37 weeks... FULL TERM!

Well, today marks full term status: 37 weeks! Only a couple weeks to go and I am feeling so glad, so HAPPY to be meeting her soon. Finally!

Other stats:

Symptoms: Pretty much the same as I have been the last month or two... just more. I have also been having restless legs at night, which is apparently a pregnancy thing, I have never had it before. Basically it feels like my legs are crawling, kind of itchy and tingly and weird, makes it very hard to sleep. Eric has been helping me out by giving me indian burns as hard as he can on both legs before I try to sleep. Bizarrely that helps a bit.Lastly, I am always hot. Like really hot, T shirt and shorts when it's 60 degrees and raining hot.

Weight gain: 30  pounds and counting.

Cravings: I don't really feel that much like eating. Weird. I am frequently hungry, but food makes me feel gross. Small snacks and meals, pineapple and juice.

OB update: 2 cms dilated, 80% effaced and baby is WAY low. This explains why I have been measuring small, because she is tucked down low in my pelvis. This is very good news. It means I have a head start whenever labor begins, or if I am induced it is likely to be a smooth and successful process. Phew. 

Here is a fun video of shewhoshallnotbenamed dancing in my belly: 

Welcome cousin!

Josie's cousin was born yesterday September 12, a baby girl named Johanna Louisa who looks just like my sister Maria. 8 lb 10 oz, with a bruised little noggin and a little bit of brown peach fuzz. I'm an aunt for the first time! 

Josie was exploding with excitement to visit, but actually did a great job being gentle and sweet.

35 week update

35 weeks. Had another growth scan this week, and baby is growing very well with an estimated weight of 5 lb 10 oz. The hemorrhage in my placenta is gone, and everything looks good. 

She has a new fetus name... Shewhoshallnotbenamed. Which is kind of a joke because we just can't decide what to name her.

Other stats:

Symptoms: my body is feeling very tired. Low back pain is bothering me, but the sciatica seems to have subsided a bit. I can't get comfortable enough to sleep at night and have to get up and pee at least 5 times. 

Weight gain: 26 pounds and counting.

Cravings: iced tea still ranking high on the list, as well as salt and vinegar chips and seaweed chips. And chocolate ice cream. I seem to be having trouble stomaching much protein in the mornings, which sometimes brings out the food werewolf by mid morning. I'm working on it.

My sister is still cooking her baby, she's almost two weeks overdue now. Tonight she'll start an induction, and I am so excited to finally be meeting baby Grompdock soon. 

34 weeks- Pregnant woman tests trampoline

Not much new to report. Plugging along... impatiently.
This weekend has been great, the most free time we've had as a family in a long time. I've seen tons of Maria, who is free all of a sudden because she didn't schedule much past her due date, which was the 27th. And we've gotten lots of house projects done, including the construction of our new 8 ft trampoline, intended for use by Josie when the weather turns, but also fun for me :)
My "Can't Touch This" shirt is looking a little worse for wear, but there is no way I'm going to stop wearing it!