No Longer the "Cute" Pregnant Lady

Well everyone, I think the ship has sailed on my time as a "cute" pregnant lady. I am now officially miserable. I am huge, tired, cranky, emotional, having contractions, and can't climb a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. I am SOOO sexy right now. My shirts no longer really fit...I mean they cover what they need to, but you can still see my band of my maternity pants (which bothers me)and the cute little flutters of Alex moving in the beginning have turned to hard jabs and pokes. His new favorite thing is to stretch (or at least that is my best guess) and he likes to poke his bum out the top right of my stomach, which isn't the most comfortable. But hey, at least I know he is doing OK in there and obviously getting stronger and bigger by the day.

I guess I also look like I am ready to "pop" at any time. Every time I touch my stomach or make a weird face people (even strangers) keep asking me if I am "OK" and do I need to go to the hospital? Um, don't you think if I needed to go to the hospital, I would!!!??? Even Henry keeps saying that I am looking huge when I ask him "am I fat?". I am guessing the unspoken rule of always saying "no, honey, you aren't fat at all" doesn't apply when your wife is 9 months pregnant :/

I turned 36 weeks yesterday, so only one more week until I am offically what they consider "full term". I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon where they will do the first internal exam..I'll spare you the details, but basically they will check the position of the baby and see if I am starting to dialate at all, etc. I am NOT looking forward to getting weighed though. Hoping the scale fairies take pity on this miserable pregnant lady as last week they were very very bad.

We have everything almost ready for Alex. We have his pack n play set up in our room, have all his clothes organized, started installing his car seat (have to get that inspected)and built his stroller, and this weekends project is to wash everything and pack my bag for the hospital and of course...SLEEP. We had our last baby class last night which was learning all about breastfeeding and positioning, etc. Both Henry and I really liked the instructor and she is actually the lactation consultant at the hospital that we will deliver at, so I am looking forward to working with her.

Hopefully I will start to feel better soon. I think part of my problem is I am starting to transition a lot of my responsibilities at work to other people, so I don't have as many tasks to do which is causing me to be bored and that doesn't help with my overall outlook. I made a promise to myself to take a few personal days this month before the baby gets here to pamper myself and get some errands done that I otherwise wouldn't be able to get done. I took a day off on Tuesday of this week and will take another one in a week or so to get pampered. I am really looking forward to that day.....