Tomorrow starts Week #34

...and that means I'm just three weeks from term! And just about seven weeks from my due date.

I probably weigh between 4 and 5 pounds now, and since my brain and synapses are connecting up better with my eyes and ears, they think I can really distinguish colors and sounds now. Mom impulse-bought some baby music yesterday -- classical songs and lullabies -- and she went right to sleep while listening to them, while I just kept on groovin'. I might have also been a little hyper from the pumpkin pie. Mmmmm, pumpkin pie.

I'm causing mom some leg-swelling and headaches now, and she's been super tired. And short of breath -- I think I take up a lot of the space where her lungs would usually inflate. But she's being a pretty good host -- she got one of those bouncy balls, and sits on it to let me bounce around. It's a nice feeling.

It's getting cramped in here...

and I'm feeling antsy.

These days, when I want to stretch my legs a little, I'm bulging out on both sides of the belly at once, or pushing up under the ribcage. I have the hiccups more often (((HICK!)))), and also some occasional sudden spasm-y fast movements that Mom thinks might foreshadow a stormy temperament. Tantrums, anyone??

As a result of all this, I'm not letting her get much sleep, and her eating more than a bite or two of anything usually results in wicked heartburn. Well, maybe that will make her more willing to finally LET...(kick)...ME...(kick, punch, headbutt)...OUT!!!!

This is Week 32 for me. I probably weigh about 4 lbs now, and am practicing blinking and breathing. I can't see a whole lot, unless mom's near some bright lights, and then it's mostly a pretty reddish haze. And I can still do those flip-turns, but not as often anymore.

The outside world is a strange place

Yesterday, Mom had some music on and was moving around funny, swaying from side to side and spinning around. It was sort of fun. Plus, she was singing. Something about a "Natural Woman"? I don't think I'm getting how funny that is, but someday I will. Dad seemed to think she looked hi-larious. I wonder if she was dressed?

I noticed that when she does that hip swaying thing, I actually shift from side to side in the belly and sort of bulge out on either side. Most of the time these days my butt is up on top and my head is sort of lower, and whichever side of her belly has me on it sort of has a little lopsided butt-bulge.

I'm feeling pretty good these days -- strong! I can kick hard enough to move things away from the belly, or to get up underneath the ribcage for a kick at the organs up there.

Mom and Dad are spending two evenings a week at some sort of meeting where they talk about babies being born, and practice nice things like positions that make me happy, and massages that make Mom happy (which makes me happy, too!)

Otherwise, not much new to report -- I weigh about 3 pounds, my fingernails and hair may be growing now, and I'm just getting ready to make my debut in a couple of months...