28 Weeks

May 20th, 2009

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s here.  Tori has officially cruised into the third trimester.  Not that I had any worries, it’s almost like she’s done this before.  Tori has a calm, cool way about her pregnant self, and if you know her it’s hard not to notice it.   I had a lot of deep seated worries when we found out she was with child.   I was concerned that the uncomfortable side effects of the pregnancy might be too much.  I hate, hate, hate seeing my wife unhappy, especially if it’s due to physical pain or emotional duress.  I know we have a few months to go; but I feel very assured that she feels secure, comfortable (in love with, actually) with her pregnant body, and truly blessed to be creating this child.  She doesn’t even really have bad days…just bad hour-or-twos now and then.    

Here’s a list of interesting things I’ve seen or noticed:

• She does the “hand lovingly on top of the belly” thing that every pregnant woman I have even know does.  I think it’s one of the most cutest damn things I’ve ever seen.
• The belly sticks out further than the boobs.  Cool milestone.
• The thing about “pregnancy brain”  is true.  For the most part, Tori is sharper than ever before.  But every once in a while, she just blanks on stuff.  Like her address.  
• Tiny E is moving around like crazy in there.  Rather than feeling wavy movents, I can feel limbs now.  
• I rather expected to have some gut feeling on the sex of our baby, but nope.  Nothing. Nada.  Tori, on the other hand, has had some intuition…

Tomorrow morning we’re headed to the doc for Tori’s gestational diabetes screen.  She’ll have to go easy on food tomorrow, so tonight we grilled and hung out in the backyard for a while.    She looked so beautiful in the setting sunlight, and I took some photos by our blooming bizarro lilac tree.  

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