36 weeks

Hello people, well we are at 36 weeks 1 day! and it totally feels like it! this past week it has been kinda hard. My back is hurting a lot and there isn't much I can do about it, and as usual I can't breath. But today is a much better day then yesterday. The dr. checked me and I have made zero progress. I was told a few weeks ago that the baby had started to drop and I felt like it had, but apparently not really. She couldn't feel anything, so she said I would def. be back next week. (The baby's head is still down, which is great). But thats a good thing because I will tech. be full term at 37 weeks, which will be next week so thats not a bad thing! She was really kinda quite and didn't say much, all my vitals looked good. She did say she was noticing some water weight so they were going to keep an eye on that. My calfs are pretty swollen and my ankels stay that way. I didn't really have much to ask her about either, any issues i have been having are pretty normal from what I hear so I wasn't going to waste her time on them.

We have the hospital bag packed and in the car and so is the car seat, so I feel like we are ready. JV and I went to the melting pot last thursday and I got there before him and as I was sitting in the car, I got a few weird pains and things I hadn't felt before and it kinda hit me that at any moment I could be making that call to JV and telling him I'm in labor and that was the first time I got scared. In a good way but it was the first bit of "oh crap" I have had. I"m assuming thats pretty normal, but I think we are as ready as we are going to be. We have both made bets about where I'm going to be when/if my water breaks. I'm guessing at work and he thinks in the middle of the night I'm going to wake him up, so we will see who is right.

Yesterday I was reading a lady's blog on babycenter.com and she was announcing that she had her baby girl last week and it said "samantha is here" and something struck me funny. That was on of the girl names that JV and I really liked and we had decided on Alyssa over samantha b/c it was a really long first name but now i'm not so sure. We both still really love Alyssa Jane, but now Samantha Jane is back in my head. So I think we decided that we are just going to wait and see if its a girl which one she looks more like. I'm thinking we will stick with Alyssa but just a thought. It was werid b/c I haven't looked at names in a long time and I was totally decided on Alyssa, but something hit me funny when I read that so now i'm not toally sure. So we will see!!!

I go back next wednesday at 2:30, i'm every week now. I still have June 28th in my head for some reason. They did tell me last time that they will let me go to 41 weeks then they will set a date to induce me if it comes to that. Kaiser is really against inducing for non medical reasons. THey strongly believe that it leads to more C sections and as a practice they only want to do the c section if its totally necessary b/c of the recovery time and the major surgery it is. Right now I don't seem to be at any risk for needing a c section or to be induced so looks like we are just going to have to wait on the little one!

Thank you all for your prayers and kind thoughts, keep them coming as the next few weeks are going to be eventful!!! Love you all!