Hide & Seek.

Baby Reeder at 33w4d

Happy Veteran's Day! Thanks to this holiday, the husband was off work today and able to join me for my 34-week doctor's appt. It was just routine, but we saw a different OB in the practice just for fun. She's a bit more relaxed than my normal doctor, so she's more open to helping things along earlier if Baby Reeder decides to be stubborn in a few weeks and not come out. We found out my usual doctor will be gone for 3 weeks over Christmas (!!), so I guess it's good we meet some new ones anyway.

Baby Reeder was playing hide & seek with the nurse today. He wanted no part of letting us hear his heartbeat. In fact, we could hear him kicking the wand of the doppler as she tried. After what felt like forever (but was probably 2-3 minutes max - it was super uncomfy for me...), she finally gave up and waited for the doctor to do it. Alas, his heartbeat was easily found and beating steadily in the 140's when the doctor tried. Everything else is great, as usual!

How far along?: 34 weeks, 0 days.

Total weight gain/loss: +1 this week, +16 overall.

How big is baby?: 4 3/4 lbs and 18 in. long. And I feel every last bit of that.

Maternity clothes?: No longer very comfortable, getting smaller and tighter.

Sleep: Sad, just sad. Two words: hip pain.

Movement: I was gearing up to write that the movement has really decreased this week, but today this child is going crazy. Lots of head butting of my pelvis and kicking of my ribs.

Labor signs: Increasing BH. He is still head down and I believe still slowly dropping.

Food cravings: Nothing new here, just sugar.

Gender: I guess I still think girl, Daddy still hopes boy.
Belly button in or out?: Flat.

What I miss: I have 2: being able to grocery shop solo and singing along to music in the car (This is tragic for me, with it being Christmas music time. I just can’t breathe enough while singing. So sad.)

What I am looking forward to: Putting up my Christmas decorations. Baby Reeder need to know how seriously we take this holiday when we bring him home from the hospital!

Best moment this week: Looking through a bunch of the husband's baby pictures from his granny. He was an adorably chubby baby and I pray that our child looks exactly like him. So darn precious. :)

Weekly Wisdom: Husbands are invaluable when it comes to grocery shopping, a lesson learned when trying to do it without one.

Milestones: I cannot even begin to explain how delightfully weird it is to think that we're going to have a baby come home with us soon. It definitely hasn't sunk in, but as Thanksgiving approaches, I'm realizing slowly that we're down to a matter of weeks here. Mind-blowing, for sure. (Is the "holy crap, we're going to have a real live baby soon" panic a milestone? I think so.)