I had a doc’s appointment today, and today am at 30 weeks + 0 days. (We are officially going with the December 3rd due date, unless I start to measure off for it.) My blood pressure was 120/80. Everything is normal. The heartbeat was much easier to find this visit, whooshing right along. I also had my gestational diabetes test, a little later than I was supposed to but they said better late than too early to be sure. They also took a few vials of blood for other tests, though I’m not entirely clear on all of them. We’ll have more time at my next appointment.
From here on out it’s visits every 2 weeks. So far, so good.
At 30 weeks, baby should be about 3 lbs and 16 inches. Her bone marrow is starting to produce her own red blood cells to transport oxygen and waste, hands are fully formed, and eyelids are opening and closing. Neat stuff.
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For those of you who will be amused by the acknowledgment, this is probably a “hormones” induced post. 
Baby, baby, baby!
I got my Baby Bunz & Co. shipment today, which contained some of the cloth diapering things I had ordered. The newborn-size cloth fitteds (Snugglebottoms) are so cute! They’re soft, and thick in the middle, and it’s hard to imagine the little person who will fit in them.
I’m not sure you can tell from the picture the sizing of the thing: The whole of it folded up like this is about the size of my outstretched hand.
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Today is the Autumnal Equinox and our second wedding anniversary. Yay! Sean and I had a nice weekend, with one day of friends and good food while celebrating at the wedding of others we love (Saturday), and one day of quick and easy comfort foods and otherwise doing nothing but relaxing together (Sunday). A very nice mix, to my way of thinking. Of course to fit with the spirit of the equinox (balance) we need to do some work today, but that’s only fair.
At the wedding on Saturday there were several lovely readings. The one that was probably my favorite was from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams; it made for an excellent wedding reading:
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
“I suppose you are real?” said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.
“The Boy’s Uncle made me Real,” he said. “That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
I hope you all have a lovely first day of fall.
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately reading up on diapers. It would be so easy to just go the disposable route and forget it, but we’re hoping to do something both more cost-effective and more environmentally conscious. There are so many diapering options these days it’s hard to wrap your head around them all.
I was drawn to the idea of gDiapers for the versatility of having a different sort of disposable option. They’re very cute, and I like “new” concepts so I’m attracted to them. Basically it’s a cloth pant with a snap-in waterproof liner that has a disposable insert — more specifically, a flushable/compostable (or disposable) insert. They’re not much more cost-effective than disposable diapers on the surface (at 40 cents a change they cost more than some disposables). I know I’m not a serious coupon-clipper, so I expect for me 30 cents per diaper would be the cost of disposables (getting occasional orders in bulk from Amazon, for example, coupled with panicked trips to the local BP when we run out of diapers). [Luckily I can still play a similar game plan using gPants and cloth, since Amazon sells the gDiaper inserts.]
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