35 Week Ultrasound - Yep, there is a baby in there

Yesterday I had an ultrasound at 35 weeks at my Doctor's office. This was a basic ultrasound, not the high tech 3D/4D one I received at the specialist office at 20 weeks. But nonetheless, I got to see what Baby Duffy is looking like at 35 weeks and let me know tell you, she looks like a baby. A fully formed head, leg, spine - I even got to see her face for a minute. It was crazy, and exciting! Like wow, there really is a fully formed baby in there just currently putting on enough weight to make it in this World. My Doctor - Dr. Pushkin BTW - was very happy with how good she looked and how she was measuring. I was surprised and happy to hear that she was already weighing about 5.5 pounds. Her head was definitely down and her leg was moving around so it was hard for the Doctor to get her measurement, but she did it!

I mean wow, I am going to have a baby in 5 weeks! Life sure is crazy!

Pregnancy Symptoms - They are not done

So, I think this baby is giving me a few last minute reminders of what our journey has been like together for the last 9 months. I have been going through some lovely symptoms over the last few days that I thought were long gone (or at least in hibernation). I wanted to share them with you!

1. The waterworks are back: I have been pretty proud of myself for not being a total emotional wreck during this pregnancy. I have been surprisingly laid back and calm (for the most part), I think Tim is even shocked. But today, I had Oprah on while I was working and she had all of these surprises on her season premiere including surprising this group of women who were on a road trip to see the show by having their drive them right on stage, when they thought they were going to their hotel to freshen up. The surprise was so wow to me that I started crying immediately...again balling, not just a wimper but a deep down emotional outburst where I just cried and cried. Oh boy...I had no clue what had come over me, and I was so emotional I thought I was going to push myself into labor right at that moment. It continued as she kept surprising more guests including the teacher and the Australia giveaway....I am still crying as I write this! Coco thinks I am crazy!

2. Nausea: You may remember that I went through some horrible nausea during the first trimester of this pregnancy. It was debilitating and not fun! Well, lately, at night, I am finding the nausea is coming back....not in the same way and manner as the first trimester, but it is uncomfortable and in general I just feel yuck. For some reason, anything I eat is making me feel ill and I really don't want to eat much (except for surprise, surprise - sweets). I am hoping this is just a short term problem that will go away this week!

3. Crazy girl: Well, as I mentioned in number 1, I feel pretty proud that I have not been super crazy this pregnancy, but yesterday I lost it while trying to organize the nursery. I think Tim was afraid! I just cannot get myself happy and satisfied with the decor - and yes, I know this is so little in the grand scheme of things, but I feel obsessed about it! These are the moments when I could use a drink!

Oh. 4 weeks and 6 days left! But what will the non-pregnancy life with baby be like? We will explore that then! Hopefully I make it through this next month!

35 Weeks - A Letter to Baby Duffy!

Dear Baby Duffy -

I hope you are enjoying your cozy home inside of my belly. You are now 35 weeks and I hope that you decide you need that extra 5 weeks to continue to build your resistance to the outside World so that your mom and dad can get everything finished for your arrival. Right now, your baby nursery is kind of a mess and we don't even have your cars seat in the car! So, if you can come around your due date, that would be spectacular....a few days early would not be bad!

From the Babycenter website, you are about over 18 inches long and around 5 1/4 pounds (about the size of a honeydew). I really have a feeling you are a little smaller than that. It also says that you don't have much room left in there, so I hope you are OK being smooshed inside of me. I do feel your foot and/or hands punching my stomach often. And your daily hiccups are starting to make me worry a little, I hope you are doing Ok. Mom and dad are off today to buy some final things for you, I think you have everything possible under the sun that a baby should need!

We are so excited to meet you and if we were more organized and I knew you would be OK now, I would love for you to come any time! But I know better, so grow as big as you can and we will be here waiting for you whenever you are ready!

PS. Please don't hurt mommy on the way out!

Love, Mom and Dad

CRAZY Nester!

Well, I think I have reached my nesting stage! I am PSYCHO About getting the house organized. I even yelled at my cleaners when they did not show up twice this week!

I need to remind myself to chill and stop scaring people!

Now this is what we want!

Even though I feel large and in charge, I received this awesome Birthday gift from my good friend Joanne Pavin today! What more could a pregnant girl ask for then a box of a dozen Sprinkles cupcakes! Oh boy, I better watch myself!

It takes a lot to prepare for Baby!

Just a passing thought...it takes a lot to prepare for a baby! Thankfully, you have 9 months to do it (although we all know how I feel about 9 months...too long)!

Anyway, as we finalize preparations for Baby Duffy, we are getting the remainder of items we need. Tim - who loves Amazon - ordered a lot of glass bottles, diapers and wipes, all in bulk! I can say we are definitely prepared. We chose to go with the Pampers Swaddler diapers (we got both regular and sensitive just in case), and Evenflo glass bottles (to save the World and be good to the Baby). We literally got almost everything on our baby registry except for a Breast Pump, which I figured I would buy anyway! Off to do that this weekend and a few other odds and ends!

Baby nursery has a nice accent wall in Lilac now and we are just waiting on the Glider and bed sheets to arrive!

I think by the end of September we should be ready to go!

More to come!

34 Weeks and finally grounded!

I started my 34th week of being pregnant this week and time is already flying as it is Thursday and I am now just getting around to updating my blog!

This has been a busy week. I spent the weekend in Sonoma, CA for my brother-in-laws wedding (that was my final plane ride until after baby, so now I am grounded for the remainder of my pregnancy). It was fantastic, even for a pregnant lady. I am not going to lie though, I was sniffing and craving wine like it was my job and I so wanted to just enjoy an amazing glass of something about every other minute! But I survived and had a great time. I also felt like a BIG WHALE. While I am happy with some of my wardrobe choices, I still think I looked big and showed way too much back fat for the World to see!

But oh well, I guess that is what happens when you are pregnant.

So Baby Duffy is growing a lot...I swear her movements are literally like a person is trying to escape out of my body! I worry she has very little room in there to do much. On average, she should be around 4 3/4 pounds and around 18 inches long (around the size of a cantaloupe)! I did have a woman guess today that I was due in January. I was proud to say - Nope, in October!

As September keeps me very busy prepping for this baby and keeping clients happy, I can really feel the time flying. In just a few days I will be down to 5 weeks! WOW! So exciting!