The Ninth Month

OMG it is finally here!  The last month of pregnancy.  The baby is almost full term and I start going to the doctor weekly starting this Friday.  Here is "What to Expect When your Expecting" tells me I should be feeling this month:

• Changes in fetal activity (more squirming and less kicking)--YES
• Constipation--Not too much
• Heartburn, indigestion, flatulence, and bloating--YES
• Headaches and Dizziness--No
• Nasal congestion and ear stuffiness--Sometimes
• Sensitive Gums--YES
• Leg Cramps at night-No (thank goodness--I had theses with Chloe and literally woke up screaming)
• Increased backache and heaviness--YES to the heaviness
• Buttock and pelvic discomfort-No
• Increased swelling of ankles, feet, hands, and face--YES
• Itchy abdomen, protruding navel--YES, but my belly button is just flat --so wierd
• Stretch Mark--Sadly YES
• Varicose Veins--No
• Hemorrhods--I don't think so, but I guess I would know it if I did
• More frequent urination--YES
• Increased difficulty sleeping--Yes and No--Lately I've been sleeping Ok, but am so tired all the time still
• Increasing clumsiness and difficulty getting around--Yes
• Extra fatigue or extra energy (nesting syndrome), or alternating periods of each--YES on the fatigue, I've decided to hire professionals to do the nesting for me.
• Increase in appetite or loss of appetite--YES on the increase
• More excitement, more anxiety, more apprehension, and more absentmindedness-YES
• Relief that you are almost there--No relief still seems a long way off
• Irritability and oversensitivity--YES if you ask Ami
• Impatience and restlessness--YES
• Dreaming and fantasizing about the baby--YES

I have been really bad about taking belly pictures--but here is where we are now!  That's one big belly:

We've also been finishing the nursery.  I made a bulletin board using some of Ami's old baseball, football, and basketball cards.

Ami also hung these box shelves that match the colors of the room.

And we finally built the hutch and put it on top of the dresser, so now we have a changing table for the baby.  

There is not too much left to do in the nursery.  It will have a touch of a sports theme as we have decided to hang some sports banners--Ami's Lakers and Dodgers penants, and I ordered a Cardinals penant to hang so he'll grow up at least liking one local team and of course there will be an ASU penant up somewhere.