39 Weeks! Come on Knox!

Praying for good news at the doctor today! I feel like I've been such a wimp the past few days. It's like all of a sudden I just can't take it. And I am so tired of everyone telling me to sleep now...I can't sleep people! I haven't slept in weeks! At least when the baby is here I will have a REASON to be up all night! I really shouldn't be complaining. I have had the best pregnancy and I really have loved being pregnant, but I am so ready to meet our little man. And I am just miserable. I woke up this morning and my arms/hands and legs/feet were all asleep and tingly, I had a horrible headache, and I felt like I had been hit by a truck. So I'm hoping that I go to the doctor today and she says "It's a good day/week to have a baby!" If she tells me to come back in a week I might cry. Anyway, I have on the same top today that I had on at 35 weeks, so I decided to compare the two...and I'm thinking he still looks lower at 35 weeks. When I looked in the mirror yesterday, it looked like he had dropped a little more but then this morning it was like I had imagined it. I think he hears that we are going to the doctor and makes his way back up so he doesn't have to come out! Either way, I am obviously not feeling/looking quite as chipper as I did at 35 weeks! Hopefully the next news I have will be that we are having a baby!

38 (and a half) Weeks!

It is so hard to believe that my due date is NEXT weekend! I was telling Clayton last night that it seems like just yesterday I found out I was pregnant and was completely freaking out.

I am still having some weird issues with my blood pressure. My doctor is a little concerned, but she's being very cautious. She told me Monday that if I had been a little more dilated and effaced she would have just gone ahead and sent me to the hospital to be induced. She is really trying to hold off on inducing until Knox is a little closer to ready to come on his own. As thankful as I am for that, I am also very ready to have him! My blood pressure just seems to be slowly rising every time it is checked. I had to go back Tuesday morning for a shot and she checked it again and it was higher than it was Monday. I don't have any other symptoms of pre-ecclampsia, so she sent me for some lab work and I had to do a 24 hour urine collection (which I will spare you all the lovely details of). My lab work came back fine, so we are just waiting for the other results. She should get them today or tomorrow and she said that if there is anything even slightly off we will go ahead and induce. If not, we will re-evaluate Monday. Sooo we will see! I'm hoping he decides to come on his own this weekend. My doctor is on call and everything!

I went out with the amazing Stephanie Davis and took some maternity pictures the other day. She is so amazingly talented! Here are a few of them...

The one of his shoes on the tractor is one of my favorites! We had talked about using boots to put on the tractor, but I decided that his converse represented the combination of Clayton and I very well. (: We had so much fun!

My life has FINALLY calmed down this week. Last week was almost the death of me. I don't think there was a single night that I got home before 10pm. I stayed home the last two days and tried to get some rest. Clayton even took me out to dinner last night because he was so proud of me for not doing anything yesterday! (:

I can't believe Christmas is in a few short weeks! I'm so excited to have Knox here! Here is my 38 week (and a half) picture!