37 week check-up

Weight- 150lbs Baby girl looks good. She continues to creep further down, which explains all the pressure & trouble walking. Cervix is still closed. Her heartbeat was 143bpm. The lab messed up my blood work, so I had to go back today to get more blood drawn for my platelet count. Should know Monday where it is at. She is constantly moving around and kicking every internal organ possible! I will say I am very uncomfortable right now and hope these next 2 weeks FLY by! Brooke- We have been going on morning, midday and nightly walks or bike rides (for her). She likes to hunt for animals! She has started carrying her baby around every place we go!

It is finally getting a little cooler, so we have been outside more often. 80's during the day, 50's at night! Looks like someone is ready for Halloween! She came down the slide and this is what her hair looked like! We both laughed at the picture for a long time!!

Working on those fine motor skills!! She built a house out of her lincoln logs; she was pretty proud of it! Two thumbs up :)

Shadows!

Brooke and I were on our evening walk and as we were walking by this brick wall, I saw our shadows and thought it would be a cute idea for a picture. Here you go!!

I changed it to pink and yellow for B! She loved it!

Still growing

I had my blood draw for platelet count yesterday. Should hear back in a few days on the count. Pray it is over 100!! I weighed 147, that's a total of 22 pounds gained so far. Baby is measuring a little ahead. My cervix is still closed. Baby girl's heartbeat was elevated to 170. Dr said spikes are good, but she wanted it to go back down and it wasn't. I will admit I was a little dehydrated yesterday, which was most likely the problem. I drank a bottle of water and had my ultrasound. The heartbeat was back in the 140's. Her head is extremely low, which explains all the pressure and nerve pain! Her estimated weight is 6 pounds 11 ounces (70th percentile). Looks like we will have another 8 pound baby!! Ultrasound tech said her breathing looked great along with everything else! They snuck in a 3D picture,so Brooke could actually see baby sisters face!! She recognized her nose, eyes, and mouth! VERY COOL! Still no name picked out. Other than that, I will post again in 2 weeks!

36 weeks

34 weeks

Baby girl has dropped. I gained 1 pound. Up to 143lbs now! Have a really bad burning sensation under my left breast. It's superficial and hurts to the touch. It is driving me crazy. It's definitely worse than the pressure I'm feeling from this baby. Ready for that to be gone. Dr said it's probably just her kicking something. Baby is measuring 1 to 2 weeks ahead, so they scheduled a sonogram to get estimated weight. Not exactly sure why they would do this considering I am already scheduled for a c-section, but we get another look at this little girl, so I am fine with that!! Brooke got to measure my belly and find the heartbeat. She put the gel on and took the wand and told the PA, "I've got it!" Debbie said, "You sure are a good helper" & Brooke said I KNOW!! so funny! Brooke is measuring her babies belly! She said it wasn't as big as mine :)