Full-term :)

I am now officially full-term, which means 37 weeks. That means that I can now deliver at the birth center, earlier than this and I would have had to go to the hospital. So anytime in the next 5 weeks David will be joining us. If I make it to 42 weeks pregnant I will have to go to the hospital to be induced, I'm really hoping to avoid that (for multiple reasons)! I am guessing that I will be a little bit late, but no one can predict, so the waiting game begins....


Sunday Kelly, Mike, Angela and Jessica threw a baby shower for Robert and I. It was great to see everyone, and I ate entirely to many brownies. I'm still impressed that Robert was able to cut a string to within millimeters of the diameter of my belly.

Thanks MIMs!

On 11/15 Liz threw a party for Shana and I to celebrate our upcoming babies. For those that don't know I joined "Moms in Motion" about a year and a half ago, look at this great group of runners!

This is me at 35 weeks! (sorry it took a bit to post)

Shower

On Sunday Jennifer threw a great baby shower for me! A lot of my coworkers were able to come and brought some yummy food. I tied as winner of the game were we had to say which old wives tales predicted boy or girl. I guess David and I are following them pretty well since I based most of my answers on my experience the last few months. Thanks everyone, we love everything that you got us and I had a great time! (I'll post pictures as soon as I get some!)

Otherwise everything is still going well. The midwife says everything looks good. I don't have an appointment this week, but starting next week I will have one every week. Robert was born at 35 weeks, I was born at 42, so who knows when this little boy will be coming.

November already

It's November! That means next month David will be here! I'm due in 6 weeks, but full term is between 37 and 42 weeks, so we expect to meet him anytime between 3 and 8 weeks from now. I started washing David's clothes yesterday, but still have a lot left to do with blankets and diapers, etc.

For Halloween we went to McCall's Pumpkin Patch with Mike and Kelly, they had a haunted barn and corn maze. We had fun, and I discovered I'm not as jumpy as I had anticipated. I was disappointed that the haunted maze was a lot smaller than the daytime maze, so we will have to go back during the day one of these years.

Resale

Robert and I decided to volunteer at our local children's resale this weekend, doing that allowed us to shop early. There were an amazing number of clothes there, as well as toys and accessories. I think we are now ready to dress triplets! Baby clothes are just so cute, it is hard to not get them, especially for $1 or so. This afternoon we went and helped with the clean up. All the clothes had to be sorted by seller so that they could come pick up everything that was not sold. Below is during the clean up, this was maybe 10-15% of the clothes that were there.


We finished our birth classes in Taos last week, and decided we would still take the ones in Los Alamas, good to be as informed as possible! We have about 7 weeks to go!

Birth center

Robert and I have decided to change doctors. He wasn't particularly fond of our OB at first impressions, it took me meeting her twice before I felt the same way. Unfortunately there is only one OB in Los Alamos, yes, if you want to deliver at the Los Alamos Medical Center, you have no choice. So I started looking outside of Los Alamos, I know several women that have delivered at St. Vincent's in Santa Fe, but I was reluctant to just go to another hospital. I found Northern NM Midwifery in Taos, my biggest fear with giving birth is laying in bed with IVs and monitors strapped to me, so I thought this would be a good option. After going to visit last Friday Robert was sold too. The midwife sat and talked to us for quite a while (while holding her infant son in a sling) and answered our questions. The birthing area has a kitchen and living area for the families to use and the office is right across the street from the hospital should we need that. So pending insurance approval that is where we will be having our baby :)

Other tidbits:

We attended our first birth class (in Taos) yesterday, it wasn't quite what I was expecting, but I think it was useful. That is a 4-session class, so we will go again tomorrow then 2x next week.

Robert assembled the bassinet yesterday, so that is now sitting in the corner of our room, just waiting for a baby.

I haven't been sleeping to well lately. I think it might be related to the fact that I had a bad cold last week, and I still have a lingering cough. When I was sick last week I was really glad that we had the new La-z-boy recliners, true this morning too when I couldn't get back to sleep.

This past weekend I helped man at aid station at the Pajarito Trail Fest. I'd run this race last year, and hiking up the ski hill just didn't appeal to me at 31 weeks pregnant, so I decided to volunteer. I'd never helped with an air station before and I quite enjoyed it, it was fun cheering for everyone as they ran through. The 10k runners mostly flew past as we told them they had less than a minute to the finish and we handed out snacks and drinks to the 15 milers. I think I'll plan to help out with a race again some day.

Cute Kitty

No luck on the cold going away. I took half of yesterday off and a good portion of today, yesterday I had a slight fever, today that is gone, but I'm pretty congested.

This is Kindle's new favorite place to sleep:
She is going to be sorely disappointed when we move the car seat to the car in a month or so.