Thirty-six weeks!!!

Weekly Info...

How far along are you? 36 weeks!!! 9 months preggo, yo! Only 28 days til due date!!! Twenty. Eight. Days!! 

How I’m feeling: pretty good considering. Did a little Christmas shopping today, packed our hospital bag, and began cleaning out the pantry like a mad woman. Next on the list? Purging other rooms in the house! 

Total weight gain: too much to tell. Haha! From my lowest this pregnancy, about 24lbs. 

How big is baby? "Your baby is still packing on the pounds – at the rate of about an ounce a day. He or she now weighs almost 6 pounds and is more than 18 1/2 inches long (about the size of a head of romaine lettuce).

Your baby is shedding most of the downy hair that covered his or her body, as well as the vernix caseosa – a waxy substance that protects the skin during its nine-month bath in amniotic fluid. Your baby swallows these substances, along with other secretions, and they form a tar-like black substance called meconium, which your baby passes in his or her first bowel movements.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered "early term." (Full-term is 39 to 40 weeks. Babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term, 41 weeks is late term, and those born after 42 weeks are post-term.) Most likely he or she is in a head-down position. But if not, your caregiver may suggest scheduling anexternal cephalic version. (That's a fancy way of saying that your caregiver will apply pressure to your abdomen to try to manipulate your baby into a head-down position.)" -babycenter app

Maternity clothes: no new outfits. I have bought some nursing bras and other clothes stuff for hospital bag. 

Stretch marks? No new ones. Some of the ones I've had for years are becoming more visible though. 

Sleep: awake every two hours at least. She just moves all over the bladder which makes for multiple trips to the restroom. And rolling over wakes me up every time. 

Best moment this week: knowing all is still well at the appointments. And getting the hospital bag packed. Just need to get it all in one place and install her car seat in my car. 

Movement: she's pretty active normally. Decided to take a little break Tuesday all day and not move. Those days don't make for a happy mommy. 

Food cravings: none really. 

Food aversions: none thankfully.  

Belly button in or out: in. Maybe it'll make it all pregnancy :)

What I Miss: rolling over and laying on my tummy. 

What I’m looking forward to: holding this little munchkin! Teaching her all kinda of cool things!!

Milestone: chances of a NICU stay are slim at this point, in case of an early delivery :) 

Ignore the mismatched outfit. I'd halfway changed into pjs before I remembered I needed to take today's pictures. 

It's a lot of work having to tote this thing I call a belly around. 

This was last night...35wks6days. 

Progressions in same shirt...left to right- 21wks, 24wks, 36wks.