An (Almost) 38-Week Update

Four days until Christmas.

Fifteen days until our baby is due.

I feel like my mind is in constant countdown-mode lately. Tomorrow is the last day of work before break. And then Johnny and I are home together for a few days! I'm really, really looking forward to it.

So, I'm about two weeks out from my due date.

Maybe I'll get around to having Johnny take my picture in the next few days, but for now I don't need a photo to describe how I'm feeling: very, very large.

• Like night and day, I made a switch as soon as I hit 37 weeks to being pretty darn uncomfortable. I swear my belly is tripling in size from one day to the next. 
• I'm measuring right on schedule at my appointments. My blood pressure is low, but the ol' extremities are definitely starting to swell up. Funz! 
• Despite my ever increasing girth, one of my sisters told me I'd quit gaining weight in the last few weeks. And hallelujah she was right. I haven't gained any for a couple weeks, and I'm hoping that continues. 
• I cannot get enough water. I'm drinking so much all the time, and I go to sleep every night parched. I wake up parched. It's truly an unquenchable thirst. 
• Baby Girl still moves around a LOT, and the doctors have told me that her movements will be more subtle now, but that has yet to happen. Her little movements actually hurt! I had no idea that was possible, but she's a strong little thing now. 
• She has been in the same position for a few weeks at my appointments. It's fun when I feel a little body part because based on where in my stomach it comes from, I can be pretty certain what it is: her elbow, knees, bottom, feet. 
• I feel like I'm a living version of Newton's first law of motion right now (I've been editing science courses at work lately). Once I'm in motion and up and doing things, I can remain that way pretty easily. But when I'm at rest, it's really hard to do anything but remain at rest and not get up ever again. 
• I feel kind of isolated right now. I just feel like it's me and Baby and no one else, and we're just depending on each other right now. I've never cared about someone so much before meeting her. And I think I'm finally ready for her to come as soon as she sees fit.
• And my last thought is that I couldn't have gone through the last 38 weeks without Johnny. He's my constant, and he loves me and little girl so much. I feel so much support from him right now, and it's pretty dang great.