Pregnancy Journal :: Week 34
7/1/10:: day 238
(9:51am) My tummy has the hiccups again. Love it!
My nails seem to be growing like weeds, but they are still quite thin and bendy. Sometimes they get so long that I will hit them on something and they bed back causing me horrible pain. I’ve done it to about 5-6 nails. That generally tells me that my nails are too long and need to be trimmed ASAP. I am kind of enjoying having long nails, but I sure don’t like constantly having to clean under them. Short nails are much less time consuming.
(2:33pm) My little guy is wiggling in my belly right now. I love this. When you are spending a boring day at work and it looks like there is no end it sight; all of a sudden you feel a little wiggle in your belly and it reminds you that you are not alone. Not for one second!
7/2/10 :: day 239
I’m not 100% certain, but I think Grayson has dropped. The past two days it seems like he is lower. I have been feeling just a slight bit more weight down “below”, and I feels like his legs and butt are further away from my ribs now. I don’t quite think it’s the “lightening” I keep reading about, but I think he is headed (pardon the pun) in that direction.
7/6/10 :: day 243
Within the past 2-3 days this baby in my belly has begun stretching the top of my stomach with his precious little baby feet. I thought that he was beginning to drop, because for a few day there he didn’t bother me at all. Boy was I wrong! One of his new favorite things is to strong arm me. Well…strong foot me really. It feels like this little boy is taking one of his legs and locking the knee while pushing on the side wall of my uterus. Seriously kid? That’s kind of annoying.
Over the holiday weekend we went to Pickwick and hung out on my parents boat and floated in the water pretty much all day on Saturday. I think my little man liked the movement of the water, because I barely felt him wiggle all day. Well, at least until the ride home. I think the rocking of the waves soothed him and kept him napping all day.
(9:48pm) I’m still having issues with drinking liquids and laying down soon after. I guess this little boy is pushing on my stomach and making me feel like I need to barf. The thing is, I think I really may barf if I try to stay laying down. So annoying when I am super tired and ready for bed. You may look at that statement and say “Hey nerd, don’t drink anything close to bedtime”, but I would answer you back with a “but I’m freggin’ thirsty!”
7/7/10 :: day 244
I went to my bi-weekly OB visit today, and got some super awesome news. My doc said that he wants to start me on my weekly visits. Woo Hoo! That means starting next Wednesday I’ll find out if I have dilated at all. In some ways I hope I do deliver early, because that means I can leave work sooner than planned and I will get to meet the new love of my life sooner than expected.
In other ways I hope that he comes on time, because we still have some things to purchase for his arrival, and we are STILL waiting on his carpet to arrive. I know you can have a baby without having carpet in his room, but I would be nice to only be concerned with him once he’s here.
In NO way do I want him to be late. I’m all for the drugs. Pitocin is a friend of any woman due in the middle of August in the south.
