We had a midwives appointment today and as you can see from the title of this post we got some good and okay news. So the okay news is that my iron levels are a bit lower than they have been in the past. This means that my body is using more of my iron to grow the baby and depleting my iron supplies. Thankfully all this means is that I need to start taking an iron supplement and have my levels checked a bit closer to to show time to see if my iron levels are back up.
If for some reason my iron levels drop much more there is a chance that we will not be able to have a home birth like we are hoping for. Which is all the motivation I need to go get my iron pills tomorrow and start working on building up those iron reserves. The good part about all of this is that it would explain why I have been so tired lately. It felt like a for the last few weeks I just couldn’t seem to get enough sleep. Hopefully with the addition of some iron I will start to have a bit more energy.
Now onto the good news, I passed my diabetes screening with flying colours. I am right in the normal range which means I can keep doing what I am doing because it seems to be working great. Although I figured I was fine, I begin to get a little worried yesterday as I was shoveling jelly belly’s into my mouth that maybe I might not pass. Thankfully the fact that I am generally very healthy and don’t eat sweets all the time means that I don’t have to worry about diabetes during this pregnancy.
It was also exciting to hear that we are to the point in the pregnancy when we get to see the midwife every 3 weeks instead of every 5. This means I get to hear baby girls strong heart beat much more often now. But this also means we are getting that much closer to baby girl being here, only 12 weeks to go!