Last Christmas without a Baby..

4 weeks and 3 days..


Merry Christmas! Ok, so I am a day late, but I still want you to feel that holiday cheer.

I am a blessed man. I had a fantastic Christmas weekend eating lots of delicious food and being surrounded by family that loves me as much as I love them. Even though our financial and job situation is not EXACTLY where we would like it to be...I feel so lucky. There are so many people in this world that have no one and have nothing during the holidays. It really makes you appreciate everything you have and it also gives me great perspective.



I spent Christmas Eve with my Dad and my sisters family and then I spent Christmas day with Megan's side of the family. At my Dads, Megan and I had the best time opening gifts with our adorable 2 year old nephew Alton and watching him get so excited. He is a big Buzz Lightyear fan and when he would see anything with Buzz his face would light up and it just warmed my heart. I can see how much joy Martha and Jon get from Alton and I cannot wait to feel that myself.



This is the last Christmas before Meglos comes into this world. Megan is at that stage where she just is ready to have the baby and we are both ready to hold MegLos in our arms. It is very fitting in so many ways that this will be our last "solo" Christmas. I am 30 and by this time in my life I am ready to see Christmas in another light. I want to see Christmas through the eyes of a child again. As you get older Christmas is more about getting the presents for others, making sure you have the money to spend on them, traveling here and shopping there. Christmas while not being bad in the least. is a lot different then when you where a kid growing up. I remember staying up all night in your bed and hoping to maybe spot Santa. Getting that one toy you were really hoping to get and then playing with it for less then a month until you moved on to something else. I am ready to do the whole build up of Santa to my child, the cookies and the milk thing and decorating the tree and house just as good as my Dad did for me. I am a softy at heart for sure and Christmas is something very special to both Megan and I cannot wait to share it with our child. It will be like I am a kid all over again.



GESTATIONAL DIABETES UPDATE- Megan passed the second test with flying colors so she DOES NOT have gestational diabetes! It was great news to hear during the holiday season. :)

Glucose test and other things that suck...

7 weeks..5 days....



This was taken about 2 months ago, the belly is much bigger now. We are taking some new ones tomorrow.


Tests...Tests and more Tests.

As the time clicks closer to Baby Meglos coming into this world, I reflect on the much easier journey I have had to take then Megan. I have seen Dad's who act as if they are going through just as much as their pregnant wife and I have to laugh. There are so many random things that you don't know about pregnancy until you actually go through it. You never realize how many tests you have to go through before the baby actually pops out. My poor wife has been poked and prodded more in the past 7 months then a Muslim man going through a TSA screen check. One of the many tests that they do is a glucose test.

The glucose test is to see if you have gestational diabetes. Most women who do have it do not end up with the diabetes after the baby is born, but the test needs to be done anyway to make sure that the baby is taken care of. The way the first test works is you have to drink a very sugary drink, like Orange Fanta on steriods, and then they test your blood an hour later to see how your body breaks down the sugar. You have to get a score of under 130 in order to pass, well, Megan got a 139, then our doctor told us that they just changed that score to 140 and that it use to be 130 four years ago, and she would have passed then. Our doctor also told us that she thinks Megan will pass the second round of test because she was not that far off and most woman do. So, after you don't pass you have to do a 3 hour test where you do the same thing but they have to take your blood every hour for 3 hours. The labcorp Megan goes to get the blood work done as does any labcorp is packed all the time so we decided to get there super early at 5:30 AM and they open at 6:30AM. When we got there 2 people were already waiting outside. Regardless we got in early and we sat and she got her blood taken at 7am, 8am, 9am and lastly at 10am. Thank god they let us sit in our car in between so we listened to Howard Stern which helped make the time go by. We did that on Thursday, and we have an appointment at the doctors on Tuesday when we will find out the results. I am hoping and praying all will be good because the next process will be a daily finger poking and blood taking in order to keep the sugar levels under control. Me on the other hand, I don't have to do anything but support. I wish I could do something to help her but I can't. It is all on her. I have a good feeling she will pass, but the only way we will know is by the test.

This situation got me thinking about the multiple other things that Megan unfortunately has to go through during the pregnancy while I stay the same old Carlos as before. Let me list a few..

I don't have to pee every 10 minutes like a college freshman after a 24 pack of natty light.

I don't have mood swings that rival the ups and downs of the Hulk coaster at Island of Adventures.

I don't have a living creature in me that will eventually pop out in a little less abrasive way then that alien that jumps out of John Hurts chest in alien.

I don't have to deal with the weight gain, ok, maybe a little. But that's because my motto is "If she eats, I eat!"

I don't have to deal with strangers coming up and rubbing my belly out of nowhere. I don't count the one time it happened to me, I was young, hungry and needed the money. ;)

I don't have to deal with the judgments on how and what you have been doing during your pregnancy and how the person you are talking to is doing it "the right way".

I just get the good stuff. I get the great feeling of knowing I have a wonderful baby on the way and that I will be a father soon. I also get the great honor of knowing that I will have an amazing mother to take care of our baby. The clock ticks and gets closer until Megan gets to feel "normal" again and we will be a family. Jan 27th could not come sooner. See you soon Baby Meglos. :)