38 weeks 4 days - Variosity

I'm pretty sure I just made up the word "variosity."  Anyway.

Lots of little stuff over the last few days.  First was last week, my husband (who does IT at the hospital where we will be having the baby) was helping one of the department heads of the L&D department helping her.  She was thanking him for his help, and telling him that she owed him one.  He joked that she could hook his wife up with a good room, and she responded, "I can do that - who is she?"  JTD explained that he was just joking, but she insisted - so, she put it on my admission paperwork that I get the best room in the place (which is already filled with good rooms, since they just redid the whole floor last fall).  Hooray for getting the pimped-out room!

I've been having contractions a lot more regularly at times - they're not always painful, and they'll sometimes slow down, so I have been pretty sure that they aren't serious.  I called my OB's office yesterday just to be sure and to establish when I SHOULD come in - they had me come in right away to put me on a monitor.  So, we did that, and he found that he's about 99.98% sure that I won't go into hard labor before our scheduled C-section - so it looks like she's in there for the long haul!

I've got a lot of blog friends who got colds just mere days before they had their babies... and it looks like I'm keeping the tradition alive.  I managed to avoid colds and all for about 8.75 months (I guess I got a slight cold when I was 8 weeks or so), but I am just in the beginning stages of a cold today.  Fantastic timing.  I can handle a cold, but I do NOT want baby girl getting sick first thing out of the womb.

Despite all of the IC and cerclage-related stuff that's gone on throughout the pregnancy, there are some symptoms I've been able to avoid.  Didn't really get any stretch marks at all, and didn't retain much water.  However, I've got a very few stretch marks that are actually a little deep that just showed up this week - they're on the side of my belly where she's been since about 28 weeks, so that makes sense.  My fingers and feet have been puffy the last few days, too - it probably has something to do with the fact that our little area here had the highest temps in the country today - 115 heat index, due to horrible humidity.  It was nice to not have to go outside today.

Just counting down the days until Tuesday!  It's funny how time is crawling this week!