Memorial Day Weekend and hitting the 28th Week

This weekend was Memorial Day. I went on a road trip with my hubby-to-be to Washington, D.C. It was nice to getaway from NY for a little while. Nice to not have to think about moving and unpacking and just relax and have no schedule whatsoever. It wasn't the beach or anything, but it was still nice. We took the greyhound bus which was totally chaotic, but what do you expect? Supposedly it had wi-fi and it did have plugs so you can plug in your charger or your lap top if you brought one. That's a nice perk. There was hardly any traffic going there and leaving. What more can you ask for?

Saturday we arrived late afternoon. Our hotel room wasn't ready yet so we wandered to Union Station and got some food. We also got some ice cream and looked at the stores that they had over there. We went back to our hotel and the room was ready by then thank goodness, and we just stayed in and relaxed.

Sunday we walked all over the place, visited museums: Native American, Air and Space, Natural History, the Botanical Gardens, the Sculpture Garden, walked to Capital Hill, the Washington Monument, White House, ate near the Spy Museum but didn't go in. My feet were in the worse pain I have ever felt from walking. I think I totally overexerted myself, but the baby seems ok. I think I have one tough kid in my belly. My stomach broke out in some kind of heat rash too. Ugh. But it went away by the end of the next day. There was a motorcyle brigade - in honor of Memorial Day on Sunday as well. The line of bikes, mostly Harleys, kept going and going and going and going. It made it pretty hard to cross the street. It was pretty hot out but not as hot as the next day so thank goodness we got all that walking done before Monday. I got to see my godparents / my godsister and met her kids for the first time on Monday. They are so adorable! The eldest (2 yrs old) has the most beautiful smile, and the baby (6 mos) was a little pudge and also really smiley and happy. It was great to see them. It's hard to imagine that pretty soon I will have my own little one to take care of.

In a couple of weeks, I start taking my birthing class, and we get a tour of the hospital facilities. That should be interesting. Everything is happening so fast, and I still have to finish unpacking my stuff in the new apt. I'm sort of almost done...but not quite. Did I mention we set a wedding date too?

26 weeks, 129.5 lbs

so those are my stats right now in my 26th week. i'm supposed to only gain a pound a week for the rest of my pregnancy. hope i can stick to that. i'm feeling pretty big. people are now offering their seats to me on the subway. you know your obviously large when that starts happening. the interesting thing that i've found is that it's mostly women that offer me their seat.

thursday i took the gestational diabetes test. results will be available by next Monday. i had to drink a bottle of some orange liquid that did taste like flat orange soda (my friend mentioned that's how it would taste). didn't taste bad at all. the week before i had to go to a specialist, cardiologist to get a fetal echocardiogram because they saw a glimmer in the baby's heart on one of the sonograms, which is an indication of calcium build up in the heart. it was really worrying, as that is considered a marker that increases your chances of down's syndrome. if they see this in a sonogram, then they need to check the heart for the existence of other markers. but in my case, the heart looked perfectly normal and fine so the Dr. told us there was nothing to worry about. it was stressing me out the moment my ob told me about it up until i had the appt with the cardiologist. it was such a relief to find out everything was ok.

now in all my pregnancy books, it warns against food poisoning and the like. it's going to make me paranoid about everything i eat.