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36 Weeks 

Saturday, October 17, 2015 - Posted by Danielle at 5:50 PM
36 weeks.  This is the marker I've had in my head all along that just has said, "That's when you'll be really close!!"  And here we are.  I've felt a little different this week.  I feel like when I had 8-10 weeks to go I was so anxious and so ready to be done being pregnant and I was antsy about it because it felt like there was still so far to go.  Now at 36 weeks, I've settled into a calm with it all.  The reality is, I am still very ready to be done being pregnant, but there's a huge part of me that is just scared so not feeling as big of a rush for him to get here.  I'm of course so eager to meet him and have him here, but the reality of it all is hitting me.  This isn't just a little something new- in just one month we'll be bringing home our son.  In just one month, our lives will truly be changed forever and so will Adie's.  I know it will be an adjustment for everyone and in 6 months we'll look at life and not know what life was like before he was a part of it all, but right now in the anticipation...I'm scared.

Biggest symptom this week is just that I've been feeling extremely uncomfortable.  I've been having lots of cramping and pain way down low, lots of contractions, my stomach has felt a lot heavier this week and my back has been starting to hurt more.  Heartburn has kicked up a notch as well as lack of sleep.  I'm finding this week that when I get up to the bathroom I'm dragging I'm so tired.  By the time I'm done and climbing back into bed though, it's like I'm wired and my mind is just totally ADD jumping from one thing to the next- and nothing that even really matters!  Frustrating.

One thing that has been big this week also is that Adie had her first nap and night with just panties, no diaper.  I had no plans of tackling this right now, but Mark had put her down for nap last week, forgotten to put a diaper on her, she wet the bed, and since then has been paranoid about getting her sheets messy so we decided we better take advantage of it.  Planned or not though, it's great to know that we'll be going into this with just one in diapers!!  YAY!!!

We had another appointment this week that went really well.  Nothing to big - had the Strep B test done so we'll be finding out the results for that next week.  We also will be having our last Bradley class this coming week.  Crazy that 12 weeks has passed of classes already.  We're close!