And closer still...

I am such a delinquent blogger! Every day I sit here at the computer and consider writing something, but then I decide that the effort it takes to open up blogger and actually organize my thoughts is just too much, and instead I spend all my time reading posts by pregnant women on ivillage, wondering if it's normal to feel x,y, or z. I never really find anything interesting there, yet I keep lurking, multiple times a day! What is it about pregnancy that makes you just want to read and read about pregnancy related things, no matter how much of it you already know and no matter how much it entirely fails to do anything for you, except to help you continue to obsess about pregnancy and the baby that will soon be a part of your eternity? As you can probably tell, my thoughts are very much NOT organized right now!

Sooooooo, today is 36 weeks 4 days. In three days, I will be considered "term". I keep thinking/hoping baby will come early, and that labor will happen soon once Saturday comes, but then I realize what a HUGE change will occur in our lives as soon as this baby is born, and I think that 4 or 5 weeks would probably be just fine with me. Labor excites me. I read so many birth stories and I get so excited to imagine what I will do this time around to manage the contractions, and I wonder, what position will the baby be born in? Will the baby latch on perfectly this time? Will postpartum recovery be smoother? I want to push the baby out slower this time, with no hurry.

Anyway, we had an appointment yesterday. Everything is still going great. Baby had a growth spurt, and it was interesting to have the midwife tell me that because it confirmed what I had been telling Peter for the last week. Within the last week or so, baby has felt like a big, large, viable baby all of sudden. And she sometimes feels like she's trying to push her way out already. She burrows down there pretty deep. I wonder, will I ever be so used to pregnancy that a butt that pops out several inches all of a sudden does not cause me to stare in amazement and point it out to Peter every time? Who knows, but I'm definitely not there yet!

Oh, and the strangest thing--before this pregnancy, I was blood type A+. Now I'm A-. And blood types don't change. Unless you have an autoimmune disease. Which I don't. So, now we have to try to find the confirmation that Peter is O-, so that I don't have to have Rhogam. It's all very weird.

By the way, if you haven't given baby predictions yet, now's the time!

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