Dropping, Nesting, and a Doc visit

"You look like you've dropped." I heard this statement from 4 different people at work yesterday. I couldn't really tell at the time, but now I can. It happened overnight because Sunday I was commenting about how so very high up I was carrying her.

We have been super busy the last several weeks... I haven't really felt a ton of stress but at times it has gotten to me a bit. I think it was last Thursday night that I took a bath and must have gotten overheated because when I got out I felt like I was going to pass out or vomit or both. I didn't feel good the rest of the night. At that point, it hit me that our house was a mess and that if I should go into labor and the baby be born in the next couple of weeks that people would have to come to this awfully cluttered and dirty duplex of ours. Knowing that we are most likely closing on a house within the next week or two has made us picture ourselves bringing baby home to the new house. This may not be the case and Thursday night that thought was devastatingly obvious to me! The nesting instinct kicked into gear! (Well, it kicked it Sunday afternoon... a wee bit of a delayed reaction...)

Sunday, I took on the baby's room. We still had non-baby stuff in there and that really bugged me. I got the room somewhat set up, although in a "we're going to be moving" sort of fashion. That was a huge relief. This is a perfect week for Shannon to be on Spring Break. He has done the most amazing job cleaning and beginning to pack! Thankfully, I'm off tomorrow and can help with that process. It would be nice to have most stuff packed (or purged) this week. Our thoughts have been divided between preparing for baby, preparing for new house, and preparing to leave the duplex.

So... went to the doctor today. I've heard that it's around this time that my cervix might start thinning out and dilating. I tried to prepare in my head to hear the doctor say that the baby was way high up and my cervix was tightly closed. This is what she has said every time. But she didn't this time! She said I was dilated to a 1cm (1 down, 9 to go) and 60% thinned out and the head was down low!!! Yippeee! Of course, it's very realistic to think that I'll be this way for the next 4 weeks, but at least it's something! After all of the infertility and my body not working the way it was supposed to, this entire pregnancy has been just one reassurance after another that my body does know what it's supposed to do.

We'll keep y'all updated. We have our 36 week sono on Friday to give us an idea on size. I think she's big. People at work that have felt her hiney through my belly say she's big! We'll find out!