Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
-E.B. White


so week 33 is here...and i've got me a little over 4lb'er baby in me=). they say baby is equivalent to a pineapple today...hmm is it weird that pineapple just sounds so good right now? hahah, gross. well i've enjoyed eating pineapple and watermelon in this pregnancy and especially now with the summer heat! i think just cold stuff in general is appetizing to me these days. 


ah boo, i experienced my first bout of ankle swelling yesterday. i had me some cankles! it was just the weirdest looking thing. it was like when i sprained my ankle(s) during flag football and our inca trail hike. seester said to just elevate my legs really high and drink lots of water..that the heat probably caused my ankles to swell. well, i've been guzzling water like it's crack these days, haha..so i'll attribute the cankles to the heat. plus i walked around a lot yesterday while we had the farmer's market in downtown. haha somehow i thought i'd be able to get away with not having this pregnancy symptom..i guess i should be lucky that it's only hitting me now? i'm glad my fingers haven't swelled up (crossing fingers they won't!) because i'm still able to wear my wedding band=). i know that's shocked a few people, they're like..really you can still wear it? so here's hoping!


i've noticed too that i've been getting more braxton hicks contractions (the non-painful, practice kind) lately. in all our reading/classes they say if you get 6 or more to call your doc/hospital. but our ob told us if i get 4/hr to notify her. right now i've sometimes been noticing 2-3 in an hour. but that's mostly when i'm sitting in our vanpool and can't really  move around. so i just drink water hoping it goes away. it doesn't hurt, for some reason i know one is coming bc my stomach starts to feel jumpy..like i've got butterflies in there and then all the sudden my tummy gets really hard. a midwife pointed out to husby and i that that was my uterus contracting..and then after about 10-15 seconds my belly gets soft again. so weird. 


when i told the fam about that my sisters got all excited that maybe i'd have the baby a little bit earlier than the due date. i'm like...please, please baby stay in there til you're full term (which i believe is at 37 weeks). haha i know, i'm being paranoid..but even when husby says..i wanna see our baby girl now - hehe i have to say..wait til she's full term please=). i know, it's normal for us first time parents to get nervous...we all want the same thing - a happy, healthy baby!


the past 3 weeks have been so busy with family stuff and all of our baby classes. about 2 more weeks to go and we're done with the classes. despite what people have said to us, we really enjoy our childbirth classes. we weren't able to get the 2-saturday sessions so we're going through the 5 week, 2 1/2 hr course right now. yeah maybe all the breathing techniques will get thrown out the door once i'm actually in labor..but just the whole understanding of labor and delivery is informative and super useful. duuuuuuuuuude i knew that i'd need to be dilated 10cm before i start pushing..but c'mon i didn't know that's how my hoo-ha looks when baby is crowning! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i swear everytime we watch a new labor video i freak out. i mean, i'm glad we watch them bc i need to know this stuff but yikes...what the human body is capable of. boggles the mind. i don't think i want the mirror as part of my birth plan..haha i might freak myself out. i'll just opt to use husby as my focal point along with a pic of baby girl from our ultrasound and maybe a vacay pic to ease my mind (if that's possible while i'm screaming my head off from contractions=/). for now i'll just practice my hee's and candle blowing breaths..hee hee hooooooooo. 


the breastfeeding class was extremely helpful as well. i thought i'd heard it all from family/friends..but there's always more to learn! breastfeeding SHOULD NOT hurt. need to remember this=). we also had our maternity tour. hehe that was nice! didn't realize that labor rooms and the post-partum rooms were so big! and geez in the labor room the nurse pointed out to us the recessed lights above that can get turned on and just focus on our hoo-ha. ha, she's like..imagine it's like who wants to be a millionaire and you've got all that spotlight! mmhmm, sure lady. we also learned that when we go down the corridor from our labor room to the post-partum room, there's a painting we'll pass by that has a red button for us to press. aww and it plays the baby lullaby throughout the whole hospital to signify that a baby was just born=). how cute is that!


we've got our infant safety & cpr class coming up along with the remainder of our childbirth classes. man, once those are over we'll be in the home stretch. can't believe it..the weeks are just going by so fast now! i get up to pee at least once every night, sometimes twice. and even when it's time to go to bed i still stay up a little later. i don't know if that's a pregnancy thing or just me being all anxious. but i do like it when i'm just sitting in bed and i can feel baby moving around. such a nice feeling=). ha, though one of the nurses said that this may also be the baby's future sleep patterns once she's born. we got a night owl on our hands!


baby girl, mommy & daddy can't wait to meet you!