Welcome to the third tri!

Holy crap!! Where on earth did 2/3 of this pregnancy go? Time has FLOWN! We have made some progress on the bathroom, and Vince is hopeful it will get completed this weekend. Pics are coming once it is finally done, natch.

We have also made plans for the nursery and have started gathering materials (paint and such) and have bought a super-cool rug, which should help tie together some of the blues that will be going on:




Still absolutely no progress on a name choice, but I did finally manage to get our registry together. And I got us registered for our classes (tour/insurance paperwork, breastfeeding, and baby care basics) at the hospital for January. Next on the list - get a doula!

I have also given notice at my job. I have an open-ended leave date, which will be determined by how long it takes to train my replacement. But, mid-January will be the latest. We were lucky and found a great candidate internally, so the training should be a snap! Both of my bosses were wonderfully supportive of our decision for me to stay home, and I can tell my contributions here have been appreciated, which is an awesome feeling.

I have been feeling really crummy this past week and got to experience my first Braxton-Hicks contractions. They have settled down, but have become a general, continuous aching/crampiness in my lower abdomen. And I'm sleeping like poo again. I fear it is my body responding to the baby getting bigger. The good news is that I passed the one-hour glucose test, so no gestational diabetes for me!

I have a feeling the overall discomfort may be here to stay, and is a reminder that maybe it is time to slow down a little. Looks like the end is now in sight for my practice. I have clients scheduled through my upcoming holidays, and I'm not sure how far into 2008 I am going to get. It makes me so sad to think about shutting down the practice, but my body is making this decision very clear for me.