Pregnancy Update

I am now just over 6 months along (27 weeks today) and everything is going well. 6-month picture coming soon.

I went to the doctor early last week for a check-up and he told me I was doing so well I didn't have to come back for another 4 weeks, although this is technically the time I should start every 2-week check-ups. And no news should be good news on my initial glucose screening for gestational diabetes. (Not that I was terribly worried.)

Baby Girl is quite a bit more active than I remember her big brother being in-utero. She certainly responds to outside stimulation differently. If I felt Benjamin "kicking" and put my hand on the spot or talked to him, he would get still immediately. Little Sis kicks harder in response to outside pats, rubbing, even voices. I've also had a couple of Braxton Hicks contractions, which I didn't have, to my knowledge, with Benjamin. It's much too early to be thinking about labor yet, but it's still exciting to know it's close enough for my body to be getting ready.

I do feel like I woke up one morning, a couple of weeks ago, suddenly enormously pregnant and awkward, and have remained so since. I am now having trouble with your common everyday household procedures, such as bending over to pick up a dropped sock from the floor or rolling over to get out of bed in the morning. The simplest tasks (such as: leaning over to plug something in) render me virtually unable to breathe for several minutes; forget arranging shoes in their rightful place underneath my dresser!

I know these next 3 months are going to fly by! The holidays are nearly upon us, which always seem to pass with warp speed, and then only 6 more weeks! We are not nearly ready. We still need a bed (we're looking for a "mini" or "portable" size crib [the size church nurseries often use], if anyone knows of one that is available), dresser, and all the items that a baby girl can't share with her big brother. Still, the essentials are covered (she already has some sweet little clothes in beginning sizes and all we really need to keep her adequately cared for are diapers and a warm place to sleep), so we are blessed.