34 weeks, hurray!

After an extended staycation at my parent's comfortable home (complete with nightly home-cooked meals), our follow-up testing was all negative (meaning normal) and our little family flew back across the Pacific (in business class, a nice luxury when pregnant). The first couple of weeks back, I was still cautious. My incredible employer gave me no hassles about not taking call and put me in the office just  a few hours each week. As time passes, I've gone back to my regular activities, I'm back in clinic daily, I've done a couple of births and will go back on the call schedule on a limited basis in June. With daily temperatures above 90 degrees, we have taken to near daily trips to the beach to cool off although the water often feels more like a warm bath than a refreshing cool dip. The baby moves like crazy. If he comes out skinny it is from doing his daily workouts. For the most part, I still feel like my normal self. I have yet to be afflicted by swollen ankles and the waddle that a acquired earlier has gone away as has the hip pain that accompanied it. My mom will fly out around 38 weeks to stay for 2 months; hopefully he stays in until then. In the mean time, we practice the hypnobirthing techniques that we learned in classes in the States. So now we wait, grateful for each passing week.