Baby update

Just had my prenatal check up for the upcoming week 34. It'll be 34 weeks on Sunday, so crazy!

The heartbeat was strong and normal. I'm measuring to be the right size, everything feels right. I go in again in two weeks, in which she'll start checking the cervix and making sure the baby's head is down. Crazy that it's getting to be so close!

I just got over my second bout of shingles. She gave me antibiotics to make it go away faster, and I finished those up yesterday. Today I start my suppressant therapy to keep the shingles from coming again. I just want to make sure I do not have shingles while giving birth, as that could cause some complications.

I'm getting bigger, and I can REALLY feel it now. It's almost impossible to get up off of the floor, let alone in one easy move. Getting off the floor usually consists of the following:
Sitting position
Turning to sit on hip, supporting self with hands and arms
Sliding knees up, preparing for kneeling position
ROLLING over to my knees
Push my torso up
Find a nearby stable object to hold onto
lift one knee up to allow foot to take place, push
get other foot on floor.
This whole process is very slow.

Getting out of bed isn't as hard, but it definitely takes time. It also now definitely takes some serious effort to roll in bed from one side to the other.

I haven't had any major swelling since the airplane ride home, but it's now becoming an everyday thing where my feet are swollen by the end of the day. Normally they're back to normal by morning. I'm not concerned about it, and neither is my doctor.

I now understand what women mean when they say it feels like their child is MARCHING on your bladder. I'll be sitting there, and won't have any feeling of urgency to go to the bathroom. Then all of a sudden, I feel a kick/movement, and I have to go REALLY bad. That sense of needing to go will go away if it's only one kick, however, if it's continuous, like a freaking march, I gotta go. TMI maybe, but dang, he can really push sometimes!

It seems my overtiredness was just for a couple of weeks, and that was in between my two bouts of shingles. This week, I've actually been waking up to go to the bathroom two or three times a night. I'm not NEEDING naps, though they are still nice :) I'm definitely doing better on the energy front.

just 6 1/2 more weeks until the due date, which I sincerely hope happens. I have classes this semester, and I don't really want to miss any. If the baby comes on his due date, then it'll be the week where I don't have classes the entire week. So yeah, I REALLY hope he's full term (40 weeks). *Crosses fingers*