queenaregina (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nowishere) wrote,@ 2007-02-01 18:02:00 |
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36 Weeks
Today is 36 weeks into my pregnancy! The due date is 2 weeks from today.
On Monday some friends helped me make a belly cast, shown here in progress. I passed out so we decided not to cast the hands this time but hopefully I will get to make another - I want to cast my belly with my hands holding where I usually feel the baby's back/bum and foot.
Tomorrow is my last official day of work, but I'll be in part time next week to finish the transition. My mom will be arriving some time this weekend to stay with me until I(/we) move home at the beginning of March. Of my last paycheck, I have about $350 left after rent - and my dentist wants $250 of that! So basically effective immediately I will no longer be independent or supporting myself in any way. Loss of independence, a new baby, and moving home with my parents is a LOT of awfully big changes at once. Good thing I like adventures..
The baby is still very active - I felt movement several times an hour for about 10 hours the other night! Watching the babies at La Leche League who just seemed to nurse and sleep I wasn't sure if they ever moved at all! My angel's still hiccupping frequently. Sometimes when I'm holding the baby people ask if it's kicking and I mostly say yes if I'm touching the foot, but my baby doesn't really kick - it mostly just wiggles (but does not beep) and stretches leisurely(ly?). So instead of impacts from feet I feel the foot sweep along the bottom of my ribs in a long arc. It's quite adorable and makes me fall in love with the baby.
Sometimes I feel like I can't wait to meet the baby, but I really can - I have so much that still has to be done and so much I would like to do while pregnant, for one thing, but also there doesn't seem any real need to rush. Not only is it an inevitability (or as close as it gets) that the baby will arrive and change everything about life as I know it, but I don't know when will be my next chance to experience being pregnant and I haven't had that much time to focus on it til now anyway. So that is the plan from here on out and I am so grateful and eager to get to luxuriate in the last few days or weeks I have of this pregnancy. Get ready to help me welcome baby!
Today is 36 weeks into my pregnancy! The due date is 2 weeks from today.
On Monday some friends helped me make a belly cast, shown here in progress. I passed out so we decided not to cast the hands this time but hopefully I will get to make another - I want to cast my belly with my hands holding where I usually feel the baby's back/bum and foot.
Tomorrow is my last official day of work, but I'll be in part time next week to finish the transition. My mom will be arriving some time this weekend to stay with me until I(/we) move home at the beginning of March. Of my last paycheck, I have about $350 left after rent - and my dentist wants $250 of that! So basically effective immediately I will no longer be independent or supporting myself in any way. Loss of independence, a new baby, and moving home with my parents is a LOT of awfully big changes at once. Good thing I like adventures..
The baby is still very active - I felt movement several times an hour for about 10 hours the other night! Watching the babies at La Leche League who just seemed to nurse and sleep I wasn't sure if they ever moved at all! My angel's still hiccupping frequently. Sometimes when I'm holding the baby people ask if it's kicking and I mostly say yes if I'm touching the foot, but my baby doesn't really kick - it mostly just wiggles (but does not beep) and stretches leisurely(ly?). So instead of impacts from feet I feel the foot sweep along the bottom of my ribs in a long arc. It's quite adorable and makes me fall in love with the baby.
Sometimes I feel like I can't wait to meet the baby, but I really can - I have so much that still has to be done and so much I would like to do while pregnant, for one thing, but also there doesn't seem any real need to rush. Not only is it an inevitability (or as close as it gets) that the baby will arrive and change everything about life as I know it, but I don't know when will be my next chance to experience being pregnant and I haven't had that much time to focus on it til now anyway. So that is the plan from here on out and I am so grateful and eager to get to luxuriate in the last few days or weeks I have of this pregnancy. Get ready to help me welcome baby!
