36w6d appointment

Well, I asked my OBGyn today about my feet swelling and he just said this is just par for the course. :( Not my idea of a good answer. He also said getting into a pool and swimming (lightly, moving my legs and such) would possibly help displace some of the water I'm retaining.

Yeah, and about that... In the last 2 weeks I've gained 6lbs! He's pretty sure that it's due to water retention (no, really?). I'm just so miserable.

This morning I woke up and used the potty and Joshua was lounging over on my left side. Scared the poo out of me, he's never been that far over before. I asked my Doc if it was okay to sleep on my right side and he said yes. I don't know though, that really frightened me. I think as much as I'm so comfortable sleeping on my right side (more like sleeping on my tummy) I'm going to try my best to stay on the left side.

Anyway, my blood pressure was excellent (neglected to find out what it was) and my labs came back good (no protein in the urine or sugar), so it's business as usual. He wants me to check my blood pressure at home on Thursday to make sure it's not going up and if it is, or if I have wicked headaches OR Joshie's movements seem to become non existent; then I'm to call on Thursday and he'll see me on Friday for a possible c-section.

I found out today that Cecilia was born at 35w3d, Andrew was born at 37w3d and James at 37w4d. If I make it to this Sunday, that will be a record for me in terms of length of pregnancy. I go back again next Tuesday and that will be my last doctor visit until the c-section on July 1st.

So, the betting has begun. Or really it did a while back but it's getting down to the nitty gritty.

Cecilia and Andy say Joshie is coming this Sunday (Father's Day). I say this Thursday, but after my vist today I'm thinking of going back to my original date of July 1st. James says this next Monday (the 22nd) and Andrew says next Wednesday.

I guess we'll see who's right. ;)