35 weeks

35 weeks down, 5 to go! I'm starting to get very uncomfortable no matter what I do. Standing, sitting, lying down... all uncomfortable. Yesterday, Dan and I went to Sam's Club to get toilet paper and dog food and I was waddling more than usual (I had been setting up my classroom all day and was sore). Dan started waddling next to me and cracking up! I told him to knock it off but he said that he was trying to make me feel more comfortable by not being the only person waddling through the store (I'm pretty sure he was just making fun of me!). So he continued through the whole store, punk.

Last Thursday we had a bit of a false alarm as well. I was feeling really crampy (like it was that time of the month) and I was having more Braxton Hicks contractions then normal. I decided to call the doctor to be sure and they told me to come in just in case. Turns out I had let myself get dehydrated (We had done a bunch of running around the day before, and when I thought about it later I hadn't drank as much water as normal) and I had a UTI. The doctor also checked me (which was REALLY fun, lol) and said that I was only about a 1/2 cm dilated (which is nothing). So I was perscribed something for the UTI and told to drink more water and at least 1 gatorade a day. She also mentioned that she thinks that Landon is head down, based on when she checked me and where she found his heartbeat. We have our 36 week appointment on Monday and we are getting an ultrasound, so we'll see then!

Here are my 35 week belly pics:

Here is what is going on with Landon and I this week:

Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that he's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds (pick up a honeydew melon). Because it's so snug in your womb, he isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times he kicks should remain about the same. His kidneys are fully developed now, and his liver can process some waste products. Most of his basic physical development is now complete — he'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight.
Your uterus — which was entirely tucked away inside your pelvis when you conceived — now reaches up under your rib cage. If you could peek inside your womb, you'd see that there's more baby than amniotic fluid in there now. Your ballooning uterus is crowding your other internal organs, too, which is why you probably have to urinate more often and may be dealing with heartburn and other gastrointestinal distress. If you're not grappling with these annoyances, you're one of the lucky few.