One Side Down

Well, my mom knows. I sent the card and it got there on Monday. She has taken it surprisingly well... Congratulated us and asked about the due date. Then when I expressed my shock at her reaction, she told me to pick myself up off the floor. I told her all about having gestational diabetes, and she was amazed I had it, and really wished I had been warned it was a possibility because I had two babies within a year. I kind of wish I had been given a heads up on the possibility that way I could have been more careful in the beginning. Though I don’t think I would have waited longer. Happily, the diabetes counselor told me that having an A1C of 5.7 meant my average sugar levels were around 117 and that means I did no harm. Phew. So now my immediate family knows. I made my next two appointments yesterday, the 16 week check up and blood work on Aug 13^th, and then the anatomy scan on Aug 31^st! Hubby and I were talking about when we wanted to make that appointment and decided we wanted an afternoon appointment so he could take a half day, and we wanted it early in the week because if you get bad news on a Friday you have a weekend to panic before places with answers open again. I called the number and she told me during that week she had one afternoon appointment. Friday afternoon. I took it. Then called hubs to lament/get excited. I'm hoping the Dr. wants to take a peek at our 16 week appointment and ill ask her to look if so. Otherwise we have 35 days before we can pick a team. That weekend we find out we are going to visit his family and break all the news at once. Surprise! We’re pregnant! Surprise! It’s a GIRL?BOY?! I need fun gender reveals, the trick is I can’t do any of the food ones... A. because we did a blue cake with Max and it was really special and doing it again feels like I would be steamrolling over one of the only memories I have of him. And B. the in-laws and brother and sister-in-law that live there are vegan. 

And here is me at 13 weeks.  bumity bump bump.