36 Weeks!

Getting really excited!! I still feel really great.  I had about 2 weeks that I kind of "hit the wall" or "lost it" but I got it back and now everything is going really well.  I just had to realize that I can't do everything like I used to, and slowing down really bothered me.  We are short staffed at work and its makes it a little more difficult as well.  Anthony and I enjoyed a day at Topaz Lake this weekend and I even rode the jet ski for about 10 minutes.  Once Anthony hit a wake and we bottomed out I told him I think it was time to go back to shore. He agreed!!  

  Back to the "losing it part"  Anthony has really really stepped it up at home.  He has always been a big help but lately he has been cooking the majority of the dinners and has been running a lot more of the errands that we have.  I just love him!!!  I have to give him a lot of credit for being such a great husband and really understanding.  Pregnancy has been really easy and enjoyable, so I was bound to have a rough few weeks.  RIGHT??? 

How your baby's growing:

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly. http://www.babycenter.com/