Week 37 - Baby Nephew, Nursery Pictures and 3 weeks to go!

The first news is that my sister finally opened the envelope and we’re having a baby nephew!! We were selfishly excited because this will give our little guy a boy cousin very close to his age which will be great for them both. Now we just need to get them to move back to Nova Scotia! :) My sister is due 10 weeks after me!

Well, 3 weeks to go to our due date!! Nathan and I are guessing the baby may come a bit later…around June 2nd :) We can’t believe how quickly the time is flying by and I am still feeling really great overall. I had a bout of about 3 days where I was starting to get really overtired which usually equals emotional for me, so I braced myself, but thankfully with a few days of extra rest I was feeling back to normal again. Yay! I feel like this pregnancy has treated me really well overall.

What’s new? I am definitely napping just about everyday now, but still feeling pretty good. I usually will be up earlier in the morning, nap in the afternoon and then stay up until bedtime. Has been working well and my body seems to thrive the best that way. I definitely have no problems napping, so hopefully that will be good when the baby arrives too. Other than that, I sleep through the night quite regularly… once in awhile I’ll wake up for a couple of hours between 2-4am but usually do something productive and then head back to bed. I actually managed to put away all the baby clothes at a time like that! It’s only happened a handful of times in my whole 3rd Trimester so that’s good J I haven’t had to get up to go to the bathroom at all at night which is nice (and odd I guess?), but I definitely go lots more during the day.

Everything on the homefront is coming together. I managed to get my hospital bags all packed and ready to go. Nathan has just about finished up the nursery, which is so exciting. Here are some pics!

Our little guy seems to be doing wonderful. Every doctor visit is short and all is great. The doctor said that my pregnancy was ‘by the book’ and couldn’t be better. He says the baby seems to be a good size, not too big or small. He guessed around 7lbs 2 oz. We shall see! Nathan & I were a bit worried in the beginning because we both weighed in close to 9 lbs and my dad was 11 lbs! Yikes! We were both long babies too, so this little guy may end up looking like a string bean for the first little bit. Lol

He continues to move a lot! I’m going to try to videotape it next week. I just love to watch it. Last week we could see his foot sticking out of my hip side. So weird – and cool! He still moves the most between 9-11pm at night and first thing in the morning.

My weight gain has slowed down, I’m now at 23 lbs gained and actually don’t feel that big, although when I see a picture I’m like “whoa belly!”. I have noticed the past few weeks if I’m on my feet too long, I start to feel it in my lower back. As well, turning over in the night takes a bit of extra effort to lift the belly and turn sides.

Who knows, maybe my next post will be welcoming Baby Parker :)