Quick Update

I'm at work, so I only have time for a quick update...

Had my 33 week appointment with the midwife yesterday. Everything is going well.

The end.

Kidding! Here are some details...

-Baby-Bean has settled into a vertex position (head down) -- good girl! :) Midwife says she's nice and low, so there is very little likelihood of her spinning back to breach. Good news on that front so far!

-I'm only measuring 32 cm (i.e. 1 cm behind). So suck an egg to everyone that thinks I'm so HUGE! :) Hee hee...apparently it's very common for this measurement to slow a bit around the end (very few people actually measure 40cm at 40 weeks). So apparently no worries there.

-I only gained 1 pound in the last 6 weeks!? Is this a ticket to gorge myself on cake and pumpkin pie (mmmm...pumpkin pie!)!? Probably not. Midwives were not concerned about the lack of weight gain. I've gained 14 pounds so far this pregnancy, and that is a perfectly appropriate weight gain (it's not like I started out skinny!). Plus weight gain can happen sporatically (i.e. when I go in in 3 weeks, I may have gained 10 pounds -- who knows!?). Best to keep eating healthy foods and getting lots of protein etc. So no cake/pie binge for me (though I did have fries and gravy with my whole wheat veggie pot pie and steamed broccoli last night!). Bottom line? Thank you Baby-Bean for using my copious amounts of stored pre-pregnancy fat instead of making me put on extra! :)

Quick Side Note: The reason I'm all about pumpkin pie right now is because we're going to my parents' place for turkey dinner tomorrow night! I'm so excited (okay, mostly for the mashed potatoes and gravy and pumpkin pie...but everything else is yummy too!). We're having turkey dinner now because my brother's in town and is about to leave for a 6 month trip to the Philippines (so he'll miss Thanksgiving, Baby-Bean's birth and Christmas -- in chronological order...not in order of importance!). And yes, I realize that only two of those events are "turkey dinner" type events...but I felt the need to throw Baby-Bean's birth in there since this blog IS, after all, about her! :)

Okay, I think that's all I have time for...back to work for me!