What's With All the Babies!

We had an appointment with our doctor this morning. Everything is looking good. Yay! Altough my ultrasound showed a pretty large baby for 24 weeks when I was in the hopital, my doc says I'm measuring about 30 weeks, which is right on target. So despite my hugeness, it appears I am not carrying twins nor is my due date off by an entire month. I'm just huge. I suppose it makes sense, I am only 5ft tall. Baby doesn't have much room to grow up, so he grows out.

I still have adominal pain so on those days I have the luxury of spending the entire day in bed, drinking tons of water (I'm already drinking about a gallon a day..can you say potty break?) I also have Braxton-Hicks contractions when I'm sitting upright or on my feet for awhile and have the baby-in-the-ribs pain almost nonstop. Since I am only at the BEGINNING of my third trimester, all I can say is, "Let the games begin". This is clearly going to be extremely pleasant from here on out. The only hope I have is delivering early (though I don't want him to come too early). According to my doctor I am at higher risk of delivering between 30-35 weeks, which would make the little one a premie. We want to avoid that so I'm still doing the "bedrest" thing. I've learned that "bedrest" is actually a broad term. I am not confined to my bed, I can still drive a car and get around the house. I can't lift anything or bend over a lot or anything like that.

So far we're guessing my delivery will be somewhere around the 35 week mark, but you never know. With my luck I'll be 2 weeks overdue.

In other news, I had a wonderful 4th of July weekend. My mom, Mark and I went camping in Galena with some of the fam. My cousin Jamie and her husband were visiting from Texas and they are also expecting their first baby (end of Oct). My step-cousin Nicole was also there is expecting in Oct too! We had lots of fun exchanging stories/complaints and watching our respective husbands goof off. I spent pretty much the entire weekend lounging in the shade with plenty of sunscreen.

So what the heck is with the BOY baby boom?! I am starting to loose count of all of the new/expected babies: 1. former manager (had a boy this spring), 2. friend from grad school (had a boy about a month ago), 3. friend from crazy college backpacking trip (had a boy a few months ago), 4. family friend (had a girl 1 month ago..the first girl!), 5. my sis's old roomie (expecting a girl), 6. my cousin (expecting a boy), 7. my step-cousin (expecting, but doesn't know sex), 8. neighbor (expecting a boy), 9. my sister-in-law (yep, expecting a boy), 10. best friend from grade school (just had a little boy), 11. friend from HS (expecting, but doesn't know sex), and of course, 12. ME!!!