Bad Blogger

Sorry I have been a terrible blogger lately. Life has been busy, busy, busy! School, and family stuff...and washing baby clothes.

That's right. ME washing baby clothes, for our son to wear! The totes are out and I am sorting through the clothes given to me from friends. I have tossed out the stained ones and sorted out the ones he wont be able to wear (like 0-3m body suits w/shorts) and also made a pile to bring over to my aunt who had her son about a month ago.

My husband says to me, "Geeze, he's not even here yet and already the house has baby clothes all over!" =)

I didnt update last week's bump picture either, so I will do that later today after my appointment, a nap, and forcefully making myself do some homework. I am slacking on homework terribly. I start to do it and then get SO tired. So I give up. Lol I can catch up, but it is going to mean a long day of statistics tomorrow and reading for my other classes.

Today is my last appointment that they will check cervical length. I will am just about 27 weeks. The next appt will be at 32. Crazy to go that long in between appointments when I have been monitored so closely this second trimester. Anyways, this appointment we discuss the results from my GD screening (I got the results online and I think I passed, with like an 85 or so!), CBC, and they are going to check on little guy's growth. I am going to try to remember to ask how long he is too if I can remember as well. I am hoping they will check amniotic fluid level again as well to help my anxiety...

Little guy seems to not move as much as he was. And it makes me SO stinking nervous. I am hoping seeing him will helpt to calm my anxious heart (I have been praying about not worrying and giving it to God, but I am a worry wart for this little guy...). Fears of loss this late really make me tear up some days. I pray against cord accidents on a daily basis and ask God to protect him and keep him healthy and strong.

Yet, the less movement...makes me SO nervous. Even though there are days where he is break dancing in my belly. I know it is probably due to his positioning and my lovely anterior placenta....but still. He does give a few kicks to let me know he is okay when I start to worry usually, but those days it isnt the 10/hr most ask for.

I have now been having more symptoms...dizziness & hot flashes (thinking it is low BP at times...) and then aches & pains in lower back as well. Little guy has also been discovering areas like never before. I am sure I mentioned him stretching on the left side of my uterus - OUCH! - but he has also discovered he can stretch more to my right, like up close to ribs. I am not kidding I felt a leg, and a foot. And sometimes he really is a pain in the butt, lol ok not pain...but more like a spasm, because he must kick a nerve and it makes my butt twitch!

Between feeling off w/the dizziness & hot flashes, mid to lower back ache, and just feeling off in general...the thought of pre-term labor flashes to my mind. Quite often. But I am still believing and hoping (desperately) he will hold on until the beginning of December. Even more wonderfully would be James' birthday, December 9th.

OH! And then baby showers, it is crazy to think in Oct I will be having THREE baby showers. One for work, one with friends, and one for family. And the blessings have already began, the family that I babysat for 5+ years has offered to purchase the crib for us! I warned her by saying something like, "It is expensive, but very sturdy. It is at BabysRUs, we are also registered at Target if you wanted to look at the registry before deciding." Her response? Something along the lines of, "That's fine. Sturdy is good, you'll need to be able to use it for all those babies!" She is holding out great hope for us :-) And if she buys the crib it will be a HUGE blessing.

When I update later today I will share some of my deals I got at a mom to mom sale as well as last week's bump update, ultrasound pic of our son, and any other random factoid I can think of! :-)

Whew! That was long, sorry!