32 weeks

Here I am, at 32 weeks (well, technically 31 weeks and 4 days!).

3D ultrasound, The Second Try, is tomorrow. Tim and I are not expecting too much out of it except maybe a few more cute glimpses. We figure that Peanut is about as stubborn as his/her father and will most likely be looking away from us again. Tomorrow's appointment is after lunch, so maybe I will eat something really sugary to try and get the baby jumping a bit.

3D No Go

The 3D ultrasound on Thursday didn't go quite as we had planned - the baby decided to be stubborn and stay pretty much facing my back the whole time. We got a few glimpses of a profile, but other than that, he/she wasn't in the mood for a show! We did see that the baby has a little bit of hair (see as white tufts on the ultrasound machine) and huge cheeks. Even though we didn't get the pictures we were hoping for, it was still really awesome to see. We could see all four chambers of the heart pumping blood through arteries and we could see the baby "practice breathing". The baby had his/her little hand tucked up next to his/her cheek for a while. Very, very cool. We only got two pictures - one of a profile and one of a little foot. We will try to scan them and post them soon.

We do get another try, next Tuesday, so hopefully Peanut will be in the mood to be a movie star next week!

Childbirth class

We had our first Childbirth class last night. It was really interesting, we both learned a lot. Some of it was stuff we remembered learning in Biology class, other stuff was things that we had heard, and some of it was brand new information. There sure is a lot to think about, remember and make decisions on! One thing that made us happy was the instructor kept making comments about the place where we are having the baby (the Birthplace at St. Joe's hospital) as being the best, most relaxed, most able to do what we want, etc. It made us happy with the choice that we made a few months back to switch doctors in order to have the Birthplace as the place where the baby is born. We have only more class next week, and then we are all set. It is nice because the class size is small (three couples) so we can go through information much faster. All of the courses given at the local hospitals were at least four or five weeks long - we don't have that many free weeknights!

Tomorrow morning we are getting a 3D sonogram done. Hopefully it will come out really awesome and we can share some great pictures of Peanut with everyone.

P.S. To the Top Ten

I was just thinking about a new Top Ten when I realized that I had left something out of the last one that I did. So the Top Ten Worst Things about Being Pregnant list is now the Top Eleven...

11. Heartburn!! It is awful - no matter what I eat, when I eat, if I drink water... I still get awful heartburn when I lie down to go to bed. Very frustrating and painful. I can't even imagine what Tim and his mom go through all the time, it hurts so much!

31 week update

Oh goodness, we got lazy, didn't we? Well, mainly busy, but probably a bit lazy too. I didn't realize so much time had gone by since the last post!

Here I am, at 31 weeks - getting bigger (every day, it seems likes). I am starting to get a bit uncomfortable, especially towards later in the day. So far, I am still sleeping okay, but I think Tim is sleeping worse! I get up a couple times a night to go to the bathroom, plus I toss and turn back and forth all night. Poor Tim!

The baby has been kicking and moving and squirming around a lot, especially at night. Right when we get into bed to go to sleep for the night, it is almost always party time for the baby - moving, kicking, one night even punching repeatedly (or something) for about a half hour. It is very cute though.

We are hoping to get our online photo album updated soon. We have lots of good pictures to share - starting way back with the Dominican Republic, which we still haven't put up! Soon, hopefully.

Tonight is the first of our childbirth classes, and then Thursday we have a 3D sonogram. Hopefully we will have some great pictures of the baby to share after that! And we promise to try and post more often. :)