Draft from 37 weeks!

****this post has been sitting as a draft on my computer for over 2.5 months now. I'm posting it so I don't forget how I felt at 37 weeks pregnant! I keep meaning to blog, hopefully soon I'll get a end-of-pregnancy/baby update up on here! Its coming, promise!!!!****

Saturday marks 37 weeks and I feel like time has FLOWN! 3 weeks to go (until baby's due date anyways) and I feel like everything is just speeding up! Hopefully I can find time to finish all these little projects I've started before she gets here!

I still feel awesome! I felt baby drop around 33 weeks, and ever since then I've had to slow down at the gym (due to discomfort really...kind of hard to jog when there's a baby head banging into your pelvic bone with every step). I'm still going to the gym 6 days a week, and I'm making myself walk a mile every time (it just takes twice as long now, which is fine) and do about 30 minutes of lifting. I had to miss a day due to a cold about a week back, and I could definitely feel a difference. I just have so much more energy during the day if I get up and get going first thing in the AM. And I find I'm that much more productive as well! Plus, I've heard that working out daily helps with labor and delivery, and recovery.

Last week I had gotten up to 42 lbs total weight gain, but at my appointment on Monday I lost a couple, so we're at 40! (In case you're concerned, don't be, doc says that's normal, and that as long as my measurements show growth we're good, so we're good!). It's funny, as much as I joke to people that I feel like a whale, I really have loved my body this trimester. I love that I get to wear evidence that I'm creating a life inside of me, it's so incredible to me that my body is capable of such a feat, and I'm so grateful everyday for this huge blessing in mine and Taylor's life. This baby girl is so strong, and when she rolls and stretches I feel her everywhere! I absolutely LOVE it! 

Another funny thing (at least to me), is that women have been telling me over and over how the baby will start moving at night and keeping me up. NOPE. She is so busy all day, and after dinner she does go a little crazy for about an hour, but by the time I crawl (awkwardly...no abs) into bed she calms down and goes right to sleep with me! I know I shouldn't expect this trend to continue after she's born, but I'm also pretty smug when ladies complain to me about something that is imminent and me and my baby prove them wrong. I say lets stop talking down about pregnancy and childbirth. Let's be uplifting, ladies! Why can't we support each other positively!? Attitude is everything, and that kind of negativity is misery loves company in my book...I don't want anyone to be miserable about such a beautiful miracle! It's not like I don't feel discomfort, I still have a human growing inside of me displacing my internal organs, and putting extra pressure on my hips and lady parts, but it's so worth it! I just know it!

Coming up on 37 weeks definitely gets me itching to know when she'll actually come! I've decided to expect late, but prepare for early. So if she does come early or right on time, I'll be pleasantly surprised (but also won't have to scramble to get myself together come go-time). And if she comes late, well, I was expecting that anyway. But really, I wouldn't be mad if she came a tiny bit early...whenever you're ready baby girl!!