36w2d OB Appointment

I had my weekly OB appointment this morning and things are going really well! I found out that I was negative for the Group B Strep (which is good). I also found out that the baby has started to drop some and is head down. Awesome! AND, she said that I am 1cm dilated! Wow... I wasn't expecting that! She said that doesn't mean I'm close to going into labor or that I'll go early, but that it is a good start for when I do go into labor. She seemed really pleased, so yay! My blood pressure is still good and the baby's heartbeat was around 130bpm. So, as I said, everything looks good.

I go back next Wednesday for another appointment. Oh, the only negative thing I can say is that my left ankle has been pretty swollen for the past couple of days. It's strange that it's just my left one, but Dr. A said that it was normal. She said it meant that the pressure from my uterus was concentrated on one side or something like that, which is restricting blood flow. Doesn't sound so good to me, but apparently it's normal. So, I guess I have one fat ankle for now.

This weekend I am going to a baby shower for a friend. She is 3 weeks behind me and is on bedrest, so that sucks. I'm sure she will enjoy the company, though. Then I will be going to watch MrKLB play in the Kickball City Championships which should be exciting! I'll actually miss the first game because of the shower but if they win that one I'll get to see him play the next game(s). Wish him luck! Sunday we're going to an infant to toddler CPR class. It's given at the hospital and is supposed to cover CPR techniques for infants up through about 8 years of age, I believe. Hopefully we'll learn a lot of useful information that we'll never have the need to use!

I'm also going to try to cook a few meals this weekend to freeze so that we can have them after the baby arrives. I'll keep doing this over the next few weeks as I have time. We may also do the Dinner A'Fare thing again since that's an easy way to put together a bunch of frozen meals. We've done that in the past and really enjoyed it.

That's all I have for an update now. I'm looking forward to hitting 37 weeks so that I can officially be considered "full-term"!!!