Officially (at least) 37 weeks

I made two plaques next to his name for the baby room. I drew and painted the wooden blocks and drew an elephant on it. It doesn't look amazing or anything, but I like it and am proud. I had never done anything like that before. Can't wait to paint with him when he's old enough!

Anyway, here are some pics. The first is me at 37 weeks, the second is my fat/round face last weekend, and the third is the elephant.

Oh yeah! And I start my maternity leave tomorrow at 2!! wooohooo!

We are thankful

I know my old blog was all complaining, but there isn't a day where I don't remind myself and Michal that we are so blessed, loved, and lucky. We have so much support and people have helped us so much. We're thankful to everyone and whatever higher power :)

Michael's family did a bet where everyone picked a day baby would come, I picked my going into labor tonight because it's a full moon. I'm not counting on it...

Slowly, the room is coming together. I shortened my hours and have plenty of time to organize and rest now. Here are pictures of the room, it's simple and not yet complete but I love it.

Sooo hungry

I am always hungry. I wake up in the middle of the night hungry. I thought this was supposed to be the time when you are so full of baby that you can't eat a lot. My face is soooo fat I can't even stand it. I know it comes with the package and it'll be worth it in the end and hopefully I'll lose it and this and that, but i really HATE it in the meantime! I think if I had longer hair I wouldn't mind as much. Enough of my complaining...

The doc said the head is down, baby is big. I feel pressure, meaning I think he dropped.

I'm still not nervous or worried. The only thing I am worried about is that I will have no motivation to clean up and move around, making me a bad mom. Its just saturday mornings I literally sit around till 2 or later and can't make myself do shit. I just feel soooo weak and tired and I'm not even busy! I think its this whole iron thing....so hopefully I will be better after baby comes.

Almost there?

Michaels family made a bet on the date, via email and everyones putting down $5. The pot is at like $85. I said November 3rd, because the 2nd is the night of a full moon and they say that bring babies. That would put me at 2 weeks early. I sorta feel like I won't get that lucky, I guess my heart wasn't in the guess but everyone had picked a date already and maybe its wishful thinking. I really cannot wait to meet him though!

According to the sono, today I would 36 weeks, meaning he could be born today and fine! I told my work that November 6th will be my last day. I am starting less hours this week, only about 4 hours less a week.

In other news, I got a 4 door car (2004 Inifniti i35, 83k miles) fully loaded, its beautiful! It has so many ritzy things I'd never care about in a car, but it's beautiful, drives well, and was a GREAT deal. I am getting the car seat properly installed sometime this week. Can't wait!

I was stressing about this week because I have a million tests and homework things to do, but I am in a better mood. I have so much to be thankful for...great family and friends, materilaistic things that I don't care that much about but I might as well appreciate, it's fall, and best of all, my sweet sweet boy is coming to this world soon! I'm still not scared :)

Things to do still:
-wash all the clothes and blankets
-pack the hospital bag!
-wash the sheets
-better organize the room/decorate
-get breast pump

picture (36w[sono] OR 35w3d):

It's not easy....

being fat and short :(

Maternity Photos!

Thanks to Ruthie-Poo, who came down from NY to attend my baby shower and take photos, I have some maternity photos. These are the ones I liked.

34w2d

For a week I have been feeling quite awful. Very, very tired. I know it's normal for the third tri, but it hit at once. I had already started taking the iron pills, but noticed that my heart was palpitating extra, I would get up or move a little and my heart would beat all hard. I was like damn, I know I'm out of shape but am I that out of shape? I couldn't breathe as well. I had an appt. thursday but by wednesday I was worried so I called the advice line to ask if I could get my thyroid checked at my next appt. They called back and said it's my iron and my blood cell count is very low, and they will do a test at the next appt.

So I go and I tell the doctor (not the one who told me my iron was low) my symptoms, and she says it's all normal for where I'm at at pregnancy. It really pissed me off, I mean, how do you not even ask how many palpitations I might be having given my family history? How an you brush it off? So I said, ok well you guys said you'd do a test. She said she didn't really think I needed it, and I just stared at her. So finally she said ok we'll do it.

Low and behold, I feel like fuck the next day, I can barely get out of bed, I am just so exhausted. I called into work saying I was having cramps (which I was) and I wanted to rest a but but I'd still go in. When I slowly start to get ready, my OB calls me and says my iron is very low and I need to rest. THANKS BITCH I TOLD YOU SO. They want to retest me Monday. It's still going to be low and I wonder what they'll do. It's saturday morning and I just have no energy to do shit, and I'm getting depressed cuz I feel like I have so much I want to do.