26 Weeks

It's been a pretty uneventful week.  This past weekend I did some window shopping at Ikea to look at some of the stuff we will still need for the baby's room.  We are going to buy a closet organization system from there most likely.  And, we also are going to get an Expedit shelf.  Though, now its called Kallax.  Then, Sunday we had brunch plans for Easter and visited with family for a bit.  Pretty uneventful!  Last night we went to a Q&A on Labor and Delivery at Inova Alexandria Hospital.  We aren't going to be delivering there, but we figured it was still a good seminar to go to.  It was fairly informative.  Not the greatest event I've gone to, but a good intro session to tell us what to expect.  We do plan to do a class of some sort at Inova Fairfax, where we are delivering.  

My big to do this week is Friday I have my glucose test.  Then, I'm going to get my name changed with SS.  I need to do it ASAP so I can change it everywhere.  I need to register for the hospital by 30 weeks so want everything to be up to date before then so there are no problems later on.

This week Juliet is probably over a pound and a half and about 14 inches long.  She's bouncing away in my belly.  During the day she tends to be pretty still, most likely because I'm moving so much.  Even before they are born, babies like the moving and rocking.  Then, at night she goes crazy!  It's almost to the point of making it hard to fall asleep at night.  Speaking of sleeping, it gets harder every day!  I'm up at least 2 times a night to pee.  And, even when I am asleep, its not very good sleep.  Otherwise, I'm having very few symptoms right now.  I am absolutely RAVENOUS when it comes to food.  I feel like I want to eat everything in sight all the time.  I'm at 181 pounds, but it will probably go up a couple more pounds this week.  My waist is at 42 inches, you can see in the picture below I'm getting bigger!  With my growing belly I am worried about back pain coming on.  So, this week I began seeing a chiropractor.  I'll probably do a couple of adjustments a week for a couple of weeks.  Then, I'll go as often as I see my OB.  Hopefully this will help ward off any future pain!

This picture is absolutely horrendous, but oh well, its all I've got.

Oh, we did also decide on our day care provider.  We are going to an in home day care a mile or two from the house, so its super convenient.  The nice thing is that we can go there part time, 3 days a week then my mom is going to watch her the other 2.  The woman is super nice, an older grandmotherly type.  Until next week, peace out!