10:21 a.m. - 2006-07-21
Home Stretch
As of yesterday, I'm in the third trimester of my pregnancy, having hit the 27 week mark. Kinda like being in the third period of a hockey game, only without the threat of being pushed up against the glass and having teeth knocked out. Also, it would be nice if this game doesn't go into overtime. I like sports, and pregnancy, but I'm going to have little patience for that.
Things are progressing well. I feel Pumpkin quite a bit, especially if I'm in a position that's squashing her -- that's usually when I'm lying on my side, too far over on my stomach, or when I'm seated and I cross my legs. Sitting has become a very un-ladylike event for me, with the most comfortable position being slumped down in a chair with my legs spread (hmmm, sort of how I got into this mess in the first place...). The past few days, she's been a little less active than normal, and that, of course, freaks me out, until I can jostle her to move again. I haven't used the heart monitor very much lately, relying instead on Joe's ear, which, when pressed to my abdomen, can hear her heartbeat directly, and then usually receives a kick in the head for his trouble.
We registered for all her baby stuff this past weekend (under penalty of death for not complying from Shay, who sent out my shower invites this week and told me that if I didn't register, I'd end up with tie-dyed bonnets and other questionable homemade creations). It was just as overwhelming and daunting as I presumed it would be. It took two and a half hours of wandering the aisles of Babies 'R Us, bumping into what seemed like hundreds of other similarly bewildered pregnant couples wielding their own price guns, trying to figure out what separates a sixty-dollar high chair from a one-hundred-dollar high chair (answer: forty bucks). By the time we were done, my eyes were glazed over, my brain was mush, and I didn't care that I had accidentally registered for lots of stuff I didn't mean to, including a "boys washcloth set" and an "I'm the little brother" bib.
