This week I am 37 weeks pregnant and we are full term! Baby is about 19.1" long and weighs about 6.3lbs! Well, that's the average. More on that below... Olivia's crucial functions should be developed now and she is spending her time practicing inhaling, exhaling, sucking, gripping, and blinking.
We had our 37 week check up today, and this week my bump was measuring big. The doctor poked and prodded my belly to get an idea of what's going on in there, and he's guessing that she might already be 8 pounds! We have an ultrasound tomorrow to get a better idea of how big she actually is. He said he could be wrong, but he definitely doesn't think she's a small baby. Up until this week I had been measuring average. I had also been gaining back the weight I lost the first half of my pregnancy at a rate of about a half a pound a week and had just got back to my pre-pregnancy weight. This week I gained 2 pounds! I guess she had a growth spurt...
Everything else is looking normal, so we are thankful for that. I've been having a ton of Braxton Hicks contractions and they are getting stronger. I've also been having some pains in my legs, which might be caused by my little chunk resting on nerves. We are excited to see our baby tomorrow, and hoping she isn't even bigger than the doctor thinks!
We got a lot done around the house this weekend, but I feel like there's still a lot left to do in the next couple of weeks. We had our third baby shower on Thursday, thrown by Tim's coworkers, and then Thursday evening we went shopping at Target to use our gift cards and get the rest of the baby things we needed/wanted. We got a lot of great stuff and I feel like we are really ready now!
Our weekend project. Notice the monkey in the booster seat
on the floor... Nola visited!
Nola "helped" me in the nursery on Saturday. She
loves looking at all the baby stuff and enjoyed
going through all the gifts we received.
Beautiful babe catching some rays
37 weeks!
~Kaylee
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