Woohoo!

I had an appointment today with the doc (I'm now going every two weeks until the last month when I'll go every week).

Two good pieces of baby news:

1. I only gained half a pound over the last 2 weeks!! They estimate a pound a week for the last several weeks, but over the past 4 weeks, I've only gained 2 pounds! Don't worry - I'm certainly not dieting - I'm eating plenty, but trying to eat well, and I am trying to stay active, so I'm quite pleased with my little "plateau" of weight gain. This should put me on track to have between 30 and 40 pounds of total weight gain. (I'm hoping for closer to 30 rather than 40...) Ideally, I'd love for those numbers to be lower, but what are you going to do? I was at a healthy weight to start with, so that's pretty normal - or so I have gathered from polling all my girlfriends.

2. Baby Fannin is already head down - or at least we're pretty sure. She's such a smart girl! I'm not sure when they need to be head down by, but I do know that we're getting to that point where I'd be worried about a breech birth and having to do a c-section if she weren't. We can't tell for sure that she's not sunny-side up, but my OB thinks she's not - so that's even more good news. I know things can still change a bit, but if I can avoid excessive back labor and a c-section, I'm going to be one happy girl!

Before today, I was pretty sure what position she was in, but not which direction. There was something big and solid right in the middle of my belly (a little on the left - my left), and there was something small and hard up toward the top of my belly, all the way over on my right side - almost in my ribs. And something would occasionally move really low, too, so I was pretty certain that her butt...pardon me, bottom - was in the middle, but I couldn't figure out if she were head down with feet in my ribs, or head up and I was feeling little fists or elbows in my ribs. Turns out it was probably feet.

I'm not sure if I'll have another ultrasound at this point, but that's what my OB said she was feeling as she was mashing around on my belly this morning.

Looking forward to seeing some of you soon, and then you can feel her moving for yourself!