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First and foremost: the nursery trim is done!!! And we built furniture yesterday! Just need my husband to get into the closet, paint it, add baseboard and install the shelves, then install a few more things and it's DONE. Finally!

My inlaws are coming for Thanksgiving this weekend (Canadian over here) and I'm not psyched about houseguests but it could be worse. I hope all of you dealing with holiday expectations get what you want and need -- if the holiday were any later or my due date any closer I'd be pretty unhappy about it, I think.

We have a growth ultrasound on Friday. I've been measuring small and didn't grow at all between appointments last time around, so they're going to check in on her.

@ShootingStar: @lilteacherbee: Thanks guys I left work early because my boss (mom) kept telling me I looked like shit basically, so she took me home. I took that time to watch some Jerry Springer, catch up on dishes and throw some food in the crockpot. DH scratched my back when he got home and said I need to consider taking a half day or even a whole day off a week to breathe because my job has gotten really stressful. My mom scheduled her cleaning lady to come to my house on Monday (next Monday), that alone is the biggest weight off of my shoulders..someone is going to clean my bathtub for me?! Heaven! It was good to get some time to not have to focus on getting everything done before it's time for bed. Long weekends have healing properties, I swear it Still feel like crap, but at least i'm rested haha. I have an appointment tomorrow so i'll be sure to ask about the dizziness/fainting.

@FarmWifeGina: ..SNOW!?! What! It was 89 and miserable here all weekend! I *wish* we got snow. Maybe not the first week of October but still

@CARA M. 17: I think (hope) it will either be me or Neekie Rose. She's due the first or second (I believe) and we'll both be full term next in the next few days so I hope no one goes too early!

I've been having this feeling that he's going to come soon. I know it's probably wishful thinking but i'm seeing signs everywhere and I feel like he's dropped..although I know that doesn't mean anything, I just have this feeling. My mom came in freaking out because she had a dream that he came early and I didn't have everything ready yet so she's making me order the last of the stuff I need haha. DH's prediction is sometime between October 18-25. So, basically 37 weeks. Fingers and toes crossed he's right haha.

@NeekieRose: at night yes! Not at all during the day but my hands go numb at night haha

@ShootingStar: I don't think I *look* lower (DH does but I don't see it) but I just feel like he's really low in my abdomen and almost in my crotch? My pelvic pain has gotten a lot stronger and now it's not so much of a stinging at the top of my vag bone as it is a heavy-ness..like if I lift my leg up to step into the bathtub it hurts, it feels like a strong pressure mixed with the burn/sting of pelvic pain only a bit lower. More in the middle of my crotch than the top..

also, crotch is a really nasty sounding word but now I can't stop saying it. Crotch.

Hi Ladies! I sorta fell off the face the planet as far as posting on HB but I’ve been on here constantly the last couple of months. I can’t believe we are all getting so close to our “due dates”. We finally assembled the crib and rearranged the furniture in our bedroom to make a nursery corner. We live in an open urban loft – so no actual rooms just zones. Should be interesting w/ a baby. Not ideal, but I wasn’t ready to give up downtown living just yet. So we are sticking it out until April. We also managed to get pretty much all of our last baby items ordered and next weekend I should finish having everything organized. The only big to-do is packing our bag & figuring out what breastpump is covered by insurance so I can get it ordered before the little guy arrives.
Has anyone else packed their bag yet? We are planning on delivering at a birth center & if all goes well we get to go home the same day/morning. But I need to be sure to pack a back-up in case we transfer to a hospital for some reason. I have no idea what to pack.

@NeekieRose: I've been dealing with carpel tunnel and/or sore hands since the 2nd trimester. They are tingly at night but mostly just stiff feeling. If I don't use them during the day (watching tv etc.) they get stiff again! It's annoying but I'm starting to get used to it at this point.

@MrsTiz: @ShootingStar: I was feeling like he might be coming early as well. Which I am totally not ready for. I have too many work projects to wrap up & normally I wouldn't care - but DH and I work together and he's also on the same projects, so neither of us will be around to tend to client issues. It's a bit stressful. That said... as soon as I'm full term (about 10 days from now) I'm probably going to start doing all sorts of wishful thinking to get this baby lower and ready for arrival!

Has everyone figured out their holiday plans yet? Or are you up in the air like me? Depending on when the little ones arrive in relation to thanksgiving?

@ms.janedoe: I just took a pic but I think he hasn't dropped. Just gotten bigger. I was going to post it, but I look pretty goofy, lol.

@Maysprout: I would have been SO annoyed with that. I can't believe someone would just drop in unannounced and expect you to put them up.

We had our childbirth class over the weekend, and I ended up really enjoying it. I wasn't sure that I would, especially given it was an all day thing and I'm getting really tired really easily these days. But I managed to make it all day long. Though I took a 2 hour nap when I got home, lol. Some of the info I already knew, but I did learn some things.

I think the best part was that DH learned how to support me in labor. My husband is so sweet and thoughtful a lot of the time, but he can also get wrapped up in his own little world and be less than supportive sometimes. It REALLY helped him see some of the birth stories and how what the husbands did to help out, and to practice those techniques in the class. If we hadn't learned that stuff, I could totally see me being frustrated with him in labor. And now he's more motivated to more supportive of me in general and the fact that I need a lot more help then I used to. He even gave me a fantastic massage last night, without being asked :).

@Mrs. J: I would never get one on my own because I'm a cheap-o and my house is only 1500 sq ft..but the fact that I don't have to clean toilets, bathtubs or wipe down baseboard until the baby is here makes me way too excited haha. I say go for it!

