32 weeks

I guess I'm going to go ahead and post a photo every two weeks now instead of once a month. There should be enough change and enough to talk about to warrant a post each fortnight during the third trimester, right?

The photo for week 30 was taken in the hotel room that we were staying in while looking for an apartment, but this week the photo was taken in our new apartment! We're excited to have found a place, and on Sunday Jonathan pretty much single-handedly moved our things into the apartment (with a tiny bit of help from me carrying anything small and light). We are so relieved and happy to have found a place to live and to have our things with us again! Now begins the monumental task of unpacking and finding places for everything. How do we still have so much stuff?! We got rid of tons before we packed up in Maine, but somehow we still have quite a bunch of boxes. Once we have most of the necessary items unpacked, we'll start working on acquiring the basic baby gear. If any of you have suggestions and/or recommendations, definitely let us know. We love advice!

Baby G is still moving and grooving, and of course still enjoys the nighttime hours best to do his or her exercises. I had quite a sore back for the most-of-the-week that we were in our apartment before our things arrived, since the only place we could sit during most of that time was on the floor, and we were sleeping on camping Therm-a-Rest mattresses on the floor, so I am thrilled that we have our bed now. We're just sleeping on the mattress on the floor at the moment, but it's one of our first priorities to set up the bed frame and get up off the floor. We did also buy a kitchen table and chairs midway through last week, so at least we have had some chairs since Wednesday, which was a huge improvement over sitting on the floor all the time. The only other pregnancy symptom I'm feeling right now is a bit of reflux every now and then, mostly when I lie down to go to bed at night. Propping my head up with two flat pillows (instead of my usual one flat pillow) seems to work fairly well to get rid of the reflux. All in all, I still feel pretty good for the vast majority of the time, for which I am extremely thankful!

During the first week of May (the week we first arrived in the Folsom area), we met with a few different midwife teams and it didn't take us long to make a decision about which team to go with for the remainder of our prenatal care and for our birth experience and postpartum care. We felt at ease and very comfortable with the team right from the start and think it will be a great fit for all of us. We had our first appointment with our new midwife team on Wednesday, May 13 and it went well. The day before, Tuesday, May 12, we also started a childbirth class with the same team that is taught by one of the student midwives, and it has been a great experience so far. There is only one other couple in the class, which means we have lots of time for discussion and questions and practicing various things that we're learning. So, all in all the past two weeks have been pretty full and busy, but we've made good progress with finding caregivers here in this area, and starting with appointments and classes. Only 8 weeks (plus or minus) left to go before we meet Baby G in person!