The prenatal visit was good yesterday. I was up two pounds this month and the midwife was very pleased with that. That puts me at a total of 7.5 loss from pre-pregnancy weight and I am half way done bakin' this baby, now. If I can keep this up, I should only gain a total of 5, or so, pounds during my pregnancy. How awesome would that be!?!?

I didn't get the same lady I got last time and Prince Charming and I have come to the conclusion that there is just a personality conflict with that particular woman and I. Eh, it happens. I printed out all of my food logs from CK and took them with me because I wanted to SHOW them that I have a good diet so that they would quit spewing generic sh!t at me that was worthless. It was interesting. She tried to tell me this stuff that was contradictory, but I had the paperwork in front of us. After really looking at it, she just said that my diet was good but they'd like to see a little less sugar in it (I currently average about 50g a day). She tried to tell me to eat less fat (I avg. 40%) and less carbs (I avg. 36%), but I reminded her that if I cut down on one category, another one (or two) had to increase and she just couldn't make all the numbers work out (because I am not a small woman and they were using their small woman numbers). I am okay with cutting back the sugar. The reason it is even that high is because I've had cake twice and ice cream twice in the last two weeks. They are not regular parts of my diet and it is easy to just not eat it because we go out, specifically, to get dessert. That stuff is not kept at home.

I've been suffering from plantar fasciitis for about a month now. Some days are worse than others. I inquired about any pregnancy-safe anti-inflammatories and was told that there aren't any. That stinks. This is going to be a long road to recovery without them. The midwife suggested going to a homeopathic RN, but I just don't mess around with homeopathic "medicines." I don't have a problem with them, per se, just with the fact that they aren't regulated and the manufacturers really CAN put anything in them. I'm just going to stay off my foot as much as possible and continue my self-rehab.

Along those same lines, we also discussed the H1N1 vaccine. I've been researching it on my own and I was strongly leaning AGAINST making myself, and my unborn baby, a guinea pig for this untested vaccine. So, I asked the midwife what the big deal was with pregnant women and the swine flu. She explained that pregnant women are more susceptible, anyway, to developing pneumonia when sick, and that a higher percentage of pregnant women who get the swine flu develop pneumonia (and can subsequently die) from it. So, the risk is not with swine flu, itself, but the pneumonia that can (in a small percentage of cases) develop from it. They had two healthy pregnant women get pneumonia earlier this year from the swine flu and both recovered. I don't buy in to mass hysteria and I've decided to take my chances with pneumonia. But, I *will* be hyper aware of any little sniffle I get this season! If I get even the slightest fever, I will be banging on the doctor's door.