The Home Stretch!

I am officially 28 weeks today and it marks the transition to the third trimester! This is the home stretch - hard to believe.

The weekly update from BabyCenter told me that my baby is around 2.25 pounds and the size of a chinese cabbage - hence the picture. It also said most women gain 11 lbs the last trimester so I guess it is nice to know there is an end to the scale going up and only about 10 more pounds to go! So far, no stretch marks but not sure I'll escape that one!

Things are going well - the baby has been more active this week which has been fun - I can literally sit down for an hour and just wait for kicks and be entertained. They are also getting stronger and Bradley has been feeling more of them - it's so fun to feel him move around. I'm still going to step class and riding my bike and walks every day at lunch so it's not often we are just sitting still with that on top of work! I think when I then finally sit still at night and poke at him to move, he's probably wishing i would let him rest for a minute :)

I visited my first daycare this week which didn't go as well as I had hoped, but I don't want ANYONE watching my baby but me :) It doesn't seem right. I visited a center and was not overly excited so am going to start looking at some in home daycares and other centers in the next couple months. Ultimately, it will be hard to leave the baby but I see a lot of people around me with healthy and adjusted kids and the earth didn't fall off it's axis, so I'll probably get through this. I would be so willing to simplify life and career and change location to spend more time with my child (and future children)!

The plan for the weekend is to get registered..... so off to dive into the world of Babies R Us and Target and trying to figure out what I need for the baby!