Catching Up

Here is a quick recap of the last 2 weeks:

1. Spanky Lulu turned 29 weeks. She is 2 1/2 pounds, the approximate weight of a butternut squash.   Lies.
2. Spanky Lulu got a new set of wheels.  One of our housemates brought home a fancy stroller leftover from the last movie he worked on.  Now Spanky Lulu has two options for going cruising.
3. Carbo-loading bloodwork all came back fine.
4. Acupuncture seemed to make my back and hips feel better.
5. Thanksgiving was a rockin’ good time.
6. Getting stuck in traffic coming home from Thanksgiving undid all of the good work done by the acupuncturist.
7. Can’t walk, sit, sleep or move around on account of the stiffness brought about by sitting in the car during the aforementioned traffic.
8. Lack of sleep may also be realted to middle-of-the-night acrobatics by alien baby.
9. We became those “freaky, weird homebirth people” at our childbirth education class.  More on this class later — it’s totally insane.
10. Going back to the acupuncturist and possibly the masseuse in hopes that I can walk normally again sometime soon.

The first of many…

Spanky Lulu experienced her first (and second) plane rides this week.  Our trip to Florida was completely uneventful and I was thrilled to see that flying while pregnant made me no more nauseous than flying normally.  Spanky also got to meet a lot of her future family members.

Spanky and I also experienced our first stomach touching.  I am going to reserve judgment on this activity, as many of the repeat offenders are likely to be reading this.  I will say, however, that it’s creepy weird.  Especially coming from this woman, who bore a striking resemblance to a horse…she was unabashed in her touching of the stomach.  And she completely ignored the scowl I gave her.  It was really hard to resist the urge to punch her.  I didn’t punch her.

Let it just be known that I have never been compelled to reach out and rub someone elses stomach.

Finally, at 21 weeks, Spanky Lulu is the size of a carrot.  She is 10.5 inches long and weighs 3/4 of a pound.  The weight shocks me.  She feels a lot heavier than that.  And as I mentioned last week, she continues to reside directly on my bladder.  Awesome.