Where does it all go?

I measured myself. I’m surprised I didn’t start doing this early. My wide girth is now 41 inches around. Yikes! My normal waist is 25 inches. Now I don’t even know where my waist is!

35 weeks, 5 weeks to go...

Every time I think this is as big as I’ll get, I get a little bigger. This is scary stuff, seriously! I can’t believe my body can handle all this. My feet are taking a beating, that’s for sure. So where does all this weight go? Some of it is obvious, other areas, not as much. My body has definitely taken on it’s fair share of fat and water. Puffy doesn’t even start to explain how I feel.

In a typical 30 pound pregnancy, this is often where the weight goes:

• 7.5 pounds: your baby’s weight
• 7 pounds: your extra stored nutrients
• 4 pounds: your extra blood
• 4 pounds: your extra body fluids
• 2 pounds: breast enlargement
• 2 pounds: enlargement of your uterus
• 2 pounds: amniotic fluid surrounding your baby
• 1.5 pounds: the placenta

For me, I’ve put on 40 pounds so far. My doctor says I’m still within a “normal” range and supposedly I’ll lose a lot while nursing (water and fat especially which is used to produce milk). Let’s just hope she’s right. In the meantime, more bed rest and counting down the weeks. Right now, the doctor says the baby will be joining us at week 39 now. Last week she was saying week 37, so this is good news!

We have our baby shower in town this weekend at the Ober’s, plus we have friends from out of town visiting (Lyn, Rita, Kasen, and Malachi). Should be a fun weekend!

In the meantime, Merv keeps asking me how long it’s going to be before the nursery is done. He’s getting tired of the mess.

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