Witch Mama PDX

39 days until due date! It’s likely my care team won’t let me go past that date due to my platelets being on the low side. I’m hoping he will come naturally so we can avoid induction.

That being said, this feels like the longest month in history. In the hopes of keeping myself busy, I’ve been experimenting with the Instant Pot I got a month ago, and I’m completely obsessed with it. Enjoying making things I wouldn’t necessarily feel confident doing on the stove, although I love traditional cooking. Last night’s dinner was a chicken stirfry with fresh ginger, garlic hoisin teriyaki, peppers, onions and broccoli over rice. Great success!

Got a huge Amazon order today with the accessories I need to get more adventurous with it, plus a desserts cookbook.

34 weeks today. Had a brief routine appointment, looks like we are officially going to have one appointment a week until baby is born, to check my platelets and make sure I don’t need an infusion before birth. It’s my one and only true complaint from this entire pregnancy. Gestational thrombocytopenia. It sounds scarier than it is, and hasn’t affected me at all yet. It’s a condition somewhere between 8-10% of pregnant women develop for no apparent reason. Otherwise I feel fantastic.

Made a Target run, found nothing we went for but tons of things we needed. (Of course, it’s Target!) Two Instant Pot cookbooks - I’m obsessed with my kitchen robot - and two mini bathroom organizational carts for $3.75 each. Neither will be used in the bathroom, one is for diaper change supplies and one is for my side of the bed for nursing supplies/snacks/whatever else.