Tail's Tale: Catching Up!

Time keeps slipping by and I keep getting more pregnant! In the past month Eli and I have moved, my sister got married, we travelled upstate twice, and it was Christmas! So, not only have I not written a post about the baby, I really haven't been doing too much prep for the baby. I only have 9 more weeks left and the pressure is on (literally, I pee every 1/2 hour)! I'm starting to feel panicked by the fact that I'm 31 weeks pregnant and there is no sign of a nursery in our apartment, I haven't filled out my pre admission forms for the hospital, we haven't taken any baby classes and among all the mayhem, Eli and I are living like college kids, minus the binge drinking; I barely plan meals, the fridge is filled with only condiments and instead of working on baby stuff, any free time is filled with napping. My due date is exactly 2 months from today, which seems like a long time, but after being pregnant for almost 8 months, I'm well aware of just how quickly those two months will go. What's even more scary is that I'll actually be considered full term in six weeks, SIX WEEKS! That's just so....close. I wish there was a firm deadline on pregnancy. It would be so nice to know that on February 27, I would go into labor and have a baby. I'm starting to realize the practicality of a planned C-section.

Anyway, enough proliferating on my panic. At this point, the baby weighs about 3.5 pounds and is about 16 inches long! It's incredibly active and it's little flutters have turned into painful jabs and what Eli refers to as a "sneakers in a washing machine" impression. At the last baby appointment my fundal height was 29 cm at 29 weeks, perfect! Still between the 50th and 75th percentile. We ~~have made a~~ were forced into a decision as to what hospital I'll be delivering at, which was part of the reason why I hadn't filled out the pre-admission forms. I missed my appointment with the other group I was considering to drive upstate for Christmas and they can't get me in again until January 13, so I'll be sticking with the OB/GYN group I'm currently using and I'm planning on sending the pre admission forms in today, yay!!

Here are some pictures of the happenings over the last few weeks: