My growing Jelly belly

I guess at this point, we’re well on our way to having a baby quite soon. It’s scary how quickly it flies by. So: what’s new over the last two weeks? Had another routine appointment, and all is well. We started birthing class last Monday, and we’re both really enjoying it. Our instructor is a really cool and funny lady. After the first class, Jason went up to her and told her that she needed to start a stand up comedy act. She’s really knowledgeable and gets straight to the point. I felt really bad for her on this past Monday though. She had started work at 7:00 am, finished at 7:00 pm, and had our class from 7:15 to 9:30. That’s a very very long day. She brought all her gadgets and gizmos (forceps, vacuum suction, enema, epidural catheter, etc.), and then we watched three birth stories. Oh boy. Lots to look forward to. She had us practice some different kinds of breathing. All in all, a good time.

We move into our new home on Friday. I’ve been packing all of Jason’s books (all 500 of them) into boxes, and will start packing clothes today. There’s just so much little stuff; how am I supposed to pack it all? I’m making pretty good progress though. I’ve also started making a quilt for the baby. After searching online for hours looking at bedding, I came to the conclusion that it was either way too expensive, or not exactly what I wanted, or came with too many accessories (I really don’t need coordinating mobile, lampshade, throw pillow, dust ruffle, wall hanging, etc.). So I’ve kind of gotten sucked into that. Luckily I can’t go any further until I have my sewing machine (thanks Mom!), or else I wouldn’t get any packing done at all. I’m attaching a picture of the quilt front (hand embroidered… phew).

Also, here is my belly shot. I forgot to do one last week, but I don’t appear to have blown up over the last two weeks anyways. She is impeding on my rib cage though.

Here’s the quilt:

I thought I’d add the links to the places we’re registered. We’re taking the same route we did with the wedding, and we’re registered at Amazon and Target.

Most of our gear stuff is on Amazon:

There’s a lot of clothes, blankets, and other cute things on Target:

http://www.target.com/registry/baby/014178600000836

Just thought I’d put these out there in case anyone wanted to look through them.

Here’s just a quick belly shot from this week. I realized yesterday that I’m due in under 11 weeks. Trying not to panic. Started looking for a new place to live today, regardless of if we find renters for our places or not. If she is, heaven forbid, born early, I don’t really want to be dealing with 3 roommates and a newborn.

She’s starting to encroach on my rib space, and I’m finding it more of a necessity to sit straight and not slouch over. She really enjoys it when I put music on my phone and place my phone on my belly. She starts kicking and dancing. I tried the classical music thing, and she wasn’t too into it, but anything with a drum beat she quite likes. I think she’s probably inherited her mommy and daddy’s appreciation of techno

Hi all. As promised, here’s an update after our appointment. Everything checks out perfectly. She’s 2.6 pounds, which is healthy. I’ve also gained some weight (the question is, from the baby, or from the holidays? ).  The doctor said my blood work came back fine, even after eating a brownie less than three hours before my blood glucose test (they didn’t tell me not to eat!). We did an ultrasound, and got a cute picture of her face! I’ll put it up at the end of the post. She’s on the move all the time now. We’re starting up birthing classes on the 18th of January, so that should be interesting. I’m enjoying my last week of having Jason all to myself before he goes back to school/work. Then I don’t know what I’ll do for 2.5 months. We made a list of things I can do to occupy myself, so I might have several scarves and oil paintings by the end of this. We’ll see. Anyways, here’s a picture of her face!

Here’s her face. You can see that she’s lying on her side, with her forehead to the left, and her little chubby cheek on the right. She has her eyes closed, and you can see her little button nose. Her hand is above her head on the left. I can’t wait to kiss those chubby little cheeks!

So, my appointment isn’t until tomorrow, but I’m doing a preemptory post of some ‘belly shots’. I’ve been taking them every few weeks, but I’ve really kind of exploded recently I’ll post again tomorrow to update on the appointment, but for now, here is my belly.

(In order from left to right, top to bottom: Week 6, Week 8, Week 12, Week 13, Week 15, Week 16, Week 21, Week 24, Week 28. Kind of sporadic, but you get the general idea)