13 weeks from now….

This morning I opened up my email and there were my weekly updates from two pregnancy by the week places.    We are at 27 weeks and both of them said that I could expect the baby to make its appearance in about 13 weeks.   I am sorry but holy SH*T 13 weeks is really not that far away!!!   Okay the freak out is done. (sort of.)

Everything is going well.    I have been feeling amazing and really powerful.   Or as I have been embarrassingly finding myself saying:  “I feel like a million bucks.”   Well, all good things have to end at some point I suppose and I have been feeling less like my body can do anything..  my hips in particular have been very sore.    I talked to our birth class instructor and she gave me some referrals for chiropractors who specialize in the pregnant ladies.   I am hoping that one of them can help me out.   

We have been doing a ton of nesting and cleaning.     I have gotten pretty intense about needing the house to be a lot cleaner.     So much so that our vacuum broke on Saturday afternoon (it was actually a bit scary because we think that it had a small electrical fire in the cord) and we were on our way to lo.wes and purchased a new one within 3 hours.    This is really  not like us.    We cleaned out an armoire that I have been using as a closet  and gave it to a friend who just moved.   Which made way for a crib for Sprout.   

We still need a mattress but I think this looks like a cozy little place to the baby.    It is on my side of the bed so it should be pretty easy to see and hear the baby all the time.    We are both a little amazed that we have a crib in our house.     That little white dresser is filled with sprout-related items and will eventually be used as a changing table too.   We have gone crazy on diaper buying.    We are going to try to use gdi.apers and bum.genius (although I am sure some disposables will be in use too ).   Our stash is pretty amazing, and we have been buying them all used which has cut down on cost so much.    These are the bumg.enius.

And these are the gdi.apers on the left side.    I would love to hear if anyone has used either of these diapering systems and what you thought.    In this drawer there are also some shoes.   We are particularly proud of these shoes because we made them two weekends ago.   We have been working on a quilt for Sprout too, but we are not really at a photo documentation stage yet.  

We have finished our second week of the Brad.ley class.    It is going well.    It is very difficult to be the only lesbian couple in the class, particularly for H.    The teacher is somewhat aware that not everyone in her class is heterosexual – for instance she makes a big effort to say partner instead of men or husband but then in the last class she read a passage about the power of male and female energy  in birth which made H and I feel left out of the class.   We need to talk about this with each other a lot more, and I am thinking that we are gearing up to have a conversation with her.   

I am always so impressed with how much Sprout likes to move.     We discovered this weekend that when I spoon H with my belly to her back she can feel the kicking.     I am waiting to hear back from our midwifes about if I passed the gestational diabetes test.    Please have your fingers crossed for us!!!