35 weeks...craziness!

hi all! biscuit and i met with the midwife yesterday. we are strong and growing! i am now up to 17 pounds of pressure and the belly has added another 2.5 centimeters...35.5 total, measuring perfectly with the gestation of the biscuit. no c-section for this crew!!!

another few signs of this growing baby...the heartrate has dropped (as duke says s/he is leaving the hummingbird stage) to a whopping 120 bpm. (right now, my mom is reading this and saying, "it's a boy!" haha) biscuit moves so much that i actually googled...."is it supposed to hurt when your baby kicks?" and sometimes it just does!

we went to a reggae show on saturday, and biscuit was going crazy with the base. s/he seems to have taken on a new favorite position since then which is buns out...just above my bellybutton...and s/he likes to put two little feet on the back and side of my uterus and push with all of the strength in the world...OUCH! and s/he shakes it's little booty back and forth causing my belly to look like jello...it is awesome!

as far as the gestational diabetes goes...it is all under control. i am still eating crazy amounts of vegetables and lean proteins. snacks include carrots with peanut butter (don't knock it...delish!), roasted pecans and smoked gouda cheese, greek yogurt, cucumbers with salt n' vinegar and straight kim...(korean seaweed). oh, and if i am really good, coconut milk ice cream! yum yum yum! try it...especially if you are lactose intolerant!

i am so thankful that i eat everything. makes this diet much easier! other than my big ole basketball belly, i am thinner than on our wedding day...crazy.

we've started our "birthing from within" classes. we have another one on thursday. i'll blog more about that later. it is good. we like it.

much love to you all!!! xoxoxo duke, tstar and the biscuit