status update : week 37
This is the week that being pregnant hit me like a brick. Over the weekend Matt’s parents came and helped us with a ton of chores around the house in preparation for baby. We ran errands, did household chores, and assembled nursery furniture (which required MAJOR organization efforts to make room for such furniture). It took me several days to recuperate, and I don’t know if I am ever going to get used to having such strict limitations on what I can and can’t do.
My swelling has progressively gotten worse, but my blood pressure still looks good, and no protein in the urine, so at the time there’s no worries about preeclamsia. At the doctor’s visit this week, I measured 40 cm (FOUR centimeters bigger than last week), baby’s heartbeat is in the 150s, 1 cm. dialated, 50% effaced and squishy, so we are making headway!