37 weeks!

Here we are at 37 weeks! It's so nice to know that we have made it this far and just weeks or days till we all get to meet Ms. Charlotte. I have been keeping busy and feeling pretty good. But it is Christmas eve and today I am taking it super duper easy! Today and tomorrow are really the only days I hope Charlotte doesn't decide to arrive. I want everyone to be able to celebrate at home but after tomorrow I am gonna do my best to get Charlotte to start to make her way into this world. I am getting anxious to meet her, my family and friends are getting anxious and I know the dads are getting anxious!

At the end of my 36th week I went to the doctor again and all was great! Baby was moving and heartrate was in the 150's, right where it should be. The doctor also checked my cervix to see if there was any progress that had been made between my 34th and 36th weeks and surprisingly to me no change had been made. My cervix was closed (has to dilate to 10 for delivery), thick (must thin to prep for delivery), and the baby's head was high. But her head is still down which is the way we need it. It was good news meaning that she was in no huge rush to be here before Christmas. She is content to bake a bit longer. The next appointment will be after Christmas and we will again be checking my cervix every week from now on and if she hasn't made any progress by 38 weeks we may talk about stripping my membranes and by 39 weeks we will start induction talks. I am hoping she will do this on her own but this pregnancy has been so different that she is gonna decide when it happens. I am just happy we are out of the scary zone and in the safe zone for delivery.

I am still having the Braxton Hicks contractions and the super duper heaviness as I walk. I am sleeping a bit better at night but still up a lot and trying to reposition myself, which is not an easy task. I am getting my pregnancy appetite finally, better late than never I guess. Because once I start eating something that I like I really can't stop. Lucky for me that I have gained minimal weight so far so any weight at this point isn't too bad. I am still growing though that's for sure. I had to go out and buy some more maternity clothes, which killed me since we know we don't have long, but my kids kept reminding me that my tummy was showing. 

One more pic of us growing...