36 Week Picture and Poll

It's been a long day, but I got this up on time.

How far along? 36 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: Up about 27 pounds, I'm thinking that the differences in the time of day is accounting for the differences (should be normal again now since the scale is finally at the new place)

Maternity clothes? Yes, and I'm beginning to wonder what I am going to do now that it is starting to get warmer and all I have are winter clothes

Stretch Marks? Still nothing new

Sleep: I find it very difficult, and Geoff gets annoyed at how propped up I have to be

Best moment this week: Not baby related, but getting our power back, since the apartment still isn't done and we need electricity to finish everything

Movement: All the time, and the baby is pretty strong

Food cravings: I'm thinking that I will call the baby Audrey II, as all it seems to say is "Feed me, Seymour!"

Gender: Don't click here if you don't want to know

Labor Signs: Not really, even the Braxton Hicks seem to be less

Belly Button in or out? Out

What I miss: Being able to reach my shoelaces

What I am looking forward to: Friday, when I get to see the baby again (and find out how big s/he is getting)

Weekly Wisdom: Pack your hospital bag since (as everyone keeps pointing out to me) you can go at ANYTIME now.

Milestones: Less than a month until my due date

(from babycenter.com, because theBump.com didn't change)

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely she's in a head-down position. But if she isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.