Week 36 - Baby is head down and giving me quite the constant tummy ache. Other than that, he likes to flip from side to side and stick his little butt up.
Sunday
Sunday afternoons are for napping. After not getting one for the past two weeks (for good reasons, I'm not complaining) it was nice to get back into my Sunday routine.
Monday
Caleb's sister, Christa, and her boys decided to come for a visit and then we got a call a little bit later that Caleb's parents were also coming to visit. Christa helped me go through some of my baby clothes and get them ready to be washed. Later that afternoon we all headed to Columbia to do some shopping. I finally got to go to a fabric store like I've been wanting to do for a little while, although I didn't get everything I was looking for. I'm all about bargains and have a hard time paying full price for things, and their sales weren't real great this week.
Tuesday
We had our baby doctor appointment, and she told me that the baby was head down with his head very low (I could have told her that) and I am 50% thinned out and 3 cm dialated! Once I hit 37 weeks if I go into labor, they won't stop my labor. Just a few more days! That really got my rear in gear to try to get everything ready for the baby, just in case. Although I'm sure the faster I get everything done, the slower he'll take coming into this world. If I'm ready now, he'll wait until 41 weeks or if I procrastinate now then he'll come early. That's usually how things work in my life.
Caleb and I headed to Target after the appointment (Target two days in a row, talk about spoiled!) and got several things that we still need for the baby. Shopping is always more fun when you have coupons and gift cards. :-) My credit card didn't even have to see the light of day.
Wednesday
Even though I was exhausted from walking so much the past couple of days, Caleb and I walked to the post office to get a box that they were holding for us. I ordered a few things from amazon and I forgot to change the shipping address on my account so the box got shipped to New Albany. I should have learned my lesson the last time we moved and I did the exact same thing. Fortunately our forwarding address was put on the box, but it still took a long time to get it because it got shipped back to New Albany again, then on to Centralia. Since our forwarding address is to the church (because we didn't have a place to live when we moved), we have to go pick up packages at the post office. The box was not taped at all and was hanging open, and one of the items was missing. Since we had some gift cards from swagbucks and rewards from my amazon credit card thanks to lovely medical bills, I had ordered a Wheel of Fortune wii game, Harry Potter #5 (which completes our collection and now we can continue on with our Harry Potter marathon), and a guitar strap for Caleb. The guitar strap was missing. :-( Although if there was to be anything missing I would prefer for it to be that! I've been looking forward to both of the other items for several weeks now. I'm rather disappointed in amazon, but they are supposed to be getting us a refund.
Thursday
I tried really hard to have a productive day. I get tired so easily but I feel like a loofa if I just lay on the couch. I'd tell you what all I got accomplished, but you probably really don't care. Just normal housekeeping things. The baby's room is now almost put back together again after the last shower.
We also had another movie night. We are now half way done with our Harry Potter marathon. It's just one of the many things to accomplish on our "to-do-before-baby" list. Some things on that list are necessary, others aren't.
Friday
Friday morning I woke up wanting pancakes, which is a common occurrence. This morning I decided to use my smiley face pancake griddle. I don't use it often because the pancakes are hard to flip and it's taken me awhile to master making pancakes on a regular griddle. This little pancake sums up how my experience went. This face somehow came off of a griddle that only has SMILEY faces on it. I did manage to get some edible ones off of there though.
So I've decided that I'm going to try my hardest to breastfeed. I threw around the idea for awhile and decided many times that I didn't want to do it. After doing some research I think it's not going to be as scary as I originally thought and between the health benefits and cost savings, I feel like it's going to be a good thing. I know it's not easy when starting out, but I've already started praying that it will be as easy as possible for both me and the baby to get the hang of because I know how cranky I get when I don't get much sleep or when my hormones are all out of whack. Mix both of those together and I just might be a monster after this baby is born. If something happens where it doesn't work out for either one of us to nurse, then I'll bottlefeed and not feel bad about it. I don't feel like I'll be a horrible mother if I don't breastfeed but I feel like it's an effort I should at least put forth.
Why did I bring all of that up? Well during my reading, I read that when breastfeeding you get hungry a lot and need healthy snacks to eat. I had several ripe bananas that needed something to be done with them, so I set out to make some banana muffins to have on hand after the baby is born. I ended up with 4 1/2 dozen muffins and while I was at it I made some zucchini bread for Caleb. I froze all of the muffins so I can pull them out as I need them. I have regular banana, banana chocolate chip, banana blueberry, and some chocolate chocolate chip muffins (not as healthy but just for when I get the craving for them.) :-) That pretty much took up all energy I had for the day.
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| Mmmmm....blueberries! |
Saturday
I wanted to go to Mexico today to get several things done. One of them was to go to a medical supply store to get a breast pump that my insurance is paying for, which happened to be closed today. Then I wanted to go to Wal-Mart to get a baby swing, and they didn't have the one I wanted or any that fitted our specifications and in our price range. Then I wanted to go to the pet store and get some fish for Oscar since he's gobbled up most of his friends, and of course they were out of feeder fish. I may be a Smith by name, but I've still got Haley blood in me.
Maybe this time next week I'll be telling you all about our new little baby. I wouldn't count on it though. Just some wishful thinking. :-)
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