From my shower: 31 weeks along
I’m officially 37 weeks along today. If that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.
At this point, the questions I get asked the most are:
- Are you so ready to be done? Yes, of course I am! No woman wants to be walking around and laying with this watermelon in their mid-section all day long. But then I follow that up with my statement that I hope reversed any jinx I may have just put on myself: “BUT we want him to cook as close to 40 weeks as we can!”
- Are you having contractions? Also yes. But barely. Just some light cramping that happens about once a day. Nothing to pay too much attention to quite yet.
- Is the nursery ready? Yes and no. So if baby Max came today, he’d have a place to sleep and soothing sound things and a place to have his diapers changed and plenty of clothes (and I mean plenty, trust me). I also have what I need for breastfeeding. However, my hyper organized self is still reeling at the items I have to organize just for general peace of mind, like all the things I received to make Max’s food, and those things that I can’t decide if I should have storage for them, or do they go in my diaper bag backpack? Unsure how this works.
- Are you working up until delivery? Are you actually going back to work once your 12 weeks FMLA are over? Yes to both!
+ Other than that, I’m amazed that a full size baby is inside my belly. His length is set and now he’s just packing on the fat (I hope he has big cheeks like his dad did). I try to imagine what 19-21 inches in length is and how Max is possibly that long, like where does he all go???, and it’s hard to visualize. He’s most definitely there, though, just kicking my ribs and rolling around like he’s having a grand ol’ time. (more…)