24 Weeks: Baby-Do-List

We have reached viability! According to my Ovia pregnancy app. Baby's lungs are getting good enough at breathing that if she were to be born today there is a great chance she would survive! Hooray! Of course we do not want that to happen. She better stay in there as long as possible! This week she is the size of an egg plant. She weighs about 1.5-2 pounds and is gaining weight at a rate of 6 ounces per week. (No wonder I gained so much weight this month!) Her ears are getting even sharper and her face is fully formed complete with eyelashes, eyebrows, and hair! I wonder if she will be blonde like Andy's family or brunette like me? Curly hair or straight hair? And what color will her eyes be? I can't wait to find out!
As baby continues to grow I have started experiencing new symptoms. I am no longer the heavy sleeper I used to be. I wake up at least twice during the night and am wide awake a good 30 minutes before I can go back to sleep. I have started getting leg cramps at night and backaches during the day. I also think there have been 2 instances where I have had Braxton Hicks, although I can't be sure.
Everything went well at our monthly checkup yesterday. The doctor used the doppler and we got to hear her heartbeat! I live for those few seconds! Here is my question about Dopplers: Do they pick up the heartbeat exactly where the baby is, or can the doctor put it anywhere on my uterus and find it? I ask because yesterday I had been feeling the baby kick me a lot on the left. Then when the doctor used the doppler in the middle she couldn't pick anything up. She had to move it all the way to my right side close to my hip bone to get the heartbeat. Was that where she was at the moment? We also began a new routine at the doctor yesterday. She took a tape measure and measured my stomach! I guess that means it's grown enough that it now needs to be documented :)
In other news, Andy and I have officially been in our new townhouse for a week! And let me just say the clutter and the mess is driving me INSANE! I do not know who this clean freak, organization Nazi is but I blame it on the hormones. Or maybe its just that before in our old apartment there was just so much stuff everywhere and I knew we were moving so it just didn't matter. Anyways, there is so much to do it is becoming overwhelming, and everything we accomplish seems to make a mess somewhere else. I spent much of yesterday creating what I'm calling a "Baby-Do-List" Everything we need to get done house wise and baby wise before a deadline of April 1st.  It's not super long and there are a lot of little things on it, but with Andy and I both working full time jobs and living basically paycheck to paycheck it may take awhile. Here is a copy:

As you can see I've already crossed two things off! Buy a couch and pay Dr. bill! We accomplished these two yesterday and WE LOVE OUR NEW COUCHES! Hopefully we'll get a couple more things crossed off by the end of the weekend. But for now, on this beautiful Saturday morning, Andy and I are enjoying finally being able to sit down on something other than the floor and are extremely happy about the the fact that I am paid in full for doctor visits through my 6 weeks postpartum checkup!

Here is Andy enjoying reclining on our new sofa this morning!