36 week appt

I’m feeling much better today about my weight, I lost 2 lbs of that 6 I gained the other day! So thats better! Baby B is doing great as usual. He seems huge and his movements are slowing down, he seems to running out of room! My mom went w/ me today so she could see the u/s, that was fun, caleb was w/ us too. He did really good and behaved the whole time, even while sitting in the waiting room while I got my non stress test. Still no contrax showing up, which really is annoying me! All morning when I wasnt resting I had intense pressure and thought for sure I’d have contrax show up on the test, but since I only get the pain when I am not reclining the test of course showed nothing. We’re under the 2 week wait now which is great but I’d still like to think there’s hope I could go into labor naturally before the c/s.

The house is finally getting to be at a point where I feel a little better about the baby coming so soon, but that’s for the moment, I’m sure at 11 pm tonight as I lay in bed I’ll be worrying about something else that needs done! Well it was an uneventful day and I got some rest for once. Tomorrow will be another story, the only day this week I wont have help w/ Caleb and then tomorrow night our church is having a harvest dinner. I’m glad since I’ll miss out on Thanksgiving dinner at home since I’ll be in the hospital, so tomorrow night will be my thanksgiving dinner. everyone brings a dish or dessert and a few people make turkeys. it’s going to be great!

This time last year I was recovering from meningitis. thats so hard to believe. We thought because of the meningitis and the return of my pseudo tumor symptoms from it, we were thinking we’d have to put off having another baby for a long time. We actually were talking about not being able to have any more children and talking about other options. Here it is a year later and amazingly we are weeks away from meeting our new baby boy! God really does work miracles! I cant believe that a year ago I was struggling with such a major illness and at the time couldn’t see how I’d ever get better. I had to rely on help w/ Caleb non stop from other people and it was very challenging. Ironically I’m dealing with some of those same issues now but it’s a lot easier since I’ve had to do it before. it’s been a reflective week for me and I am trying to not get all emotional thinking about it, but it’s hard when you are so very pregnant! It’s been an interesting and very challenging year and I look forward to seeing what amazing things will happen in our family in the next year!