On my way to this appointment, I locked myself out of the house again! I had my cell phone in hand, thinking it was my keys. My parents came to the rescue with the spare! We went out to lunch and was able to get another appointment a few hours later.
J's work threw him a surprise baby shower on Wednesday and he was surprised! His co-worker, I, organized it and the shower looked nice...I saw some pictures of the food, cake, and the room decorated in mostly pink. J brought home some left over cake from Hennings and it was yummy! It was fun opening the gifts that J didn't get to open at the shower and seeing all the cute little outfits, blankets, bibs, books, and items off the registry.
On J's way to work this morning, he got into a car accident. Thankfully, he's okay! The car is fixable and glad we don't need to get a new one with the baby on the way. Despite the hassle, it was nice spending the day together and were able to clean out the baby's closet and make room for her things.
Fertility conversations are few and far between, but I understand why it doesn't happen. We met a lovely couple on Sunday and are meeting up with another couple tomorrow night for dinner. A previous co-worker friend messaged me tonight and asked if I could speak with her friend who had 3 miscarriages and wants to talk to someone who understands loss and fertility struggles. There was a time when I didn't want to deal with the things that were hard in life and preferred to hide from everyone and everything. The quote below sums up what God's in the business of doing and I found a really good hiding place...take a listen to the song.
Hiding Place by Jars of Clay
Sleep: Getting up a couple times a night and sleeping on my left side. We moved the glider into our bedroom a while ago and I'll sleep there for a few hours some nights. Movement: Lots of it! :) As I'm blogging, I feel her hiccup for the first time...small, rhythmic movements! http://www.livestrong.com/article/501651-im-nine-months-pregnant-and-the-baby-is-having-lots-of-hiccups/ Cravings/Aversions: Still craving chocolate, esp. dark chocolate peanut m&m's...yum! Enjoying crunchy peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches with a cup of milk. What I miss: Nothing at all. Feeling really content. Symptoms: Bloated hands and feet mostly. Experiencing round ligament pain when I wake up from sleep and naps. Feeling numbness on my right fingertips...pointer, middle, and fourth fingers. Not feeling much low back pain. :) What I look forward to: I'm looking forward to my baby shower on Saturday! Milestones: Our baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. She's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in her skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for her to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as her brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood. 
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