Oh my my my...

Ok so I'm sitting here with my laptop, barely able to reach around my belly to type, watching the pregnancy tracker display "38 weeks pregnant!" WHAT?! How did I get this far? AND to top it all off we are having that sweet baby girl I've been missing for years! Her room is all decked out in pink, the closet is full of ADORABLE little outfits, and my heart skips a beat whenever it hits me that she's really coming!! It's seriously too good to be true. :))

It really is quite amazing how far I've come. Obviously the first trimester went by without any serious problems. I will try to forget as much of it as possible. :) The fifth month was wonderful! Then during the sixth month I started getting tons of braxton-hicks contractions. After a couple of Dr appointments it was determined that they weren't having an effect on the cervix, so as long as I stayed on "modified bed rest" things should be fine. This was not an easy task, always trying to gauge when to lay down, or when to just keep doing what I needed to get done and keep my sanity. I sure worried a lot since they didn't subside, even now. I did start to feel better as I got further along, realizing that the baby could still be ok if I did go into labor. But just as it was in my first trimester, all my worries amounted to nothing.

So now it's crunch time! I'm excited, nervous, in disbelief, at peace and happy.. oh and did I mention nervous? Last night I woke up with some really hard contractions and thought, "Oh yeah... I forgot how much this hurts. Just kidding, I don't want to have her tonight. Please just let me go back to sleep." I may or may not have a little PTSD from my last birth, done natural (not by choice!). It's too late to back out now right? I've put all the sticks in my nest, the bags are packed and the hubby has his cell phone on at all times. We are good to go. Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly. It's still so hard to believe! I really made somebody!

Here are a couple of pictures. One is of me when I was born, the other is a 4d pic of Brecka (tentative name for now) at only 18 weeks. To me they look very similar. I emailed the ultrasound pictures to my parents in Chile and thy instantly recognized the turned up nose. I'm so excited to see her! Wish me luck!! (Oh and I was at a "loose two" a week ago. Eeek I'm so close!)