Prediction?

I think my last post here was a good prediction!  Today at my OB appointment the doctor kept saying, "Your baby is a gymnast!"  Once again, I thought, "You're telling me!"  But apparently the baby has the cord wrapped around its neck twice and once around its stomach.  At first this news really scared me, but the doctor said not to be worried about it.  She said as long as the cord is long enough there should not be a problem.  The ultrasound showed there was no restriction of blood flow due to this at the current time.  The doctor also said that she has delivered a baby that had the cord wrapped around 5 times and everything was just fine with the delivery!  She said our baby had to be doing lots of acrobats in order for this to happen in the first place :)  We will check it again December 23rd to see if it has unwrapped - hopefully!!!

AND....good news!!  I am off bedrest!!  I get to go back to work four hours daily later this week!  Yay!!  I was supposed to have one more week, but everything was going good so she said to give it a try.  Baby is still measuring pretty big - at 32 weeks and 3 days it is 5 pounds 3 ounces (4 weeks ago it was 3 pounds 9 ounces).  The baby also passed the Non-Stress Test (NST) with flying colors (looks at heartrate fluctuations).  Chase was able to come to the appointment with me today (he is on cardiology at Methodist right now).  Afterwards we went to Babies-R-Us to get a Diaper Genie and our stroller.  I love love love love love our stroller.  It is a travel system, so it has the infant car seat with it.  Roger and Vicky (Chase's parents) are buying it for us - thank you thank you thank you!!!

Got to see Katie and Gavin on Saturday for a few hours.  It was so much fun catching up!  It was non-stop talking about baby stuff, which I absolutely loved!  Found out we both had bassinets (family hand-me-downs) that were about 50 years old.  It was nice to be able to share our complaints too....back aches, strangers touching bellies, etc.  I hate having to be long-distance friends....not for much longer though!

I am 32w1d and Katie is 31w4d

My parents also came up for the weekend, and Chase insisted they stay with us (what a guy!) instead of a hotel.  They helped us go shopping for baby stuff - it was a lot of fun!  I was glad to have Mom there since I felt like I had no clue what to get - so much stuff you can buy, but is it all neccessary?  I kept asking her, "Do I need this?"  They brought up some BBQ pork from Dave's Meat Market in Montrose. Love it!  Chase had 3 sandwiches, then had another one for supper.

It was sooooo cute on Saturday night.  I always tell Chase to hurry over and feel my belly because the baby is kicking like crazy.  Then he gets here, and of course it stops!  I always feel really bad!  So he had only gotten to feel a few kicks.  But Saturday night when we went to bed it kicked for like 45 minutes straight and Chase got to feel it the whole time.  He would laugh each time it kicked his hand and kept saying, "I love my baby!"  AWWWWWWW How adorable!!!!!!

Saw my college friend Amber today. She brought her 8-month old boy Hudson Drake over for lunch.  He was super cute...crawling all over the house.  Amber plans to watch our little one on Mondays.  They are planning on buying a new house soon - I hope it all works out for them!