34 Week Belly Photos

Ok so I know I'm a whole 2 weeks late getting this post up but here are some sort of new belly pictures.  These pictures were taken when I was 34 weeks and 1 day along.  Today I am 36 weeks, although I don't think my belly is much different today; maybe just down a bit lower now.

You've probably seen this one already as my facebook profile picture.  Nate put it up there because it is his favorite of the pictures.

Not to sound full of myself or anything, but I think I look pretty darn good for being 8 months pregnant!

I am finally nearing the end of this pregnancy!  I have a doctor's appointment this Wednesday and from then on, my appointments will be every week.  Not a whole lot has happened at my recent doctor's visits, which is a good thing because that means there's nothing wrong...
   
I have been feeling great!  My nephrosis hasn't been bad since I stopped working and I've had some normal pains in my hip bones while they're splitting apart but it just reminds me that she's starting to make her way out!  I do get tired a LOT!  I sleep for 8-10 hours every night (roughly... I have to get up and go to the bathroom at least once, sometimes twice a night and I have to switch sleeping positions at least 6 times a night) and then I still take a 1-2 hour nap in the middle of the day and am plenty tired enough to fall asleep at bed time!  I'm not convinced that a person should need this much sleep in one day but the doctor told me it's normal and that if I'm able to, that I should be getting all that sleep.

This week I have been washing all the baby clothes we've gotten, it's so much fun going through everything as I fold her little outfits.  I feel like I'm opening presents all over again!  I think next week I might start packing our hospital bags.  Is 3 weeks before my due date too soon?... I've already made lists of what I think I need and my bag is out and ready to be packed.  Have I mentioned that I'm getting impatient?  We have several friends that have had babies in the last couple weeks so I've been talking to them about what they had in their hospital bags and what they wished they'd had.  I'm still open to suggestions so please feel free to comment!

Nate and I have also been doing our research for the whole laboring process.  We were planning to take a birthing class 2 weeks ago but every time I called to get us scheduled, it went to the lady's voicemail...  So instead we found a birth class app for Nate's ipad and we're watching that.  I also have a book that goes pretty in depth with the whole process including breathing and pain management techniques.  And it shows a lot of different massages that Nate can do while I'm in labor to help me relax.  I keep trying to get him to practice those but he seems to think I'm just trying to get massages out of him.

I have a feeling that Nate is going to be a very overprotective father.  Not in that he won't ever let her go outside because he's worried about germs or anything silly like that.  He heard about someone's child that died at 6 months because of SIDS so he gets worried about things like that.  Plus he keeps telling me that bigger babies are healthier so I need to let her grow until she's 10 pounds.  I think I really don't want to push out a 10 pound baby....

Anyways, that's what's going on with us right now and I'm going to be done now before this post gets really long!  Oh wait, that already happened.  Oops...