got home! (I gave her a couple formula bottles in the hospital, not happily, but will elaborate on that in her birth story).
My blood pressure issues have appeared to be almost resolved. It is suspected that I had a lot of fluid retention starting about 1 month before I had Hayleigh that was causing my blood pressure to spike. After I had her, my body did not reset itself as quickly as it should have to shed the excess water weight, so it made it even worse, causing the huge spikes. During one of my admissions, they gave me a water pill and I dropped like 13 pounds almost overnight! So now my MD has added a water pill to my regular meds, at least for now, and it seems to be working!!
I started back to work 2 weeks ago, working from home. As usual, some adjusting is going on, Hayleigh is too little to have a solid routine yet, but we are managing pretty well. My bosses are being great about it, and I wont have to return to office until October.
Well, I've rambled on enough! I've included a couple pictures of the girls!
But, I was 30 + 4 when I went in, the measurement of my uterus puts me in 31 weeks, Adalynn's measurements put her between 32-33 weeks. She was estimated weighing 4lbs 5oz. That's big. The average size for 33 weeks (which, technically, I'm not even at yet) is 4.23lbs. Goodness gracious, I can't have regular sized children, lol.
Slowly starting to get into a normal routine around here (of course, with an infant, once you get adjusted to a routine, they up and change it on you, lol!)
Will update more when I can, Hayleighbug is pitching a little fit atm, so must tend to her! 
aww, that's so lovely Amber - thank you! 
