**Sidenote:  The crazy hair?  Yes, that’s because AFTER I got undressed, I realized that OH CRAP I need to take a photo!  So, I redressed and kind of forgot to check my hair.  Oh well.

Today, you kids are getting a special treat, a photo with my belly AND face.  Don’t you just feel special?  You should.

The 31 week mark has come and gone (or would have in less than 2 hours), and I’m feeling exhausted and like i’m going to pass out.  It just started a few days ago (and if you weren’t aware of this, maybe you shouldn’t tell me because then I would SO KNOW you’ve not been reading my blog.  Gaw.  Don’t you know every spare moment of your time should um…REVOLVE AROUND ME?  Consider this your warning, mmmkay?)

So, today I went to my obligatory every-2-week OB visit just to wait for an hour, do the ritualistic pee-in-the-cup thing, and…a 4D ultrasound!  With Lorelei, at 34 weeks she was still breech – but Aurora?  Yeh, she’s already head down.  And, turns out I’m not completely dying, I’m just a pregnant anemic with an infection.  So, yay for that.  Actually, I’m kind of excited by the news – which makes me sound sick in the head – but, at least I know that in exactly 7 days, I should feel much better (because my antibiotic lasts 7 days).  I’m now on a red-meat and dark-greens diet, doctors orders.  So, feel free to send me steaks and shrimp.  Yes, I know shrimp isn’t red meat…it just sounds good with steak.  That, and I generally don’t eat much beef because I prefer chicken or seafood or NO MEAT…so this is harder than it sounds for me.  I just want you all to know that me eating steaks is SUFFERING.  Feel bad for me, okay?  *snicker*

It looks as if Aurora is also a pouty-faced bald baby, and she’s still a girl.

What else?  What else?

Oh, 113 lbs in my new weigh in.  That, and I have the best OB ever.  She actually called my cell and left me a personal msg apologizing for not being there the second 2-week appt in a row because she had a hospital emergency to tend to.  She told me to call her if I needed her at all or if anything came up.

And just so you all know…that horrid crunchy grindy tail-bone feeling I sometimes have when I roll over or try to walk?  It’s the plates in my lower back grinding together.  Apparently I can drink a LOT more water (8 8oz glasses no longer cut it for some of us) and it’ll help.  That, and it was suggested that I buy one of those girdle thingies to hold up my stomach.  Which I won’t do.  Because, taking a nap with a pillow between my legs also tends to help the lower back pain and that sounds like WAY more fun.  So, I choose that one.

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