#2: 40 weeks... hello due date!

Update: A lot can change in one or two days :) I wrote and scheduled this post on Monday evening, and here I now sit in the hospital looking at a sweet, new baby. After contractions all day Tuesday, Bowen arrived early Wednesday morning... on his due date. 

Hello January 14!

It would seem my babies like to stay put the full allotted time... and then some. I'm not complaining. 

I've felt really good and slept good. I'm very thankful. 

Being pregnant with an active toddler is a whole different ball game than being pregnant with your first. I can tell my body is way more tired at the end of the day from picking up/carrying a 30 pound toddler, bending over lots to pick up toys and such, playing in the floor, and so on... 

I like a big glass of orange juice first thing every morning. This is really only the pregnancy related food thing I think I have. 

When I went to my 39 week appointment last week they were concerned I was measuring behind track and so they did an ultrasound and everything looked fine. They said it must have been the way he was positioned. They also said I was 3 cm dilated and that I must've been having some contractions, though I hadn't noticed them.  I got to see a little bit of the baby, but he was hiding behind his hands most of the time.

I've gained right around 25 pounds this pregnancy. I don't feel like my belly has gotten larger in the past few weeks, but my larger/pregnancy t-shirts barely come down over my belly these days. 

I went a few weeks (maybe weeks 36-38) where I had to get up to use the bathroom like 5 times each night.

I'm thankful that nesting seemed to kick in somewhere along the way in the past couple of months and we knocked out lots of house/get ready for baby projects. It was nice for that motivation to appear and I'm so thankful to have stuff clean and organized. 

I've had the pregnancy stuffiness/sniffles (or "rhinitis of pregnancy"... yeah, it has a name) for about the past month. The stuffiness usually starts around 9pm and then I wake up and it's gone. Pregnancy has weird side effects. 

I pretty much maintained napping (or at least lying down) while Grayson napped throughout the whole pregnancy. 

 and a few others from 40 weeks... 

We've had a sweet few days/ outings as a family of 3 the past few days and I keep thinking will this be the last time it's just the 3 of us?! It's such a strange thing waiting for a baby, knowing life could change any day. Come on baby brother!