39 weeks, baby 5

We are officially less than a week from my due date.  Next Wednesday, the 3rd, is d-day.  

I'm at a point where I feel like if I go into labor, I would feel ready.  I'm ready to go through the process and see her little face.  I'm ready to add her to our crew.  In the last few days I have felt like I shifted from being a pregnant chick, growing a baby, to a pre-labor vessel.  I feel like she's dropping and my body is working to gear up for labor.  I'm more tired and just feel somehow transitional. It's really weird to describe.  

I do know that if this were June's labor, I would be going into the hospital tonight!  My others have shown me that June is an odd-ball so I still see mid-September as the actual eviction time.  I do feel like I'm slowly physically preparing which is fun.  Spontaneous labor soon would be cool, but she's welcome to bake another week or so if needed.  I want her to come when she's ready.

Everything still looked good with her at the doctors: her heart rate was 164 and she kicked the nurse when she put the doppler on my belly.  I said "I felt that!"  The nurse replied with "I SAW that!"  :)  BP was 102/44, weight good, minimal swelling, no protein.  The baby feels like she takes up all the space in my belly... I'm very curious to see if she's big like Emily or if she's a tinier one like Josh or June.  

I'm still feeling pretty good.  It's hard to sit on the ground (my preferred sitting spot) and get back up.  Painting my nails is an act of contortion, sleeping is laughable between bouts of insomnia and just trying to get comfortable, and I've been feeling times of just being wiped out.  It all makes sense for being 39 weeks.  I have modified my exercise a bunch since 37 weeks too.  Up to 37 I was exercising daily... since then I have slowly backed off to let my body settle and adjust and spread and relax and prepare for labor.  I have still been making myself stay busy... I'm making myself remain friends with my stairs and bending to pick things up.  My exercise this week is doing stuff that normal people do all the time, but with a big 'ole belly, those things are more of a physical challenge. ;) 

So as she continues to bake...