34 weeks!

I'm still pretty sure baby is head-down - so that's good. I have an appointment today, so hopefully that will be verified soon. Along those lines, I've noticed that since the baby has been head-down my cramping and BH seemed to have increased with frequency.

My emotions have also been running high again - I get mad really easily and for a while I've felt like I've needed to hibernate, but I'm also conflicted b/c I'm worried about losing touch with my friends if I do that, plus the time lost when the baby is here. So I'm trying to make an effort to stay in touch and see people, but it's sooooooo hard.

I can't believe that I'm only 6 weeks away from being full-term! I don't remember anymore what made me look into it, but I found out today that just after Sean was born (late 2013) "they" changed the definition of full-term from 37 weeks to 39 weeks! I had no idea, but I like the change - hopefully it will encourage doctors to not be so pushy to induce or schedule c-sections until at least 39 weeks.

Sleeping is getting so much worse - my charlie horses are back my arms are going numb more frequently and my hips are always hurting

As part of my effort to turn the baby and/or keep them head-down, I've stopped sitting on our couch at all. That has been really exhausting - not having a place to relax is causing my body to get tired really quick, so much so I'm worried I'm already tiring it out too much before birth.
I found a way to sort of alleviate that - I sit on the floor now, facing the couch and put a huge pile of blankets in front of me and then lean over on that. It works for my back, but is rough on the lower 1/2 of my body. However, the best part of it is that Sean has been coming up and giving me big hugs when I do that and tucking me in with his Fuzz :).

Not sure if I mentioned it in a previous blog, but mom and dad are well on their way to moving here by the time the baby arrives! It's all happened to fast - they are moving quickly on figuring out movers and getting rid of stuff, but are currently in a state of waiting for the results of the inspection on the sale of their house and the closing of the buyers house. I'm assuming by the end of this week, it should all be official. They are scheduled to close on their house 7/31, but they plan to be in texas by then.

I had my 1st official meeting with my doula the other day and dan finally go to meet her too. The meeting started off a little awkward, but ended up being very good. I still like here, and she had a lot of knowledge of how hospital births work, so that was helpful. We spend most of the time (1.5 hours) discussing the details of my birth plan. Now I just need to put it all together.