38 weeks

Not much to update on. Just having a lot of Braxton Hicks on and off. Every night in bed before I go to sleep I get the dull cramping. At least once a day I get the stabbing pain in my vag. Hopefully all this is doing something down there! ;) Also, I believe that baby girl has dropped! As in I can breathe and I feel like I don't have bruised ribs anymore! I have to pee a lot more and I waddle just a little bit, but it beats having sore ribs all the time!

I go into my 38 week midwife appointment next Wednesday, and she is wanting to see if I have dilated or not. I would love to be a 4 or 5! Haha! Like that'll happen! But hey, a momma can wish right? ;)

I have been cleaning like a mad woman lately. Which is awesome! I was waiting for this day to come. I have already had the nesting part where I organize everything. Who knew that there were 2 different kinds of nesting?! While I was cleaning the shower this morning, I was getting cramps like crazy! Put a little elbow grease into your bathroom and you might go into labor right? Well not for me. :/ Not today at least.

I feel like I am going back and forth on whether or not when I want to go into labor. I am so anxious to meet my baby girl but I really want to wait till after 39 weeks to have her. Having your baby at 39 weeks or after has so many great benefits. Everything is just...well...better! So although I want the good benefits of waiting till that time, I am getting impatient.  I don't feel large and overwhelmed with my belly, but I am tired of sharing it. I wasn't really big with Josiah and with this one, it's the same. Every time someone has asked me how far along I am, they are always surprised. Which is somewhat annoying because then they go on to ask you "Are you sure?" "Are you eating enough?" "Where are you hiding it?" etc. 

Josiah was 7lbs 6oz, which is super average(i think). I asked my mom the other day how big I was and she said that I was pretty small too. Like 6 lbs small. Girls tend to be smaller than boys, so if my baby girl is a little petite thing, I don't care. :) She will be a happy healthy little girl. That's all that I care about.

Enough of that rant, lets go to the topic of packing the hospital bags. Nope they aren't done yet. I probably should get onto that. Honestly, I just don't care to pack them. It's not that I am not prepared, it's more like I just don't want too. Everything else seems more important to do than to do that. But maybe that's what I will do this evening, I gotta do it sometime right? might as well be when I am 38 weeks. ;)

That's it for this week! See you all(hopefully)next week for the 39 pregnancy update! 

-Jess

Week 38 pregnancy vlog
(pretty much a repeat of what's above)

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