Full Term!

Little Baby K. is full term today! Here's the 37 week belly shot...

Congratulations! Your baby is full-term! This means that if your baby arrives now, his lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though your due date is still three weeks away. He weighs 6 1/3 pounds and measures a bit over 19 inches, head to heel (like a stalk of Swiss chard). Many babies have a full head of hair at birth, with locks from 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches long.

Daddy passed his final engineer test this morning! He makes us so proud!

37 Week Appointment

This week I waited 45 minutes before seeing the doctor. I'm hoping this isn't a trend!

I'm "definitely a fingertip" dilated and 50 - 60% effaced.

A fingertip dilated which is 1 centimeter will have a completely different meaning between someone with a small hand and someone with a larger hand.

Effacement is the process by which the cervix prepares for delivery. After the baby has engaged in the pelvis, it gradually drops closer to the cervix; the cervix gradually softens, shortens and becomes thinner. Effacement is measured in percentages. For example, your health care provider may tell you that you are effaced 50%, which means you are half way to being completely effaced. When you are 100% effaced or completely effaced, your cervix is paper-thin and labor is right around the corner.

I haven't gained any weight since my 30 week appointment. He reassured me that it's totally normal as long as your belly is measuring right.

I was told that things should start "happening" in the next few weeks! Stay tuned!

Another Ballgame!

I think he might come out asking for peanuts and crackerjacks!

Ballgame at 25 weeks...
Ballgame at 30 weeks
And again today at 36 weeks and 4 days...

36 Weeks!

Only 4 weeks to go! Our doctor's appointment went really well this morning. (The only bad thing was that I didn't see the doctor until about an hour after my scheduled appointment! I thought Aunt B. was going to fall asleep in the waiting room!)

As of this morning, his head is down and I'm "almost a fingertip" dilated! The nurse told me she wouldn't think labor would start anytime soon, but that you just never know! I go back next Thursday for my 37 week appointment.

Here's my belly at 36 weeks...
WARNING....Naked belly coming up......

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Lots of veins...but no stretchmarks!! (Knock on wood!!)

I graduated!

I graduated from Breastfeeding Basics last night. I even got a diploma! The jury is still out on whether this is going to work for our family, but I'm definitely glad I attended the class. The instructor was very knowledgeable on up-to-date breastfeeding info. She told me that my gallbladder surgery shouldn't cause any problems if I'm still breastfeeding at that time.

The best thing I found out is that the snack stand near the blue elevators sells Ben & Jerry's! I'll be getting some of that after he's born!

36 week appointment tomorrow! We've got a very busy weekend ahead of us!