35 Weeks!

Pregnancy Highlights

How Far Along: 35 Weeks!

Total Weight Gain: 30.5 lbs...I knew I'd eventually probably hit 30 lbs, but I'm just glad it's towards the end! With the dents in my ankles from my socks at the end of the day I at least know some of it is jus water.

Maternity Clothes: My wardbrobe is pretty simple these days. I have three pair of work maternity pants and I'm slowly outgrowing shirts and moving onto the next maternity size. I'm not very motivated to look cute either; comfort is my best friend right now.

Best Moment this week: Having another ultrasound and seeing her practice breathing with her little lungs moving up and down. They measured her head, torso, and leg bone and with some type of calculation they come up with that she weighs approximately 5 lbs. 6 oz right now. Of course this is just an estimate and the dr. said that she'll be high 6 lb or low 7 lb baby. We all know she could be more than that too, but I was looking forward to this appt. this past week!

Gender: Beautiful little girl....triple checked at this week's ultrasound.

Movement: She's trying to move, but doesn't have a lot of room anymore. I now just feel her slowly squirm around. No more huge kicks that catch me off guard....well, I guess just not almost daily. I do still get the occasional drop kick. I'm sad though, I really miss feeling that more and wish I would have gotten a quick video of the times when my whole belly would be moving from her.

Food Craving: Milk and lately I've been craving chocolate like crazy! I normally like chocolate, but not like this. I can usually ignore those mini Halloween bars, but lately watch out...if I see them they are mine!

What I Miss: Nothing from pre-pregnancy...I miss feeling her more. It makes me sad to think that feeling her right inside me is almost over. I know most woman can't wait until pregnancy is over, but when you never know if you'll ever be pregnant it's the most amazing thing everyday.

Sleep: I'm just going to take this time to thank God that he blessed me as a good sleeper! To be able to get up 2-3 times a night and continue to basically sleep through it or get back to sleep immediately is like a dream right now. I know very soon I will be getting up and staying up:)

What We Are Looking Forward To: We have a shower at church this weekend. Although overwhelming it'll be fun to celebrate with people from our church. We really do have an impressive and supportive group of people that we are thankful to be a part of. My mom is here this weekend too and I have two days off of work! I'm looking forward to sleeping in. Dan has one more crazy confirmation weekend and then maybe....just maybe it'll slow down a bit.

Symptoms: Feeling her move and her hiccups! I have started to have some back pain though too in the past two weeks. Some days I'm fine, but others I can't find a position to sit in without it being quite painful. On those occassions I just have to lay down to relieve it. Water retention is still mildly there with some days worse than the others.