The Room

The baby's room is officially finished today. yay! Although we still need a couple of things such as a hamper and diaper pail everything is put together and waiting for her to come. I am so excited to see her! The car seat is washed, the video camera is charged, we are ready to go. I plan on packing a bag tomorrow. My hands are SO swollen! My feet are not too bad but my hands just ache all the time now. I can't sleep! I hope she comes soon!

My Shower

I never blogged about my shower so I wanted to tell you about it. It was Saturday Feb 7th. Everything looked great! Jaime did a great job putting it all together. My mom, Brie, and Erica helped as well. Brie did the invites and brought some food and drinks. My mom brought the plates, eating utensils, etc. and Erica did chips and dip. yum! We had a chocolate fountain with tons of things to dip like bananas, strawberries, grapes, etc. (I'm making myself hungry). They played a couple of games. We all got a piece of ice with a plastic baby inside and whoever's baby was completely born (melted out of the ice)first won. Mariah's soon to be step daughter Samantha won. And they also played the game where you cut off a piece of string guessing how big around I am. Dave's grandma Mary must think I'm an elephant, lol. Crystal won that one, almost right on! Almost everyone I invited came, which I really didn't expect. It was great to see everyone and I got tons of great gifts. Everything was just so great and I had so much fun! :0) We weren't able to sign the belly cast like I had hoped, nothing would write on it. So I had whoever would write a little note for me and the baby. Everyone wrote such sweet things! Made me cry. Mary took my belly cast home with her after giving some suggestions on what I liked. I am excited to see what she does with it!

37 weeks 4 days appointment

My appointment went well today as usual. In group we talked about worries again and wrote them down, wadded them up, and threw them in the trash. I really do feel really good about things today and am getting way excited to meet my baby girl! It could also be that we are finally finished painting the room. YAY! Dave says it reminds him of the Neapolitan candy/ice cream. I will post pics when we get it all set up. Anyways the appointment... I gained 5 lbs, yikes. But I think part of it is because I have been swelling so bad. My blood pressure is good so we are not worried about preeclampsia. Becky just wants me to drink more water and put my feet up a couple times a day. My hands are the worst and it's more annoying then anything. They fall asleep when I eat, talk on the phone, drive, and worse of all at night when I am sleeping. I will wake up to roll over and my entire hand will be asleep like you could chop it off and I wouldn't feel it. The baby is doing great and that is all that really matters to me. I am measuring at 38 weeks. Only 17 days left till my due date. CRAZY!!! Becky even wrote me a prescription for the pain meds I may need for after delivery. It still feels like it should be so far away but she could be here any day now...

Belly Cast

Dave and I did my belly cast last night. We still need to sand it down to make it smooth after it dries. I think it turned out pretty good. I am really happy with it and Dave seems to be happy that he was the one who made it and knows how special it is going to be. :0) I am going to take it to my shower tomorrow and have everyone sign the underside and Dave's Grandma is going to take it home to paint it for us. It was really hard holding my arms up for so long my hands started going numb. It took about an hour to do it.

Appointment / Outfit

We had an Indian ceremony in group today. We all got tied together with bracelets. All of them had stones on them representing something significant to being there for each other in a life changing experience/labor. I was missing a stone on mine so I got 2 :0) We started filling out forms for the birth certificate and talked for a bit. I had my GBS test done so we will get the results next time. I gained 2 lbs, I am SO excited! I think this is the first time I have ever gained exactly as much weight as I was supposed to. I have a rash at the top of my stomach that I didn't really think much of. It's been a bit uncomfortable at times though so I pointed it out to Honey (the midwife I saw today) and she says it looks like yeast. yuk! so I need to go get some meds to get rid of that and cut out as much sugar from my diet as I can. The baby is head down. YAY! So I am relieved about that. I thought my appointment were going to move to every week now but I guess Becky doesn't do that when we are doing group. But that's OK I will have one on the 17th then another the week I am due if I haven't had her by then. Time is getting away from me. We have yet to paint the baby's room everyone is sick right now so things have been moving pretty slow. The boys were up every 2 hours last night so I didn't get much sleep. I am definitely looking forward to the weekend so I can sleep in!

This is the outfit I think we will be taking her home in. My parents gave it to us for Christmas. I haven't had my baby shower yet so I am sure I will have more outfits to choose from but this one seems perfect. the long sleeves have the little cuff that you can fold over her hands and it buttons up on the side so we can avoid putting it over her head. Even though we will probably put a onesie on under it as well. my mom is making her blanket we will use. and also made the little white hat.