37 Weeks Pregnant

I am going to be 37 weeks pregnant on Monday May 12, 2010 -- 36 weeks down, 3 weeks to go before my c-section! The clock is seriously ticking now and I am done with being pregnant! All the experts say "These are the times to enjoy" Oh okay these experts are people that have never been pregnant and don't know what the final month is like for a smaller person like myself. I completely sick of people asking, "So, when are you due?" or "Wow, you look like you are really ready to have that baby!" I am really trying not to punch them haha. I don't know why pregnant women are always a fascination to people but we are not a freak show people!! Reagan weighs more than 6.5 lbs. I am guessing she is going to be 7.5 lbs WAY bigger than what Rilee was when she was born!

During week 37 of pregnancy, fetal development that is occurring includes the following:

-- Reagan continues to develop fat at the rate of half an ounce a day
-- She is getting rounder every day
-- Her skin is getting pinker and losing its wrinkly appearance
-- And she continues to practice breathing movements.

At this point in pregnancy, if Reagan is born, she is considered mature. This of course does not mean that she is done developing. For example, during the next couple of weeks, whether inside or outside the womb, she will continue to put on fat.

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day. We went to Medford with my mom and Rilee to run some errands and do grocery shopping. We went to the mall and walked around, went to my mom's favorite Chinese food restaurant for Mothers day and to the grocery store. As we were getting out of the car to go into Food 4 Less we saw a man and his girlfriend fighting in their car he was pulling her hair and dragging her back into the car calling her all sorts of names so I decided to call 911 and report it. Luckily I did, because the officer called to get my statement and said they found the man and he had beat her up pretty good. She said that if we wouldn't have called she probably wouldn't have and she would still be in that situation! Hopefully everything is okay with her now.

On a lighter note, we got home from grocery shopping and I wasn't feeling all that well, I was feeling nauseated, sore, and I felt like I was having Braxton Hicks Contractions so we stayed home for about an hour when I looked and Larry and told him to take me to the Labor and Delivery in Grants Pass so he did. Come to find out I was having regular steady and hard contractions, but my cervix hadn't changed at all which means that it was softening and I wasn't dilating so they didn't consider me in labor and sent me home. They think I was just dehydrated so they told me to come home and drink some water. So that is what I have been doing since I got home last night.

I am still feeling some pressure and I have lost my mucus plug which is good and hopefully with these "contractions" they will get things moving because I am seriously DONE being pregnant. I can't move my legs up higher than 2 inches off the ground without my pelvis feeling like a thousand knives were stabbing me and don't even talk about sleep, because that hasn't happened for a couple of weeks now with as much pain as I am in haha. The other day I decided to measure my stomach to see how round I was and it measured me at 4 ft. 2 in. which means I am sticking out 2 ft! WHAT!!! I will be singing the hallelujah chorus when I have Reagan and then guess what I AM GETTING THE BIRTH CONTROL AND THERE WILL BE NO BABIES FOR ME FOR A VERY VERY VERY LONG TIME!!! I really don't know what it is about the very last month that makes every woman look at their husband and child (if they have a child by then) and say "Go away and let me be!!" I feel so sorry for Larry sometimes haha He tries so hard to be so loving and supportive and I look at him and say "See this (pointing at my stomach) I have a right to be a little crabby right now and you know what love you did this to me haha"

Today is mothers day and I have had such a wonderful day. Larry has taken the over for me and taken care of Rilee which is awesome. I received a bouquet of flowers from Rilee along with a card and a miniature cake she was so excited when she could hand it to me it was so sweet. Then Larry bought me a thing to take along with us on picnics that has a thing to hold coffee that had two coffee cups, two spoons, cloth napkins and things to hold cream and sugar he is always thinking of unusual things to buy me and I LOVE IT!!! I have been wanting to go on picnics more now that the weather is nice and he knows how much I love drinking coffee and it works THANK YOU HONEY!

Rilee is adjusting so well with her hearing aid. She has a little bit of a delay when we talk to her, but I think that will adjust itself over time because everything is so new to her. When we went to the mall yesterday, when she was walking around the food court the sound of all the people talking and the crowd kind of scared her so Larry had to pick her up, but once we left that area she was fine. She has discovered the escalators and wanted to ride on over and over and over again. At one point we were about to leave and saw something in this store so I went in there and Rilee got so mad because she wanted to go on the escalators and she couldn't because I went in the store.

Well everyone this is the end. I will keep all of you posted on what the progress of this kid is and please pray that she come early because I am miserable and ready to be done! I am also getting very very anxious about meeting her it has been a long 9 months and I can finally see the bright light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks again everyone for your love and support with all that has been going on. We love all of you so much!!

The Allen's