32 weeks with Olivia: NSTs and Baby Showers!

So. Things have been happening, and I have been too tired and lazy to blog about them. So this may be a long-winded one, but I promise, lots of pictures! Let me start at the end of last week. Friday: Seaweed gets another ultrasound Last Friday, the day Seaweed turned…

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31 weeks with Olivia: We visit the Mom Baby Center for all the wrong reasons

Things always happen on a weekend, don’t they? I’ve called the OB three times during this pregnancy and twice now they have been weekend calls to the on-call provider, the first being when I was having multiple Braxton Hicks an hour and now this. We were with some friends Saturday…

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30 weeks with Olivia: The crib is put together. We are still alive.

More importantly, we are still married. Through our life together we have learned there are two things that test our marriage: canning vegetables from the garden and building furniture. It started out a bit uncertain, with my husband lamenting, “Why the hell doesn’t this screw fit this hole?” and me…

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29 weeks with Olivia: She gets a whole new wardrobe

I forgot to say here that I passed my glucose test. I hadn’t heard back from the clinic and then last weekend we were out of town and I ended up calling the clinic for the results while on vacation. Sugar was 102 and they want to see it under…

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28 weeks with Olivia: Hello third trimester!

Hello third trimester, you sexy thang! Why don’t you slip into something a little more comfortable? An oversized t-shirt from Old Navy, perhaps? Let me get you a large Dominos thin crust and a sleeve of Thin Mints. We have much to celebrate. I can’t believe I’ve hit the 3rd…

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