38 weeks pregnant

With Jane at the tail end of the third trimester and a few days into pregnancy week 38, she’s as calm as can be with each passing day somehow.  She’s laying on the couch doing kick counts, and I’m just trying to concentrate on work… or anything for that matter.

Concentrating on anything is becoming quite a task.  I swear, I’m beginning to lose my mind here!  I mean… [click to continue…]

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Today one of my girl friends and I went out to lunch and then saw the movie, The Proposal (soo good, by the way).  The last time I was at the movies was about 2-3 weeks ago.  I paced myself with how much water I drank just so I didn’t have to go to the bathroom a lot.

My movie experience was a lot different today being 38 weeks pregnant.  I drank so much water during lunch and hardly thought about the fact that we were [click to continue…]

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Pregnancy week by week 38

Jane is 38 weeks pregnant.  And yes… OK, OK, OK, so I got a little behind adding Jane’s pregnant belly pictures on our pregnancy week by week page.  But the good news is that I added the pregnancy weeks 36, 37, and 38 pictures to the page linked above.  Doing so made made me realize how CLOSE we are to the end of this journey.  Sure, it’s hit me many times over the last few weeks – but lately, it’s been hitting me BIG TIME.

I just spent a few minutes looking at all of Jane’s pregnancy week by week pictures – minus week 22, darn it!  And I couldn’t help remember when many of these photos were taken.  As I mention [click to continue…]

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I am a woman of my word, I’ll have you know.  At 38 weeks pregnant, I kept the promise to my husband and we packed the hospital bag for labor and delivery.  It wasn’t bad at all, but not that I thought it would be either.  It’s just the final thing to check off of our “to do before baby comes” list.

Prior to packing the hospital bag we also installed the car seat this morning.  Talk about weird.

Well, I should clarify…

It’s not [click to continue…]

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I had a great appointment today at 38 weeks pregnant.  I can’t believe I’m so close!

At my appointment last week, at 37 weeks pregnant, my OB said that she would rather him come anytime after 38 weeks.  I asked her why since I thought that 37 weeks was full-term.  (Of course my preference would be for him to stay put until closer to 40 weeks.)

She said that while it is full-term, in her experience, little white babies born at 37 weeks are usually [click to continue…]

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Pregnant Jane has been asking me for the last few days to confess on our pregnancy blog about my “packing for the hospital” ordeal.  Now before I dive into the whole “packing for the hospital” bit, Jane wanted me to share what I have prepared in our car for you.

The other day to get the ball rolling, I did something that has become  a target for laughter for Pregnant Jane, and she seems to want to show and share with anyone who goes into our car!

Hidden behind the backseat is a [click to continue…]

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Pregnant Jane is rounding the corner and coming up to the big pregnancy week 38.  I’m more jumpy than I have ever been in my life!   I’m constantly thinking, “here we go – this is it!” many times throughout the day.  For example, the other day Jane said “ouch” after banging her foot or something on the coffee table.  I immediately ran in and asked, “Are you OK?” franticly.

There have been MANY times over the last couple of weeks baby Tarzan kicks pregnant Jane in the ribs or lower stomach while I’m with her.  It’s always followed by her jumping, grabbing her stomach, [click to continue…]

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