30 weeks

We hit the 30 week mark on Wednesday, which has thrown me into "oh, my, we better start thinking about getting ready for this baby" mode. There is certainly less to do this time around, but there are still a few things to buy, a few things to pull out of storage, and some rearranging to do. Yes, I realize we still have almost 10 weeks to get this done - but we also have Thanksgiving, Christmas, the New Year, AND Candy's wedding is ten days after our due date....so, there's a lot going on! It's all pretty exciting, and I think it became a little more real this past week when Peter and I attended our birth refresher course at the hospital. Sam still thinks that "little brother/sister" is inside HIS tummy at times, though he also occasionally says the baby is in daddy's tummy. Since my stomach is the only one growing, he must think that I just eat a lot.

We have another ultrasound on Tuesday because at my appointment this week, it seemed the baby was measuring smaller than 30 weeks. I'm not concerned about this because the same thing happened at my 30 week appointment with Sam, and everything was just fine. I'm actually just excited to get another chance to see the baby (and no, we are STILL not finding out the gender, Mom!). I also have to do the 3-hour glucose test for gestational diabetes on Tuesday, which I am NOT looking forward to (I had to do this with Sam also). For those that don't know what this is, you have to fast for eight hours, and then go in, have your blood drawn, drink a sugary drink, and then have your blood drawn again after an hour, then again another hour later, and then once again another hour after that. Let's just say that I once passed out at the doctor when getting my finger pricked to test my blood for iron - so four blood draws in a three hour period isn't exactly how I'd like to spend my day. I guess I shouldn't complain though - it's all for the health of the baby!

Other than that, the baby's heartrate was at 145 this week, he/she has started doing acrobats in my belly, and Sam has decided that the baby should be named "Arthur" regardless of the gender.