Well Merry Christmas! Late but this week was dominated by Christmas festivities. Cookie and I had a grand old time seeing family and eating our share of sweets and basically getting exhausted 15 minutes into any holiday event :) Being in your third trimester makes gatherings a bit more tiring than usual. I hate to admit it but we are still recovering. I have been sleeping like the dead at night. Uffda.
We had a good week though. My doctor appointment went well. Baby's heartbeat was at 131 bpm and I was measuring at exactly 32 weeks. I did have the doc do a cervical check and thankfully everything is still as it should be. I will always be 1 cm or so dilated as I am a 2 time mom already but baby was sitting high and everything was shut tight as it can get. I feel much better now. My next appointment is at 36 weeks and this will be when I have my GBS test. Start praying for a negative test. I REALLY want a negative test. I don't want to be on penicillin this time and I want labor to start naturally on it's own. I like the surprise. I want all surprises possible.
Cookie is still very active and painfully so at times. This baby is very strong. Probably my fault since I go through SO MUCH MILK on my own. I have given this baby bones of steel. I enjoy the rolling sensation though and when baby sticks his/her butt out enough to form a lump. I know of all things pregnant related the movement is what I miss the most when I am not pregnant. I will miss that.
Max and I have a goal to have everything possible ready for this baby by 36 weeks. This will give us some mental relief in the off chance that Cookie decides to make an early arrival. Really, there isn't much to do. I have already washed all the clothes and the car seat is ready to be installed. I'm holding off on installing it though because I will often only have 1 daycare kid in January so I have the option of going places. Then again, it will be pretty exhausting taking 3 little kids anywhere so maybe I won't want to. Who knows.
I will start the prep for moving Simon into Dexter's room. I need to get the pack and play up in our room and wash the sheets for that. I need to buy some more nursing bras. Mine didn't survive past Dexter and Simon. I suppose I need to purchase post birthing supplies for myself. I have none of those around. I do have a lot of sewing to do. I am counting on a certain friend of mine to help keep me company on a sewing day to get a lot of that done. I am making both a boy and girl specific car seat cover (I want at least ONE thing gender specific!) and I have to make some wool diaper covers for the wee little one. Simon's certainly won't fit him/her. I would love to find some cotton gauze to make those lovely blankets you see everywhere but that are so expensive. I can't find any that are cute though and within my price range. I want bold colors not pastels. I'm told I should just buy white and then dye it myself.
Time is sure flying by. I knew it would. It just seems so unreal. Max doesn't share my feelings on time. He isn't surprised by anything nor does he ever say "doesn't is seem crazy that in x amount of time..." Whatever. What a party pooper.
7 weeks until due date!
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