34 weeks

Your baby now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds (like your average cantaloupe) and is almost 18 inches long. Her fat layers — which will help regulate her body temperature once she's born — are filling her out, making her rounder. Her skin is also smoother than ever. Her central nervous system is maturing and her lungs are continuing to mature as well. If you've been nervous about preterm labor, you'll be happy to know that babies born between 34 and 37 weeks who have no other health problems generally do fine. They may need a short stay in the neonatal nursery and may have a few short-term health issues, but in the long run, they usually do as well as full-term babies.

I have been so caught up in the nursery lately that I haven't posted much about how I'm feeling and what's new with baby G.  I have been feeling TONS of movement and Dominic has been feeling it as well, on the outside.  I can easily tell which little parts are poking out and when I push on them G sometimes pushes back!  It seems that he/she enjoys hanging out in my ribs, especially when I've been sitting for a while.  All that movement comes with a few negatives too, mainly heartburn.  It sneaks up in the evening and comes and goes through the night.  Papaya helps usually but occassionally I'm needing a tums or two.  It's also more difficult to get up.  Dominic usually helps me by pushing or pulling which is quite the humerous spectacle I'm sure.  Pretty much everything I wear is maternity now with the exception of my yoga gear.  That once a week yoga is a fantastic break from reality and I look forward to it each week.

This week we met with Dr Daley, the family doctor who will be baby G's doctor.  I think he was pretty surprised by our planned homebirth but he did a decent job of hiding it.  The practice has been around forever and Dr Daley has been there about 5 years.  He seems pretty laid back in general and errors on the side of less is more when it comes to antibiotics, which I completely agree with.  We should be seeing him around day 3 postpartum but it's good to know he's there in case we need him sooner. 

On another fun note, we got our stroller this week!  I decided awhile back that we were going to go with the Uppababy Vista and they were making a few changes with the 2010 version that we felt were worth holding out for.  Earlier this week when I looked online to see about any possible deals I noticed that not only were the first shipments out, but they were SELLING OUT!  The next batch won't be out until early March and I felt it was best not to wait until so close to our due date, you know just in case g makes an early arrival.  I called up Goore's and ordered it thinking it would take a few days to come...well it came the next day!  I was giddy when Dominic opened the door and the boxes were sitting there.  It's completely put together and waiting for G's arrival since we're planning to use the bassinet in our room for the first little bit.

We also had a midwife appt this week.  I am officially over the 150 pound mark, at 153 to be exact.  Not to bad considering I started at 140.  Now, hitting 160 is going to be a tough hurdle to climb and I'm sorta hoping I don't make it but since I probably will I should just come to terms with it.  Since I really want to stay in good shape for the delivery I would really like to start adding in some walks but the weather isn't really cooperating and I'm just too tired by the time I get home from work.  Lets hope that changes once I go on maternity leave in 2 weeks!

Belly shot time:

I just noticed that G is still pretty high.  Guess I need to be using that new exercise ball more often and continue taking the stairs with my feet wide apart (which I started doing last week to encourage G to get lower) for the rest of the pregnancy.  Dominic saw me do the stair thing when we went to the midwife appointment last week and could NOT stop laughing at me, thanks hun!