37 weeks

How your baby's growing: Congratulations — your baby is full term! This means that if your baby arrives now, her lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though your due date is still three weeks away.

Your baby weighs a little over 6 pounds and measures between 19 and 20 inches, head to heel. Many babies have a full head of hair at birth, with locks from 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches long. But don't be surprised if your baby's hair isn't the same color as yours. Dark-haired couples are sometimes thrown for a loop when their children come out as blonds or redheads, and fair-haired couples have been surprised by Elvis look-alikes. And then, of course, some babies sport only peach fuzz.

We had kind of an exciting weekend. Friday morning I woke up around 1am with really bad lower back and leg pain...it continued all through the night and the next morning and I had lost my mucas plug. So I called the doctor and they asked me to come in. They said it could be pre-labor, and they did an exam...she thought the baby might be breech so they did an ultrasound just to be sure and everything was fine...she's in head down position. They told me to push the fluids and get lots and rest, and then she added "Welcome to labor!". So I went home and took a nap, but continued to feel a little worse. Started getting really crampy and having what felt like contractions. I went to my families softball game and felt even worse. Really sick to my stomach and the contraction feeling got worse. I went home and was ordered(by Matt...from California)to call my doctor, who told me to go to the hospital. Angela picked me up and off we went. Sure enough I was having contractions...2-4 minutes apart...then I started throwing up. After an exam the nurse said she could feel the head, my cervix was softening but I wasn't dialated and I had bloody show. I was starting to get dehydrated. They had a hard time finding a vein the do an iv. They pushed some saline through and some anti-nausa medication and around 4am the contractions stopped. I was still dry heaving and feeling pretty ill so they kept me overnight. About 7am I started having small contractions again and I'm still having them, but it sounds like that's just going to be par for the course until I have her. My whole family had this bug last week and I thought I was in the clear, but I guess not! I'm feeling much better today, and I'm so glad she's being a good girl and letting Matt and my Mom get home from vacation before she decides to make an appearance!