3 Weeks To Go - Week 37

I can't believe how quickly the time has gone. I'm 37 weeks pregnant and the weeks are still flying by. Some people have told me that for them the last few weeks went by really slowly but this doesn't seem to be happening to me.

So anyway, at 37 weeks what is Ernie up to. Well according to Pregnancy.org -

• This week she is about 2859gm and 48.6cm long.
• She is officially full term now but can still benefit from extra days in the womb. She would no longer be considered premature if I was to go into labour now.
• Our little girl continues to practice breathing movements. Isn't it amazing how she can breathe "under water?" All this practice is apparently what gives her the hiccups so often.
• Her grasp is firm now. It won't be long until I'll feel that little fist grasping my finger.
  

I'm spending a lot of time now wondering what she will be like. What sort of personality will she have? Is she going to needs lots of sleep like I always have? Is she going to look more like Jochen than me? I just can't wait to meet her. As silly as it sounds I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes thinking about it all. I'm such a sook - especially at the moment. I seem to get teary very easily particularly when I think about anything to do with our little girl. I'm also making the most of feeling her kick and watching my stomach move around with her movements. I think I'm going to miss that feeling - it is something very precious that I will always treasure.

Jochen has been working on finishing off some of the little touches in her room today, he stained and varnished the edging in her cupboard and did some painting. Tomorrow in between watching Bathhurst he will try and get her cupboard doors stained and varnished so that they can be put back up. During the week we actually had the electrician here working on all the unfinished things and now her room has her light up and a dimmer switch as well. So it is getting there and will hopefully be ready in time.

I'm very tired at the moment even though I'm sleeping quite well occasionally feel a bit faint. I went to drive to Warragul yesterday to look at tiles for the laundry floor and halfway there I turned around and came home again. I was just feeling too weird and didn't want to be responsible for driving a car. Today I fell asleep whilst watching car racing on the television - and it wasn't like it was really quiet either. I find that if I stand up for too long I get a lot more brackston hicks contractions so I need to lay down a fair bit to help them settle down. They are definitely getting stronger too so I don't think my body is going to have any trouble when it comes to the real contractions.

I'm trying hard not to think to much about the actual birth. I'm not in denial or anything I'm just so scared that I'm trying not to focus on it. I keep reminding myself that it is only 24 hours of my life and that I can cope with anything that may happen in a 24 hour period. What really gets on my nerves though is the people who tell me about all the other women who have done it etc. The only problem with this is that those people are not me.......!!!!!!!! I have never experienced it and although I have done lots of reading to understand the process no one can predict what a birth will be like before hand. It is that unknown that scares me so much. I wish we were designed with a zip... that would be so much easier.