Thirty-Seven Weeks

Baby's size this week: According to the app, she is more than 19 inches long and weighs in at 6 and 3/4 pounds.

Latest update from the OB:  My blood pressure is good, and the baby's heartbeat is around 145 beats per minute.

Are you craving anything? Sleep, sleep, and sleep.

How do you feel?  Not so great.  I'm completely exhausted all the time, and I hurt.  My hips hurt, my back hurts, my feel hurt, and I feel bruised on the inside from Wolverina trying to stretch out.  But I also feel very ready for her to arrive, which is pretty great. 

What have you crossed off your to-do list this week? Installed the car seat and extra base, hung curtains and blinds, put on the crib skirt, reorganized the nursery, hung pictures in the nursery, got burp cloths, finalized our birth plan, got a few more nursing tank tops to wear in the hospital, got an iPod docking station for the nursery and made sure it works well, and purchased the letters to hang on the wall opposite her bookshelf.

What's left on your to-do list? 

1. Iron coming-home outfit
2. Pack hospital bag (plan to do this tonight or tomorrow)
3. Take the ABCs of Infants class next Tuesday

How is Ray doing? Bless his heart, he's tired also.  I know I'm making sleep difficult for him with all the tossing and turning I do, not to mention the three-five times a night I get up to go to the bathroom.  He's trying so hard to be supportive of me, but I'm tired and uncomfortable.  I suspect I'm getting more difficult to live with these days, but he's not saying so.  He is a good, good man.