So, I personally find pregnant parking to be a little annoying. However, if a business wants to designate a few spots with that little stork sign, I don't have a problem with it. As long as they're there, though, it irritates me when someone who's not pregnant or barely pregnant parks there. We have four spaces in front of our building reserved for "expectant mothers" because there is an OB/GYN on the 7th floor. I have never used them...I could, especially now, as there is nothing saying they're only for his patients...but I would just prefer to leave them for them. There's a woman who works in our building who parks there all day, every day, and we have no idea whether she's just blatantly not pregnant or if she took the test last week or something because at any rate, she has no stomach.

Like I said, there's nothing there to say that you have to be a patient of the OB/GYN, but seriously, at least wait till you're looking respectably knocked up. If I can haul my 7 1/2 month pregnant butt halfway across the parking lot, she can lug her microscopic embryo a couple more spaces.

The baby drastically changed positions in the last week, which he never does. He used to be pretty much straight up and down. He never changed positions at all since our last ultrasound where the doctor said he was head-down. I kept growing out and out.

All of a sudden, though, I looked down and instead of seeing what looked like a mountain peak, I saw what looked more like a hill. It was kinda weird - like I am poking out less now than I was a week ago, but it just spread a little from side to side. It seems that his entire body kind of rotated so that instead of going straight up, he kind of went to the side so that his head is still down (I think and hope), but his back and butt go up the right side of me, and the rest of his body is nestled on the left.

It's crazy because now when he moves, I'll get little mini-mountains on the left where a knee or a foot is poking out (I can hold it in my fingers) and then a huge mountain on the right where his body will poke out. If he's stretching all the way out, I can press my belly button all the way in and feel all this empty space between his tummy and his legs.

The other night we were sitting here looking at my tummy, watching him move, and all of a sudden it was like a vacuum had come in behind my belly button and sucked it and my tummy in. My partially-outtie belly button went back in, and the area around it got all sucked in. It was like there was an umbilical cord attached to my own belly button from the inside, and he was tugging at it with all his might.

One good thing about his change in position is that it has taken a lot of weight off my bladder. For the first time in a long time, I can often go a couple hours without having to pee.

On the other hand, now that all his weight is on my right side, my hip is killing me. I drove to Dallas, GA yesterday, and having to use my right foot for the pedals, by the time I got there my hip was killing me. It felt like the bones were grinding together. I hope he doesn't get too comfortable there for the remaining 7-or-so weeks.

I think he is going to be a big one. My tummy is basically all baby...I can feel where he starts and where he ends, and I'm not really sure how much bigger I am comfortable with him getting...If he is supposedly about 4 pounds, and I have about 4 pounds to add, then I am not sure how he's going to get through me. We'll see - I could be wrong, but he just feels fairly large. I come from a long line of big babies, so I would not be surprised.