1 more month!!!

AAAHHHH!!!! Only about one more month to go! I’ll be 36 weeks come this Wednesday! The hubby and I live and breathe baby stuff at this point. We’re pretty much set with everything we need for baby Brooklynn’s arrival. Her pack and play by our bed is set up and the crib and dresser is coming in this week. I started washing some of her clothes…although I didn’t wash everything just in case she pops out a boy instead. =) We’re going to install her carseat by the end of this week and we already packed our bags for the hospital! We’re both sooo excited and anxious…and a bit scared about how the labor and delivery will go…and of course becoming parents! I’ve been hearing a lot of labor stories from folks who have just given birth recently and it kind of freaked me out so I’m just trying to do everything I can do now to remain calm and relaxed. I already know it will be pretty painful so why stress myself out about it now right?

As far as how I’ve been feeling physically…it’s been getting more uncomfortable. Every now and then the baby pushes on my bladder and pelvic area so I get this painful pressure that lasts for about 5 seconds. I brought it up to my OB and she checked my cervix just to make sure that I wasn’t dilating or anything but she said everything looks good down there and that as long as I wasn’t experiencing actual contractions (30-60 seconds and 5 minutes apart) that the pressure pain is normal. My lower back has also been aching more along with a little bit of swelling of my hands and feet. I stopped wearing my wedding bands because one time they almost got stuck on my finger! And I have these leather boots that I can no longer fit my left foot in anymore! Good sleep has been lacking too. I guess my body is just preparing itself for the little sleep I will be getting when the baby arrives. I’m always tossing and turning in bed…changing positions…getting up in the middle of the night to pee. And for some reason I can no longer sleep in on the weekends. I automatically want to get up around 8 or 9AM. I use to love sleeping in till 11 or 12PM…hahaha!

To add to the discomforts of third trimester pregnancy and the craziness of the holidays…we are in the middle of renovating our kitchen. I’m talking about new cabinets, tiles, appliances…the works! Sounds great (which it is!) but we are currently without a kitchen right now and everything is sitting out in our dining and living room…meaning our place is an absolute mess! Everything should be done in about a week but its been getting harder for me to lift, bend and move around lately so the hubby has to do most of the cleaning and putting things back in place for me. It kind of drives me crazy since we both have different ideas on how we want to arrange our things in the cabinets. I guess I’ll just have to sit back and deal with how he does it for now….I can always change it later right? =)

Here’s a few pics of my very BIG belly the past few weeks…

December 29, 2009. Uncategorized.