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I've been told I'm not updating this often enough. I know! It's just that there isn't a whole lot changing on a day to day basis. We go to work, I eat stuff, baby kicks, we sleep. All so terribly exciting.

We're now 22 weeks along.

Baby is still kicking a lot, sometimes quite strongly. I'm getting familiar with her active and quiet times, which supposedly are an indication of when she'll be active after birth. She's most active from about 6-7 am, midmorning, 2-3, 6-8, and 11 or so. If she's active at night, it isn't strong enough yet to keep me awake. I realized on Tuesday that I can now feel her kicking while walking around, not just while sitting still.

I had some mild cramps for about 24 hours a week or so ago, but they went away as soon as I called the doctor, and haven't been back since thankfully. They think it was probably just normal growth pains.

My belly button is nowhere near inside out yet (which is good, since that freaks me out more than just about anything related to pregnancy except childbirth and becoming responsible for a baby), but it is getting shallower (more shallow? Shallower looks wrong). This is an interesting process to watch - I can now see parts of my belly button that have never before seen the light of day!

I apparently still don't look terribly pregnant in clothing, though I'm bigger than I was. People are still surprised when I tell them, even when I'm wearing somewhat tight clothing. This is both kind of neat and frustrating. I dread taking a crowded bus and having to stand because people don't believe me :)

I think I take after my mom, who says she didn't really show until 7 months, and looked about 5 months pregnant at 9 months. Or at least I can hope.

I can also hope that I take after my mom in terms of length of labor, and that baby takes after me in size. I was about 6.5 pounds. Christof was 10+.

She really needs to take after me in that respect. I'll happily take an outie belly button if it means she ends up between 6 and 8 pounds.

Despite predictions to the contrary a few weeks ago, I'm still in the same size-larger jeans and haven't moved to maternity pants yet. Maybe I will soon, maybe I won't. These are still plenty loose when walking around, but getting a little tight when sitting.

The makers of maternity pants don't seem to have heard of the concept of pockets. This is annoying. I'm thinking about sewing pockets into the pairs I have.

Next doctor's appointment is the 26th, though I don't suspect that will result in any exciting new developments.

But look at it this way - lack of exciting new developments at this point is a good thing, right? Ideally, we will hold off on exciting new developments until mid-July or so. I'm thinking the same way about ultrasounds - we don't really want to have to have another ultrasound, even if it means finding out whether baby is male or female. Better that everything goes perfectly and they can't find a reason for another.

And now for something completely different...

This is today's Get Fuzzy:



Ok, I think it is time for me to get us to bed...

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Updated lemurbaby.

SCC put up the schedule for summer semester. I had the insane thought that I could take a class during the first six week session - it would end before my due date. But that would be, well, insane. Especially if I don't end up taking maternity leave until the very end, which is likely if there isn't a medical reason to take it earlier. Luckily, there is nothing being offered during the first six weeks that looks remotely interesting. Mostly "How To Use Excel" and things like that.

They're going to start offering yoga. 3 blocks away from my apartment. At a time I could theoretically take it if I wasn't going to have a watermelon-sized mass stuck in my belly. Why couldn't they have done this a year ago?

I'm trying to find distance learning classes for next year that are not too internet dependant (in case we don't have reliable access after moving), not too expensive, and are accredited. Or unaccredited but life-applicable. I'm not having much luck so far, though I know they exist. If I'm going to be staying at home, I'm going to need something to do besides stare at baby the whole time. Plus, there are still a bunch of lower level/general ed. type requirements that I should finish before transfering to a university, and it would be nice to finish my degree before 2010.

I'm kind of tempted to not get internet access at all for at least a little while after we move, to force myself to find more productive things to do with my life. Not that I can't do that with internet access, but it's a major distraction. koyote wants to have some sort of access though, and honestly, I do too. It's much easier to keep in touch with people that way. It just has the potential to be too absorbing, especially if I've just moved to the middle of nowhere.

This is kind of funny because we've done a complete 180 degree flip from our positions on internet access a few weeks ago, though that was partially a misunderstanding (he thought I was set on having broadband. I could honestly care less about speed as long as there is access of some type. I've used slow dialup often enough in the past).

I'm working on gift registries for lemurbaby. It's entertaining. I stayed up all Friday night doing that and listening to the rain pour down outside. Then today I found a registry consolidation site that includes the three best natural baby type stores I found in my Friday searches. This is neat. I found one store that had pretty much everything we wanted, but a few things were missing, and some weren't exactly the type I wanted. Now I can be terribly greedy and ask for it all!

Creating gift registries makes me feel weird. I've pretty much been brought up not to ask for specific things, and to be happy with what I get. But at the same time we really don't want to end up with a bunch of stuff that isn't useful, given that we're likely to end up being oddball hippy parents and we're moving shortly after the baby is born. I know people would generally rather give gifts that we'll actually use. And it isn't like we're demanding certain things - just giving them an easy way to get what we need if they choose to do it that way.

Still, I probably wouldn't create an actual registry if we hadn't been told by someone at work that I am required to create one. Just a general "this is what we need/want" list.

Speaking of that, I really must remember to email my grandma and tell her we already have a sewing machine (she offered me one for my birthday).

It's late. I should be asleep, but as usual, I slept too much today, so I'm attempting to get a bit more tired first - getting to sleep late and sleeping straight through tends to work better for me than getting to sleep earlier and waking up at about 2 AM.

Perhaps I will go contemplate my ever-shrinking navel for a while.