33 Weeks!

As of yesterday I'm 33 weeks pregnant, yay! Only 7 more to go!

At the Dr's visit Friday she measured him at about 35 weeks, so my next Dr's visit we're getting another ultrasound. I've heard ultrasound measurements after 20 weeks are not always accurate (same for fundal height), but I do think he's going to be a big baby. Mostly because it seems this entire time he's measured big.

At our first ultrasound, the day after we found out we were pregnant (January 5, I want to say?), we found out we were about 5 weeks... which matched up with the dates I gave them (since they add two weeks to the beginning of your pregnancy) because I'd been in the hospital December 15 for random abdominal pains that I've never had before or since. They did all these tests simply to find no explanation but an elevated white blood cell count proved something was going on with my body. By the end of our 8 hours there I felt fine so whatever it was passed, I wish I'd just sat at home. Still, they did give me a pregnancy test using blood work and it came back negative so I'm positive it would have been a few days later that we conceived and by the dates I gave her she agreed it was most likely then. At that point I was given the due date of September 8, 2013.

So then we went back at 9 weeks for our official ultrasound and at that point he was measuring a week ahead, so I officially was labeled as 10 weeks pregnant and I didn't argue because I much preferred the September 1, 2013 due date.

At 20 weeks he was measuring about a week and a half bigger, still. I was a little concerned as I know babies have growth spurts but his seemed to be a pretty consistent one. Still, nobody acted like it was a problem and I talked to one girl whose baby was measuring bigger up until she hit about 33 weeks, so I figured I wouldn't worry.

At 28 weeks I got our first try at a 4D ultrasound and when it came around to how he's measuring a bit big the tech went ahead and measured him for me and he was still measuring about a week ahead (I want to say a week and a half, again... but the way I wrote it down in our photo album I left out just how much over a week he was. I do remember when she measured his head at 28 weeks it was measuring in at 30 and the rest of him was more around 29 weeks. When we re-tried at about 30 weeks I decided not to ask her to measure, though, since I know ultrasounds aren't the most accurate and I assumed he'd still just measure big.

So now at 33 weeks I'm going to have another ultrasound because the fundal height measurement is coming up big and she just wants to keep an eye on his size. According to Patrick's mom, both her sons were 9lbs (except we found a pillow with his brother's birth weight and I recall it being big, but it was more like 8.6, so I'm comforting myself that she just likely rounded up... Even before knowing that I had fully accepted attempting to naturally birth a baby somewhere in the 8lb range, I just dread him going over 9lbs). From what I can tell, though, if anybody's birth weight had any actual influence on the baby, it's mine... and I was somewhere in 7-8lbs range. I suspect the ultrasound is still going to measure big, I don't know if it'll be two weeks big, but unless he changes course now I just automatically assume he's going to be a big boy.

In other news, my mother in law took me to buy some maternity clothes, I think mostly for my birthday but I think also just to be nice. So I have maternity jeans that I love, yay! I also got some nursing bras, although I'm worried they're a bit smaller than I needed... I may try to take the one I haven't worn back and go up a band size just for comfort. But at the time I was trying them on I thought the one I got was the best fit, so I don't knoooow. I got a nursing tank top, which I'm thrilled about. I figure I'll wear a bunch of old shirts over a nursing tank 'til my body evens itself out a bit so a nursing tank is going to be a big help to wear under the shirts. We also got me a dress for the baby shower, and I love it on me, which is great because I normally hate dresses on me. I guess partially because I always look pregnant when I'm not--but now I am so it doesn't matter. But also, this dress is made specifically for pregnant women, haha.

We also found some maternity shirts at a thrift store (since I had some shirts I was making due with (even though they don't always cover my belly band) I wasn't wanting to ask for maternity shirts at $20 a pop) and then a gliding rocker (I'm so stoked!). It's in good condition, we just need to re-cover the pads with something less old-ladyish (it's not ugly material, it's just like vintage french farm pattern.

And today I realized I have about 48 more days (or less is what I'm worried the most about!) to go before Wiley gets here. So I really need to get this apartment in tip-top shape so that when we get the second bedroom freed up I can focus all my energy on turning it into a nursery.