What else can you say about week 37 besides “full term”? We’re ready to go, and as of tonight, the nursery is too. The doctor told us today that this is her weekend on-call so if we wanted to we could just go ahead and have her this weekend. As if we have a choice 
Steph is of course nesting, and trying every home remedy known to mankind. But if you have any doubts as to how happy she is, just check out the ear-to-ear smile on her face in the photo below.
So I will leave you all with that. I am hoping to make my last post (on this blog) any day now, but that’s a whole lot of wishful thinking on my part. Until then, enjoy the belly!
Well we’re almost there. After this week Linnea’s lungs will be fully developed, which are pretty much the last bit. As of next weekend she’ll be full-term, and all bets are off. Next Tuesday we go back to the doctor (we’re going every week now) and we get to have another ultrasound. So far she seems to be a normal size says the doctor, but we’ll get a better look next week. We’ll be sure to have ultrasound pictures up ASAP. Until then, how about some belly!
Well, almost week 35, but this shot was taken last night. I got a new camera, so of course I had to get artsy fartsy with this week’s shot, but I think it makes her look beautiful 
Our little girl is growing. According to the internet (which never lies) she’s about 4 lbs now. However mommy reports that she’s kicking harder than a 2 year old.
We got a great photo of Steph and Jill this weekend while on our last trip. From here out we can’t travel so it was nice to get down and get some salty air in our lungs.
We also got a chance to go to Babie-R-Us and get a few final things we needed before Linnea’s born. The things that remain on the registry are fair game for Christmas!
For Halloween Steph decided to be a green M&M and with a little help from our friends ‘paper’ and ’scissors’ (unfortunately ‘rock’ hd to sit this one out) we were able to get a nice little ‘m’ on her belly. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but it was cute.
Tuesday night we went to our next-to-last child birthing class and got to tour the labor and delivery unit as well as the maternity ward (which we had seen before). The good news is that the labor and delivery rooms are NICE so we’ll be very comfortable and surrounded with state-of-the-art equipment (sans internet access). The bad news (besides the lack of internet access) is that once we deliver, we have but a few scant hours in the ‘Hilton’ wing before we get wheeled down to the ‘Holiday Inn’ wing which, though it’s not the worst hospital room ever, is much more like a hospital room than the labor and delivery rooms. Did I mention there’s no internet? And I won’t have an iPhone yet? If only you all could see my tear-soaked keyboard right now.
Tonight we went to the “Meet the Doctors” dinner. It’s a nice idea because there’s a pretty decent chance that our doctor won’t be the one that winds up delivering Linnea. In reality though it was pretty useless (except for the free meatballs and the cheese platter). Thanks to the fact that we’ve been to the doctor 83 times, and have taken 2 of the 3 classes so far, and we watch ‘A Baby Story’ at least once a day, we didn’t really have any questions for anyone so it wound up being an exercise in small talk. It was nice to meet everyone, and reassuring that none of them are brain-eating zombies but rather are nice people, but I didn’t really have any doubts there.
So that’s about it on our end. We’ll keep everyone posted and for those of you that don’t have countdowns running on your computers (for shame), it’s 51 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes and 58, no 57, no 56…… 51 days, 4 hours and 2 minutes to go.
For those who don’t know, we had a shower over the weekend. From what I hear it couldn’t have gone any better (see photos from the shower courtesy of Tiffany).
At the shower many asked Steph how the nursery was shaping up so we decided to make a video for the rest of this week’s information, the belly shot, and the nursery.
If you can’t see the above video for any reason you can also see it here.
Enjoy!
I know it’s been a couple of weeks, we’re up to week 30 now. A lot’s been going on, we’ve been going to classes. Childbirth and breast feeding so far. Soon we’ll have infant care. We’re learning a lot. In a couple weeks we’ll be having dinner with all of the doctors in the group so that we can meet them and have some sort of relationship, shallow as it may be, with whatever doctor happens to be on call when we deliver. With any luck we’ll get our doctor, but the group as a whole is jsut as good and we have confidence in any and all of them.
Now, without further delay, the belly shot for week 30.
First week of the third trimester, and here’s where the real growth begins!
Here are some photos of everyone’s favorite belly, along with a glimpse of the nursery that is coming along nicely, though there is still plenty of work to be done.
Here are the latest round of belly shots with a special week 25 “show me some skin” photo. Enjoy!
So we skipped a week as we were really busy, but here is where we are now. Hope you enjoy this weeks belly shot.
