Oopsie!

Okay... so I failed already. I pulled up this window to write a blog post yesterday but then my mom got back from her trip to Arkansas (I was "house sitting" for her) and we had pizza and watched movies. I kinda just never got back to this. Ah well, it was worth it. :)

Yesterday was my 34 week mark! It's so crazy, because baby definitely dropped (hopefully completely. If he gets any lower, I won't be able to walk anymore! Let alone sit!) It was so quick too.

Here was me at 33 weeks:

And here is me at 34 weeks

Yeah, I think that's a pretty big difference!

I really need to pack my bag for the hospital. It's a little hard though, what with me not being home in weeks. I have an adequate bag here at my moms, but there are no actual baby clothes in it. Which is frustrating. I do have these really cute, really soft newborn slippers in there though. I'm completely in love with them!

With the guidance of my mom, I've been buying things for baby with each pay check. With the last paycheck I got (ugh, stupid bed rest!), I bought him a small pack of newborn diapers since I have a big box at my house, a big pack of size 8-14lbs diapers, outlet covers to start baby proofing, and his first little blanket.

   Today, I need to go to Burlington Coat Factory and pick up some of the things my crazy mom put on layaway for him.  I'll be paying for the crib/changing table and getting that out. I think for the other stuff, there is about 150-300 left to go on that. Not too sure, she did the rest with my dad while I wasn't there. I know that she (they) are excited about the first grandchild, but she has been going above and beyond. It's pretty funny actually. We went there once just for fun, and she ended up putting a stroller/car seat/base combo, bath tub, bath accessories, etc on layaway. I think it came out to about $200 or so. That's also when she put the crib/changing table aside but they weren't in layaway yet because they had to get a new shipment first. And she did get all that other stuff out back in like... March. When she went to pay for all of that, she told me she put about $850 worth of more stuff in there. That's almost paid off by now though.

Anywho, I've been having contractions today but only for about 20 minutes. I called my doctors office to relay a message not about the contractions, but about a weird and somewhat concerning side effect from the medication I take to stop the contractions. I mentioned that I've been having contractions still but not all the time and not always regular either. The nurse was concerned and said she would give the doctor a call. I guess I was mainly hoping to either be able to move my appointment up from Friday or to be able to get an adjusted nifedipine dosage over the phone (which she has done before) or something. But when I told my mom about it, she pointed out a few things that made me feel pretty silly. Mainly that I should have just asked to be seen earlier if that's what I want, because they can't triage me over the phone and it's either appointment or going back to the hospital. So now I feel like I've gone about this all wrong, and I don't want to freak out the doctor and such because I don't want to go back to the hospital, but I I feel like that's what they're going to tell me since I didn't specify. I guess I'm just embarrassed now. Or chagrined. I'm waiting on the nurse to call back so we'll see what they say.

Ah well! I'll update later. Ta-ta!