Doctor Stuff and New Belly Pics

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Most recent picture- taken today at 37 weeks, 5 days

Wow… I thought I was going to take a “short” maybe one hour nap and just wasted the past three hours of a perfectly good afternoon! I guess that’s the point of not working, though- I can rest when I need to.

This morning my doctor had me come in to my appointment earlier because I called her with a concern about swelling. Until now it has just been my feet and hands, but this morning I noticed it was also in my legs and my face. Yuck. They checked my urine and blood pressure, and everything was normal. So it really is just horrible water retention. I don’t feel like my feet even look human. My toes look like they’re going to pop off. The doctor said I should be drinking as much water as possible and put my feet up when I can. Which I’ve already done. Other than that, she said the only thing that will help is having the baby.

Dr K did an internal exam this week and man, did it hurt a lot more than the one last week! I don’t know if it’s just because of her hand size or what, but it was pretty bad. She was apologizing while she did it because I think my face was showing everything. Plus, last time I was probably more calm and relaxed because Jonathon was in there holding my hand. This time I was alone and my mom was out in the waiting room. She drove me to my appointment after being concerned about the swelling.

The results: Now at 75% and 3 cm! Yay! Of course that doesn’t really mean anything for sure, but she said she hoped that next time she saw me would be in the hospital and not at her office She also mentioned that I was “doing well” for a first baby and I’m ahead of where most women are at this point in the pregnancy. So was my mom when she was pregnant with me (her only baby) and she delivered two weeks early, with five hours from the first contraction until I came out! So maybe these will be my last belly pictures before she comes out… but I don’t want to get my hopes up too much!

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