third trimester

August 13, 2007

I start the third trimester this week (today if you want to be technical). Tomorrow begins week 27 and the 7th month!

I’ve been really busy with work since arriving in Memphis, but things are going well. I’m feeling really good and not tired from all the extra activity. I didn’t sleep well last night b/c I had a mountain dew late in the day, so I’m very tired today. But work certainly isn’t wearing me out, so that’s a good thing. I haven’t had time to take pictures, but I will try to remember to do it this week. I certainly am growing, lol. The baby is moving around a lot. It was turned head down the other day and kicking me a alot up high. I had terrible heart burn for a few days while that was going on. Baby Jerk would stretch his/her legs out and push out the top of my stomach. It was a really weird feeling. The baby has turned back around the other way now and I’m feeling a lot of movement down low. Lots of kicks to my colon. Isn’t that nice???

I went to a bar Saturday night with some people from work and had a really good time. We went to the Flying Saucer in Memphis to drink some beer and listen to music. The Flying Saucer is the best beer bar I’ve ever been to. I couldn’t pass up trying a few new beers while I was there, so I bought a flight (5 samplers of beer) had a sip or two of each and passed them around to my friends. Nobody complained that I bought beer I couldn’t drink, lol. I think everyone was impressed with my ridiculous level of beer knowledge also. The Flying Saucer is so awesome they even have 3 different imported non-alcoholic beers. So I did get to sit around and “drink beer” with the rest of the crew!

I am trying to motivate myself to start organizing our registries. Aaron came up with me for the first weekend I was here, so we went to Babies R Us and started a registry. I’m trying to get it organized and move some stuff to a Target registry, but I’m finding too many other things to keep me occupied. I also need to buy some books from Barnes and Noble (which is across the street from Target) but I can’t get motivated to drive all the way over there!!

4 Responses to “third trimester”

  1. vic says:

    i cant wait to see pics! thats funny that the mountain dew kept you up. i cant drink caffiene that late either for the same reason and tim doesnt believe me!

  2. Fran Peacock says:

    OOOH, the Flying Saucer – that's where we went for my bacheleorette party back in April. We had our picture taken with Elvis. We're such tourists.

  3. Jennifer says:

    Guess what I found out from the lactation consultant? It's OK to have a beer when breastfeeding, it does something good for the baby (I wish I knew what, but it was just a boatload of information.) No word yet on if Jack prefers Abita Amber or Lite, ha ha ha.

    P.S. I haven't had a beer yet, I just like knowing that I can!

  4. Brandi says:

    ooh, Jennifer, I'm glad you told me that! I just looked it up and found something on the NIH.gov website: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11065057&dopt=AbstractPlus

    It says that there is a complex carbohydrate present in the barley that can stimulate prolactin secretion.

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