More Belly Pictures

I'll be 38 weeks on Monday and since today was picture day at school, I was dressed nicely and put some effort into curling my hair even! I thought I would take some pictures since I felt "pretty." Pretty gigantic!!! HA! Don't think my stomach has gotten that much bigger since about a week and a half ago, but my students were commenting on how "big" I was looking.
I have even had a couple of days I thought we were going to be lucky enough to meet this little one.
Last Thursday I was having contractions all day. Not painful, but pretty regularly, like every 5 minutes. Many people at school said I should call my doc. So I did. They told me to lay down, drink water until I feel like I'm drowning and call back in a hour. Nothing changed so they told me to get checked out at the hospital. As you can see, they ended up sending me home. Oh well, it was nice because I was nervous about dealing with preregistration and where the maternity ward even was.
The next day I had much more sever contractions that were taking my breath away, causing a ton of pain and were about every 2 minutes apart. I paged Clint and demanded he come home. He found me laying on the couch, one had on a pillow and the other on the coffee table "looking more in labor" as he put it. He suggested I walk around a little, so I did and after about 1 hour the contractions stopped and I was fine, but exhausted.
So a week later and my biggest complaint is the stabbing pains I get in my back at the end of the day. Nothing seems to help except a massage. Too bad the hubby is being the slave at the hospital. As much as we would like to meet this little bundle of joy this week isn't good because our doctor isn't in town. Maybe he'll be a good birthday present on Monday.
Enjoy the pics and we'll keep you posted.