Less than week!! (give or take...lol)

We are quickly approaching our due date! My last appointment was just on Wednesday....Dippin' Dot had dropped the week before, but decided to float back up! So, the midwives think that Dippin' Dot won't debut until Labor Day weekend, which is quite fitting. I feel pretty good about the house and nursery. We have everything ready for the DD's B-day! The birthing pool is blown up, the birthing kit is packed in the corner with everything else that we had to gather. Bart is putting the glider together tomorrow and that should just about finalize the nursery. I need to take some pictures and post them....hmmm, maybe tomorrow! After the glider is assembled!


I am ready to find out the sex of the baby now! Didn't get too anxious until the last week or so. We have a tentative appointment with a photographer on the 8th...she likes to come out 4-6 days after the birth, so it all depends on DD! I am really excited about that. I got a great deal on Livingsocial.com! It is much like Groupon.com...

Bart is getting ready to finish school soon! Again, depending on DD, he will walk at his graduation ceremony on the 11th of September. This coming week is his last for Herbal clinic and then only five more weeks of his last class. He should be a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist by the end of this year...after he takes all four of his board exams! It has been a long five years, but it will all be worth it! I couldn't be more proud of him! And just in time to be able to share all the special moments together of our precious newborn. Life is definitely good...

8 lbs! What?!

So, we met with the midwives today. Blood pressure was all good. I was only a little swollen in relation to how bad my feet are now...lol. I did get in trouble for my shoes, but my pants are too long to wear flats and it's casual Friday...can't pass up comfy pants...lol.


I measured big, 39-40. Apparently you are supposed to measure the same length as the number of weeks along you are. So, since I am 34 weeks, I should have measured 34...ha ha ha. The midwives are guessing I am going to have an 8 pound baby. They politely retracted it when my eyes popped out of my head and changed it to maybe 7 lbs 14 oz...lol.


We go again in another two weeks and then start weekly visits from then on. Getting close!! We can safely deliver at home as early as 36 weeks...that is only two weeks away! (Insert "Yikes" here!) So much to do!! 

Another Big One...

Another preg-o picture...getting huge now...lol. Off to the mid-wives tomorrow. I am 34 weeks now and getting more swollen because of all the lovely humidity that comes with monsoon season. Can't it rain already? Seriously? 

Hoping to get up to the cabin soon to cool off and shrink back down...ha ha ha...it started in my hands today and boy did they hurt all day. Had to soak them in ice water a little bit...

Well, Sugar (my cat) must be out of food...she is going to wake the neighbors up with her crying. Off to bed too, but not before I post another preggers pic...

6 Month Preg-o Pic...

This one is for Gina...she wanted to see pics. Haven't taken any recent ones lately. This is from about a month ago, I think...I get asked a lot if I am having twins.  I think I look so big because I am short. At least, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it! And trust me, I am even bigger now...

The Finished Product...

I am so happy with the way it turned out! It is even a little shorter in height for me, so I won't have as much trouble picking up and putting baby down...

Bart's "Ah, S*#@!" Moment...

 

I managed to walk in right as Bart realized that he had mixed up his right and left...perfect timing...really I couldn't have planned it any better! Luckily it was an easy fix. =)

2 More Months!

Wow, I can't believe it! It's going by so fast. The heat is starting to get to me...tried to run some errands yesterday in the morning. Left at 9am and it was already 105 degrees....we are up in Pine now, and left the 113 degree weather behind, thank goodness. Currently 79, with a "real feel" of 78 degrees. That is more like it. 

But man, by the time I got home yesterday at 11:30am, I thought I was going to have heat stroke. I was sweating from head to toe...I don't think I am leaving the house anymore until 7 or 8 at night, when the sun is going down. It's still hot out, but at the least the car won't heat up to 130 degrees while I am inside...lol. 

I think I missed posting about an appointment (or two...) with the midwives. Everything it going well. I measured a little big last time, but they think its because I am short...34...whatever that means...lol. My hemoglobin test came back a little low, so I have to supplement iron most likely until I give birth. I can remember the morning dose okay because I have to take it before meals, but the evening dose is harder b/c I am usually so hungry I am more focused on food. Gotta get some post-it notes up...lol. But other than that, doing good. My blood sugar is normal, so no gestational diabetes. Getting a little heartburn everyone now and again, but the Papaya enzymes take care of that for me. Getting big, so it is getting a little harder to get around, bend down, roll over in bed, etc. But that is normal and to be expected.

Lots of activity from Dippin' Dot! We have little "play sessions." Did you know they have learning tools for the baby while in the womb...crazy?! One person said that they would tap on their belly once and wait for the baby to do the same...and then twice; up to three times. Supposedly the baby could count up to three at birth...who knows. I don't want to traumatize the kid either. The movie Parenthood anyone?


The nursery furniture is all put together...just not organized yet. That is my goal this coming week and next. I have so much baby "stuff" already! Plus, I have to get all my clothes out of Dippin' Dots closet. Our closets are very small, the only major downside to our home. But, we'll make it work, with a little creativity anyways.


Well, I think I might follow Bart's lead and take a nap! Pictures coming soon...I promise!