Week 35

Less than a month away. I now know what pregnant women mean when they say it gets bad towards the end. Sleep- gone. Dryness- unbearable. Stretch marks- unwelcomed. It's now uncomfortable to sleep on my side. I think I get a good 4 hours of sleep each night now, especially the last few days. Taking naps in the afternoon/evening are a requirement now or I feel like a zombie. Believe it or not, the couch is more comfortable than my pillowotop mattress. And you guy know how much me loves my pillowtop.

One small symptom I’m noticing is pain in my fingers. It's the lazy kinda pain. Where they hurt because you feel like you haven't done any work. This is what arthritis must feel like. I have a doctor's appointment later this week so I’ll have to ask them if it's normal. I also noticed swelling in my face (hope it's swelling and not fat).

I want this baby now in a way but at times I want to go the full 40 weeks. I've decided to take the week I’m due off of work if the baby hasn’t made his/her appearance by then. If all the above mentioned continues, I might have to take the week before off too.

On a happy note - Rach found out today they are having a boy. Hetal give birth in exactly a week. Our friends Imran and Sara brought their baby girl who just couldn’t wait to make an appearance (13 weeks early!) home a couple of weeks ago and she's just adorable! Tiny little thing and cute as a button. Prashanthi is now past her due date. Those half-Sannidhi babies are so fashionably late.

I have a really disturbing picture of my swollen feet. Here is it! Hahahah. The indentations are from these sandals I wore.

Week 34

This week i finally felt a small sigh of relief. We are almost done with the basic set up of the baby's room. Now it's just the decorative stuff that is left, and laundry. I am working on a little project that should be ready in the next week or so. We also need to buy a day bed or twin bed to have in the baby's room. Once we buy that final piece of furniture, then it will be officially ready. Here is a sneak peek of the baby's room after we installed the light fixture and set up the crib. The flowers or spider type reflections can be scary but babies aren't scared of anything when they are small. Fear isn’t something you are born with.  So what, that i kinda think it's scary and cool! No wuss baby here. Yeah, that's right. Yup.

Anand and I went to BJs this past weekend. We knew that diapers were expensive, but didn’t realize they were almost $50 for a case a little over 250. I was in a sticker shock. Everyone so far as advised me not to buy in bulk just yet since we don’t know if the baby will be allergic to any particular brands. So we didn’t buy any but oh my! I'm definitely clipping coupons for those! If the people at Pampers or Huggies or Oprah are reading this and want to donate diapers for life, please feel free to. I'll give you my cell phone number. Even if you don't want to donate diapers, Oprah, you can still call me. I want to know what you've been up to since May! As a side note I had a dream last night that Oprah did a one-time special and for some odd reason she was sitting in the audience instead of hosting the show. Bizarre. I haven't thought of Oprah in a long time. I wonder why I dreamt about her.

I can officially work from home 3 days a week. Yay for me! I love working from home M, W, F. I wish it was an option all the time. It breaks up the week and I find myself to be so productive and just happy. It's good for my feet too because most of the days when I work from home I don't have cankles. I can legally take 2 weeks before my due date off of work, so that means in three weeks I can be home. I doubt I will do that since I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if the baby stays put until the actual due date, which I have requested they do. I’ll probably take off the week he/she is due until November.

On a really cool note, my little ticker baby turned upside down last week. This is what it looked like last Thursday:

Week 33

I had my bi-weekly doctor's appointment this (Wednesday) morning and he told me the baby's heartbeat was 162, which is much higher than the last few times. I wonder if it's a girl? If so, Anand will win a bet (on the gender of the baby) and get 6 months "hall pass". I told him he can have the hall pass when we are both 60, which will never be since he’s older than I am and we will never together be 60. Yes, I’m a trickster. My mom has been saying if/when the belly drops the baby is ready for it’s arrival. This lady at my work looked at me earlier in the week and said my belly and dropped. So at the doctor’s appointment, I asked him if my belly/baby had dropped and confirmed it had not. So baby’s staying put for another few weeks.


Earlier this week I think I felt my first Braxton Hicks contraction. I was sleeping and got this sharp shooting pain that woke me up. It lasted like 1 second and then it was gone. Since then I have had no other contraction. I don’t really even know if that was a contraction. It was painful so I can only imagine what real contraction/labor is going to be like. Yale better have that epidural ready when I walk thru those doors.


Heartburn is my enemy. I hate it. I get that no one actually likes it but I really hate it because drinking water gives me heartburn. Water should put out the fire, not start it. One day I had toast and peanut butter and it gave me heartburn. Really, Mr. Heartburn!?


The baby has been really making it’s evidence. One morning I caught the baby sleeping with it’s butt in the air. I would imagine it looking something like this:

I feel like the pregnancy is making me a little loopy and forgetful. I can’t for the life of me remember certain words at certain times. This past Saturday I thought I had a hair/makeup appointment but it turns out that it’s actually this coming Saturday. I have fog-brain. Days look or remind me of a Clartin commercial – the before part. 3 more weeks till full-term!

Week 32

Welcome Facebookers! Last week I posted this blog on facebook and have seen a lot of traffic on the blog. So I welcome you! Grab a blanket, popcorn, ice-cream, and a tea becuase you have a lot of reading to do... about 27 weeks worth! Please feel free to leave a comment. I'm sure 15 years or so from now the baby will really enjoy reading your comments.

Last week seems like a month ago. The last couple of days have been really long. No, let me rephrase... the last couple of nights have been really long. The Fourth of July holiday was awesome and super low key but the nights dragged on. I cannot for the life of me sleep thru the night or sleep thru a couple of hours. I probably wake up on the hour every hour for whatever reason. Last night was the worst - i had a dream i went into labor a couple of weeks early. It was so bizarre because I was totally faking the labor part. My body was fine but I just wanted to give birth that I thought I was in labor (in my dreams). It must have to do with the small symptoms I am feeling lately that must be labor related. My inner thighs hurt when I climb into bed, sometimes I feel like i might lose bladder control, odd pain in the abdomen once in a while, the baby kicking for hours. Lately i feel like there is no way this baby is going to stay put in there till the end since she gets so hyper at times.

We bought a bassinet last week and I we are super excited about it. Next on the list is to get the crib all set and buy baby friendly laundry detergent so we can wash everything we have and sort it out. We started the nursery. Here's a little sneak peak of what we're working on. We don't have a clear vision of what we want it to look like in the end, so we're just going with it and trying to see what we like and we don't. This part we do like:

We decided on a pediatrician last week... and guess what her name is ... *drum roll please*... Dr. Patel! We decided to go with her because her practice is less than 5 miles from our house and probably under 10 minute car ride. She lives locally. Her husband practices Internal Medicine, who just happens to be my doctor. Granted last time I went to him was like 2 years ago because I thought I had thyroid issues, but that's besides the point. He's easy on the eyes. Also, he shops at our store, so we figured they support our business, so we'll support their business. Plus I don't know about you but I'm kinda comfortable that they are a Patel. Worst case scenario - we find out we don't like her and we switch. Big whoop.

One of my girlfriends is full term now and now can have a baby- what will Prashanthi have?!?! I'm guessing a boy.

Here's me at 32 weeks - full 8 months!



give me a second... getting my hair ready...



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