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Haha, the final 4 levels of hell. I like that. Pretty accurate too. You know, I don't remember the last few weeks very well. I was a swollen mess, so I'm sure they were long and miserable. lol. I saw a picture of myself the day I went in to be induced and I was basically Jabba the Hut.

@zippylef: Ditto on the swollen mess. I also feel like I've ran a marathon with the level of soreness I feel all over my body.

ugh... lots of SLEEP. Around 32-34 weeks I could not sleep through the night for anything. 5 hours was a good night. So I napped a lot during the day. And ate food lol.

I was trying to finish up his nursery (note: next time don't wait until 35 weeks to finish nursery), wash his clothes etc and I couldn't do it because I was so miserably uncomfortable I was in pain the whole time.

I watched a lot of TV haha.

If I were you I'd also consider cooking some freezer meals too. My church was awesome and provided meals for us 3x a week for 4 weeks which was a God-send. For every other night, we had freezer meals which was so awesome. So we didn't cook for a whole month and that was definitely one of the best gifts.

Looking forward to hearing all the responses. I'm having a terrible time with these last 6 weeks. My skin is horrible, I feel huge, I'm not sleeping, I'm hating work, and I'm an emotional wreck.

The one thing I've done to make myself feel better is schedule 1 day completely off every two weeks, using my PTO. I'm not concerned about saving any of it for post-delivery so I might as well use a few days now.

I've also been scheduling my doctors appointments around 2.30, so that after I'm done (at around 3) I can just go home for the day.

Oh oh, also, not every single day is horrible. They are getting farther and farther between but every once in awhile I have a day where I feel mostly okay, and perky. So I'm trying to just make sure I acknowledge those days and enjoy them to their fullest, before the next doozy/crappy day comes.

To be honest, I was a total wreck. I had so much anxiety because I just wanted her here so bad and I had no control over when she made her appearance!
I was doing everything that was supposed to induce labor....I had lots of sex, walked miles every day, ate spicy food, bounced on my ball, etc.
I wanted to punch anyone in the face who said things like "go get a pedicure, take some time for yourself." Or "just get lots of rest, she will be here soon."
I was sooooooo irritated!
basically, I was miserable until she came. HOWEVER
Now that she is here I hardly remember that miserable feeling and I would do it a million times over since being a mom is so awesome.
hang in there!

I was a wreck at first too and it was only made worse by my husband getting a new job when I was 37 weeks. We moved from Minnesota to North Carolina when I was 37 weeks, 5 days pregnant. The distraction helped me a lot though, although I was very tired.

After we moved, we would go out to eat and see people as often as we could (which was a given anyway since we had moved back to be closer to family). There was a point though where I thought I'd be pregnant forever and I was going crazy because I was so uncomfortable.

The last weeks dragged on FOREVER. The end of pregnancy is such a headgame. Especially since I was done with work at about 35 weeks since I was getting really uncomfortable, not sleeping well, and 35 weeks is average delivery time for twins. I spent 35-37 weeks on self imposed bed rest trying to make sure they got to term. And then from 37 weeks on trying every self induction trick in the book. Luckily, DH was off work starting around 36 weeks so he was home with me and we mostly just spent a lot of relaxing time together. We went on lots of walks, went out to fancy dinners, to the beach, etc. All the stuff we knew we wouldn't be able to do for awhile. I highly recommend that if at all possible. I was also sleeping really poorly by that point, so I napped and watched a lot of TV series too I tried to do some freezer cooking, but didn't do that much since it was a lot of time on my feet.

All in all, I'm glad I was able to be as productive as possible. Even though I was uncomfortable at the end of pregnancy, I honestly had more time and energy than I did for the first 2 months with newborns. Cleaning the house, shopping, cooking, any of those things. I was really slack about reading/researching 'life with newborn' type things. In hindsight, I would have put some of my anxious energy into reading up on breastfeeding, postpartum care, newborn care like HBOTB.

I have zero advice, bc at 36 weeks I am mentally bouncing off the walls and physically a zombie. I feel like I can't walk for long without tipping forward and over because baby is so low/far out!

I will say, the sonographer switched on the 3D for a few minutes during my last biophysical out of the blue and you really couldn't see much - his hands and the cord were right in front of his face. So, I don't think you're missing much by this point!

I concentrated on trying to get LO out. I did a lot of eating spicy food, ethnic food, etc. And I did a lot of walking. I sat on my exercise ball a lot to help get LO in the right position All the old wives tales.

None of it worked, LO came on her due date. But it was still fun and made me feel like I was trying to do something.

Oye, it was the longest stretch of time in my life...now I have a 2 month old. Best advice, SLEEP! Organize, hang out with family and friends, sleep, read a book, research things about baby, sleep, clean the house and sleep I wish I would have slept more honestly...relaxed more in general. The day will be here before you know it.