Tuesday is 37 weeks - Full Term!!!

Here is the 8 month photo.  I feel huge and look huge.  The last few days have not been stellar for mom.  I seem to have caught some sort of bug that is wreaking havoc with my insides.  Won't get too into it but just not feeling well and the heat and everything else is not helping. 
So today is 36 weeks 5 days.  Technically on Tuesday, at 37 weeks, I will be considered full term.  Yay!!!  I can't believe that I have made it so far.  It seems to be dragging and going fast at the same time.  We are pretty much all prepared.  Yesterday we spent some time doing some final laundry and organizing the baby room.  She is not going to be up there for the first couple of months because I am not going to be trudging up and down the stairs every 2 hours to feed her.  So she is going to be in the pack and play down stairs in the living room for a little while.  We have a lot of the stuff that we need but I am sure once she gets here that we will figure out something we missed. 
Today has been spent cooking up some meals for us to freeze so that when she does choose to arrive, we won't have to worry about cooking.  Just pop something out of the freezer and into the microwave or oven.  We made chili, lasagne and tuna casserole.  Later on, I am going to do a few more things.  Chris has been big help with that. 

We had our appointment on Friday.  Thursday, I started having my issues, and had to call the doctor as I was shivering uncontrollably and had a bit of a temperature.  They suggested taking some tylenol and eating the Banana, Rice, Applesauce and Toast diet.  I did and in a couple of hours was feeling much better.  On Friday, when we were at the doctors, she looked at my weight and my measurement and then at the chart and was a little puzzled.  The nurse had written 36 w 2 d.  But her 6 looked like a 0 so the doctor is seeing that I have gained a lot of weight and am measuring about 36cent and but thinking that I am 30 weeks.  She then asks how far along I am and I say 36 1/2 weeks and she is like oh thank god.  She was wondering how to let me know that with 10 weeks left I was much bigger than I should be.  Yikes, I am not sure I could have lasted 10 more weeks.  3 weeks is hard enough.  Everything else was normal.  BP was 120/88.  Heartbeat was fabulous.  She is moving around like a champ.  She is pretty sure she is head down which is excellent.  I think that her feet are just about at my belly button because the last few days there have been these little movements across my stomach in that region.  It is a bit creepy.  Next week, I get the group B strep test.  Most adults have this but it doesn't effect healthy adults.  It can however effect the baby in labor so if you have it, they give you antibiotics when you are in labor so the baby doesn't contract it.  No big deal. 

I can't believe it is soooo close.  I can't wait and I can.  Chris is feeling the same way.  He is anxious and excited at the same time.  One thing we do know is life will never be the same for the Other Bakers once she gets here. Can't wait to see what she looks like....