Another Successful Doctor's Appointment!

Yesterday's appointment went very well!  Our baby girl was very active, making it a little difficult on the nurse trying to find her heartbeat.  Every time the nurse would settle on the heartbeat, little punkin would kick and interupt us.  :P  She's feisty!  That's for sure.  In the 20 seconds or so that the nurse was working on the heartbeat, our little girl kicked about 6 times.  :D  She can be such a stinker sometimes!  Her heartbeat was at 142, which is where it's been for the last 3 months now.  And this time I know she's awake and everything, so I'm officially calling BS on the heartbeat wives tale.  According to the Old Wives Tale if the baby's heartbeat is over 140 it's a girl, under 140 is a boy.  Well she has been both over and under the line and is currently towing the line, so I'm not seeing any actual correlation to determining the sex.  However, I'm sure I'll still be paying close attention to the numbers when we're still waiting to find out with number 2 if we're having a boy or girl.  :P  Other things that happened in our appointment, the doctor measured my belly, which is showing me at about 25 weeks (I'm currently at 23 weeks and 5 days).  So she's growing well and getting big.  I think it's interesting that I'm measuring larger since I have only gained 6 pounds so far in my first nearly 24 weeks of pregnancy.  My doctor is happy with my overall weight gain, but most of it came on right here in the last 4 weeks (which I knew, and doesn't surprise me, I really popped this month) so he just wants to make sure I'm not putting on a bunch every 4 weeks.  So I suppose a couple more salads are in my future.  ;)  The next time we go in I'm doing my glucose test to make sure I'm not developing gestational diabetes.  Then, the following appointment we will get to see our little girl again one last time before she arrives!!  We'll do our last sonogram at 31+ weeks to check the placenta and make sure it's not in the way of the cervix.  If it's where it needs to be, I will be able to be at the birthing center and deliver naturally (with drugs of course) as I will still be extremely low risk and healthy.  However, if the placenta has shifted and is covering the cervix or is too close, a natural delivery will not be in the cards for me.  If that's the case, we will be at the hospital and I will have a c-section.  I am really ok with either option.  I would like everything to be problem free and to be at the birthing center where you only have to stay in one room for the delivery and recovery, but if it doesn't work out that way, whatever is best for our baby girl will be perfect.  Either way, my doctor will be there calling the shots and I trust his judgement, so I guess we will just wait and see what happens.  :)  But as I mentioned before, great doctor's appointment!!  :D

In other news, I got more cloth diapers in!!  They are adorable!  I focused on girl prints in this last order since we know we're having a girl.  Check out the picture below for all the cute diapers!  :)

I've also finally got all of the nursery set up!  This little girl is spoiled by her Grandma, which is why she already has a closet full of clothes.  :P  Pictures below show the nursery as it sits right now.  We need a couple more major things, but hopefully we'll get those from a shower or Michael and I can buy them later.  Just can't wait for our little girl to get here!