The last few weeks of my pregnancy we were IN our house, but not really moved in because we were waiting for carpet. So we had the necessities here, but most of our stuff was in storage. Our computer was set up, but sitting on the ground, and I was pretty largely pregnant to be sitting on the ground to blog. So here are my belly pics from those last weeks.
37 weeks: Can't find this one! I know we took one every week, so if I figure out where this one is I'll add it later.
38 weeks:
39 weeks(this is technically a couple days early, but none we took the day I was actually 39 weeks turned out-the lighting was crazy)
I had my appointment on Thursday, when I was 38.5 weeks. The doctor checked me and said I was at 4 cm. I wasn't having contractions or anything, but it made me nervous knowing I was that far along and still had 4 days before the carpet would be put in.
Jess turned 31 on Saturday, so on Friday night Grammy babysat so we could go to dinner. Jess was feeling fancy, so he chose Golden Corral. We both actually really like it, but I didn't have the best time because I was being stared at so blatantly by SO MANY PEOPLE. One older man was eating alone, and as I walked past him he looked down at my belly and had a look of disgust on his face! Actually, in a way it WAS fun because Jess and I did a lot of laughing. Then we went to Starbucks, and to Walmart for one last walk through the baby section for fun.
Sunday was a nesting day. We couldn't do much indoor cleaning, with boxes everywhere and all, but we washed our car, and all the carseats and their covers, installed the baby's carseat, and gave Gia a bath.
I was so excited when we made it to September 30th, and I was still pregnant. The guys came bright and early and started putting carpet in. They'd finished by about 1 pm, and I got right to work vacuuming. Jess got off early so we could start getting stuff out of storage. I picked Paige up from school and we met Jess and my dad at our storage unit. We(they) managed to load everything into the vehicles and onto dad's trailer and get it home in one trip. We spent the afternoon and evening wiping down our furniture and moving it into the house. Somehow we got the kids ready for bed and to sleep, and then Jess and I (just Jess again actually) set up the baby's room. I helped by relaxing in my glider/recliner and imagining feeding my baby in his cloud room. Jess put the crib together, brought in his dresser, hung the letters to spell his name(Thanks Grammy), the cloud mobile, and the beautiful cloud shelves Uncle Randy built and I painted.
Then he put the swing together. I washed all his newborn and 0-3 month clothes (again) and put them away. It felt so good to have made it and for him to have a room before he arrived. (Not that we ever actually thought we'd be putting him in there right away).
I had Jess take a belly pic in there. Sorry 'bout the lighting, it was probably 11 by this time. This was 39 weeks 1 day.
I went to bed feeling so glad we'd made it, and planning to get up in the morning and start unpacking and setting up the rest of the house. I slept really well until about 4:30 am. I woke up with an upset stomach. It wasn't too weird, I tend to have that happen toward the end of my pregnancies. Lots of early mornings I'll wake up with pains or contractions, take a warm bath, and feel better. So that's what I did. I went back to sleep at about 6, and slept well again, all the way until 9:30, thanks to our kids sleeping in. Jess was awesome and got Paige ready for school and let me sleep.
When we DID get up at about 9:30 I immediately noticed I was having contractions, while I got the kids up to get breakfast. They were intense enough that I knew right away we were going to have a baby soon, but not super painful. After we'd been up a while, Jess texted to ask how I was. I told him I was having the contractions, but not consistent or close enough together to bother timing. So he told me to time a few. They were all between 3 and 4 minutes apart. Ha! If I'd had to guess I would have told him they were like 10-15 minutes apart. I'm ridiculous. Guess I won't trust my sense of time again. One of the first ones I timed for him was noticeably more intense than the last, too. So when I told him they were getting more painful and he heard how close together they were, he headed home. My Grama was here at the time, and said she'd stay with the kids until Grammy made it. We packed our stuff, and by the time we were ready, Grammy arrived. I kissed the kids goodbye and we headed off to have a baby.
I had Jess write his version of the birth in that last post, because he has in the past with the other kids, but I'll be posting my version soon too.
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