36 weeks.. omg

Well here we are, another Monday another week down.. the time is coming for b to make her arrival.

Here we are at 36 weeks!!

Her update courtesy of babycenter.com

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.

Crenshaw b LOL


Virtual b


Time really has gone by so quickly. To think I only have 4 weeks left, or really whenever she decides to grace us with her presence it could be anytime now.

I've been doing my best to stay active, walking around, I want to make sure I can do enough walking during labor to help keep the process moving along :) I won't be able to do that if I'm a couch potato for the next couple weeks.

I have so much anticipation right now, wondering when its going to start, how I'm going to feel, having my mom fly in time to be here with me. I got my birth plan ready last week, printed several copies so the staff knows what we want. I know you can't plan everything and things won't go exactly how we planned but hopefully it doesn't have to deter too much. With the support of Jason and my mom I know I can do this. I'm so lucky to have such supportive people to help me through it.

We picked up b's baby book this weekend, its soooooo cute. Its princess themed of course, I couldn't help it and its just too adorable. I'm SO looking forward to filling it out.


Last week was a lot of fun for me, I met with my friends ryn and michelle for lunch on Monday and thursday I met up with my friend stef, ryn and about 11 other girls to see Julie and Julia which was soooo cute. We had such a great time and it was so nice to get together with everyone. I just love them, they are awesome and hilarious to be around.

This weekend went by so fast and we got some much needed errands completed. We ordered the border for b's bathroom and that should be here this week so hopefully we can get to that this weekend. Hopefully we will have her room all done soon, its getting close just not quite there yet. Not that it really matters since she will be sleeping with us for now but its still fun to have it all ready for her when we bring her home.

This week I have lunch with our title company on wednesday to celebrate my departure from work and b of course and a doctor appointment on thursday yaaaay we get to hear her heartbeat again! I will try and have jason take another video of it. I love being able to hear it over and over again. Our little girl! After this I think my appointments go to every week... aahhhh sooo close! All for a good cause :)

Weeeelll this has been very wordy (with lots of run on sentances, sorrry lol) with not many pictures. I will try and get pictures for friday's blog :)

Thanks for reading, love you all!