Seventh month, third trimester, 25th week. 103 days or 15 weeks to go. I think the two months to go is the part that makes it most in your face real feeling.

Last night we had our first natural birthing class. I expected the class to be mostly about breathing and relaxing and such. The midwife teaching the class started by saying that you already know how to breath and it would be boring to try to teach it to you.
So she discussed things like procedures, hormones, relaxing, the drugs they use and their side effects,the importance of bonding in the first hour. Also some breast feeding stuff, videos of live births in all full graphic detail, and water births. Being a natural child birthing class it was about no drugs, but actually she says there is a place for that when needed but the doctors have gone a little crazy with them.

We've been watching the Olympics quiet a bit this year, especially ice hockey. The American women were undefeated going into the game against Canada for the gold medal. Canada won, so we got silver. The American men played Finland today, winning 6-1. If the Canadian men win tonight then we will play them for gold also. We beat Canada already once, hopefully we can do it again.

Kim reached 24 weeks on Wednesday. Peanut's kicking gets stronger everyday.

We had our February checkup (23 weeks) with the OB today. The heartbeat is good, the size of Kim's belly is good, the ultrasound didn't find anything wrong. The ultrasound doctor had said that the placenta was a bit low, but it wasn't in the way so that was no big deal. The OB said it was stupid for him to have even mentioned it.
So we fired off a bunch of questions at the OB and he answered them as quickly as possible. We have another appointment at the very end of March, and another ultrasound.

As for Peanut, he decided to sleep sideways last night, giving Kim the opportunity to learn to be awake in the middle of the night. He is pretty willing to move if you start touching him, at least if I do it. Poor Kim, she can't sleep on her back or her tummy, nor her left side because it causes her hand to fall asleep. That leaves only sleeping on her right side all the time.

(By the way don't Google placenta).

For the last week or so we've been able to tell Peanut is moving around inside of Kim. There would be a foot or a head or something pushing out and it would disappear after touching it for a moment. The last day or two I've actually felt him kick, it feels like little tiny tapping going on, and it is clearly getting stronger. It is weird to think he could be born in as little as 15 weeks.

The Winter Olympics start tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing some Olympic Hockey.

This weekend is Valentine's Day. I think we are going to go get some German food, cause nothing says love like a plateful of kraut! (I think I am drooling a little bit).

Now that we know Peanut is a boy we have been putting some more effort into finding him a name. I've been told that Peanut will only work until he's preschool age and he may have something to say about that even before then. So we have been looking in the normal places, SSA has lists of the most popular names for 2008. We have a book, a magazine, and another website we have also been looking at.

I think we've got a top 25 list of boy's names. I like names that are not girlie without being over the top (like Bruno). Kim seems to be favoring something a little longer, to balance the one syllable-ness of our last name. It was easier picking a girl's name, we have had a girl's name picked for awhile, one that hopefully someday we'll still get to use!