Today was our 34 week appointment.  All is right with baby.  My iron was rechecked at my last appointment and it has gone up a whole point, so now it’s just a little low instead of crazy low.  Last night was amazing – the kids slept and I slept.  I am usually up a million times a night, but only woke up once in the 6 hours I was in bed last night.  That never happens!

{I set the timer to take a picture but it went off early.  This is what I got}

My belly is sticking pretty far out and I cannot believe I only have 5 1/2 weeks before the baby is due!  Can you believe it?  I have a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions.  That’s been going on for a few months at least.  I’m not sure if I mentioned it, but I didn’t realize I was having them during Charlie’s pregnancy until some point in this pregnancy when I realized that’s what I was feeling.  You would assume that by my 3rd pregnancy, I would just know, but that isn’t what happened.  It took 3 pregnancies to figure it out, haha.  Anyways, my stomach basically does a lot of contorting throughout the day as baby makes it change shape regularly.  Baby is still head down which makes me happy!

{This is the crappy picture I ended up with and didn’t realize until I was too lazy to retake it}

My heartburn is still awful, hideous, and really sucks.  Probably having something to do with that, I have only gained 3 pounds this pregnancy.

There really isn’t much of anything that I absolutely need for this baby.  But, there was one thing I have been wanting to get – a new infant seat.  My sister bought me mine for my baby shower and there isn’t anything wrong with it.  The only thing I didn’t like was that it was very hard to tighten.  It was almost like I had to rethread the straps partway to tighten or loosen the straps.  I didn’t mind with Maggie, probably because I didn’t know the difference, but with Charlie, it became frustrating but I still didn’t know any better.  Then I saw a friends carseat with a one pull tighten strap and I realized how much more work I was doing!  Anyways, I will be reviewing the Combi Shuttle and it arrived on Wednesday.  I am in love!  {But still be sure to read my full review to find out why}.  To top it off, I got my first newborn cloth diaper for review as well this week – SmartBottoms Born Smart.  Now I am so excited!!!  I had been thinking these last 6 weeks would fly by…now I’m thinking they may drag just a bit!  Haha.