Me at 35 weeks:
Hudson's Closet (I think I have a shopping problem...)
The completed nursery:
Emily and Baby Carter at my work shower
The last couple weeks have been pretty busy. Last Tuesday my friend Nicole from work threw my work baby shower for me here at my house. There were only a handful of people that could make it, but we had fun playing a few games, eating some food, chatting and opening lots more presents. Baby Hudson and I were spoiled once again!! We got a few more much needed items off our registry and some other cute stuff :)
The next couple days I spent setting up and organizing the nursery as well as doing some more baby laundry. Now it's all set up and ready! I must have over done it though because I woke up Thursday and my legs and hands were REALLY swollen. I wasn't too worried about it and figured it was just a normal part of pregnancy, but Andy really wanted me to call the dr., so I did and they had me come in to check and make sure my blood pressure was still good. So I went in and everything was fine but my dr. wanted me to be on bed rest for the weekend. So I had to take my week off work and was on bed rest until this Tuesday when I went in to my appointment. Luckily the swelling had decreased by Sunday and I felt a lot better getting some much needed down time that I don't take enough of.
I had my 36 weeks appointment on Tuesday and all is going well. Since I had notice Hudson being less active the dr. did an ultrasound to check his fluid levels, so I got a bonus peek at him :) All his fluid levels looked good and his heart was beating at a nice steady rate. She also did my first internal exam, no dialation yet but the dr. said I am starting to efface (the cervix is thinning out), so at least that's a bit of progress! And, the best news I got at the dr. was that the hospital has changed their visitation guidelines!!! Due to H1N1 they had the delivery room restricted to the baby's father and 1 birth partner, they've changed it so you can have up to 3 support people and the baby's father and then after delivery we just have to "limit" the amount of visitors we have. I am SOOO excited that our friends and family will be able to visit us in the hospital and share in this special time with us!
So, now that we're officially in the 9th month of pregnancy (how did that happen already??!!) we're ready for Hudson to be here!! The nursery is all set up, we have the pack and play set up to use as a bassinet in our room and we've bought the remaining items we NEED for before Hudson arrives. Now all I need to do is finish packing my hospital bag and we're ready to go!
