31 weeks

Just a quick update for the newest pic. I'm at 31 weeks and feeling pretty darn good. We found out that the baby is in breech position just now, but there's plenty of time for her to shift.I hope she does soon, it will be a comfort knowing she's in the right spot as she bulks up in the home stretch.

Also it turns out that I am group B strep positive, which is not a problem, just a thing. It's a bacteria we all have, I just happen to have lots, or it's somewhere it usually isn't or something (clearly needing to pay more attention to the doc!). You can look it up if you are curious, but the end result is, I have a choice to accept 2 doses of antibiotics during early labour which will make its way to the baby and immunize as she's born, protecting her form infection as she passes through my birth canal.

Even though the chances of her getting sick are low, I'm going to opt in to the antibiotics. The only part of this I'm less happy about is if my water breaks and I don't go into labour right away, or labour fast enough, the docs will want to induce to minimize chances of the baby being infected in a non-sterile environment. I'd rather avoid induction, but oh well. It's definitely common and not a serious problem at all, so we'll just roll with this one!

Speaking of rolling, I can feel different types of movements now, including shifting and longer drawn out movements. Not just bump and pushes. So that's neat. Also I can feel around and when my belly is soft (not in Braxton-Hicks) I can find her and poke her personally, not just generically poke my belly as before. We haven't started any games playing of pushing back and forth but usually when I pus on the top part of my belly I'll feel pressure inside on the bottom. Reminding me she's not that small a baby anymore!

Every day of gestating is a good day, and one day closer to having her home. We're acquiring things that we think we'll need and hoping to have enough to be ready to take the best possible care of her when she's here.

My exercise buddies are getting too pregnant/about to deliver to hang out with me at the Canada Games Center now so I have to devise my own regimens and self motivate. I want to keep up with everything to help me sleep and deal with the added weight and all that.

To aquafit and away!

29.5 weeks

Still plugging along, gestating every day.

I went in and did my one hour glucose test, which is a screening to see whether you should be checked out more thoroughly for gestational diabetes. My paperwork was labelled "Diagnosis: Pregnancy" which I find hilarious. I guess it's true, but it sounds like a doctors tv show that plays well in the mid-west US, with a thinly veiled Christian undercurrent. Major show themes would be various unexpected pregnancies and counselling to keep the babies, happy times for baby keepers, woe on the rest!

Anyhoodle, everything is moving along. I am thinking a lot about cribs and trying to decide of the older one we got used is safe enough or not. Choices in Town are very limited and so I'm not sure. I will continue to waffle a bit longer I suppose.

I'm still loving corn flakes with blueberries.

Also I failed that one hour glucose test so tomorrow morning I'm off to the hospital for the 2 hour version, compete with fasting and multiple blood draws. Should be a good time. I am hoping I am not gestationally diabetic (sp? haha) mostly for medical safety but not insignificantly because going off sweets cold turkey would be very tough for me! Carbs are whatever, but no more sugar...I shudder to think.

If I tug my belly up a little bit i can plainly see the bottom of my belly button. Totally unsettling experience and sometimes I squish my belly together so it looks normal again, for a few seconds. I can't feel it so that's fine, it just looks weird.

I got my first "hey are you sure it isn't twins" comment this week. I said it would be more efficient if she were twins, but maybe next time.

In the meantime I am enjoying this pregnancy lots and starting to wonder more about what the baby will look like and what will she like and not like, which is fun. We are trying to sort out space in our house and make room for some newer things and figure out what we need to get by for the first while. Soon I will be emptying the freezer from extra food and filling it again with meals and other nesting things. I actually voluntarily cleared out and washed 2 cupboards the other day, which could only be hormone driven, but who chooses that?!

Work is good, I'm getting to the point of tying up loose ends and thinking about the person who should be taking over for me (a person not yet found). I am dreaming of sleeping in and nesting full time or just sleeping all day, whichever feels more compelling.

It's a nice time in my life just now.

27 weeks

Heyo! 27 weeks, coming along nicely. I had my monthly check up at the doc's and the doc's assistant casually mentioned "oh, I guess Christmas and New Year's happened" as she weighed me in.

Yeah, thanks for that!

I'm all good, still healthy, the baby' heartbeat is good and strong and she's moving around. Still not tonnes of movement every day, but always something here and there, and some days she moves a lot. I love every bump and tickle from her!

Also, I am in the third trimester! Excellent! In the bottom left corner of the pic you can see the box of cloth diapers my friend gave me, the first part of what will become our stash. Yippee!

Wrong number

I got this e-mail re-directed from an old address. Is it bad that I'm tempted to take her up on her offer? Look at all those exclamation points, and almost exclamation points!

HI MARY WE ARE ALL SETTLED IN CAN U SEND ME KATHY FITZS EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SOME REASON SHE DOES NOT POP UP WITH THE REST OF U HOPE THINGS R GOING WELL R U FREEZING DONT FORGET GRAB ELLEN AND COME DOWN FOR A LONG WEEKEND SUN WATER AND WINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11


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I could use some sun., water and wine today. Although, last night I dreamed I was drinking wine and I realized most of the way througha glass that oh, I probably shouldn't finish this. Oopsie!

My belly button looks freaking weird

25 weeks!