BABY'S SIZE a romaine lettuce! 18.5 to 20 inches and 6 to 9 pounds (yikes!).
HOW I'M FEELING thursday was a rough night at work. it was the first night i've wished i could take some time off before baby is born. although, honestly, i would probably just laze around and sleep all the time. it's probably better for me to waddle my way through a few 12 hour shifts a week.
WHAT I'M EATING i've been on a fruit kick. for our barbecue, i made a fruit salad with a little bit of honey, lime juice, and lime zest in it, and it is fabulous.
HOW I'M CHANGING let me just say again: there is no way that my belly can keep growing.
MOVEMENT so much movement. i kind of like the stretches. sometimes when i push on baby's booty (baby is definitely head down), i can feel pressure on the other side of my uterus. it's weird!
SLEEP i finally had a REALLY good night (it was actually day, between shifts) of sleep. i woke up once to pee, but went right back to sleep (usually i need a snack, or lay awake for a while first). i felt SO good at work. it was so nice.
THINGS THIS WEEK we had our barbecue. i think it was successful. arley and i always joke about trying not to be too weird, so we can make friends (we might just be too weird...). but we might have made some friends. they are due a week before us, which is kind of cool.
also, i had another dream. i had just delivered and was reaching out to the baby to put it on my chest. the weird part is that i had the exact same dream twice. once the baby was a boy and once the baby was a girl. even my sub conscience isn't helping me out.
i'm having weekly ob appointments now. this week, the doctor checked my dilation. i'm zero percent dilated, but i guess baby's head is super duper low - down by my pubic bone. she didn't believe me when i said i didn't feel any pressure.
it's been quite the week. weather has been in the 100s most days, our swamp cooler (i think that must be a new mexico thing) broke, and so arley had to run around crazy all day, while i tried to sleep for work, trying to fix it. arley got sick. oni walked underneath arley's feet one too many times and got stepped on. she's been limping around all sad, and is mad at us for not letting her go outside. eda finally got to go on a walk (i just can't seem to force myself to take her when it's 95 degrees at 7 pm) and we got rained out. so not only did her walk get cut shot, but she got wet.
LOOKING FORWARD TO i have a few days off in a row this week, so hopefully i can get myself motivated enough to work on the nursery. [it did not happen. arley got sick and in solidarity, i laid around all week with him. as a good wife, i pretty much had no choice.]
i got some cool shelves that hold books like art against the wall, rather than spine out like a book shelf. arley decided that we should mount them to a board or something and not straight to the wall so not so many holes go into his precious, fresh-painted walls. i'm starting to visualize what i want, and am getting excited about it, so hopefully we have time to put it together!
FUN FACT baby is inhaling, exhaling, sucking, gripping, and blinking. baby is also working on that first, super fun tar poop, called meconium. baby is supposedly gaining about half a pound a week.
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