Week 17!

I had another doctor's appointment this afternoon. Really wasn't too bad and she said that everything seems to be normal and in line - praise God! The only big thing that I'm noticing with my body right now is I have been getting pretty bad headaches since this last weekend. Ow!
At my Dr's appointment I learned that:

• I have gained 9 pounds since my very first appointment.
• My blood pressure is right on - only 108 (over a number I can't remember).
• The baby's heartbeat is about 140-145 bpm (last month it was about 160-163 so it slowed down a bit but that's because the baby's growing and getting stronger).
• My uterus is measuring just as it should - just below the navel.
• Most of my bloodwork that I had done at the last appointment came back with flying colors. (There was one test about the blood antigens or something that has to get tested again but they're not worried about that.)
• I need to keep drinking more fluids to hopefully reduce headaches.

My doctor also showed me a few stretches that John can help me do to hopefully easy the pain in my butt that I have been getting when I lay down for even a couple minutes. I guess it's because all the ligaments in those areas are starting to stretch.

I asked her about my little dizzy spell from John and my outing to Target on Sunday. She says I probably got my blurry vision and heat flash because I had bent down to look at an item on the bottom shelf and, since my blood pressure is so low, not enough blood was flowing as it should.

Oh, and she did think that I am very clever for using rubber bands as a closure for my jeans! Most of the maternity pants that I have gotten are still too baggy and feel like they're going to fall down on me when I wear them. So as long as I can keep closing my jeans with rubber bands, I will! They're not just office supplies anymore, folks!

This past weekend John and I were doing a lot of talking about how to rearrange the downstairs to accomodate primarily our "office equipment". I vetoed having our computers housed in the baby's room or our bedroom. I want to be able to relax in our bedroom without the interference of the laptops. I also don't want a office/nursery combo. I figured that when the baby is sleeping is when we'd most likely want to be on the computer and the baby wouldn't sleep. Also, if John comes home late at night from work he likes to use the computer and I don't want any interruptions in the nursery. If we're always moving the laptops out of the room anyways, then why not just put a desk somewhere else? Right now we're toying with the idea of getting rid of the ginormous TV in our living room and replacing it with a flat screen TV to save on space. I mentioned maybe putting a desk below that to also serve a purpose of storing the TV receiver and DVD player... I know it's still early to be thinking about these things but that's just how my brain work sometimes.

John and I also stopped at PetCo on Sunday to check out saltwater fish. Right now our aquarium is a freshwater tank but we might possibly switch it to a saltwater tank and moving the tank into the nursery. How fun would it be to have a couple brignt colored Nemo's swimming around in the tank while feeding the baby or to let the baby watch them from the crib? The fish are definitely more pricy than the fish we currently have but you can't put as many in the tank since they can get quite big. The other things we're considering are the cost and maintenance time. It would require a lot more care to the tank and extra expense with buying the salt and preparing the water. This would definitely turn into a "hobby" but I think it would be fun!