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Since the baby has been posterior it might not be able to get down in there good enough to get me dilated. But i can hope at least. Yesterday i was having some... i call them braxton hicks when they don't hurt hurt... about every hour. Those kind that don't really hurt hurt but they tense _everything_ up so it's not comfy to walk while it's going on, but nothing really today. So it's all just getting me ready i'm sure. :D

I’ve been uber tired lately too, for well it’s going on 3-4 day’s now. Just never feels like i have slept, like i am the walking dead. I get lots of lounging and naps and even get a lot of time at night to sleep. I don’t know why i’m so exhausted! I blame it on my body knowing i’m going to have to give birth soon. *crosses fingers*

Your Baby This Week
Your baby is preparing to be born as you're preparing to experience the true excitement of impending childbirth. You may feel a little nervous, which is perfectly normal.

In anticipation of meeting you, baby is busy getting ready for the occasion. The fine hair (lanugo), covering her body begins to shed along with the whitish coating on the skin (vernix). Your baby's weight is approaching 7 pounds (3.5 kg), but she remains around 21 inches (53 cm) long, which shows that she's getting plumper! If your baby were born this week, she would have no problems surviving on her own.

Your Body This Week
Although your size is remaining constant, your discomfort might be increasing, as some of the symptoms related to your weight, including heat rashes and difficulty sleeping, might be getting to you. While your due date may be two or more weeks away, pack your labor bag and get ready. Ninety-five percent of all babies are born within two weeks of their due dates.

I finally got to meet the third midwife today which was nice. Now i’ve met all of them which is good cause I never know which one I will get when i go into labor.

Bad news is that i tested positive for Group B Strep, like i did with Anabel. Which isn’t the end of the world, i was just hoping i didn’t have to have a silly IV. But oh well.

Other news is that the baby isn’t totally posterior anymore, it’s kinda laying sideways in there. Midwife said i still should keep trying to spin the baby and gave me a website that shows some tips, so i need to look at that tonight.

She said just from feeling my tummy she would say the baby is on the smaller side, probably about 6lbs now. She said she likes the babies to get up to about 7lbs before they are born. But who knows if mine will get that big. I think i make small babies, which is actually a relief to me, LOL. Anabel was only 6.9lbs and i expect this one to be not to far off. I was guessing it to be 7.2lb before, but we shall see.

She said i’m safe to deliver anytime now since i’m 37wks along :)

After the appointment we came back to Ottawa and went over to our friends house. They were having a garage sale. I bought Anabel 2 barbie dolls. She calls them ‘babies’, it’s so cute.

I gathered some stuff together tonight and i’m going to bring it over there and try to sell it with them and just spend some time with them. They aren’t going to be here much longer so i want to spend as much time as i can with them.

I’ve been working on the new babies baby book. I’m making it myself. I bought a cheap 8x11 scrap book and re-covered it in material for the baby book. Now i’m trying to design the pages that will go inside. It’s fun but a little stressful because it’s taking so much time >_< i’ve gotten most of the text on the pages but i am having a hard time picking the graphics out. I had an idea earlier when i was going through stuff in my bedroom. So i’m going to get of here and work on it some. When i get something finished i will share it on here for you to see.

Tootles!

Your Baby This Week
Baby's weight continues to increase, reaching around 6.5 pounds (3.2 kg) now. While baby is about 21 inches (53 cm) long, his limbs and tummy are all growing rounder and chubbier every day. His skin is less wrinkly now, and most of the redness has turned to a hue that reflects your baby's ethnic heritage.

By this time, most babies descend down into your pelvis, head first, getting ready for birth. In about 3% of pregnancies, babies turn in the other direction, a situation known as a breech presentation. If this is the case for your baby, don't worry as this often changes--sometimes just hours before labor!

Your Body This Week
You are probably not seeing much change in the size of your tummy now, and your weight should be close to the maximum that your health care provider predicted or recommended. You can expect your caregiver to perform a pelvic exam around this time to help determine the progress of your pregnancy and better judge your due date.
Your due date is so close that you could easily deliver at any time! Chances are very good that delivering from this week on, your baby will be healthy. Take a deep breath. Labor, delivery and motherhood will all be amazing and wonderful experiences!

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We just ordered this yesterday. I’m hoping we really like it. We took forever looking over tons of bag online and breaking down our list until this one came to position #1. Hopefully it will work really good for two babies. It’s suppose to be here by the 24th. I’m excited, but i hope i like it cause Bob said i have to use it for a year in less it breaks or something, before i can buy a new bag, LOL.

Yesterday we got a crap load of stuff done too. It was good but i started to get overwhelmed. Bob was so into getting the house in order he was really going at it. He wanted to sort through everything and get old things out that we didn’t use and stuff….so made sense, but when the house i wanted to get cleaned started to look like it was getting worse not better, i started to get stressed out. But it all worked out in the end.

I took most of the morning deep cleaning the refrigerator and kitchen. I took everything out of the refrig, cleaned all the shelving and got rid of all the old junk in there. Then i also cleaned the rest of the kitchen (sept the floors). I even wiped down the walls and shelves, scrubbed the microwave, everything but the floors. Bob was suppose to do the floors but we ran out of time before we had to go Topeka for a football game. I called Bob in to look over everything i had done and i asked him if he could tell… wrong question… so said beside the refig, he couldn’t really tell. He said it was actually a compliment because the kitchen must not have looked all that bad in the beginning. LOL So it was kind of frustrating but nice too, at the same time. I did a crap load to that kitchen! Gah! LOL

The house is looking pretty good though, i really really want the floors mopped though, but i’m not sure i have the will power to do it. I asked Bob if he would and he said he would cause he knows it would be hard for me to get on my hands and knees, hehe.

