Just thought I’d post a quick update on the progress of Jr.

Baby was looking good yesterday when I had my latest check up, he was busy eating his fist and then sucking on his thumb. He had a major growth spurt since my last appointment 5 weeks ago and now weighs 780g.

I failed my glucose tolerance indicator test yesterday, due to this I will be spending all of Friday morning drinking sugary drinks and having my blood tested every hour for 3 hours. Just really hoping that I haven’t developed diabetes. I have put on a lot of weight in the past 5 weeks and really need to try and monitor it carefully over the next few months. No more desserts and chocolate for me! The problem is that I’m hungry ALL THE TIME…

Been having some strange sensations in my upper right abdomen, not quite pain but more tingling. My OBGYN thinks it could be due to adhesions from my gallbladder surgery from a few years ago causing this. I was just saying to a fellow blogger the other day that I hadn’t had any problems post gallbladder..

One things about living here in Switzerland is that you don’t just chuck stuff in the bin but all paper, cardboard, batteries, metal, packing material, clothes, shoes, household electrical items, wood, organic waste, old furniture and glass (I’m sure I’ve missed things out) MUST be recycled. This isn’t such a bad thing I think you’ll agree, it’s a bit of a hassle at times but cerainly makes you aware of how much waste you generate. We have certain days each month when paper/metal etc is collected but if you miss these then you can take things to the recycle park.

All last weekend we worked in the house gutting the cellar and loft and taking car loads to the recycle park. Since our car is small and the recycle park is only open for 4 hours on a Saturday morning and closed on a Sunday this will be how we are spending our next few weekends (weather permitting! At the moment there is about 5″ of snow outside).

Monday night we drove through to Germany and with the help of Derek we picked up the nursery furniture. Stewart can’t begin building anything yet as we have a sofa bed in the room which will hopefully get picked up by BaselStadt on Friday morning. Del is being a star and coming over tomorrow night to help Stewart get the sofa downstairs (5 flights of stairs!!) since it won’t fit in the lift.

Progress is definitely being made and we can really see things taking shape. We thought we may as well use this as a perfect opportunity to do all of the jobs that we kept putting off…

The new tumble drier arrived this morning and so I have spent the evening washing all of the babys clothes, as soon as the furniture is built I’ll be able to sort everything out and get it put away. We got a package from Isobel (my mother-in-law) she knitted the baby three more cardigans. They are absolutely gorgeous!! One of them even has little cat face buttons!! Really cute!!

I’ll update things on Friday hopefully with some good news from my glucose test, fingers crossed!

Pamela

UPDATE: Well Friday is here and I have just returned from the doctors. I’ve been diagosed with gestational diabetes. Next step is to see a dietician to try and get my blood sugar under control by modifying my diet, if that is possible then I wont have any need for insulin.

Have a great weekend folks!!

Pamela