Almost time to say goodbye to #2

My 3rd trimester starts on Saturday. Heck yes, I'm excited!

So the past week has been a pretty great week for us. We had my Smith family reunion. Fantastic! Spent the day at the lake with most of my family. The 4 girls were together! I miss spending time with Hannah, Bri, and Trish and spending the weekend with them was great. It was great sharing the excitement of the coming months with my family. And my Gram made my day, well made my month. She looks at me, when I'm 27 weeks pregnant, and asks if I've lost weight. Obviously not in the belly area, cuz that's growing out of control lately, but everywhere else. My mom pointed it out too. :)

I had my monthly checkup yesterday. Everything is looking good. Right on track where it should be. Still 1 pound under pre-pregnancy weight. :) Went over the results of my labs I've had the last couple weeks and everything was explained a little bit more. Doctor is not worried about anything with me and Isabella. What a relief to hear! We talked a little about when I do go into labor. Once I go into labor, we call. 1 or 7 doctor's will be oncall. Whoever it is will be the initial doctor in to see me. But they call either one of my doctors to tell them that I am in labor and whichever one is oncall that day will be in. She said that the only way neither of them would be able to be there is if they both happened to be on vacation, or there was a death in the family, etc. They only miss maybe 1 or 2 births a year from their patients. Makes me feel so much better that they are that dedicated to being their for their patients. When we were there, we did the heartbeat check. Let's just say someone is already stubborn. Dr. P got the heartbeat in about 2 seconds, and then Isabella must have realized what was going on and decided to move to the other side of my tummy. She kept "running" away from the doppler. And then she kicked it! All I could do was laugh. Such a little brat already!

Dr. P gave me the best news of all: no more labs! Well, unless something goes wrong but otherwise, no more! My next appointment is in 3 weeks, and then we go to every 2 weeks. I can't believe we're that close already! Starting Oct. 19 we will be going every week. We're starting to look into all the classes that we can take and figure out our schedules so that we can take them. That's the hard part. And they're expensive. To take 3 classes (general birthing, beyond basics, and CPR) it's going to cost us $240 and we're going to have to miss work to do it. But it'll be worth it and we'll feel a little more prepared.