Today is exactly one month from our due date. I am surprised to find that I haven't shared any news or photos for over a month, so let me see if I can summarize. (I never know if I should put the photos in order or backwards. Here they are chronological from week 32 to week 35.) Weight gain has slowed down most likely due to 24 hour heart burn and a tiny squished up stomach. The day or so after my Week 31 appointment, I felt babygirl drop. When I say "felt" I mean that the shooting pains low in the groin began in earnest which is what I associate with dropping. Also there was a sudden increase in the violence with which I was being bumped from the inside out. In my mind that made sense that she had just given herself some additional workout space. Now I get elbows and knees constantly. There was no accompanying lessening of the squished stomach syndrome however so I was anxious for my week 33 appointment to see what the doctor thought. At that appointment, sure enough my stomach was measuring small. Not just small, but smaller than two weeks prior so just to be sure all was well I was sent to have an ultrasound. The ultrasound showed everything to be within normal ranges so we are operating on the assumption that she has dropped.I now have more maternity clothes that don't fit than ones that do. I am rapidly depleting my clothing options. I'm afraid that I'll be down to underwear and a t-shirt by the time we make it to the hospital!
Everything else progressing along just fine. I am now to the point where I get to go to the doctor's office every week. That means an hour wait followed by a seven minute appointment. Yippie! Lorelei has been disappointed that she hasn't been to an appointment with me in a long time to hear the heartbeat so when I make my next appointment, I will do so thinking to bring the girls along for a listen. Both of them seem very excited about the prospect of having their baby sister on the outside. Emma really enjoys the idea of being bigger than someone else in the family.
By the third daughter, we really don't need much of anything other than diapers. I did realize last week that the $10 messenger style bag that we bought to use as a secondary diaper bag (that then became the one and only diaper bag while the $50 bag that I had labored over choosing sat unused) finally fell to pieces. So I bought a new diaper bag. It is red. Lightweight. Lots of pockets. Can be worn messenger style and seems like it will wash well in the machine. Soon we will have to get into the storage unit to dig out the baby clothes, the bottles, the bibs, the pillows, you know the "baby stuff". Unfortunately it will all be coming home to the apartment, but hopefully not for too long before we will finally be able to move into the house.
This past weekend we celebrated Mother's Day on my favorite beach, Siesta Key. It was perfect. Absolutely perfect. Wide, fine, white-sand beach with shallow water for a long way into the ocean with only gentle waves. It was warm but not blazing and there was a bit of a breeze. There were also no jelly fish to contend with this time. I really didn't want to leave - ever.
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