Baby Registry

Some of you may have already noticed the new box on the side of the blog that says "baby registry." It's a work in progress but I figured I would finally set one up. My mom arrives back in town on Friday and she, Steve, and I plan to go to a Babies R Us in person on Saturday to actually see and test a few of the products (like cribs and strollers and car seats and so forth) and then update the registry more thoroughly; given time constraints the updating itself might take another week until Mom and I arrive in Connecticut.
In any case, it's there if you want to keep an eye on it!

Big AND small...and probably fuzzy

Everything on our last visit went well, with one oddity: I only gained 1lb over the last four weeks (I should have gained 4lbs) but my belly is measuring a centimeter ahead of schedule! (Interestingly, at this point the number of centimeters you're supposed to measure is exactly the same as the number of weeks you're along; so I should be measuring 32cm at 32 weeks, but was measuring 33cm.) I don't understand how I can eat this much and measure this big while still looking kind of small and not gaining much weight? But it's not a point of concern as far as the OB said, so I'm sticking with that.
Also strange trivia: while waiting to see the doc I read in a magazine that there is a correlation between moderate heart burn in pregnant moms and their babies having full heads of hair. Apparently the hormone that encourages one encourages the other too. Since I am experiencing moderate heart burn, our baby should be born looking nice and fuzzy.
I got my records to bring with me and have already scheduled all my appointments in Connecticut...so now it's just time to move!

Play time has begun

Nearly every morning in one hour increments, I wake up and switch to my other side. I usually feel Acorn adapt to this shift by fidgeting or "playing piano" on the side of my belly that is pressed into the bed.
Today when I rolled over, Steve snuggled up next to me with his hand at the top of my belly. And instead of his/her usual routine, Acorn gently poked and prodded Steve's hand for a good long while.
When it occurred to me how unusual this was for Acorn, I pointed out to Steve that they'd just had their first play session. :)

Event-full

Steve and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday on June 12; the traditional gift is cotton. I believe we'll be getting a boat-load of that on behalf of Acorn! So instead we spent 8 hours waiting for Packrats to drop off our storage container (they told us between 8am-12pm and got there at 4pm) and then got ourselves a really, really nice dinner at our favorite fine-dining place and treated ourselves to a movie at home. My 31st birthday is on Tuesday the 15th and then the 6-year anniversary of our first date is on Wednesday the 16th. This is always a special week, and we used to joke that we were going to time it so our children were born on the 13th and 14th so Steve could have just one week a year where he had to remember stuff. :)
My last Colorado OB appt will be the 22nd, Mom will fly out around the 25th, Packrats will pick up the storage container on the 27th and Mom and I will start our road trip back East, and then our lease is up on the 30th and Steve will officially 'live' in Laramie, WY until his job is complete. By the 4th of July weekend, all of our residential ties to Colorado will have been cut!

Cool, Calm, and Exhausted

Since I spent an entire post whining about heat, I figured I'd chime in and say it's in the 50s and deliciously cool and rainy right now. I'm wearing a sweatshirt and jeans! Woohoo! Now if it would just stay like this until I leave...
One thing that is clarified by this cool spell we're having, though, is that my fatigue is not purely heat and dehydration related. I am drowsy pretty much all the time these days. I don't know if it's because my sleeping patterns are choppy and shallow and my dreams are vivid or if it's from increasing weight gain or hormones, but I'd say I run at 75% energy at best these days. The most awake I've felt in a while is when Steve and I decided to watch Daybreakers, a suspenseful and gorey vampire flick, last night, and then I was quite alert, until the adrenalin wore off after which I crashed pretty quickly. I'm feeling lucky, though, that the onset of this final-trimester-fatigue occurred after I got done with my school work; dredging up information from my brain right now is an effort!

Results

The OB office called me back with my results today -- I don't have gestational diabetes. Woohoo!! My sugar intake is appropriate! My baby is not going to come out weighing 30 pounds!
But...my iron count was a little low. So I'll be taking an iron supplement on top of the prenatal vitamins.
To tell you the truth, I am not at all surprised to hear this. Back in San Francisco I used to try to give blood at least once a year. For the last four of my five years there, my iron count was always just a smidge too low. I would load up on spinach and red meat but I could never beat the test. (I could never get in the habit of just taking a supplement back then.) So now that my body has extra onus on it, I'm actually kind of pleased to hear that my iron count is just a little too low, rather than a lot.
They want to retest in 8 weeks, which will be once I'm in CT, but I'll make sure the new OB follows up on it. I'll be at 36 weeks and needing all the iron I can get if I'm going to be about to birth a baby!