I mentioned last time that I'd like to take better care of myself. I'm now 8 sessions into my 8-week round of boot camp and things are going pretty well. Whereas I really thought I might have a heart attack and drop dead the first week, and I just felt ridiculously sore all the time the second week, the third week has brought with it a burst of energy and enthusiasm. I've been able to finish most things strong rather than dropping medicine balls... or my whole self... to the ground. Progress.
This morning I went to one of my favorite places for a check-up and word on the street was that my blood pressure was kinda AMAZING. This is really big news for me. It's made even bigger by the fact that my prescription ran out like a month ago and I was out of refills so I just kinda waited until this appointment when I figured I'd get a new prescription. I had been on the very lowest dose of a beta blocker to manage chronic hypertension discovered a couple months before I got pregnant. After her birth, I was moved up a notch in dosage. So I fully expected my BP to be all kinds of high this morning after having no medicine, but it was definitely not high! There was much celebrating between me, my favorite phlebotomist, and the best nurse practitioner ever. I proceeded to sit down and talk with said nurse practitioner for close to 45 minutes about all sorts of health-related stuff before the exam. Did I mention that I absolutely love the WBWC? I really really do.
The sad news, though, is that they've changed their criteria for what will make a person "risk out" of being an obstetric patient at the birth center. Whereas they would previously take you if you had controlled chronic hypertension (your BP was high before pregnancy, but you were managing it with medication), they no longer accept people with pre-pregnancy hypertension. As of right now, I'm not hypertensive. So I just have to stay that way until [top secret date] when we plan to try to get pregnant again. Ideally, I will lose 20 lb. by said date, so there's some serious motivation in place now. I'm going to keep tacking the boot camp workouts and try to, as my boot camp instructor says, "eat REAL food" in the meantime.
And now, Jonathan would probably give me a lecture about how I've just devoted a whole post to my health issues and I'm turning into an old person. But it was a happy health day so I wanted to document it.
On the Evelyn front, her teachers report that she can stack five blocks, sometimes more. And she's starting to pause a little before she bites kids. It used to be "you take my toy, I bite you" immediately, but now she's showing signs of thinking that choice through. Progress. Her last week of school is next week and then after Memorial Day, summer camp begins! I think this might mean that she doesn't have to wear a uniform, and I know they spend more time playing outside during "camp" which lasts all summer.
This morning I went to one of my favorite places for a check-up and word on the street was that my blood pressure was kinda AMAZING. This is really big news for me. It's made even bigger by the fact that my prescription ran out like a month ago and I was out of refills so I just kinda waited until this appointment when I figured I'd get a new prescription. I had been on the very lowest dose of a beta blocker to manage chronic hypertension discovered a couple months before I got pregnant. After her birth, I was moved up a notch in dosage. So I fully expected my BP to be all kinds of high this morning after having no medicine, but it was definitely not high! There was much celebrating between me, my favorite phlebotomist, and the best nurse practitioner ever. I proceeded to sit down and talk with said nurse practitioner for close to 45 minutes about all sorts of health-related stuff before the exam. Did I mention that I absolutely love the WBWC? I really really do.
The sad news, though, is that they've changed their criteria for what will make a person "risk out" of being an obstetric patient at the birth center. Whereas they would previously take you if you had controlled chronic hypertension (your BP was high before pregnancy, but you were managing it with medication), they no longer accept people with pre-pregnancy hypertension. As of right now, I'm not hypertensive. So I just have to stay that way until [top secret date] when we plan to try to get pregnant again. Ideally, I will lose 20 lb. by said date, so there's some serious motivation in place now. I'm going to keep tacking the boot camp workouts and try to, as my boot camp instructor says, "eat REAL food" in the meantime.
And now, Jonathan would probably give me a lecture about how I've just devoted a whole post to my health issues and I'm turning into an old person. But it was a happy health day so I wanted to document it.
On the Evelyn front, her teachers report that she can stack five blocks, sometimes more. And she's starting to pause a little before she bites kids. It used to be "you take my toy, I bite you" immediately, but now she's showing signs of thinking that choice through. Progress. Her last week of school is next week and then after Memorial Day, summer camp begins! I think this might mean that she doesn't have to wear a uniform, and I know they spend more time playing outside during "camp" which lasts all summer.
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