What's he doing in there?

When I went to the midwife yesterday they could easily tell the position of the baby. They always bring a med student with them to the check ups, and he was the first to feel that baby was head down with his back on my left side and feet up and on the right. The midwife agreed and it was consistent with where they found the heartbeat. I was sort of worried he might be breech the whole pregnancy because he seemed to be for a while and I couldn't tell when he flipped. I thought I was getting elbowed but those pokes must have been his pointy knees. I also never mentioned that I passed my 3 hr glucose tolerance test. Yesterday, the midwife was looking over my sugar levels and noted they were very low. The first test must have been a fluke.

We went to Boston/Brookline for the past weekend to see Neali, Justin, Paisley, Beckett, and Pocky (John). We were watching the hurricane news knowing we would not be flying home as scheduled Sunday (right when the storm hit that area.) We couldn't get a flight out until Tuesday noon ish. The storm caused a lot of damage to trees and power lines right around Pocky's house. I watched a huge willow blow over into the park right out the window. Right after the storm his street was blocked by 4 downed trees with power line hostages. We didn't have power for the last 2 days we were there but just hung out at Neali's where they did. I taught the kids how to hand sew, and we made stuffed birds. I also taught them an easy friendship bracelet, and we had some nice quiet time doing that. They are pretty excited about their new brother and cousin. We told them we are going to name ours Iciclepopsicle Blue Raspberry Armstrong. We do have a name but it won't be released until he is born. It's more fun that way.

I'm back at work commuting to Richmond. It's exhausting to say the least-even just the teaching part is harder than I thought it would be. My students don't exactly understand that I need to sit and drink water periodically and they will have to wait a minute for some help. Also I get like hot flashes sort of and my head feels like it's in a steam room.

We are starting a birthing class next weekend. The style is called Hypnobirthing. We are also interviewing doulas. A few weeks ago there was a cloth diapering demo right after prenatal yoga. We were already gung ho on doing cloth diapers, but now we know even more. We're ready-just 2 more months to go.