33 Weeks 4 Days

Things are still looking great. Baby passed his biophysical profile easily today. There is plenty of fluid and he is healthy and happy (not to mention head down).

I saw a nurse midwife today instead of my regular doc. She checked my cervix (internally by the way) and it is high and tight - just as it should be. They also screened my urine for sugar and protein - no abnormalities there either.

I have been having heartburn symptoms even on the increased Zantac so she put me on Protonix. I'll try that tonight and see if it is better.

I am outgrowing my biggest clothes. I only have 3 pairs of scrubs that fit me for work and the tops are getting snug around my belly and hips. My mom is letting out the side seams and that should help. I don't know what I will do when/if the pants get too small. I only have one pair of jeans and one pair of black pants left that fit. Thank goodness I only have to make it just over 4 more weeks.

I have another non-stress test on Friday. By then I will be 34 weeks - and I delivered Hadley at 34 weeks 1 day. So if I make it passed Saturday then I will have already carried this baby longer than the first. I am really excited about that. I would rather not have another preemie.

We are going to rearrange bedrooms at our house this weekend. Ben and I are moving downstairs and the baby will get our old room. The master is downstairs anyway, so it makes sense that we would be down there. I'll probably sleep in the baby's room on the twin bed until he is done nursing in the middle of the night. I did that with Hadley and it was much more convenient than going back and forth all night.

I hope to get his room painted on Sunday. I am leaning toward some shade of blue, but I am not sure yet. I am going to try the environmentally friendly paint that Ben sells and see how it applies and holds up to kids.

By the way, I am pretty sure that we are not going to be moving. We are just to scared to try and sell our house in this market and with the economy doing so poorly. Ben isn't sure about what comes next with his job, but for now we are going to stay put and work it out somehow. Either way he will not be let go or anything, so that is the most important thing. I am very relieved to not have to quit my job in this economy and that we don't have to sell our house before we can recover some equity.

I think Hadley's terrible twos have started. She has been testing everyone's authority lately (more so than usual) and she seems less easy going than she used to be. If she doesn't want to leave somewhere she will physically put up a fight when you are trying to strap her into the carseat. She will insist that I change her diaper if Ben tries to do it. I swear sometimes that she is naughty just to be naughty and see what she can get away with. I am positive that things will get worse before they get better - especially when she finds out we are going to "replace" her with the new baby. We're going to need lots of patience with a newborn and a 2 year old!