growing baby

I am now in my third trimester.  I can’t believe the baby is due in less than three months.  Now I have prenatal visits every two weeks–today I found out that I don’t have gestational diabetes (yay!) but that I’ve graduated from borderline anemia to full-fledged anemia (boo).  Baby’s getting all the iron he needs, but I guess there aren’t quite enough leftovers for me too.  So now I’m supposed to eat still more red meat and green leafy veggies.  In fact, the doctor said to try to wolf down meat twice a day.  I like meat as much as your next happy non-vegetarian, but my goodness–once this pregnancy is over, my cholesterol will be sky-high.

In the meantime, Ilya and I are finally starting to get the baby’s room together.  So far our big project is assembling the crib which is currently in pieces all over the floor.  Then I need to get rid of a mess-load of books and move out the bookshelves that are currently in the room.  I’m hoping we’ll be able to squeeze the extra bookshelves into stray corners in the living room. 

We’ve also started using dryer balls in the drying machine instead of dryer sheets.  (I think that’s the most times I’ve ever used “dryer/drying” in one sentence.)  Apparently, the chemicals in dryer sheets make cloth diapers lose their absorbency–plus aren’t nice for a baby’s skin.  Since we’re going to *try* to wash our own cloth diapers, we’ve started on the dryer balls so our dryer will be nicely chemical-free by the time baby arrives.  Super-mom Melissa says that it’s very easy to do cloth diapering.  Hopefully semi-lazy-mom Linda will find it doable as well!