36 Weeks Plus a Couple Days. :)

I am now 36 weeks and a few days pregnant.  In 4 days I will be considered "full term".  That is quite exciting!!! According the What to Expect App on my phone the baby is as big as a small watermelon this week. YIKES!!  They also have this to say about the coming week:

With just three more weeks to go and at about six and a half pounds (though weight and height vary from fetus to fetus), your baby is doing just fine. You can expect weight gain to be about half an ounce per day. (Boys, though, are likely to be heavier at birth than girls. And here's a bit of boy baby trivia to back that one up: Moms carrying boys tend to eat more than moms carrying girls — a foreshadowing of teenage refrigerator raids to come.)  Since your little one is considered full-term at 37 weeks pregnant, if your baby was to leave the wet nest this week, he or she would likely thrive. That's because Mother Nature and you have done such a fine job. 

  

So what's keeping your little one busy while waiting it out until D-day? Practice, practice, practice. Your baby is simulating breathing by inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid, sucking on his or her thumb, blinking, and pivoting from side to side (one day you feel the tushy on the left side, another day it has swung around to the right side). All these are skills needed for his or her next gig  — starring as newborn.

Here's an interesting fact: Your baby's head (which, by the way, is still growing) will, at birth, be the same size circumference as his or her hips, abdomen, and shoulders. And guess what's making an impression (literally) these days on those shoulders and hips: fat — causing little dimples in those cute elbows and knees, shoulders and hip, and creases and folds in the neck and wrists.

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I had my 36 week appt today and Lucas is doing good.  HB is a good rate BUT it appears he might now be heads UP instead of sideways, argh!!  :(  I have to have an ultrasound next Monday and if he is, we will be talking about either a version, which I do NOT want or a C=Section, which I'm not really thrilled about either.  Needless to say I am hoping we are wrong or that he turns his little tush around by next week!  I have been having some feelings that I couldn't tell what they were.  Not painful enough for contractions, but lasting too long to be Braxton Hicks.  The whole top of my tummy will get ROCK hard like a BH but last for like 20-30 minutes at a time.  The doctor said today they are muscle spasms being caused by Lucas moving around.. LOL


Last week I had a nasty cold, which turned into an even nastier sinus infection, the first I have ever had!  I am on antibiotics and feeling MUCH better so that is good..  I swear I woke up last Friday feeling like someone hit me in the face with a baseball bat, it hurt SOO bad. :(


Gary and I are getting so excited to meet Lucas, we just can't wait til he comes!!  Please let the next few weeks pass quickly!!