36 weeks

36 weeks - far out! Seeing that is scary - it's all getting so close now. Next week I'll be considered 'full-term'! I just can't quite get my head around how quickly this has all gone - it definitely gets quicker each pregnancy! I remember with the little man's pregnancy, everything just dragged and dragged. Even with the little miss it did a bit too. This time, it has mostly flown. I guess I'm busier with the kidlets, but I also feel like my mindset about the whole thing has changed... for the most part I'm more patient than I was in my previous pregnancies, and more accepting of how pregnancy works. It takes a long time... if I focus on it constantly it will drag on forever, so I just get on with my life. However, having said all that, I'm sure over the next few weeks I will find myself just getting over it and not being quite so patient. The end of pregnancy sucks. I'm not quite to the point of being completely over it - but it will happen, I have no doubt!

I guess I don't have much to update this week because I did a pretty big blog post over the weekend. I already mentioned that I saw my lovely midwife last week, and that everything was good. My blood pressure is behaving itself thankfully - that is something that I do worry about a bit, because it was definitely creeping up in my pregnancy with the little miss. But it seems to be staying put this time, so fingers crossed it can continue to do so. Bubba was head down, partially engaged and on the right at my appointment... but I think that was changed. I often have a feel for bubba's bottom, and that has been swapping from right to left to centre... and I think she popped out of being engaged, but has maybe dropped down again? Well, that's what I suspect with the amount of bladder pressure and pelvic discomfort I had walking the kids to school this morning! I do worry a bit about bubba getting into the best position - but then I figure, the little miss wasn't in the best position to begin with... I had my labour muck around for 24 hours while she got herself into a good position - then all was fine. There's only so much I can do anyway, and ultimately bubba will be in whatever position she wants to be! She is head down - that is better than breech or transverse! And she has plenty of time to wriggle into the best position for birth - even if it doesn't happen until labour begins!

Reading for the birth is coming along, but slowly. I finished Ina May, now I have moved onto a water birth book. I really want to get that one read so I can start on the one a friend sent down that a few friends have highly recommended.

What else? Probably not a great deal to mention... this is the last week of school before holidays, so I only have today, tomorrow and the following day of just the little miss at home... then we move onto both kidlets home all the time and my mum going back to full time work. I've been trying to think of activities to take them too that don't involve too much physical exertion and wrangling on my behalf. I am also hoping to arrange plenty of play dates with friends - both to amuse the kidlets and for me to keep my sanity!
And in amongst that, I will be needing to get the last minute things organised for bubba, and for the birth! I am looking forward to the birth pool being delivered here!

Anyway, that's enough for today. Here is this week's belly pic. I wonder how much growing I'll do over the next few weeks?