My Child is stubborn.... like his mother

Days and counting! Eli will be here next week. CRAZY. I am due Monday but so far am showing NO signs of labor or being in labor or anything close to that. I go back to the dr. on Monday to see but if nothing has changed, we will probably be talking about inducing sometime next week. It's weirdly exciting all at the same time. I am excited that he will finally be here but having a concrete timeline at this point is nervewracking as well. It's my plan to update more when he gets here as I must force myself to document moments and memories so I'm not one of those awful mothers that has no documented stories and memories of her first-born. I am hoping it will obviously be easier to talk about him and not myself once he gets here so it shouldn't be too hard. That, and with me being gone from work for so long I'm sure I'll have time in my day!


I will do one final "baby through the weeks". I see the last time I posted I was 31 weeks which seems like an eternity ago. I am SO much larger and more miserable now. I have been lucky in that symptom wise I haven't had it too bad. No swelling, feel pretty good most days, able to still go to work, etc. But it's definitely time. I threw weighing myself to the wind and just ate whatever I wanted. I didn't get out of control but I definitely didnt monitor myself. Doctor never said anything about it so I consider that a success. Even though now, I have one pair of pants and like 3 dresses I rotate through for work because nothing else fits or is too uncomfortable. I am hoping what they say about losing weight if you breastfeed is true. That would be nice.

Also, I made it all the way until about 2 weeks ago without ANY stretch marks and I now have a few on my stomach. I don't really care- just think it's interesting they waited until the last month to pop up. How nice of them.

After I hit the 37 week mark, I was officially ready to not be pregnant anymore. So the past few weeks are definitely a struggle. But there's light at the end of the tunnel!

Here's to baby!