7 pounds and Cholestasis of Pregnancy

No, I'm not talking about the movie, that's just how much weight I gained in the last two weeks! I couldn't believe it. Everyone kept telling me "oh, it's just water weight", I sure hope so, and I hope it goes as quickly as it came after this baby is born. I have had a major increase of appetite lately, I feel like I'm always hungry, but I'm trying to be careful and not eat too much. So far I am still under what I weighed with both Quinn and Ava, and I'm trying to keep it that way.

Ok, on to Cholestasis of pregnancy. I had never heard of this until my doctor's appt. on Friday. A couple of weeks ago I had a doctors appt. and I was complaining about my whole body itching. The doctor said she needed to run some blood test because it's a sign of something being wrong with my liver. I didn't think much of it, because this same thing happened when I was pregnant with Quinn and my blood work came back negative for it, so I completely thought the same thing was going to happen again. Well it didn't. My blood work came back positive for it. Basically my liver and gull bladder aren't filtering out the acids like they should, so the acids are going into my blood stream and then deposit into my skin, which is why I'm so itchy. They are planning to induce me on Feb. 5th, but until then I have to go in for weekly ultrasounds so they can monitor how the baby is doing. As of now he's doing great. The doctor said she thinks they caught it at the early stages. They put me on medication to do what my liver and gull bladder aren't. So now we are just waiting around for the baby to get here, it's kinda crazy that it's only a little over two and half weeks away. I'm feeling pretty good, as well as an 8 month pregnant women generally feels. It is some added stress, but we feel good knowing all is in our Heavenly Fathers hands, and that he is watching over us.

He's already getting fat on his little cheeks, I love it.