Week 35: Nesting...It's Not Just for the Birds

Oh. My. Gosh. My recently turbo-charged organization skills would make Martha jealous. Closets cleaned: check, pantry cleaned and organized (we're talking spices in alphabetical order): check, fridge cleaned out: check. I'm completely organized but I can't stop!! I've taken all of Rob's clothes out of his already perfectly organized drawers and re-folded and re-organized them according to size, brand, color/theme(can you say sick?). I'm a pretty organized person in general but this is ridiculous. I'm starting to think something is wrong with me but I'm going to go ahead and chalk this irrational behavior up to the "nesting instinct" that most moms get. Call it a pre-labor symptom if you will.

This past Saturday Carlysle and I attended a childbirth class at Methodist hospital (where I'll be delivering) from 9:30-4:30. He is really such a good sport about all these classes :) It made for a pretty long day but it was very informative; we learned about everything from breathing and relaxation techniques to what your body actually physically endures throughout the course of labor and of course there were the leave-nothing-to-the-imagination-videos! I'm not going to lie, the videos grossed me out (and I have a very strong stomach) but I think Carlysle is scarred for life!! Let's just say he'll definitely be standing at the head of my bed during the delivery :)All-in-all the classes were a big help and I would definitely recommend them to anyone who's pregnant. It's helped to greatly reduce my anxiety about labor and delivery and the instructors were very good about letting you know it's not all rainbows and unicorns after the baby arrives.

Weekly Womb Workings:
By now, Rob weighs about 5.5 pounds and is probably about 19 inches long--I'm really not sure how in the heck he can possibly get any bigger. Every time I feel a foot in my rib cage I'm reminded of how cramped he must be in there! He is working on his suckling reflexes in order to perfect the art of breastfeeding once he arrives (that must explain all the hiccups he's been having lately) and he's packing on the fat in order to help keep his body temperature regulated once he's outside the womb.