9 Months

Home stretch HERE I COME!!!! I am almost there. Now I am just preparing for D-Day and trying not to freak myself out with the thought of Labor and the pains associated with it. I am, however, trying to learn techniques to help ease the pain of labor thru breathing exercises and hypnobirthing. I am still aspiring to do labor "all natural" without drugs, but I am more ok with the idea that if I need drugs to help me than I will gladly take it. My doc has given us the "green light" to induce the 15th of July if Mason hasn't decided to join us earlier than that. My body is already doing what it needs to do to start the labor process and that is why the doc said, "Sure 15th works for me." So July 15th, Mason will be joining our family! So excited to meet this little guy that has been nudging me to death!

The baby room is pretty much done, I just have to get glass fixed on the cross stitch that my mom made and have it hung, and get a frame for another pix and get Matt to hang them up and the room will be done!!!

Everyday I am getting bigger and bigger and I keep thinking, I can't get any bigger. Opening doors and hitting my belly is getting annoying. Hitting other peoples car doors with my door because I can't account for how big my belly is getting and how wide I need to open the door is getting annoying. Falling in the store on water cause I can't see my feet is getting annoying. Getting out of breath just from going up the stairs is getting annoying. I am at that point that every woman gets to at the end of the pregnancy and I am ready to have my body back. Please don't get me wrong, I love the fact that I am pregnant and it is an amazing experience, but I am not a klutz normally and right now I am a klutz and it is very unnerving for me to not have control of my own body.

It is very nice to have my husband home to enjoy this last month with me and all the experiences that come with being the last month. And to see his reactions at child birth classes. (He has a lot to learn) He was very shocked with the size of my belly when he saw it last Sat when I picked him up at the airport after being gone since the beginning of March when I was 20 weeks. He said it was nice to get the pix every week of the growing belly but they didn't do justice to the real thing. He is still getting used to my enlarged abdomen as he puts it. He is excited to be a daddy, well it is hitting him more that he will be a daddy soon. We are excited to start this new journey together as parents. Keep checking back as I will be trying to post every 2 weeks for the next couple of weeks to keep you updated, and check out the Watch My Belly Grow post to see the updated pix of my growing belly. TTFN!

Watch My Belly Grow

So here is the Collage of the belly changes thru this pregnancy.

~13 Weeks~

~16 Weeks~

~18 Weeks~

~20 Weeks~

~22 Weeks~

~24 Weeks~

~26 Weeks~

~28 Weeks~

~30 Weeks~

~32 Weeks~

~34 Weeks~

~36 Weeks~

~38 Weeks~

~40 Weeks, taken the morning of Induction~

4D Ultrasound of Mason

I did an ultrasound to have Matt watch it where he is at, at the same time as it is being done. Sadly the computer he was one would not allow live streaming on the computer and Matt was not able to see one image of the ultrasound. I have sent some pix to him to view and there are more here which he will be viewing too. The ultrasound took aprox 20 minutes and I got to see Mason blink, yawn, stick his tongue out and do cute little smiles. Mason is currently breach, which is different than what I thought. The tech said I will know when he flips, but man he gets super low in my belly when I am walking. That is why I thought he already flipped. The ultrasound tech guy said that Mason does not look like his momma, however I beg to differ. There are some things that he does have that belong to me, like my chipmunk cheeks, my full lips, my butt chin, and my muscle, the tech said that he is super buff, and my big feet. He has his daddy's long lanky limbs, possibly his longer 2nd toe and face shape. Also we do know that he has BIG FEET, (thanks mom, me) and thick long fingers, hopefully we have a piano player in there. There is a debate on the nose and eyes though on who he has. It is kind of fun though to see before he is here what he will look like. Well less than 50 days now we will be able to meet our little man and then definitely figure out who he looks like. Now if only we could see the hair color...

Here is sweet little Mason, at 33 weeks:

~Already sucking his thumb~

~Cute little Smile~

~I love the smiles~

~He is sticking his tongue out at us~