Getting close

Posted by kara

I’m in the middle of Week 37. I feel like the baby dropped as soon as I reached 37 weeks. The baby started moving around like crazy… much more than she has this whole pregnancy. And now I’m feeling how I felt that last two weeks of being pregnant with Toshi. It’s hard to walk. Sometimes the baby presses against a nerve or something that makes a shooting pain or makes it hard to move my leg. I feel sickish and super tired. My back feels more pain from pressure than from straining. Every time I leave the house, I hope that my water doesn’t break. But I haven’t had any real contractions, so it shouldn’t break.

A few people have told me that it looks like I’ve only gained in the belly and not anywhere else. It’s nice to hear, but I always think, “Boy are they wrong!” Once I drop this HUGE belly and my boobs shrink again, then everything else won’t look so little anymore! Ah, well. Hopefully Paul won’t make me try on my wedding dress this year.

Anyway, we’ve been getting ready for the baby. I think we are just about ready… A lot of it will be adjusting things once the baby is here to see what works best. I do hope they come out with Infant Tylenol soon!

And of course, Toshi wanted to get in on the photo shoot. Here she is saying, “A beautiful butterfly!” over and over.

And happy birthday to Liam! He’s three already!