@Mrs. J: Pinching is what I was trying to describe to ShootingStar..it's a burning pain, like if someone had nails and pinched you really hard.. exactly! Pinching is a much better way to describe it. Mine used to be up high where the top of my underwear would sit, now it's moved down much lower.

I'm 34 weeks now and totally feeling it. I slept horribly last night and the weather has been so depressing (rain/hot/muggy). We're doing assessments all week at school in the mornings and even though that's its own brand of misery, I'm kinda enjoying the break from 18 kids at once. This afternoon (the first time I'd been in the classroom all day), I definitely found a movie for the kids to watch for 30 mins because I felt like I may fall asleep at any given moment. One. More. Month.

Also, a girl I went to high school with had her baby last night. After being in labor for hours and hours, the baby got stuck and they had to do a c section. She was 8lbs 11oz. That is EXACTLY what I'm afraid of, since Nathan is already over 6 lbs. If its likely that I'll need a c section, I'd rather go ahead and schedule it instead of trying for vaginal and then ending up with one anyway. I have a small frame, which makes me worry that this 9+ lb baby won't fit, especially since the doctors have already mentioned it without me bringing it up. I have an appointment Wednesday, so I'm definitely going to ask.

@MrsTiz: Nope, I'm not opposed to a c section. I'm actually terrified of regular childbirth. I've had abdominal surgeries before and a lot of other surgeries, so a c section isn't something that I'm totally against, especially considering his size.

I have major anxieties about losing him in labor, even though I know that the chances of that are really low.

@MrsTiz: Well I'm seeing so many doctors (my OB practice has 11 I think, plus I go to the high risk office too). The high risk doctors mentioned it at my last appointment when we realized just how big he's getting. I have a regular OB appointment tomorrow with one of my fav doctors, so I'm definitely going to ask. I doubt they'll let me go too far past 39 weeks. Whenever I get annoyed by this GD stuff (like...I deprived myself for the past month and he is STILL huge!), I think about the fact that at least I won't go 41+ weeks.

The fact that I know my due date is a little off from what they're saying makes me not worry as much about them taking him early. The doctors' due date is 3-7 days off from ovulation AND early beta results AND the 8/12 week ultrasounds. So I'm pretty confident that he'll be okay if they take him at what they say is 39 weeks (because that's about 40 weeks in reality).

@MrsTiz: Haha well I'm 34 weeks now and I'm soooooo impatient!!! I need time to go by just a bit faster!!

Yeah, there's basically two HUGE OB offices in Wilmy and that's it. They have all consolidated into two different practices and you see all the doctors at your practice so that you get used to them all. It's kinda annoying (I haven't seen my OWN obgyn that handled my m/c since I was 6 weeks!), but at least I have options!

And yes, I'm totally creeping!! They have had a lot of people go early!! One of you early November girls could have a baby real soon!!

@MrsTiz: LOL, I was reading the September ones a couple weeks ago and I was creeping the October one today for a little bit.

@lilteacherbee: I feel you on being more scared of regular childbirth than c-section. Honestly, the only thing that seems worse about the c-section is that you don't get skin to skin or to hold the baby right away (at least at my hospital). I'm terrified of how my body is going to handle labor, what with the awful pelvic pain and hemorrhoids I already have.

@MrsTiz: Not quite full term yet. I'll be 37 weeks on Saturday. Although my EDD is a pretty conservative one. Based on my LMP my due date would actually be 10/28 and off ovulation (I used OPK) it would be 10/31 (I DO NOT want a Halloween baby), but the 8 week dating u/s put me at 11/2 and in our wonderful November group! If I had gone by either of those other dates, I would be considered full term right about now.

I don't want to think too much about going early....but I did have my first dream about the baby being born last night. Actual delivery I don't remember really from the dream, but I remember that Reagan was super cute with big blue-green eyes. This was the first time I have "seen" Reagan in a dream.

@lilteacherbee: One of my biggest fears is also laboring for hours and then having to have an emergency c-section. Ugh, worst of both worlds. I would definitely prefer to have a scheduled c-section instead. But since baby girl flipped, I am now hoping for a relatively easy normal delivery...that's not too much to wish for, is it?

@NeekieRose: Yep, that's what I want to avoid! If the doctors think its a good chance I'll end up with a c section, I'd rather just go ahead and schedule one instead of trying vaginally and it failing!!

You're so close!!!

@MrsTiz: We're both 36 weeks on Friday, right?! So crazy!!! I have an appointment Monday for my GBS test, and I thiiiiink my doctor mentioned doing a vaginal exam then...crazy. Not sure I'll go through with the exam part, like you said, doesn't really mean a whole lot!

I've been popping in on the October boards from time to time, it's so crazy to think that it's already baby-time! I feel like I JUST found out I was pregnant and now I'm 30 freaking days away (THIRTY DAYS) from my due date. Holy balls. So nuts. I'm starting to freak out a little bit, like, totally not worried about the L&D part of it, but I'm terrified of the first few nights/weeks home! Now it's so close it's getting SO real!!

I've started to panic and try to get stuff in line--I booked a Groupon for a car detailing (DH and I share one truck and it's FILTHY right now...), decided (thanks to a lot of you!) to totally splurge and get the house cleaned, and I want to go book a pedicure all in the next couple of weeks. I want to do it as CLOSE to babygirl coming as possible, so I'm thinking I'll try to schedule it all for the week of the 21st or 28th...leaning towards the 28th...