Weekly Update: 37 Weeks

Countdown: 93% through pregnancy, 77% through 3rd tri. 22 days until due date, 1 days until full term. 3 weeks of work left (If I go to the end)

How big is baby? As of 34 Weeks and 5 Days she's 6lbs 7oz (so basically right at 6.5lbs) She gained a pound in a week folks. We didn't get weight at the one this week...so I'm just saying about 7-7.5ish

Weight gain/loss? Up 37lbs I lost a pound from week 36 to week 37 which seems pretty common from what I've read. Hey I have to admit I'm happy since I know that Ava is still getting nutrients...I really don't want to go over 40lbs

Stretchies? I saw two tiny ones where my belly piercing was. I noticed one on my lower belly and have been applying like mad and it seems to come and go ugh

Sleep? Pee breaks are so much anymore and sleep is getting restless. I'm going with carpel tunnel as to why I wake up with my hands and wrists asleep. My right hand has been swelling...just right though. I'm really looking forward to getting up because of Ava rather then the serious pain of a full bladder.

Best Moment? Seeing my butterball again and being dilated.

Movement? Serious at night/early morning of course. The tech said that I have so much fluid that even though I'm feeling a lot I probably don't feel half of the stuff she does in there!

Food Cravings? Nothing out of the ordinary just fountain drinks egh

Labor Signs? Having Braxton Hicks and cramping has ramped up the past few days. I've gotten what seem like real contractions too. I am 1cm dilated and thinned some weeee

What I’m looking forward to next week? Seeing Ava again :) and hopefully progressed at least another centimeter if not more.

Weekly Wisdom? Your water will not trickle and you will not have to think "Is my water breaking"? Yours will gush...haha

Emotions? Pretty good except for my patience with people lately has been wearing thin. I have been able to take a deep breath especially with Mr. B.

This Week: Painting the belly cast. Finishing up Ava's room. Getting guest room ready for Mrs. B in law. Washing a few little things Ava got again haha

37 week appointment

Lil one looked great as usual for the ultrasound...she had her hand clasped inside the other one which was cute.

She was practicing breathing and we could see her stomach/chest going in and out...she again passed her biophysical.

I got another internal which was annoying as usual but I'm 1cm dilated and thinned some weeee

She said that normally she'd like to have the head down in the cervix but because of my extra fluid she's kind of buoyant haha

She said don't listen to those stories of water breaking and sort of starting to trickle...
She's like you know that' won't happen to you right?

Yours will gush haha

So of course there weren't any appointments coinciding with an ultrasound except for Tuesday late morning so that's what I'll have to do...I said man I hate these weekly appointments and the girl was like yah we're going to schedule you the week after too and if you don't need it so be it...so I got a better one for that week.

But I got a copy of my chart and wish I knew how to read all of this ultrasound thing because I know the part of about my fluid and the sections they calculate that in but then there's something else that could be her weight and if that's the case she's 7lbs 7oz. who knows though

Next week I'll see if I can talk the tech into doing weight haha

I'll do my weekly update tomorrow

oh and guess what it says of course my EDD was the 13th but since the first ultrasound that u/s determined the 12th as my EDD and I even asked that tech the first time but I guess she just said it was the same since it was close enough...not that it's a big deal but a day difference ...well this far in the game is a big day difference haha so now I don't know if I should be telling folks the 12th vs the 13th...not that it really matters.

awwww

So this morning was not a good morning because I guess I should back up and say over the weekend I turned on my work laptop and logged on and it said it couldn't get all the user's files or whatever...

so then my background was different and it only had my companies icons for different things we use. All of my excel files, templates, power points ...everything gone!

So I wasn't looking forward to this morning because Monday's are report days but I had a plan in my head on how I could work around things it was just going to take some time.

As soon as I walk in there are balloons and decorations one of the white boards says "Mrs. B's day welcome Ava Grace" awww.

My cubicle is decorated and then they had me go to the break room and there were presents and balloons and a cake in there too.

Then flowers were delivered as well. I mean how nice of them!

So we haven't had the party yet since the center manager had to run to New Orleans and back but just how sweet really.

I'll try and take some pictures with my cell phone...I'm pretty excited about the flowers because they are beautiful and so is the glass vase :)

Weekly Update: Week 36

Countdown: 90% through pregnancy, 68% through 3rd tri. 29 days until due date, 8 days until full term. 4 weeks of work left (If I go to the end)

How big is baby? As of 34 Weeks and 5 Days she's 6lbs 7oz (so basically right at 6.5lbs) She gained a pound in a week folks. We didn't get weight at the one this week...so I'm just saying about 6.5-7ish

Weight gain/loss? Up 38lbs (I don't weigh at home since it's probably not on with the doctors scale so I'll update next week) which baby is big and I have extra fluid so I think that is explaining the higher gain.

