36 weeks and growing! Today I started the first of a series of weekly visits to the OB until baby decides to come. I measured right on as usual- 36 cm and baby's heart rate was a steady 146 bpm. Ringo appears to be very happy and comfortable in it's tight quarters as the doctor really wasn't able to get a good feel on his/her position. Baby is still up very high so it was difficult to tell much of anything. We may have the most predictable baby since every time we have been to the doctor the heartbeat as been almost exactly the same and I have measured exactly on- which is apparently pretty rare. We will see what happens over the next few weeks but we should be expecting baby to start to drop down soon. I am really starting to feel huge and the additional weight and discomfort is to be expected, along with the lack of sleep. Preparation for whats to come I suppose! I have started to prepare a bag for the hospital as well as put an emergency bag to keep in the car should something happen at work. Co-workers and coaches are starting to look at me like I'm going to explode any minute. As long as I am feeling well, I still plan to work up until baby decides its time but my roles on game days will be more limited now that football is about to start. I am usually running around like crazy on the field doing a million things at once- including holding back the team and making them wait until the exact moment they can take the field and then jumping out of the way to avoid being run over by 100 giant boys in pads. Obviously not a good job for someone that's 9 months pregnant so this weekend I will be handing over the duty to someone else and playing more of a "supervisory" role. We will see how it goes... I'm a control freak!
Either way, its the start of college football so a lot of exciting things are happening here. More to come soon!
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