Week 38 Recap

before I get started, happy Halloween everyone. I've officially held off on buying trick-or-treat candy until today since most of it would have been gone by now anyways (I would have eaten it, of course)! I feel very proud of that. Now sure what the trick-or-treat scene will hold this year, but I am not overly optimistic about the kiddy turnout - hasn't been so great in the past and that just left us with a lot of left overs....I may not care about being the "best house ever" anymore by giving out handfuls of candy to everyone in an attempt to get rid of it all. Clint and I haven't made plans this year as the Halloween party that we were going to go to was cancelled on accoiunt of a divorce (weird, I know). I was actually really looking forward to it, so boo :( Other than that I am definately growing around the middle, and last night had Clint take my shoes off for me - definately prefer the slip ons now, for sure. Not uncomfortable, just awkward feeling when I try to do anything that involves bending.



At my appointment I was 1cm and 50% effaced so I was pretty excited about that (less work for later although who knows when later will be). I'm not really anxious or anything, so checking that stuff doesn't bother me. She will come when she comes. Until then, I will enjoy the fact that I can still take naps (and justify it by the fact that I'm pregnant). On another note, it was strange this week at work taking care of some moms that were due after me....I told them all so. I just find it strange that my baby is as developed as the newborns I take care of. I have officially stoppoed looking at babycenter.com to find out what piece of produce she is comprable to every week since the examples in the nursery give me a much better idea:)

So we have another appointment on Monday, and I plan to see if there is anything that is going on any further then too. Almost 39 weeks (tomorrow)! Clint and I are going to finally get some hanging out time that is not spent cleaning (yay! he's coming to the farm with me today - ran out of milk). and we are hoping to still get to celebrate our anniversary next Friday and celebrate the November Ogi birthdays Saturday afternoon.

19 days and counting (give or take about 10 more)

Week 37:


Week 37 has snuck up on us, and we are officially full term (early full term). I'm very excited to be GBS negative so we can proceed with staying home as long as we want (although I don't think clint would want to deliver the baby). This week we talked about birth plan stuff at the appointment, and Clint decided he will cut the cord (its kinda chewy - harder to get thru than most think). We've still been busy getting my nice relaxation music in order, and Clint started reading my hypnobirthing book so he can be in the know when the time comes. He's also been nesting (even more than me - I kinda gave up on that in order not to be stressed out and have a stress ball baby). I came home from work this weekend to find the upstairs bathroom painted, new fixtures, shower curtain and towels. I must say it looks nice, but it would have taken me weeks to decide on all that. I still have hopes that he will someday finish with my scrapbook area (he has plans for all of this that I just haven't felt like messing with). I've been kicked out of the corner downstairs as apparently it is too messy, and will be moved into the guest bedroom (where I'm sure its because then he won't have to see my messes:)

As for other things, work has been interesting as our patient care director has decided that if we haven't gotten the flu shot (both of them), then we are required to wear masks into rooms to do patient care (way to NOT EVEN follow CDC guidelines - which I think are questionable anyways....at least if you are going to mandate something, be sure it MAKES SENSE) - this is ridiculous and all's it does is advertise how many health care workers don't get a flu shot and hopefully makes patients question the validity of it anyways. I can't wait to get hounded again this year - maybe after the last couple years Ann Marie will have gotten the point that I will not ever get the flu shot. This is just one of my soapboxes, and since this is a blog, I can say it, yay!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/19/The-Truth-about-the-Flu-Shot.aspx

just one of the many demonstrating some of the nonsense of the hype

Nursery Pictures

Aunt Mary gave us a cute lamp this weekend:


Ever excited to try my new diapers, I have found a willing participant:


The diapers have arrived, and I am quite excited:

Butterfly fun:

I should almost call it October in review....

Week 34:


Week 36:


And here's a front view - and people say I'm not that big...

The past few weeks have gone by so fast. We have not gotten the nursery together and in working order, although I'm more convinced that it is for us rather than the baby...as is the case with most baby things. We had a nice time at Coral and Rob's wedding this past weekend in Milwaukee and I discovered that I can't make it all night like I could at Nicki's wedding....I think that was my last hurrah. It has been nice being off of work since a week and a half ago - I was low censused at work and then Tuesday into Wednesday there was some not so good times with the nausea and not sleeping. I think we're back in working order though and into getting stuff done. I've been having my weekly OB appointments now, and every time I'm so excited to hear her heart beat. Not that I don't know she's in there (she's quite the soccer player), but sometimes she will be sleeping and then we'll wake her up and get her going to make her heart beat faster for the midwife:) I have to say that the pregnancy massages have been hard to beat too (thanks to Sue and Carrie). Sometimes she even gets a little one too (thru my belly). She will have to be prepared for lots of those once she is here as I won an infant massage lesson in a silent auction a couple weekends ago. I've loved taking it easier and focusing on her and what I need to do to get ready for her arrival. I'm so looking forward to her birth at this point, but the time she's spending just with me has been extra special.