Today is Father’s Day and it’s going pretty good, sept me and Bob were and are so very tired… and looks like Anabel is too, she has been major moodiness! LOL When we got home from church we took a nap. Bob woke me up with a kiss goodbye before he headed off to work. I should figure something out nice for dinner tonight… we shall see. I have to deal with little grumpiness over here, LOL

Another day of getting a ton done, yet still more to do.

So this morning Bob let me order some stuff online. Here is what i got:

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I got this t-shirt for Anabel for the birth day. :)

I’m uber happy about my purchases! Can’t wait to get them! Also we have spent quite abit of time looking at bags online to be our new diaper bad. I recently made one but i didn’t think about the fact that i needed to make it for 2 babies instead of one. The one i made will in no way work for both babies and the first diaper bag i made, the zipper broke on it… so we are really needing a new bag. We found some really cool satchel type bags that i think will really work as a diaper bag, me and Bob are trying to finalize our decision though. If we end up getting one i will post a pic.

So today we spent a lot of time in our bedroom. Bob went through ALL his cloths and got rid of a ton. We now have a big donation pile going. I had a lot of baby blankets that i just will never use, so i’m donating them back to the Life Care Center, along with some old baby cloths that just aren’t my favorites.

So our bedroom is looking nicer and more orderly. I managed to vacuum the whole upstairs so that is nice.

We had looked at buying a birthing kit online but decided that half the stuff in the kit we wouldn’t use, so we decided that i should just put my own together. So tonight when i went shopping i bought everything i think i need for that and when i came home i put the bag together.

I also got some newborn diapers. We will end up using cloth and disposable, so i went ahead and bought some. I bought myself another bra. One that opens in the front so hopefully i will be able to still wear it and nurse. I was sick of only having two bras that really fit me. I got some shoes for $1 and a sun dress for $3 and didn’t realize until i bought them that they match each other, so that’s sweet! I got Anabel some baby makers so we can do some drawing and…. well besides groceries i think that’s about it.

I’m really quite happy with myself. Sept i am really starting to feel anxious about the diaper bag. I want the diaper bag now, so i can fill it up properly. I’m worried that i won’t have a diaper bag ready when i go into labor. Although i guess labor doesn’t just happen really quick normally… i should have time to put a bag together for the babies and myself even if i went into labor first…. i hope. Still i feel anxious about it. I think my body is trying to let me know the baby is going to be here sooner then i think. Which time is going by really fast!

I have a lot to do to my down stairs still. Hopefully i will be able to get a lot of it done tomorrow. Bob seems to be on board with getting things ready. Tonight he said ‘So what are the plans for tomorrow? Get some more cleaning done?’ so hopefully that means he will be willing to help :D

Bob even said i should call and set up an appointment to get the sewing machine brought in and fixed! That made me really happy!

I’m getting really close to having everything ready. It’s exciting!

This is funny. I found a web site that said if you upload an image of you and then your spouse, they will morph the two together and give you a picture of what your baby might look like. To funny! Here is what i got:

Boy:

Girl:

I think really it probably just gives you random pics because a couple of times i got a half black child o.0 LOL But it was fun

Well tonight after i woke Anabel from for mid afternoon nap I decided to go up stairs and get some much needed work done. I folded two loads of laundry (still have two more to go >_<) Straightened in our bedroom some. Moved on to Anabel’s room. Got all her cloths arranged and put up. Went through each of the baskets that are on the changing table shelves and got them all arranged. Went through boxed in the closet and got some boy/neutral baby cloths out and got the baby items and cloth diapers all set up in the baskets under the changing table. So that is pretty much ready to go for when the baby gets here, although it will need to be changed if it ends up being a girl, lol

Then got stuff out that was going to need to go downstairs for the newborn. I got the pack-n-play set up in the living room with stuff for the baby. Then i got a station set up in the bathroom downstairs for things i will need for both kids. Like diapers for Anabel, extra wipes and a wipe container, changing pad, nursing shall, moby wrap and peanut shell, and diaper bag. I still need to get diapers down here for #2. I did this because i wanted something set up down here for those things so i wouldn’t have to be running up stairs all the time to change diapers.

I still have a lot to do but i also got a lot done. I’m glad i was able to have the energy to get at these things done. Hopefully tomorrow i will get more done. I still need to get the diaper bag put together for both little ones and a labor bag for me ready. I want to get all the laundry done tomorrow and clean sheets on both our bed and Anabel’s crib. I also want to vacuum all the floors and maybe mop the kitchen. The refrigerator need cleaned out good and so do the bathrooms. Maybe i can get some help from Bob tomorrow, LOL won’t he love me asking him that! LOL.

I just really want to get all this done so i can feel more relaxed about everything. I think it’s the nesting bug. Hopefully this means the baby will come soon.

I have been having a lot of menstrual type cramping today that goes from belly and back, down into my legs. And a lot of shooting pain in my butt. Yeah not very fun. But it’s also kinda exciting because it makes me think about seeing my baby soon… and i hope that it is fairly soon. I will be full term in a week, so at least i know the baby is all good. I go from really nervous to really excited, i wonder which one i’ll be when i actually go into labor, heh

35wks

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Is it just me or do i look a lot bigger in the 36wks pic? Maybe not, could be the angel.

Online Predictor:

The day you deliver, outside will be hot. Your baby will arrive in the morning.
After a labor lasting approximately 4 hours, your child, a boy, will be born. Your baby will weigh about 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and will be 18 inches long. This child will have hazel eyes and dark hair.

Well i would not complain about 4 hours of labor, since my first was waaaaay longer then that. I would be thrilled, but for some reason i don't think that will be likely.