{"id":64,"date":"2007-07-14T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T02:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-07-14T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T02:25:02","slug":"officially-36-weeks-pregnant-and-the-baby-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/officially-36-weeks-pregnant-and-the-baby-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Officially 36 Weeks Pregnant and the Baby Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Here I am…..one more week into this journey.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to believe that I will be holding my baby within the next 4 weeks.<\/p>\n

YAAAAAHHHHHHHH!<\/p>\n

I am so excited, and a little bit nervous.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

How are we going to handle having a brand new baby around the house, AND dealing with 3 older kids at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s going to be an experience, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

I\u00c2\u00a0 have started to swell.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that’s not entirely the best description of it.\u00c2\u00a0 My feet are HUGE…..and so sore.\u00c2\u00a0 I woke up this morning and it hurt to walk on them, they were so sore….AND….I have no ankles.\u00c2\u00a0 It sucks!\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t ever remember swelling this badly with any of the other kids, but this is my first time being at the end\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0a pregnancy in July…in the heat…..it’s lovely – really it is!<\/p>\n

Oh well!\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully, it’s not for much longer.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want the baby to come before next weekend, but any time after that would be okay for me.<\/p>\n

I did have my 36 week appointment on Friday, and have booked my last couple\u00c2\u00a0of appointments with the OB.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re down to weekly visits and that’s so cool.<\/p>\n

My bood pressure was perfect, and I had gained a few pounds more than I was really happy about.\u00c2\u00a0 Dr. Shone was so nice, and said that it was all that fluid I was retaining.\u00c2\u00a0 HA!\u00c2\u00a0 Yah right!\u00c2\u00a0 I only hope that’s what it is, and not just a whole bunch of fat sitting on my rear end.\u00c2\u00a0 I officially weigh 205 pounds, and I really wanted to end this pregnancy under 200, but seeing as that’s not going to happen, now I just want to stay under 210.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I\u00c2\u00a0WANT to gain 5 pounds in the next couple\u00c2\u00a0of weeks, but let’s be realistic.\u00c2\u00a0 I doubt that I’m going to gain NOTHING, so I’ll be a bit more than 205, but hopefully not much.<\/p>\n

He asked me about the time frame that I delivered my other children in.\u00c2\u00a0 It was kind of nice to be able to say 1 week (Angelica<\/em>), 3 weeks (Alexandra<\/em>), and 2 weeks (Jeremy<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0EARLY!\u00c2\u00a0 I do hope this one comes early, but hahving said that, please don’t be\u00c2\u00a0offended if I don’t respond if you pose that\u00c2\u00a0fabulous question that every pregnant woman dreads…..”Haven’t you had that baby, yet?<\/em>“\u00c2\u00a0 Believe me, you all will be among the first to know.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll let you know when I go in (barring an emergency – which I’m not expecting<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0 and I’ll let you know just as absolutely as soon as I can…………sooner, if possible.<\/p>\n

This all nicely leads up to a fun little contest that I’m going to be holding.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still working on a prize, but come on……isn’t the contest just fun, too?\u00c2\u00a0 What was that?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 You want a prize…….ya, I figured as much!\u00c2\u00a0 Jon said to just send out a picture of the baby, but seriously – if ya really want one of those, you can just rip one off of either here or flickr<\/a> ’cause I’m sure I’ll be posting WAY TOO MANY, and at that point, we’re just going to change the name of this blog to “Patti had a baby and here he is<\/em><\/strong>!”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, like I said, I’m working on a prize or maybe even two, and as soon as I come up with the PERFECT prize, I’ll let you know what it is.\u00c2\u00a0 Until then, if you’d like to play along, send me an e-mail to patti@xangelle.com<\/a> with your guess of date, time and weight (if you want to<\/em>), and I’ll post them up in the side bar.<\/p>\n

Just so you can make an informed guess, I’ve had 3 full term pregnancies, and the stats\u00c2\u00a0go like this….<\/p>\n

Geli was born 1 week early and weighed 7 pounds and 14 ounces.<\/p>\n

Xandra was born 3 weeks early and weighed 8 pounds and 3 ounces.<\/p>\n

Jeremy was born 2 weeks early and weighed 8 pounds and 8 ounces.<\/p>\n

So, if you want to play along, send me your guess and we’ll both hope that you win….unless you guess something ridiculous like 2 weeks late, and 10 pounds and 14 ounces, and then I’ll be praying that you lose…..’cause that’s just mean and nasty.<\/p>\n

I’ll be waiting for your e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I am…..one more week into this journey.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to believe that I will be holding my baby within the next 4 weeks. YAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I am so excited, and a little bit nervous.\u00c2\u00a0 How are we going to handle having a brand new baby around the house, AND dealing with 3 older kids at … Continue reading “Officially 36 Weeks Pregnant and the Baby Pool”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}