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@oliviaoblivia: oh I lost that months ago

On another note I have been have contractions all weekend, mostly during the night, so we went into to be monitored and I only had one in 20 minutes. They checked me and I am at 0 with a long cervix...they said if I was dilated to 3 and having a few more contractions they would have just done the c section. Oh well back home and 29 more days!

@littlebug: Bronchitis! Oh so sorry for you.

I've got a cold as well and the whole weekend has been awful. Can't breath, can't sleep, had to cancel all kinds of plans so as to rest. Apparently colds and bronchitis etc are worse when pregnant because we're producing extra mucus to begin with. Bleh!!!

@kayakgirl73: haha nice.

Isn't reflux awful? I'm sicker now than in the first tri. Do you take anything for it?

Now i'm having weird sensations in my lower legs, around my ankle/lower shin - like the tendons are getting all loose in there. It happens if I'm half awake, and if i rotate my legs in certain ways I feel like i can't hold my ankles in one place. It's really hard to explain - but it feels similar to when you are recovering from a sprained ankle or something - everything feels all week in there. I'm guessing it's the relaxin? So I'll add some ankle alphabets into my nightly routine, i guess.

@edelweiss: take a breath girlfriend ! we are all going to be ok- YOU CAN DO THIS! I'm nervous too, but we are going to make it!!

@Rescuemom10: I can't believe it's getting so close for all of us. So much to yet however. Ugh. My nursery furniture still isn't in. I need to find a breastfeeding class and I wonder if I should take something on infant care.

@kayakgirl73: I feel ya there too. We are re-finishing an old antique dresser for her Nursery and its not done yet. Its driving me crazy its not. I feel like I am at a "halt" in her room until I can get it in there and put clothes in it and what not. The nursery is a MESS right now. There is just baby stuff ALL over. Its almost overwhelming to go in there. I dont know what to do with it all until I have all my furniture. Ugh!

@oliviaoblivia: Thanks so much for your kind words. Part of me wants it to NOT come, and the other part is so sick of it "dangling" over us I just want it to start so I can get it over with. Not that I wish my first year with DD to go by fast....just a mix of emotions.

Works a mess, but I am glad I have a job. They were cheap with us on pay, but its still not bad. With this company I think there may be more room for growth and raises where as there were NONE with the old company. Something good will come out of it eventually. Just not fun at all right now. I dont qualify for FMLA now, so looking into my other options. Ugh!

@Kffw: I feel ya. I hit that this last week at 31 weeks. Im feeling very "over it" myself. For Thansgiving we had a TON of people over. DH has been in the Mailitary for some time, we tend to invite the new/younger/junior sailors over who dont have plans, plus our "military family"...basically anyone who doesnt have plans is invited over. So its a packed house. I broke down when everyone left. Took so much to entertian that many, I hurt sooooo bad!!! Its hard smiling through it all. Im like you, I dont want people to know or see otherwise.

@rescuemom10 and @Allison: glad I'm not alone!! How will we make it?!

@Allison: man I love those things!!!! I should get a box.....

@jedeve: No fail! We're all kicking ass at this, no matter how tired, puffy, achy, heartburny, disgusting we feel!

But yeah....I'm over it. And I have a hard time saying that to anyone but you guys. So thank goodness for our January board! People ask me if I'm done with it and I just don't feel right admitting that, yeah, I'm tired of being tired and just want my body back. I've been really lucky and had an easy pregnancy, and even now I probably feel better than most women do at almost 35 weeks, but still. It's starting to feel like I've been pregnant forever and like I cannot remember a day when I wasn't in some kind of physical agony.

@Andrea: I agree. We are done at two, so although I am so over it...I am trying to relish in the last weeks because this is probably my last pregnancy! I have mixed feelings, but we are good with two kids.

@jedeve: I hope you feel better after having a good cry. When are you 37 weeks?

I am 37 weeks on Saturday but I don't feel like this baby is gonna come soon. I have no BHs/cramps/nada. Ho hum.

This was linked on another thread today, and I thought it was so interesting! Y'all have probably seen it, but just in case:

http://www.spinningbabies.com/baby-positions/belly-mapping

Have any of you noticed your hands hurting? Not like carpel tunnel, where it goes into your wrist. But like your actual hands. My hands really hurt, it hurts to bend my fingers, and it's even affecting my grip! I'm assuming it's from the relaxin or from the swelling, but I've never heard of anyone having this.

@Allison: I have had hand pain this week. I am dropping things all the time because my grip is so bad.

I had a check-up yesterday. My doc wants me to talk to work about working from home due to my severe swelling. I'm so nervous about asking though! I haven't worked here that long so I don't know how my bosses will react. If they won't allow t,
I think she is going to pull me out officially. I'm also having an ultrasound today bc I am measuring 40 weeks (should be 34-35). I was measuring large at 24 weeks but have been caught up since then. Now I'm huge again! Hopefully it is related to baby's position and not anything else.

@Kffw: i hope your work is understanding of the position that you're in--they should be. your and the baby's health are more important than physically being in the office. good luck with the talk and let us know how it goes!

@oliviaoblivia: i have toyed with the idea of writing one, but i haven't yet, and if i do it will be really short. i know if i start getting into it too much, i will fixate and may become unnecessarily sad/upset if things don't work out the way i envision them. my big things are--laboring at home for as long as possible; being mobile as long as possible at the hospital (i.e. holding off on an epidural or going without); and getting skin to skin contact after the baby is checked out and hopefully everything is okay (which is probably the standard of care at the hospital, but i have to check). i don't have super strong feelings about episiotomies/forceps/etc. and will do them if my doctor recommends them.

how about you? are you going to write a birth plan?

@edelweiss: discussed the issue with my bosses and they were super nice and understanding. They are going to talk to HR and see what we can figure out as a plan. That's the downside of a big corporation- HR has to approve everything. So we will see how that goes. Getting ready to head to the u/s.

@oliviabolivia: I was initially going to do a birth plan, but as I learned more about delivery and birth, have decided not to. The hospital I am delivering at is fantastic and things that I would include are standard practice for them. Everything else seems so out of my control (as far as how labor goes) that i don't want to set expectations that won't be met.