Week 27, Day 6

Last night I got stuck on my back. I was lying on my left side, cuddling Matt... when Niko jumped up and burrowed in between us. So I decided to roll over. I started to move, and Zoe was nestled down on my left side as well - and I started to roll over, but I couldn't make it to the other side! I had fallen off my nest of pillows (5 pillows I pile up at the head of the bed so that I'm not lying flat) and couldn't make it to my right side! Oh boy...what a struggle. I sort of flopped back over to the left, pushed myself to a sitting position and realized that with Zoe taking up all of my abdomen and Niko hogging my side of the bed, I might as well just get up.

Tuesday I had my first (two) appointments with the ABC. First was the gestational diabetes screening. I got there at 8:15a (after not eating breakfast) and they took my blood. Then, I had to drink a miserable glucose drink that they try to make taste like orange, but it just tastes disgusting. And then wait an hour, and they retake my blood. The aide was amazing! No bruising (re: why I disklike my Ob post). She was super friendly, nice, etc. Anyways - it was fun. At 3:30p I had another appointment - my first prenatal. The appointment was with Jenny, the midwife who also did our tour. She was great. Nice, friendly...available. She just told me everything I already knew since they had to play catch up. She gave me a nutrition sheet because they want their clients to track their nutrition. Which I already have to do for the Bradley class anyways - and some days I just do for fun prior to all this (fitday.com) - so it's not a big deal to write down what I eat. If anything it makes me want to eat better because someone is going to evaluate it! When she was measuring my uterus (clocking in at 26 cm) and wanting to hear the baby's heart beat she pushed on my stomach (very lightly, much the way I do) to find the position of the baby. First she said, "Shes here... i think.. or is she here?" Well, once the doppler was on - Zoe was moving all over the place, from side to side, so it kept fading and coming back and fading and then flipping noises. Jenny said, "sounds like she is having a party in there!" Yea. Tell me about it. Zoe is SO active - its incredible. I love watching my stomach move all over the place while she flips around. Is this going to be characteristic of her personality outside the womb? The baby's heartbeat sounded fine - I'm not sure how many beats a minute - but you know, a lot. The center took a picture of Matt and me to put on the outside of the file, how funny! My next appointment is May 5th at 4:00p. Then I have one two weeks after that, but I can't remember the day off hand.

So, about 3 more months and there will be a baby on the outside. Incredible.

I started the registering process b/c I wanted to have something on them when the invites were sent out for the baby shower. Right now there is only expensive stuff, because its the stuff I want to do lots of research on before choosing. And besides, registering is ridiclous. I'm almost dreading going back because those baby stores are just... chock full of things I don't need. It's hard to know what I DO need, given my 0 experience in the baby deptartment. However, Natalie and I are on a misison to create a list of only essentials in order to fight consumerism. I HATE the consumer mindset (I want, I must have, I can't live without.. blah,blah) and I don't want it affecting my baby while shes still in the womb. Just the essentials! Whatever those are...

In the meantime, I found a store in Austin that sells cloth diapers and they let you create a registry! This is monumental! Babies-R-Us and Target don't have cloth diapers (they only sell prefolds...) and they are a pretty big expense at the start up (they are much, much cheaper in the long run). So I wasn't sure how to manuever my need of cloth diapers - but I have since figured it out. Yay!

So that's it. Natalie is starting to feel nauseous. Yay! (Sorry natalie...)