Cause I saw my midwife last night. 🙂

Measuring exactly on target for the week I am in. My baby is more than big enough, which points to a high likelihood of excellent lung development. I’m still doing everything I should be doing as far as not having gestational diabetes/protein issues. I’ve gained 19 lbs. I’m off bedrest officially even though I have been off bedrest for about a week due to my own impatience unofficially. 🙂 The baby is head down and ready to rock and roll. We have everything we need in the house already. I’m having Braxton Hicks contractions more often than not. I feel like I have a bowling ball in my belly because it is so rock hard most of the time. (It almost makes me wish I could have such a rock hard belly when it’s smaller. 🙂 It’s not very comfortable when the kid rolls around and shoves his/her knees into the rock hard belly. I whine about that sometimes. Relaxen has flooded my body like nobody’s business and all of my joints are getting sore. Sometimes when I walk there is a sharp stabbing pain in my pelvis that is sucky enough to make me catch my breath in pain. Not my favorite part of pregnancy.

All in all I would say other than aches and pains and having trouble sleeping this is the easiest part of pregnancy so far. I like the third trimester. 🙂 I am eating a lot (and things taste good!!) and I very very rarely have heartburn. I’m a little angsty from feeling isolated, but getting massages helps with that. I’m ready to have the kid and also feeling like this is not sucky so I’m ok with waiting a while longer. I’m becoming a little less set on the idea of having the baby really early. 🙂 Even though I still keep in the back of my mind that almost everyone in my family goes early… But if we go later than the due date then we get to go to Dana and Anton’s wedding and we will get a Gemini. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.