Hi.  It’s me, the big huge pregnant lady.  The one you might have seen leaving her snowy driveway at 8:30 this morning so she could make it through the storm to her 9:30 birth center appointment.  The same one who called the birth center an hour later, just 3 or 4 miles from her house.  The one who left the GPS at home, but still thought she could bypass the standstill freeway and ended up completely lost.  Lost, going 5 miles per hour, frantically calling her husband at work hoping he could give her some directions, but no answer.   The one who called the birth center for directions and got the nurse who has only lived in Denver for 2 months and was as clueless as she was as to how to get headed in the right direction.  The one who finally got through to her husband’s voice mail and broke into tears, who fed her two little boys their lunch in the car  by 10 AM to keep them happy in the slow moving icy traffic, and then was miraculously called on the phone by her Visiting Teacher who gave her directions.  The big, crazy, frazzled pregnant lady who finally got to the birth center at 10:45.  After leaving home at 8:30.

Yep, that’s me.  I probably should have just turned around and gone back home when I saw how slow traffic was moving.

But, my visit with my midwives was good.  I have been Group B Strep positive with all four of my previous pregnancies– requiring that I have IV antibiotics during labor.  This time my test came back NEGATIVE!!!  I have been taking probiotics, eating lots of yogurt, and taking odor free garlic (when I think of it) and I got rid of those pesky bad bacteria in my guts!!  Is that cool or what?!

Also, I was wearing my green cordouroy shirt and the nurses and midwives were all perceptive enough to know that I needed compliments on it.  I made it after all.  Want to see?

It’s view J from Lovely Maternity Dresses.  I have made view E, but it ended up too big.  I was sure I’d need to make a pretty big size and after trying to study the Japanese size charts and deciphering what I thought were prepregnancy and pregnancy measurements and size charts I decided to opt for a size 11.  Turns out that the patterns take into account how actual people grow during pregancy, and so an 11 on my 5′ 2″ narrow shouldered, though swollen body was too big.  This one I made in a 9 and it is just right.  I’ll probably be wearing it almost everyday until this little guy pops out.

And here’s another Built By Wendy shirt.  Just with long sleeves.  Not quite as comfy as my green corouroy shirt, but will do when I have to take it off to do laundry.

And here’s my photography helper.

I’m always amazed that something this cute actually exists.  I think I can handle one more.