A Learning Process

I'll start this thing off right! Not bad for 7 1/2 months, right?! This pic was taken at 33 weeks and two days (yesterday) and like I've said before, I never realize how "big" my belly is until I see it in pictures!!  I have a lot of shortness of breath to show for it, but when I'm looking at it in the mirror, it never seems that big to me - but hey, I'll take what I can get! Speaking of shortness of breath... It is seriously a pain in the butt!!!!  I hate it.  It's my worst symptom!!  Even doing nothing at all, I feel like I can't get a nice deep breath in sometimes.  I have no actual breathing problems and my doc said this is all totally normal, but it's certainly annoying.  I'll be glad when I no longer have a small human pushing her way up into my lung space :) Blood types! I am blessed with having an A- blood type (which I learned is quite uncommon), so I got to take my first trip to Labor and Delivery for my Rhog...

Not much has happened between 27 and 30 weeks, but enjoy this one anyway :) Oh crap! Here's my big ol' belly bump at 30 weeks!  I think I look "meh" but that's Mark's fault for not getting my best angle.  Ha! I'm still tripped out by how big I'm getting, even though I'm still pretty small for 6 1/2 months !!  I've never seen myself this way before, so it takes awhile to get "used" to it, I suppose.  I've gained about 14 pounds - three of which I can attribute to my little cabbage Bailey ;)  When I look in the mirror, I don't really see my bump as much - it's not until I see it in pictures that I realize, "Oh crap!  It really is noticeable!" Non-Stress Tests and Ultrasounds! Since I am technically "high-risk" because of the whole blood clot thing 4 years ago, I get to visit my doctor's office for weekly non-stress tests (NSTs) and ultrasounds just to make sure Miss Bailey is do...