40 weeks

Pregnancy Highlights:

 

How Far Along? 40 weeks

Total Weight Gain? 35 pounds.  The doctor says that anything I gain over 35 pounds is mine to keep!  Time to maybe cut out the ice cream?

Maternity Clothes? Yes and even most of those are getting short over my belly.

Belly? Still measuring 2 weeks small, although I don’t look like it!  And my belly button still isn’t popped out!  YAY!

Baby size? Full grown!

Gender? We’ll find out any day now!

Movement? I think it must be getting squishy in there because now all I have are the alien trying to burst through the skin type movements.

Sleep? That would be nice.  I’m up multiple times a night and often can’t get comfy in bed when I am there.  I’ll try sleeping again in a few months.

Cravings? Food.  I seem to be hungry again all the time.  But then not a lot actually sounds good when it’s time to eat it.

Aversions? Getting up after I’ve sat down and bending over!  (And yes, I do realize it’s talking about food also ;).

Symptoms? I run out of breath if I’m doing more than one thing at a time (you know, like walking across the room while also having a conversation).  Going to the bathroom every half hour or so.  Randomly feeling warm sometimes.  Swollen feet. Carpal tunnel in my right hand causing my fingers to go numb throughout the day (it will go away within a few months of delivery).

Preparing for birth? We still have to get the base latched into Danny’s car.  It’s in there though.  And then there’s the packing of the last minute things and we’re ready to go.  And figuring out exactly how it’s going to look with Josiah, although if we wait a few more days all our plans line back up because people are back from vacation.

Labor signs? Contractions throughout the day but nothing like two weeks ago when I thought for sure we were meeting this baby.  Feel free to change your prayers from “keep that baby in there” to “activate labor now.”

What I miss? Carrying Josiah without having a contraction and him being able to sit on my lap.  Bending over.  Doing the things that need done.  Painting my toenails.

Best Moment this week? Easter and having Josiah open his basket.  I was so excited for him to get it.  I’ve had it ready for weeks in case Raspberry came early.  Josiah wore a little suit and then Danny put plastic eggs in my parent’s yard for him to “hunt.”  Of course he hadn’t napped so he pooped out about half way through and the adults had to pick the rest of them up (although Charlie did try to help).

While we are super excited to meet Raspberry and find out about him or her, God’s timing is perfect.  We all three came down with a cold this week that wiped each of us out for a couple of days (blessedly not all at once).  We are still recovering.  I am so thankful that we did not have a newborn here to expose all of our germs to.  Please pray that we get over this in the next few days so that we can focus on getting this baby out here in the open! 

And because there is still no baby, we were also able to see Danny's dad get baptized which we didn't even know he was planning!  Now we can have this baby at any time...