30 weeks

Today the girls and I spent a couple hours in Boulder. Leah had her appointment with the girls at the CU Language Project, and then I had my 30 week OB appointment. In between, we stopped for a smoothie at the new smoothie place that took the place of Juice Stop - which is where I went every couple weeks on my break when I worked in Boulder 6 years ago. Leah wasn't very cooperative for most of her appointment, which was a little disappointing, but she had a new girl. She had a new girl last month too, so I think that is part of the reason she hasn't performed as well.
My appointment went well. I left my sample right away, and then within a minute or so getting back to the waiting room, the nurse was there to take us back. I weighed in close to 142 pounds. The highest the scale got was 141.9, so I gained less than a pound in 2 weeks, which is making up for the 9 lbs in the previous 4 weeks. :) After I weighed in, we made our way into the exam room with the nurse. My blood pressure was 124/60. And then Eryn came in! She's huge! She has 2 weeks left before her baby is due, so it's a little sad that she will still be on maternity leave when Baby Tina comes, but 2 our 3 isn't bad when you get the doctor on call! She said they will prick my finger in a month to check my iron levels, and next appointment I will sign my VBAC consent form and we will discuss all that goes along with that. And around 36 or 37 weeks, I will have a quick ultrasound in the exam room to check on baby position. I told Eryn that Tina is now on my bladder and she said it feels like the head, but who knows. And, even with the ultrasound to check position, she could turn in the weeks between the ultrasound and the birth. I measured in at 30 cm, right where I should be, and Tina's heartbeat was 140 BPM.
Here are this week's pictures. Enjoy! Casey left last night for Dallas for the week, and I forgot to have him take a picture before he left, so Jacqueline took a TON before she went to bed. She just couldn't get the right picture - either no belly, or not enough, too blurry. Here are a few that I saved:

Jacqueline posed me for this one; I guess she thought I needed something different. She worked on the perfect pose for about 2 hours before we took them - from the minute I told her that she was going to take the picture. :)

This one is pretty good... one of the best ones.

This one was zoomed in too much.

And here is Jacqueline imitating my pose. :)

And we finally got my usual pose, after a lot of takes!

I have set up my appointments through November 1st (39 weeks). They are all on Mondays at 9:45 because appointments at 10:30 and later no longer work.... my baby starts preschool 2 weeks from today! :(