09-12-2008 - 35 Weeks.. drs app.. pic

My mood while writing this blog: Anxious

Your baby now weighs over 5.5 pounds and its crown-to-rump length is approximately 13.2 inches. Your baby's total length is around 20.25 inches at this point. Your uterus is now 6 inches from the bellybutton and the average weight gain is approximately 24 to 29 pounds.

Most pregnant women begin to feel cramped and heavy around this time and often become tired of being pregnant. Some women feel like they do not have to room to breathe or eat. You should eat small, but frequent, meals and rest as often as you can throughout the day. Your cervix will begin to dilate and efface within the next few weeks to make room for your baby's head to emerge from the birth canal. Your cervix needs to be 10 cm dilated in order to deliver your baby.

This week of your pregnancy your baby's fingernails will have definitely reached the tips of his fingers. When your baby is born, his nails may look long and pointy. Your baby is less likely to scratch himself at this point because of the lack of room in the uterus. Fat deposition will still continue and your baby is getting chubbier and rounder. Your baby's shoulders are plump at this point.

The baby begins to develop its own immune system.

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35 weeks already… I’m kinda feeling like it has snuck up on me in a way lol! I don’t know why because sometimes the weeks just seem to drag on by!

I didn’t get a weight estimation for Joel this time but he has def. gotten bigger! He about kicks OUT of me now! Seriously! I thought he was coming out of my belly button last night.. hurt so bad :( I’m was up 32 pounds yesterday but weighed in at 30 at the drs office today. Seems like this weight thing has hit me all at once. I was around 20 pounds forever! Then bam.. 10 pounds out of no where! My blood pressure was actually lower this week so my midwife isn’t worried about the weight gain. I didn’t pass my glucose test but I spoke with the head midwife (Jenny <3) for the first time in forever and she said that since I wasn’t too far over the recommended range that she wasn’t going to make me take the 3 hr test. Yay ! I so didn’t want to take it! I had previously passed the random glucose test that they did on my blood a little while back so I’m not worried. He heartrate was strong and very loud today! He is right up against my skin now I supposed. When he gets hiccups I can see my belly going up and down. Hits me as weird sometimes how a little being can live inside me for that long!

Well I measured 33 and ½ weeks and my midwife did have me down this week as being 32 weeks. So I’m finally getting bigger and actually measuring closer to my actual week (35 based on the U/S). This helps to confirm my due date of the 11th. BUT the head midwife saw me out in the hallway and stopped to talk with me because I haven’t seen her in over 20 weeks. But she comes up and says something along the lines of “oh look at your belly- you’re ready it won’t be long”. Yikes! And this is coming from a midwife that I haven’t seen in over 20 weeks.. she hasn’t seen my file in that long and she says something like that. When all the other midwives I have seen say I am small and that I’m actually 2 or so weeks behind what I think I am. I know my conception date so I know my due date but still to have her say that she thinks I’m almost ready is nice.. it’s nice that at least someone there confirms what I have been trying to say all along to them.

Anyways she referred me to another dr who will actually deliver Joel at the hospital. I am meeting with him next Wednesday. I am so happy that I finally have an appointment with the person who is actually going to deliver me :) I’m a detail person so this makes me feel better that I have an appointment and such. Now I just need him to refer me to a pediatrician for Joel.

I’ve got Joel’s little bag packed and almost ready to go.. I still need to get a couple things for my bag before I can pack it. I need to get on the ball though.. my mom had me at 35 weeks and now I’ve got the head midwife saying I look ready to go. I need to get my bag packed so I’m not so anxious about it.

Besides having a really hard time sleeping at night, heartburn, having shortness of breath, and peeing almost every hour at night.. I've been doing okay! It's finally getting colder here in Florida so now I'm having trouble finding stuff to wear.. I can't wear my sweatpants out of the house so I'm lost lol!

35 weeks!