So I've been feeling some cramping. I hope this means something is finally happening down there. My weekly doctor visits have yielded no progress down there. But we did get to see her moving around again, we got another ultrasound to verify she was indeed head down. Thye double hecked...it's still a little girl, nothing sprouted out since our last ultra sound.
Derek and I went to a Twins game last night. We had our season tickets, but got to sit in a suite! They're not bad for the metro dome. I was comfortable! It was raining when we got out, and as we were walking to the car i felt what felt like a long trickle...so we thought my water broke. But we couldn't be sure till we got home. It was a false alarm...baby's been sitting/laying/kicking/playing with my bladder. So i basically peed my pants a bit! Yeah!!!
I am so ready for this little one to come. Pregnancy is not AT ALL what i had imagined. Poor Derek has been such a trooper with all my whining and complaining. So again today i have been feeling some cramping. I have been trying to take a nap, and it's not working. So i sit on my exercise ball/birthing ball, or walk around the house till they go away. Bt they keep cming back. So keep your fingers crossed! Tomorrow i am going to a Twins game with Candace and Derek is going golfing. It could be an interesting weekend!
Your pregnancy: 36 weeks
How your baby's growing:
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement. At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.
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What's so different than you expected? I must say that it's much different in the winter! Being preggo in the summer sucks. Hang in there-remember that the longer she stays in there, the better for her development.
The pain, the morning sickeness, the being just uncomfortable.
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