The Clock Keeps Tickin

35 Weeks and 2 days. Holy molly I am not even 2 weeks away from being full term. Crazy!! The whole pregnancy thing has been wonderful! I know I need to enjoy it now because soon enough I am going to be going on no sleep and have sore boobs ( I can't wait!!). :) My baby girl has settled down and isn't awake all the time now. I'm hoping she is going into more of a better sleep/wake pattern. She is also very good to me! Anytime I start to get concerned that she hasn't moved in a while, I will place my hand on my stomach and she will kick it. Its as if she knows exactly what I'm thinking and she puts my mind to rest. Baby girl has also started getting the hiccups. They are so adorable!! Joey felt them on Wednesday- they felt as if they were in my hip bone. She must be pretty low by now. Because if I walk more than 5 steps I feel like I am going to tinkle in my pants. I guess a pantie liner should be called a necessity by this point... And then whenever I do go tinkle, it is max 200ml. I feel like my bladder is going to explode and then when I sit to pee I barely pee anything. It can be a bit frustrating. When I was running the vending route with Joey on Wednesday, I peed like 8 times (we only have 8 locations we go to). Joey is a trooper though and doesn't say much when I have to pee twice at the same location. :) He only has a couple more weeks of the constant peeing.

I also have recently started to swell a bit. It is definitely not symmetrical. I swell more to the right ankle than the left.
Dr.Adams said it is probably the way she is laying and putting pressure more on my right hip than my left. However.. I did discover somewhat of a solution to the swelling. See, I was told the more water you drink the less swelling you should have. And I was doing magnificent on my drinking- always drinking at least 64oz/day. However, once she dropped so low I thought she was going to push out my bladder.. I slowed down (alot). I would notice I was only drinking like 30oz/day max. It was at that point that I started swelling. So, in the last 3 days I have started back on my heavy drinking and there hasn't been hardly any swelling- even after I ran the vending route! Whoo hoo! Maybe at my next doctors appt I won't have such an increase in my weight since the swelling has went down. Only time will tell.

My next doctors appt is next Friday. At that point they will swab me for Strep B and check me for dilation. Whoo hoo! I can't wait.. is that weird?! Probably, but I don't care! And then at 38 weeks I am going to have a sonogram to see how big the baby of mine is. That way we know if I can push her out. I have started to not eat anything in hopes of her not gaining any more weight... YA RIGHT. I don't care if she has to be a c-section baby. I just want a healthy baby! But honestly, my hopes are to have her naturally. I guess Jesus is the only one who knows what will happen. :)

P.S. I have finally updated my belly pics. However.. I skipped my 32 week photo shoot. Not intentionally, just because I was so outrageously tired and couldn't get motivated to take the pic. So I have a 30 wk, then a 34 and 35 wk photo up. Sorry for such delay!!
I also have pics from the baby showers.. they were awesome! I will try and post those soon!