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Olympia Pride at 35 weeks

Last weekend was olympia pride and we had a great time watching the parade and hanging out in the park listening to music all afternoon. The weather even cooperated!

We didn't bring chairs, but thankfully a friend did and was willing to share, so that I didn't have to lower my heavy load all the way down to our blanket! I'm at 35 weeks and still not gaining weight, while the baby continues to grow, grow, grow!

33 weeks and zel's haircut

Just entering my 33rd week, but more importantly, showing off zel's first professional haircut. She was super excited about this haircut and is loving the length and style.

Here we are together. I like how zel looks like she's presenting my tummy a la vanna white:

She's just tall enough to lay her head on the baby bump:

We started birthing class last night... something we didn't do with zel, since she came so early. We're into uncharted waters from here on out! Seven weeks to go.

8 weeks to go...

Here I am at 32 weeks. I've spent the last couple of weeks monitoring my glucose levels after having failed the fasting 3-hr test. When I saw the OB this week, she noted that even with no change in diet, my levels are where they are supposed to be pretty much all the time, so now i only have to poke myself 7 times a week instead of 4 times per day!

There is one positive to being diagnosed with gestational diabetes: we get to have another ultrasound at 36 weeks, which zel is very excited about. She was bummed that she couldn't go to the first one.

The belly is still fairly pale, but i'm working on it!

Libby, keeping the bun warm

At 30 weeks, in my regular napping spot.

29 weeks and growing, growing, growing

I've reached the third trimester and now seemingly have gestational diabetes. :-/ Interestingly, the recommended diet has more carbs than i'm actually consuming, so we'll see how the numbers come out as I'm doing home monitoring with my sylin' glucose monitor.

Woah, seriously pale belly.. hope i'm not scaring y'all.

more paleness. if the sun ever comes out in olympia and the temps get over 70, i might actually be able to get some color on this beast!

Overall, I'm feeling really good. I'm now feeling the kicking, squirming, rolling on a more consistent basis and both camey and zel have been able to feel it too.

23 weeks

Here I am midway through the 23rd week. With nearly 4 months to go... well, I'm gonna be huge!

Here's another shot from further out. Camey's mom got me this dress and I really love it!

Ultrasound - halfway there

Here's the ultrasound from the end of week 20:

We didn't find out the sex, as we prefer to be surprised at birth. Everything is it should be, including the weight, but we all know that even if they think it's running normal (7.5-8 lbs at birth), I could still pop out a 10 pounder!

The ultrasound tech had fun with us. At one point, she caught the baby yawning, snapped a pic, then snapped another afterwards. From these two pics, she created a little stop action thing: mouth open, mouth closed, open, closed, etc., it looked like the baby was talking. We all had a good giggle with that.

Here's a picture showing the face, with the body on the lower right:

This was the hardest picture to get, as the baby's arms were moving around the whole time. Camey had a good laugh, commenting that baby was just like mama, "talking with their hands!" You can see the movement in the top picture, the baby's left hand, up by the head, is a blur of movement.

We also found out that the placenta is on top of the baby, which is why it looks like I'm carrying so high and explains why I haven't felt hardly any movement. The placenta is absorbing it all. At this point, there's a bit of floating space in there, but as the space goes away, I'm sure to feel lots more movement.

Halfway there

I'm now at 20 weeks and have really popped. My belly is firming up and is starting to have a momentum of its own when moving quickly (or going up/down the stairs).

Here's zel almost not able to get her hands around me!

Progress on our latest project

Here I am in my 17th week. The bump has seriously arrived now and I'm currently awaiting that first flutter. The ultrasound will be in a few weeks, and we're not finding out the sex of the baby.

Word on the street is that I'm glowing. :-D
Slightly blurry photo by Hazel.