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35 Weeks

Photo taken at 34 Weeks, 3 Days

Well, I hit the 35 week mark today! Only 35 more days until I can hold my boy in my arms instead of lugging him around in my belly. Also, 35 more days until I can again drink the sweet nectar of life that is vodka soda with lime.

My mom is coming into town this weekend to help with last-minute baby stuff. She and Van are planning to come up to Baltimore one more time in early April before the baby gets here, but that's more to visit than to get things ready for baby. I'm only two weeks shy of being "full term" and I feel like this baby could technically come any day now. Not that Braxton Hicks contractions are necessarily a precursor for early labor, but it does have my baby radar on high alert these days. I'm just waiting for my water to break at my desk every time I feel a BH come on. This weekend, I want to get EVERYTHING else taken care of that I need to just in case baby V wants to make an early entrance. Mom's going to help me pack my hospital bag in addition to a few shopping excursions to Home Depot, Target, and Babies R Us to stock us up on everything we'll need. Sounds like a fun weekend, no? Haha.

As I look back and read my earlier blog posts, especially the one I wrote at 29 weeks, I can't help but laugh at my pregnancy journey thus far. Only now do I truly understand what it feels like to be REALLY pregnant. I waddle everywhere. I have the intense urge to pee at least once an hour...even when I don't really have to go at all. I have pinched nerves in my back that makes walking uncomfortable  not to mention some pelvic pain if I overexert myself. All I dream of doing after work is lying on the couch with my feet propped up watching HGTV or the Food Network with a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich in hand. The highlight of my evenings is when I drape myself across Vicente's lap and he rubs me until I fall asleep around 8:30 pm. Have I become a totally frumpy cliche? Maybe. But I dare anyone who hasn't been 35 weeks pregnant to judge me for it!