Countdown--- 9 weeks !

Well --- I'm still waddling along. In fact Patrick and I just got back from a 3 mile waddle around the neighborhood. :) I am walking as much as possible and eating lots of spicy food... I'm not ready to have the baby yet, but I figured a little preemptive preparation was in order.

New on the symptom list this week are heartburn and slightly swollen hands and feet. Pretty normal for 31 weeks. I am also having trouble sleeping... I guess you don't realize that when you flip yourself in bed your used to using your abs. When you don't have that option anymore it's more of an ungraceful hoist to roll over. I keep reminding myself I'm getting lots more sleep now than I will once little girl is born...

I went to the doctor yesterday and it seems like everything is going just fine. Lucie's heartbeat is nice and strong and all of the blood work came back good from when I did that gestational diabetes test. There's nothing to signal any pregnancy complications thus far... Next Friday we will have an ultrasound to make sure there is still now IUGR- which is a potential complication of celiac and pregnancy. Very unlikely that there will be any problems but I'm thankful for the extra peek at Lucie :) Then I will have one more visit in November and will switch to weekly visits in December. I asked Patrick today how it felt to think that He could be a dad next month :) !!! So exciting. He's gonna be awesome!

I've been doing lots of preparing in the nursery. We've got the furniture rearranged just a bit... It's still nowhere near ready but hopefully in December we can get it together. Over the weekend I decided to install the carseat in the car. (We still need to take it to the fire station to have them check it). What I didn't realize is that not all carseats fit in all cars. I think the one we ended up getting (graco snugride 30) is going to end up being okay. I was slightly freaked out at first when the base hung over the end of the seat! After much Internet research, I found that as long as the part of the base that is closest to the rear if the car cannot move more than an inch in either direction, the car seat is fine... I felt guilty about having a compact car until I found out that this particular carseat hangs over the edge of a Yukon and several other HUGE vehicles. Then I didn't feel so bad. It's America's #1 rated carseat according to the box so I guess there are a lot if people out there driving around with the same dilemma!

We ended up picking growing children pediatrics as the pediatrician for Lucie.... After much recommendation and consideration. I figure we can always switch if something goes awry but I talked to the OB about it and she says she's always heard good things :) I think all of the recommendations we got were probably great!

I'm quickly approaching the end of my school semester in 4 weeks. I still have lots to do and should probably be writing papers and not blogging... :)

Katie