A+ and A-

So I have A- blood and Pedja has A+ blood. It is highly likely that baby m will have A+ blood like daddy.
These days, all mommies with any - blood type need to get a Rhogam shot at 28 weeks.
It has no side effects for me or baby m, but it protects me from building up any antibodies to fight against the baby should any of it's blood leak into my system for any reason.
I had my shot yesterday and met with Ann one of the midwives that works at UCLA.
She was wonderful, patient and informative and I feel confident about delivering with them on or around January 9!
My mom came up on Monday night and was a real trooper when I dragged her to a vegan restaurant I have been wanting to try, called the vegan joint. Dinner was delish! I had fried faux chicken with brown rice and veggies and she had a lentil brown rice burger. I know this may sound terrible to all my meat eating friends, but it was super! She spent the night with us and I took the day off of work so we got to spend a wonderful day together yesterday. The weather was over 80 (yes thats october in LA!) and we spent alot of the day outside in the sun walking around searching for a maternity dress for me. Not so much luck but it was still a great day. She joined me for my shot appointment and then we tried to find the labor and delivery wing so we both know where to go on the big day. Pedja and I have our tour of the wing next Monday which we are looking forward to. Now that I am over 28 weeks I have to go every 2 weeks for check ups. Everything looks good, however Im still anemic and need to up my iron intake a bit.

28 weeks

I had my first baby/birth dream last night. I was in a room with 3 women (I couldn't see their faces) and I said" I have to push." I did and out came a perfectly clean baby feet first! they grabbed him and said "its a boy but he's not ready yet," so they pushed him back in. Next thing I remember Im with my mom and I said "its time" and i pushed once and again --out came this perfectly clean baby feet first. I grabbed him and pulled him up on to my chest. I checked for 10 fingers and toes while mom got a towel. and then I woke up! I can only hope my labor is as easy as this, but not a fan of the feet first thing.
Baby M is kicking away

27 weeks

This week was good I am entering the eternally tired phase it seems i can fall asl..
see i almost did it right there
i can fall asleep at any given moment.
Baby is kicking all the time. Other than that we are moving along well i must say.
tech support (aka my brother/ aka uncle dan) had to come rescue us from a broken computer modem
i cant really complain though because it was accidentally broken when my rad husband was cleaning the house on his day off! the top photo is of dan and i from pedjas birthday bbq. Uncle Dan is probably one of big brother Luka's favorite people on the planet and i agree 100%. hes a great guy.
It was my father in law Radovan's birthday this week. Even though we didn't get to celebrate together we send lots of birthday cheer to him! the bottom picture is of me and him from our trip back to Serbia in August. He speaks no English and i speak little Serbian but i know he adores me and is very excited about the arrival of the newest Milenkovic.

26 weeks

I am 26 weeks along now and i think i went through a growth spurt last week, this belly seems to have doubled in size suddenly!
My mom and I had a small surprise birthday gathering for my amazing little sister Andrea who is also newly a fiance! yea! Congrats Ben and Andrea! SOOOO happy for you both! It was so great to see her surprised face and really fun laughing and hanging out with the girls. Laughter and good food is the best medicine for sadness right?
here are my first belly pics and one of Andrea and I on the bottom.