28 weeks

28 week ultrasound- Baby's sweet face; word "face" is over his right cheek

27 week baby bump- hospital scrubs that I am slowly moving up in sizes of

Baby Boy is in his last trimester of growing and boy can you tell! His movements have definitely become less angry :) (although he still finds ways to be angry about being poked or monitored) and a lot more wiggle wormy as he starts to run out of room! Still though, anytime you place a doppler or a monitor or any kind of object (even just your hand resting) over somewhere in HIS space... he will kick RIGHT at the object until it is removed. :) Brian says his Mama does the same thing but we will just pretend we did not hear that!

We were really blessed to have one of the residents during my Night Float week at the hospital run over to the ultrasound room and shoot a quick picture of his little face for us at 28 weeks! I think it is the most precious little face, but our friend Jesse thinks he looks, and I quote, "like a warrior!" Brian likes that. :) Speaking of night float- baby was not a fan. I think he was just as tired as I was and his movements seemed to be the kind where you know the baby is tired but they're just not going to go to sleep.

He was also vertex during that ultrasound (meaning head down & not breech) which I am totally pumped about. Of course he could still flip around at this point, but as I told Brian- this kid tends to do as he pleases, so if he enjoys being head down I have a feeling he will stay that way. Brian is nervous about his head being squished :) and my Dad, Baby's Bear, told me "he is going to have a wicked headache after that!"

Brian and I still have our bi or tri weekly OB appts at home :) where a couple of times a week I will lay down and Brian will listen to the baby's heartbeat with the "My Baby's Beat" app on iPhone (awesome and totally recommend it!), then he'll measure my fundal height and try to see if he can determine if the baby is vertex still or not. His heartbeat is still running in the 130's to 140's and he has 10X10 accelerations on fetal monitoring (perfect for babies under 32 weeks!).

Baby's most recent development has been hiccups. Poor thing! He seems to get them a LOT and I haven't been able to attribute it to any certain foods I eat or anything. It's absolutely precious and seemingly miserable all at once, if that's possible. :) I've really been convicted lately about how much sugar he gets from me (biggest sweet tooth in the world, this girl) and I don't want him being born and becoming hypoglycemic in his first few minutes on Earth :( so I have really tried to cut back on sugar. Another official craving we are counting for this pregnancy is corn dogs. GROSS, RIGHT? I don't even know if I had eaten a corn dog in decades, literally. But this pregnancy it's like all I can do to not eat one three times a week! Disgusting, I know. And the cranberry juice cravings continue, too, just FYI.

Bear is in the process of making Baby Boy's custom crib out at the lakehouse right now, too. He has taken all week off of work to be working on it, in addition to the weekends he has already been working on it. It's SOLID, incredible wood and the stain is going to be beautiful. I can't believe how blessed we are that Daddy wanted to make this for us and for him. I am so excited to see the end product and can't wait for baby to sleep in it and grow up with it (it will be convertible to a toddler bed and full bed, too!).

As for me- I'm crabby. Poor hubs and poor colleagues of mine at school. I just have so little tolerance (not that I had much to begin with) and not very much stamina. However, I'm thinking that if the worst part of my third trimester so far is my attitude with some minimal to moderate physical discomfort (of course who is in medical school and doesn't have that?!), we're probably doing pretty well. :) As long as I can push off the total physical exhaustion then we are doing good! Not gonna lie though... if we could afford weekly... no make that daily... massages, I would be all over that business.

As we start to near the "end" of pregnancy with baby boy, I think the one thing I am going to miss is being able to share my day with him. He comes everywhere with me right now :) and I am going to miss having him there hanging out all day long and having to leave him at home. However, we are REALLY looking forward to snuggling him and loving him and holding him. Brian just wants to swaddle him and hold him like a football. :)

We realize with each passing day how blessed we are that maybe I'm a little uncomfortable and a little crabby and baby boy is still cookin'. Being on the OB/Gyn labor & delivery floor at the hospital and seeing all of the high risk patients, women with premature labor, early ruptured membranes, or bad complications makes you so grateful for the blessings of your own healthy pregnancy. Although after being there, I also know what NOT to do while in labor :) and how NOT to tick off the nurses and doctors during my stay! :)

We love you, Baby Boy!!! We cannot wait to meet you :)