Monthly Archive for August, 2009

37 Weeks

Saturday was week 37 for this baby bean!  Which means baby has permission to come any day now.  Although I would prefer he/she wait until I actually pack my hospital bag instead of just writing “pack bag” on my to-do list.

I had my 37 week appointment today.  All is well in there.  Baby is still head down and has definitely dropped.  I’m measuring smaller and the head was a lot lower than last time they checked position.  Heartbeat was between 130 and 140.

My midwife asked what I was going to do for labor day “be in labor” hahaha.  lol  I told her no, I was shooting for the 9th and explained why.  She decided that would be a really cool birthday and had to go check to see who was on call that day.  It was her!  She would be the third on my list of which midwife is there but I don’t really get a choice I guess.  :)

Other than that…pretty boring.  I go back on the 9th but like I said I’m hoping to miss that one.

As a slightly different note – on Saturday while we were driving down to looking at some bookcases Addie randomly, with absolutely no coaxing or questioning that would lead her to this, decided there are two babies in mommy’s tummy!  Then she told me that again this afternoon.  How crazy of a surprise would that be!!!  Especially if she was right!  (But since she also thinks she has a baby in her tummy and daddy does too I can’t say I trust her medical opinion too much)

Diapers

We haven’t had to buy disposable diapers since last April (2008) and I had forgotten how EXPENSIVE they are!

There is a great website called Baby Cheapskate (anyone surprised I read this?) that lists the top diaper and formula deals of the week as well as other good deals.  One of their posts was regarding a great deal at Harris Teeter on Pampers; $7.99 for a jumbo pack.  Jumbo sounds good right?  Yep!  That is until you realize diaper manufactures don’t sell “small” packages.  The smallest package they sell is jumbo!

But, apparently this was a good deal and we’ll need some diapers so I figured I’d pick some up.  I almost died paying $7 ($7.99-$1.00 coupon) for 36 newborn diapers.  Do you know how fast newborn diapers go?

I am so looking forward to seeing how big baby is and being able to order some cloth diapers!

I’m HUGE!

lol

We haven’t taken any belly pictures this time around – somehow it just as “cute” the second time.  *shrug*

Anyways, I made Adam take one last night for comparison and I’m HUGE!

36 weeks 4
36 weeks and 4 days pregnant with Addie

35 weeks 5 days
35 weeks and 5 days pregnant with baby bean

So…is it a boy or girl?  :)

Wall Letters

The walls in Addie’s old room were kind of blah…okay, really blah.  I’m hoping to avoid that this time around!  On one of the walls we’re going to put up some wall letters that say “Addie and name” whatever name happens to be.  :)   I’ve got Addie’s done so now we’re just waiting to find out baby’s name before we can do much else.  Unfortunately our boys name and girls names are different lengths so we can’t even hang Addie’s name yet!

But here are Addie’s letters…

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36 week appointment

I had my 36 week appointment today!  Hard to believe that in a week and a day baby bean is considered full term!  Even at this point though they wouldn’t bother to try and stop labor.  Eek!  I guess that means I should get my to do list done!

Everything is well!  My GBS test came back negative which is awesome!  That will make it so much easier to go for a natural birth again because it means we don’t NEED an IV by default.

Baby’s heartrate was back in the high 140s, so back in girl range.  :)   Just keeping ya’ll on your toes!  He/she is head down and anterior (sunny side down) just like we want so hopefully baby doesn’t start flipping around at this point!

Other than that I go back on the 31st and then I got my next appointment scheduled for the 9th!

And Addie weighs 24.7lbs – lol