Week 36: Final Stretch!

We're in the home stretch now and with all our other activities having slowed down, I've got nothing but time to anxiously await Baby Girl's arrival! We took our last prenatal class last Wednesday, we've toured the birthing center, had our last baby shower last Thursday, rehearsals for Sound of Music are done and there's only one weekend left of performances....besides our weekly doctor appointments, we have nothing left on the calendar besides Jon's family reunion this weekend and a big, fat, red circle around August 24th!

We got a ton done this week including finishing packing the labor bags, ordering the final "must haves" off of our registry, and folding and organizing all her clothes into the Ikea drawer organizers that we bought.

We pretty much spent the entire weekend cooking up a storm with my sisters to prepare a freezer full of meals for after baby gets here. We did around 14 different recipes that each made a TON (some filled 2 or 3 freezer bags) for about $250 and I'm sure we'll be very grateful we have so much stocked up in those first sleepless weeks. Click here to see my post on all of the prep and the recipes we used.

We also had our 36 week appointment this morning where my doctor started checking for any dialation. Nothing yet, which is probably a good thing so that she has plenty of time to get good and strong before she gets here, but I have to admit that I was slightly disappointed. Hopefully next week I'll have made some progress.

How far along? 36 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: 21 lbs up...nothing gained for the last two weeks now. Maybe I never will hit the 25 lbs goal.
Maternity clothes? Almost exclusively
Sleep? Very little. Between running to the bathroom and waking up with lower back pain, I'm up every couple of hours or so.
Stretch marks? Bah! All over around my belly button (which is 100% out now, there's no denying it anymore) and my desperate attempts to stop them with the Bio Oil are proving futile.
Best moment this week: My last baby shower with my family :-)
Miss Anything? Sleep and margaritas. What I wouldn't do for each of those right now...
Movement: She's definitely cramped for room in there! She'll get in between my stomach muscles and just knead away with her elbows and knees and it HURTS! I'm excited to see all those movements on the outside!
Food Cravings: Lemonade and diet coke
Anything making you queasy or sick: Not really
Gender: Baby Girl
Pregnancy Symptoms: Feet and ankle swelling, back pain (especially my lower back), restless legs are back with full force, and some Braxton Hicks
Labor Signs: I still haven't had a ton of Braxton Hicks, but they're becoming more noticeable when I do have them. And no dialation yet :-(
Wedding rings on or off? On....my pinky. They still fit on my ring finger but I've been periodically checking to see if they were still easy to get off and yesterday when I checked I had to pry pretty hard to get them to budge so I decided I better move them before it gets to be too late.
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy that we're so close to the end! Every day of pain brings us one day closer to meeting Baby Legg! I'm even past being scared of labor for the most part....I just want her to get here!
Looking forward to: Meeting our baby girl!

To Do List:

Make Hospital Bag packing list
Pack Hospital Bag
Fold and organize baby clothes
Write out birth plan
Make list of "must do" items for when Baby gets here (breast pump delivery, short term disability form, etc)
Purchase remaining items off of registry
Make up some frozen meals for post baby
Write thank you cards for work baby shower
Write thank you cards for friends' baby shower
Figure out daycare
Stock up on postpartum items
Baby-proof the DVD shelf (have Jon attach it to the wall)
Put up the corner protectors in Baby's room
Figure out which insurance plan to set Baby up under
Write thank you cards for Legg family baby shower
Write thank you cards for Williams/Kammer family baby shower
Clean the house top to bottom

We're ready for you, Baby Legg!!!!