Sea Monkey: is estimated to be around 20 inches and a little over 7 pounds (which, by the way, is the weight of a mini watermelon). S/he's still building up a layer of fat to regulate his/her temperature on the outside, but aside from that, s/he's ready to meet the world (or should be).
heidi: is ready to be done. The aches and pains are kind of getting overwhelming. I woke up whimpering because of how badly my hips and back were hurting. It was pathetic and I felt like a dork when I realized that the noise that woke me up was me whining. But not much longer! I have to keep reminding myself of that. We are almost done!
Aside from the aches things are going well. I'm definitely having a harder time walking. It gets painful more quickly than it used to. I went on a walk yesterday and had gone a little less than half a mile before I felt like my back was about to shatter into a million pieces of pain. Then I had to walk about a half mile back home with an aching back. That was pleasant.
I didn't really update on this week's appointment since there wasn't much to say. Things are still excellent, both for me and for Sea Monkey. Val was feeling my uterus to check the baby's position and said Sea Monkey no longer had his/her butt shoved up under the right side of my ribs. Last week, when she measured the fundal height, she had commented on how the measurement was off because of Sea Monkey's tush sticking out like it was. At our appointment this time, though, my belly "shrank" because Sea Monkey dropped out of my ribs a bit. It doesn't look to me like my belly is lower or anything, but I've certainly noticed an increase in back pain.
We have the office cleaned out and all the birth supplies are ready to go in there; all we need now is for me to go into labor so we can put down the stuff to protect the floor and set up the pool! I keep peeking in there because I'm excited that there's so much empty space there now and I just can't wait to fill up that space with a pool and have a baby. =)
Non-baby related stuff: I am quickly approaching the point of getting everything that we won't need before we move packed (or it feels like I'm getting close, anyway). One of the reasons I'm hoping Sea Monkey comes soon is because I'm just getting so bored. There's not much left to pack right now, I have nothing left to do to prepare for baby, so I'm just waiting. I'm too excited to be able to concentrate on studying and researching things like I normally do, and I'm too tired and achy to gather the motivation to clean (I'm not sure why I feel ok to pack but not to clean....). So I'm just bored. And it's making time drag by. It'd be much easier to wait if I had something to occupy myself with, but... I don't. What to do, what to do. I can only watch reruns of The Office and 30 Rock so much (but.. I only watch shows while I'm cleaning or working on something, so that doesn't do anything for me either, since I'm running out of things to do).
I have recently come to the conclusion that I am absolutely ecstatic, beyond all sane amounts of belief, for baby snuggles. Oh my goodness. I just want to sit and hold my baby all day long and just stare at him/her. I can't wait. =)
Belly picture:
Not much longer.....
3 comments:
Heidi, You are awesome.....you are going to be a great mommy and I am very proud of you!!!!
Wow... i am so used to fb... i was looking for the like button on ironworks comment!
Baby snuggles are the best... and i still love to just sit and look at my baby boy though he is almost 5 months old now... he is just too cute not to :)
So i totally want to say a quote from shrek 3 right now... keep in mind it is as one of the seven dwarfs: "where's the baby"
ok i feel better now :)
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