35 Weeks

Well, the pregnant waddle has finally occurred. I thought I would just sail through the last leg of my pregnancy without it affecting my stride, but I was horribly, horribly wrong. For reasons unbeknownst to me, walking is just not the easy, straight, non-waddle that it should be these days, and I am not a fan! Perhaps I just need to force myself to walk more. Maybe all of this sitting I do is partly to blame. Or maybe my hips are just finally starting to spread. In any case, it's not cool.

What is cool is that I can see baby Colt moving around in my abdomen these days. I sat in the bath yesterday and just watched him squirm around for like a half an hour. He's very active these days, waking me up sometimes at night with his flailing. He's even responding when I push and poke at him. I wonder if he gets irritated with me when I do that, but I don't feel bad about it because, let's face it, he's inhabiting my body! If he gets to continue to grow and cause me a waddle, then I'm going to poke at him when he pushes up against the top of my belly. That's just how it's gonna be!

The good news is that he's already positioned correctly for birth, so that's great. My appointments with the doctor have increased from monthly to bi-monthly, and starting in June I'll see her every Friday. I just can't even believe that June is so close! My baby shower is the weekend after next, and I could technically give birth to a full term baby anytime after the first week of June. How weird is that? WEIRD! I'm really pulling for July 4, though. I mean, it will suck a lot having to be that pregnant for that long, but wouldn't it be awesome to be born on the Fourth of July? C and I think so. And it won't actually be that bad because it turns out that I can get up to two weeks off before my due date, paid, thanks to FMLA. So, if all goes according to plan my last day of work will be June 15 and I won't go back until September 4. How excellent is that? Pretty freaking excellent if you ask me! That's practically the whole summer off with pay. Can't complain about that, so I won't :)

So, I technically have 5 weeks left until my due date, which is pretty scary considering what still needs to be done. Painting the nursery is coming right along, but it's not done yet. The nursery situation is a little sketchy anyway, though, because currently we've got a futon bunk bed in there that will need to stay there for a while after Colt is born so that his Grand Mommy has some place to sleep when she comes to visit, which is fine because I'd prefer to have the baby sleep in our room for the first little while anyway. Luckily, my sis and bro-in-law can use the bed, so I've already got someone to take it off my hands when it's ready to go. So, long story short, the nursery probably won't even be officially set up for Colt's use of it until closer to when I go back to work. Still, I'd like to have the painting done before he arrives so that it's one less thing to worry about.

We also still need to take a hospital tour so that I know where we're going when the moment of truth arrives. The hospital where Colt will be born is in downtown, and I live 20 minutes from downtown, so getting there is going to be a challenge in and of itself. Hopefully he is a good boy and starts his decent late at night on July 3 like I'm hoping, and we don't have to deal with any traffic en route. All I know at this point is that Labor and Delivery is on the fourth floor. So, that's one of the main priorities. The other main priorities have mostly to do with cleaning the house. And by cleaning I mean really, really cleaning it for reals. Sounds like fun, eh? No, not really, but it is nonetheless a necessary task.

So that's really it for now. I'm getting more and more impatient for the end as each day goes by. I'm dreadfully curious and anxious to meet the little person that's growing inside of me, and I'm getting more and more tired of being pregnant. Still, I hope he holds out until July 4 :)