This is it! The final stretch! On Sunday I officially crossed my last milestone, you could say my very final milestone is to meet Bitty! 14 more days!
I'm excited, but I'm also uncomfortable and counting down the days. I can't say I'm anywhere near being as in pain and uncomfortable as I was with the girls' pregnancy, but pregnancy itself is difficult! I'm not one of those lucky women who doesn't have any problem and sails right through, I'm a complainer lol
My back hurts, the braxton hicks are frequent and annoying, sometimes a little too uncomfortable, and when Bitty moves certain ways it's very painful. His movement has slowed down quite a bit the past week or so, he still moves don't get me wrong, but I think his butt is just a little too big in there ha
Tomorrow I have my second to last BPP ultrasound and he'll finally get measured. I thought he was going to get measured for size last week but they said they do it every 3 weeks otherwise it's not as accurate. I'm looking forward to seeing how much they think he weighs! On Monday I had my NST which he passed again, without any caffeinated assistance I might add, and my Dr appointment. I didn't have any questions about my impending surgery, even though when I start to think about it I get really nervous, doesn't matter that I've done it before, I think knowing what's going to happen might just be worse on the nerves! The spinal block wasn't that bad I keep telling myself, but it's still so scary! And I'm worried about recovery as well. I can't wait to see this little boy, and hear his first cries, and announce his name to everyone.
I did some final shopping this past week for the newborn shoot, which the girls are going to participate in as well. I bought Bitty the cutest crocheted puppy hat and diaper cover set and I can't wait to see it in person! I have some cute outfits for the girls, but they needed a new matching headband for it so I found one last night, very excited about that as well! I sent an email to the photographer asking a few last questions before I book the date (hopefully the 19th when he's a week old) so I hope that's all taken care of!
I made a list of what I'm packing in my bag, basically the same as I did last time along with a few things I wish I had packed the first time around (my own socks, the hospital ones slide around on my feet and drive me absolutely nuts, some slippers for walking around, snacks are also on my list this time instead of having to eat a bunch of graham crackers in the middle of the night because that's all that is available, and chapstick for sure, hospitals are dry!!) I'm planning on actually packing when I'm 38 weeks, gives me a little goal to look forward to, but in case something happens this week I have the list all made out anyway!
Justin is having a cleaning lady from work come in next Thursday to deep clean the bathrooms, kitchen, and do some mopping and dusting. I hate cleaning bathrooms even when I'm not 38 weeks pregnant! I'm looking forward to that! We also need to take the dogs to the groomer to be bathed and so Carrie can be shaved and groomed in preparation for baby. We probably won't clean and arrange the van until the day before I go to the hospital because I still drive around with the girls and won't be able to lug my belly into the very back seat to buckle them into the new configuration, especially since Nessy will be rear facing still. She isn't 20lbs yet so we can't turn her around, Allison is just barely over which I don't like, but we don't have a choice. She'll probably love forward facing though. And finally on my to do list is to make a WIC appointment for next week to have the girls' weights taken and get 3 more months of checks. I'm curious to see if these past two months of pediasure have helped the girls to gain any weight, or if it was a waste of time, even though they really enjoy drinking it and it's definitely not hurting anything!
Symptoms - Back pain, acne, lightning crotch from him pressing his head down, heartburn.
Food cravings - Jimmy John's, I could eat it every day!
Size of baby - I'm going to guess that he weighs 6lbs 3oz!
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