Our Baby Girl: Week 38

It is crazy to think that my OB had concerns that I would not make it to 36 weeks and here I am writing my week 38 blog, which means I am starting week 39. Yay for baby girl cooperating!! We have done all we can to make sure she stays put so she could "cook longer".  I am so thankful for all the prayers for my "aging" placenta  to hold out a little longer.  Each week, I can see on the sonograms that the aging spots have been getting worse but not enough to put move it to a level 3, which is what I had with Colin at 38 weeks. 

This week has been pretty good.  I have had contractions off and on but nothing that stays put.  Yesterday, as I was driving to work I had some extreme pain that started at the top of my belly and stayed there for about 3 minutes.  Then it radiated down to my lower abdomen and lasted another few minutes.  It would have probably felt like a normal contraction if it had not started where it did and lasted more than 5 minutes.  I also had not felt baby girl in a few hours, so I thought it was best to call.  I was sent to Triage and monitored for a little while.  Apparently, baby girl was moving but I was still not feeling her.  There may be some truth to the anterior placenta theory (that it acts like a pillow).  Although, at times I feel her very much and she is very active.  So, who knows.  I also started having some contractions while being monitored but they were every 20 minutes or so.  Not enough to keep me.  So home I went.  I was accompanied by my office mate to the hospital (thank you!) who was very sweet during the whole thing and was just taking it all in. She could have learned a lot about me with all the questions they ask you in Triage.  Good think I was not hiding anything!  Will arrived just as I was being sent home...poor guy.  All that stress for nothing.  Oh, well - we know that our baby girl will be here next week. 

I cannot really complain because I know (unless something changes) that I will not being going past my due date or even to my due date for that matter.  I would imagine being overdue would not be cool, especially when most people at this point are so ready to have baby out (for comfort reasons and just to meet the little person).  It is like waiting for Christmas!

Now we want to make it to Monday so my doctor will be available.  So, I am resting, cleaning a little bit, and then resting again.  I am glad I made all my meals to freeze last week.  We are pretty ready for baby girl's arrival.  As ready as we will ever be.

I love that at my biggest during this pregnancy I am not even wearing maternity clothes!  Now that it is warm I can wear my dresses, skirts and tank tops that work for an expanding belly. I have not weighed in a bit but the last time I checked I was at about 20 lbs.