Full Term!

I am officially full term today, at 37 weeks! According to my pregnancy app on my phone, if my baby came today it would "thrive!" It's very exciting to know that I've come this far, and I only have 3 more weeks, or 21 more days until my due date! It's also exciting to say "I'm having a baby this month" (or at least I hope so...) For being this far along, I have to say I think I'm doing pretty well. I'm mostly feeling pretty good, and I don't think I'm "waddling" to much yet - although I'm definitely making a conscious effort not to. I'm still going to the gym and doing the elliptical machine, and some light lifting. I do feel huge, however, and I've been told that in the last month, my weight gain could "taper" and my stomach is being "smashed by the baby" so I might not be hungry...well that is just lies...I feel like I'm the most hungry I've been in my pregnancy so far, and I just keep gaining weight. Luckily, my weight gain had been on the low end of the "healthy" range for most of the pregnancy, so I can justify the trip to McDonald's I took yesterday, for a second lunch. I think I'm also justifying because I know I only have a short time left until our little girl is here.

I finally feel like Travis and I are ready for her arrival as well. Travis's mom came over this past weekend and helped me get the nursery more organized, and we went and picked up some last minute items that I still needed. We also put my diaper bag together, and my bag for the hospital is packed. We picked out a few "going home" sleeper outfits for the baby, and we rearranged our bedroom furniture to account for a new little baby in our room for the first few weeks. It's interesting when I feel kicks and movement in my stomach now, because I can definitely feel different body parts poking out in different areas...it's really bizarre, yet totally amazing to think that I (I mean we, haha) created a little person who's ready to come out.

I have posted a few more pictures of myself that Travis took tonight. You may notice a few things:
  
1. I am HUGE!! I look back to the first pictures I took of myself, and it's amazing how big I've become in just a few months. For the record, I've gained about 27 lbs (according to my home scale), which is totally normal, but sometimes I forget how big I am until I see myself in pictures or mirrors at the gym. 

2. I'm running out of clothes and wearing the same sweater you've seen in other pictures. I'm getting relatively limited on my clothing choices, and I went to the maternity store the other day, and was only able to find 1 sweater, on clearance, because the store totally had it's spring collection out! This is so stupid, because I'm not going to buy spring maternity clothes in February. So, I let everyone know at work that I'm doing laundry frequently, and don't worry if I wear the same clothes every week, haha.

Here are the pictures...