28 weeks

Monday I had my first doctor appointment at the US Navel Hospital (big military hospital about 25 minutes away) for my 28 week check up. I was all ready and went out to start the car and it was completely dead! Turns out the Brake Light Stopper had broken (a little piece of plastic the size of an eraser top). Without it in place, the brake lights stay on even when the car is off and it killed my battery. The part costs less than 5 bucks but when you have to get to an appointments and don't have it, it really makes it difficult. Long story short, with Logan's help I got there 5 minutes after the cut off time and they made me reschedule.

I was so upset because I'm a crazy pregnant lady I called Logan who was back at work and cried - even though they scheduled me for the next day. Its just that I tried so hard and it is not very close so I had wasted all that time. To help me feel better, Logan took lunch off just to be with me and we tried a new place down by the sea wall. It turned out to be a beautiful day and the food was great but best of all, Logan knew it was just what I needed to feel better.

Tuesday I actually had my appointment and it went really well. The dr said baby is doing great, he had a heart beat of 130 and lots of good movement. With a fundal height of 28 cm, she said he is right on track to be born on October 25th (the earlier of my due dates!). I also knew that baby had changed positions but didn't realize that he has flipped a 180! That little stinker! Instead of head down like he was for a long time, his head and shoulders are tucked up under my right ribs! No wonder it hurts!

One thing that was a little scary was the night before I had my first contractions. Thankfully I was able to talk to my dr about it so I know what to do the next time. They have not happened again since then. She said it was probably because I don't get as much water at night while I am sleeping and I had a full bladder.

By the time my appointment was over the lab was closed (where I have to do the Glucose Tolerance Test and Blood work) so I would have to go back to the hospital again to do that and get my second Rhogam shot.

I then headed back and watched Logan's softball game. He did good in the out field but his team lost.  When we got home, there was a beautiful sunset from our front porch and I took a pick of our snail infested bush because it think it's funny. I also got a text that evening letting me know that my friend Annie was at the hospital having her baby!

Wednesday I went down to the hospital AGAIN but this time for a much better reason - to meet little baby J. Annie is my size and her belly never got very big so we were all surprised she pushed out a 9 pound baby! I sure hope that doesn't happen to me!!!

I should have taken the glucose test while I was there but I hadn't eaten very well that day (sometimes I'm just starving all day!) and Annie's dad offered me some yummy chocolates from Utah that I happily ate, so to get better results I decided to come back the next day with another friend who had to take it too.

The next morning I met Mickelle (we are less than a week apart in our pregnancies) at the lab and we both did the glucose tolerance test together. It was not too bad drinking the stuff but it sure made me sick!!! I was grateful I kept it down and didn't have to do it again. I was originally told that I could get my Rhogam shot the same day but it they said they were too busy and I would have to come back the next day. Annoying! At least Annie was still at the hospital so I went and hung out with her (and ate the labor and delivery pebble ice) until I felt better enough to drive home. The rest of the day was spent just taking it easy and resting.

Friday Logan had a family day off! There also happened to be a typhoon not too far off but so far it hadn't don't anything at all. Very disappointing. We decided to go on a scenic drive down to the southern tip of the island. On our way, we stopped at the hospital for my shot (yes I was at the hospital every single day this week!). Logan watched and said it was the thickest needle he ever saw and he thought it was going to hit my bone when they jabbed it in. It did hurt a lot. I got a nice bruise and had a sore arm the rest of the day.

On our drive we saw a ton of beautiful beaches we wanted to stop at on our way back. We didn't stop yet because we wanted to eat lunch first. We went to this place called Thai in the Sky. The food was ok but it had the most beautiful views! This shot was from the parking lot.

Sometimes you find the most random things here. Like how you had to walk through this little barn to get to the restaurant and it will filled with cool fossils/skeletons and live plants. 

My pad thai was a little different tasting and after a few bits I realized my food was looking back at me! Another Okinawa surprise- there was about a hundred miniature little shrimp things in it staring at me! I just couldn't handle it that day so Logan let me eat some of his curry because it didn't bother him at all.

Rudely, right when we finished eating thats when it decided to start pouring! So we didn't really get any cool pics out the back and didn't get to stop at the beaches. Oh well. We will just have to come back!

I got my lab results back. I don't have gestational diabetes!! Yay! but I am anemic (shocker - jk. I already was pretty sure) so I have to start taking Iron again. I'm super hoping it doesn't make me sick again!!