28 weeks, 5 days.
So for all the grousing I did last week about being tired, I’ve actually been fine this week. Well, fine except when I have to walk – then I want to take a nap on the sidewalk. The baby is pretty heavy in the ole’ belly.
I haven’t posted much this week out of busyness and not feeling terribly well on one day, but everything here is fine. Small Monster is moving around wonderfully, and sometimes when he rolls under my hand I can feel body parts (though I can’t identify them). It’s probably the coolest thing ever.
Yes, yes, I know, first-time pregnant women talk like they’re the first person ever to experience pregnancy, but I can’t help it. It’s terribly bizarre to have a baby living in your belly, growing and wiggling around, and it is completely awesome. And this is the first Small Monster ever to be born, so I guess I do get to act like I’m all special 
Healthwise, things are pretty good. I’m a little wary of catching something nasty from the students who’ve started pulling all-nighters, but so far, so good. Small Monster is big, as I mentioned, and my abdomen can really, really hurt if I turn from one side to the other too fast at night (before, this was limited to round ligaments, but now is seems like moving quickly can hurt a whole variety of bits and pieces. Grrrrrrrr…), but otherwise, aside from being clumsy and unwieldy (no one should be trying to wield me anyway!), everything’s going according to plan.
Monday’s the next OB appointment, this time with the nurse-midwife, who will undoubtedly give me crap about my weight (something my OB never does…). Fortunately, these appointments are short, so I’m not going to worry about it. As long as the little monster is doing well, I’m not going to worry about much of anything 
Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