Stretchies? I saw two tiny ones where my belly piercing was. It ticks me off that I took it out a year before getting pregnant and it's still there. But I can handle it if that's all I get. Some of the ones on the boobs are really meshing with my skin color and some are darker now.

Sleep? Pee breaks are so much anymore and sleep is getting restless. I'm going with carpel tunnel as to why I wake up with my hands and wrists asleep. My right hand has been swelling...just right though. I'm really looking forward to getting up because of Ava rather then the serious pain of a full bladder.

Best Moment? Seeing my butterball again and scheduling my first weekly appointment!

Movement? Serious rolling! The tech said that I have so much fluid that even though I'm feeling a lot I probably don't feel half of the stuff she does in there!

Food Cravings? Nothing out of the ordinary just fountain drinks egh

Labor Signs? Having Braxton Hicks and started to get cramping too. Back pain ugh

What I’m looking forward to next week? Seeing Ava again :) and being considered full term.

Weekly Wisdom? Nothing is jumping out...luckily I have managed to stay away from those types

Emotions? Pretty good except for my patience with people lately has been wearing thin. I have been able to take a deep breath especially with Mr. B.

This Week: Finishing up the belly cast to make it look nice haha. Finishing up Ava's room. Actually finally cleaning out trunk and putting bags and stroller in. Getting guest room ready for Mrs. B in law. Washing a few little things Ava got again haha

36 Week Appointment

I was brought back surprisingly early considering normally I wait forever. And the nurse says I need to derobe because I'll be getting an internal and strep b testing.

I do that and as soon as I do that the nurse comes in and says the doc had to go deliver the baby....guuuuuhhh reat.

So I laid there with those paper cover ups from the waste down on a bed that was only half and tried to nap...I did manage to doze off here and there.

She came in and the most uncomfortable part of the Strep B was the vaginal not anal. haha because she uses her little things that opens you up like a normal year exam but wasn't as much poking and prodding.

Then she did the internal...and let me freaking tell you that is PAINFUL!!!! Two fingers ripping and roaring in your hoohah....only for her to tell me I'm completely closed up..like closed closed and Ava hasn't dropped (lightening) yet...she's dropped from what she used to be but not dropped like she's ready to come out ugh I was hoping for a little progression.

She said her weight is in the 75th percentile so she's big but not too big. And she said right now she's not too concerned with the extra fluid but we're going to continue to watch it to see if it increases. I'm guessing that's why she wasn't as worried because from week 35 to 36 it stayed the same...yes high but the same.

But now of course since I'm on weekly all the good appointments are taken and she doesn't work on Wednesdays and only works Thursday afternoons...must be nice dude! So I have the u/s and appointment next Thursday in the middle of the day.

I didn't get to go to the daycare because my appointment ran so late so I'll have to figure that out.

I really do want to wait until I've finished out Friday October 29th if possible because then I don't have to come back until the beginning of the year but I really hope right after that I go haha...I'm anxious and just want her here!

Ultrasound....

Nothing much to report.
They wouldn't do weight :( She said that with it only being 6 days from the last they don't like to and only like to do it every 2 weeks...whatever

But I finally asked her my fluid number from last week to this week and it went down a tad but like she said it might not have since of course ultrasounds aren't exactly accurate.

So It was basically 29 centimeters and the max normal is 25.

The lady was like oh look she's sucking her thumb and then was like oh no she's sucking 4 of her fingers haha it was the cutest thing ever...and we saw her breathing and swallowing so that's great!

To me her belly looked bigger but what do I know right?

Something strange has happened the past two nights sleep where my right hand swells up. It's so much that I actually change positions for my hand thinking maybe I'm sleeping wrong and it still does it and still is like that when I wake up. No idea what that means since my left isn't???

I'm going to bring it up to my doc today. She maybe annoyed because I have a list of things like that, I want to know about the fluid level and what generally happens with that, the back stuff, and the cramping I'm feeling...

Hopefully she just gives me a more concrete path because I don't like the guessing game.

Back ugghhh

Seriously I'm sick of my back aching. It started yesterday and now it's back and honestly I can't tell if it's contractions or just hurting.

When my back hurt a couple of weeks ago due to my forward weight it was different....it was higher up.

This is low like where I used to get some of my period cramping. So that's why I'm like hmm maybe these are low grade contractions.

Either way it's painful and I could barely walk when I got home last night until like 7:30.

I can't wait to see my little girl tomorrow and find out her weight haha....But I'm more anxious to see my doctor on Thursday.

I have been monitoring my contractions and they are anywhere between 7-14 minutes apart so I'm not worried about that and they are only on average 45 seconds long...but it seems that couple with some cramping that my body is really getting ready.

But I don't know how I'll handle this back stuff if it continues for a month or for however long she thinks I will go.