37 Weeks

December 27, 2008, 37 Weeks. I'm hoping baby hartley decides to make his appearance soon because I'm ready to not be pregnant anymore. I've been battling horrible back pain and my ribs are badly bruised and that makes it hard to sit or lay down.

It was 60 degrees today and I wore short sleeves outside!!! So strange to think that we just got a ton of snow and now it's all gone and the sun is out and the snow is melting.

My Dad, Step Mom and brother Travis were supposed to fly to Michigan to visit but Lisa woke up Tuesday morning really sick and she didn't feel like flying and she didn't want to come up here and be around me so I wouldn't get sick. She was completely devastated that she couldn't be here for Christmas.

Jerome and I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Christmas Day. This movie was good but I thought they could have added the content in half the time it was. Half way through the movie I was ready to go home and rest because it's hard to sit in one place for a long period of time. Christmas was really hard this year because we were not with family which is rare for me because family is so important to us. Next year we will make up for it and we will have our son with us too.

Christmas is almost here

It doesn't seem like Christmas, probably because I've been miserable lately and still have 4 weeks to go. The baby is still moving a lot so he must have some room left in there. At my weekly appointment yesterday the nurse said I was starting to thin out, so things are progressing as they should. I think my mom thinks the baby is going to be born around Christmas but I beg to differ. I think I will go into January but deliver before my actual due date. Jerome seems to like he will be born January 7th because there isn't a college bowl game that day!!!! He is scheduled to have the eye correction surgery January 9th so we will see what happens. They were really busy the first 3 months of the year so he had to schedule an appointment. My back seems to progressively hurt worse each day and I'm still not sleeping. I'm having the "fake" contractions that are uncomfortable. I'm nervous about knowing when I'm in labor and wondering if my water will break. My mom told me that her water never broke with us kids and my sister's water slowly leaked when she had Andrew. I guess time will tell. I'm going to have Jerome take some more pictures of my belly before I have the baby.

Updates

Apparently I have a problem drinking enough water because I was in the OB triage again on Sunday having contractions. They said I was dehydrated and that can cause contractions. The baby is still moving around like crazy but soon he will run out of room. This week I will be 35 weeks so not much longer before I get to hold our baby. We can't wait, especially Jerome.