The third timester is here and the need to sleep more frequently has returned. I still feel great with the exception of a leg cramp here and there. No cravings yet. Little Girl kicks me frequently now -- I started feeling her at 24 weeks -- pretty late in the game. But I'm happy to feel her, it's such a joy!! DH can feel her on the outside, and we can see my tummy move too.
Here's a pic of me and my big belly.
Here are some pictures of the (unfinished) nursery.
Everything came used off of Craigs List. The nursery still needs some pizzaz. I ordered two 6-foot-high white bookshelves to go on either side of the dresser (only $50 each from Staples - with free delivery), some room darkening pink curtains (only $18 at WalMart), and six pink gingham fabric bins for the shelves on the changing table. I still need some finishing touches like artwork. My mom and I started a painting at Christmas that matches the bedding, and I still need to finish it. Our spare bedroom is full of hand-me-down baby stuff from my brother and sister-in-law, including a swing, bouncy chair, exersaucer, high chair, baby gates and more, so I also need to clear the closet in baby's room to store some of that.
My first hospital class is scheduled for late January. That's the one where we tour the hospital. I had to reschedule it due to work travel. I have another class on C-sections in February and I'm considering taking the whole childbirth series of classes in case I find myself before the scheduled c-section, dilated to the point where slicing my belly open would be counterproductive. I watched "The Business of Being Born," a documentary by Ricky Lake, with my husband last week. It's about home birthing and how hospitals push women into having more medications during childbirth than would be ideal. All the video of natural childbirth -- without drugs -- made me even more turned off by that option. Although they did say that the drugs that women are given make it harder for her to bond with the baby. Not sure if I buy it. I don't like the idea of lots of drugs, but don't like the idea of pain. There's no right answer, that's my final conclusion.
I've been a road warrior for work lately. Everyone asks when I have to stop flying. I always say the doctor says there is no medical reason a pregnant lady can't fly, unless she has some medical issues. It's the airlines that don't want to have to deal with a woman giving birth on a flight. I'm for sure not flying in March or April. I'm not sure about February yet, I'll see how I feel.
I'm reading voraciously lately about baby stuff, I must have 30 books checked out of the library. I keep thinking I won't have time to read after the baby's here so I feel like I'm cramming for motherhood. All the books say you have no time to do anything after baby's here. Seems to me you'd have at least some free time considering how much babies sleep.
Tomorrow is my glucose tolerance test, plus an ultrasound to check baby's heart, since the ultrasound tech couldn't get a good view last time. At least that's what she said. Hopefully she wasn't lying and saw something of concern. I'm anxious to see my little girl again on the screen, though.
