As of this week, I’m officially in the third trimester! I have as many weeks of pregnancy left as I had completed when I started blogging about this madness. That puts things into perspective.

I had a busy day at the doctor’s office this past week, as it was time for the dreaded Glucose tolerance test. This is given to just about everyone nowadays to test for gestational diabetes and involves drinking a super sweet, syrupy orange drink and then waiting an hour to have your blood drawn. I should get the results in the next few days, but fingers crossed that I pass. If you fail, it doesn’t mean that you have gestational diabetes, but there’s a more intense test (and drink) that you have to take to find out for sure.

While at the doctor’s office, I also got a Rhogham shot for my negative blood type. You can read all about that here in this debbie downer post from my 17th week. They’re also testing to make sure that I haven’t built up any antibodies, which would mean the negative blood type still isn’t an issue. Besides that, I’m happy to report that everything I was concerned about in that post is no longer an issue!

Lately though, I have had a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions, which are practice contractions to help get your body get ready for labor. I asked my doctor if it is okay that I was having more than a few per day and, while she said this was normal, she tested me for pre-term labor just to be safe. Thankfully, the test came back negative, so no worries there. Even though Iris Adella could survive if she was born today, it’s certainly best to keep her cookin for a good while longer.

Now for the fun stuff…

● I’m getting excited for my baby shower, which is just a month away.

● All of our nursery furniture came in! We have it set up, but the decorating is going a bit slow. I’m loving how simple & clean the room is right now, but I think after the shower I’ll have a better idea of what should go where.

● This weekend my dad is coming to visit us, so we can’t wait for that! I’m sure he’ll make an appearance in next week’s post. He’s super excited about his little “grand flower,” as he calls her.

● I’ve been doing more Instagram-ing than Tweeting lately, so here are a few pictures from the past week or so.

First load of baby clothes.

Everett helping.

Maternity dress from Kerri

Lone rocking chair

(attempting) to pick up the furniture

Sneak peek at the nursery (and me on the first day of my last trimester)

The fun stuff

The not so fun stuff

Sweet lil vintage jumper

My mom will love/hate this

Sadie modeling a felt bow I made for Iris.

And one last belly shot for good measure…