Well I lasted through the night. I went to bed around 2:30 or so and slept until 10:30. I had a great nights sleep. Best I’ve had in a really long while. Which is a good thing since I’m pushing a baby out tomorrow.

Upon waking this morning, I ate a bowl of cereal and felt just fine. A couple hours later, I had a few-pretty strong contractions. So strong that I had to put down my laptop and get up off the couch to “walk it out”. The bean keeps pressing his knee into my belly button as if that were the way out…ha ha, silly boy. The contractions haven’t been regular and they are back to being really far apart, just a few every so many hours. So with that being said I am going to finish making some curtains for the babies room, take a shower, clean the house a bit for company, and make sure I have all of my bags packed for the hospital.

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Well you might be wondering what I’m doing pregnancy wise and the reality is not really much. I’m still slowly but surely working on my nesting/get ready for baby because oh my goodness just 11 more days until he is here list. I go through spurts of energy here and there but overall I don’t have a sense of urgency to get anything major accomplished. I still don’t believe that I’m having a baby despite the fact that my braxton hicks contractions are getting increasingly stronger. So much so that now when I have them and I’m in a seated position that I have to stand up to relieve the pressure. It isn’t fun let me tell you.

I’ve been buying lots of last minute baby items that should be here before my due date. Some of the stuff I don’t necessarily need right now but would like to have on hand.

Last weeks doctor appointment was pretty much uneventful. All they did was weigh me, made me pee in a cup, listened to the babies heart beat, and measured my belly. The usual stuff. I weigh 183 lbs. So I’m still gaining the typical 2 lbs. a week. I have another doctor’s appointment tomorrow. It will be my 38 week appointment. Technically I’m like 38 weeks and 4 days. He is going to check my cervix to see how much I’ve dialated. I haven’t pass my mucous plug or anything yet so I am thinking I’m going to make it to my due date or beyond. I can’t believe I have just 11 days left. That is totally insane. I just can’t get over how “not real” this all feels.

In other news, I finally hung my belly cast up on the wall in the baby’s room….

For those of you thinking of making a Pregnancy Belly Cast and don’t know how to hang it on the wall. I found that just using an ice pick you can poke two holes wherever you want the ribbon at. It is very easy to poke holes through the plaster.

I think the belly cast came out better than I had hoped. I love the ribbon especially because I found it on clearance at Walmart. The ribbon has a stripe of the sage green that we have incorporated the babies whole room around. I just love it. I love that it is original and that many people haven’t even heard of doing this. Some Many think that it is weird but I think it is precious and great way to preserve my once child bearing body. I’m very proud of my sculpture.

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So I’m feeling a little nesty these days. Now that I’m officially in my 37 week of pregnancy, I can see that the end is near, within arms reach, and there isn’t much time left to “get ready for baby”. I constantly have a list of things running through my head of what all I want accomplished before the big day.

There is the…
-hospital bags to pack [mine and the beans]
-his room to finish decorating
-baby essentials to finish putting together like the car seat and actually put in the car
-the car cleaned out.
-pnuts outfits to put together so daddy doesn’t have him running around naked for a week
-slings/carriers to finish making
-curtains to wash and stamp for the windows in the babies room
-pnuts winter clothes to be changed out with summer stuff
-groceries to buy
-then there are my winter clothes that still need to be changed out into my summer wardrobe [not that I’ll be able to fit into that stuff anytime soon but you get the idea]
-general clean up and decluttering of junk
-my room set up for recovery with things such as books to read, a television to watch, baby monitors to listen to [this requires testing and batteries, I’m sure], and a computer station to keep ya’ll up to date with the latest baby news.
-video camera needs to be charged, so does the digital camera. All of their bags need to make sure they have everything in them and by the door for easy grab and go.
-workout equipment out of storage and into workout cabinet for easy access to whip my post-baby body back into shape [that is, when I am able to actually move again] *PHOTO*
-belly cast to be hung on wall

Then you have to add in the typical household duties that need to be filled before I start any one particular task like the goo-gobs of laundry that seems to never go away or the endless pile of dishes in the sink [man, it sucks not having a dishwasher].

I’m starting on my list today. I’m hoping to accomplish at least one of the tasks above. I know for sure that we will be doing some grocery shopping today but the actual list of things we need is yet to be written. I believe the only thing we have left to buy for the baby would be diapers and formula. My mother has bought him a million different outfits so he will definately not be lacking in the clothing department. If anything he will be a very spiffy dresser.

So I have exactly 20 days to go or possibly shorter and I haven’t started a single “nesty” thing. Shame, on me, shame. One of the problems I’ve been having lately and one of the main reasons why things haven’t been completed is the whole feeling of utter exhaustion. I feel so tired lately. I sleep about 10 hours at night and take a 2-3 hour nap during the day with the pnut and I still feel as if I’m not getting any sleep at all. I’m just so drained. It isn’t like I’m running around the house all day either, I’m usually doing my “online work” or writting posts in advance just in case I go into labor. So why am I so tired? I realize that I’m making another human being but goodness it shouldn’t take this much out of me. Even my focus is off now-a-days. When I sit down to work it is like I can’t concentrate. It is so frustrating because I have so much work piling up that it needs/ has got to be done before the baby is born but I just can’t seem to concentrate long enough to do it. It is as if the baby is taking over my whole being. He is slowly eating my brain and zapping me of all of my energy. I will definately be glad to have my body back. How many days are left again? Ah, yes, 20!!!!

I will attempt to cross things off of the list above as I do them throughout the day. I’m going to try to stick to my goal of “NO BLOGGING”, I know how horrible, today until I get at least half of the things accomplished. So come back and check on me throughout the day, give me some words of encouragement to keep going and at the end of the day I’ll let you know what all was accomplished.

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