9 months along!
I have been so thankful for a mostly mild summer this year. Our summer months got off to a very pathetic start and we even had quite a bit of rain in June and July and I LOVED it. I felt a little bad for all my friends who were missing out on water play and the heat they had been expecting but I was a huge fan of the overcast days and cool nights (where I still slept with a fan in the window and no covers).
I got to meet my friend Aslan's baby this week! I didn't hold him cuz he was a little fussy but it just blew me away how tiny he was and left me with a feeling of, "I can't believe we're going to have one that small in just a few weeks..."
At my appointment this week the doctor told us that I am 1 cm dilated and 25% effaced. I feel like this is great "progress" for 36 weeks and was even a little surprised at the effacement!
I still have this numb/hollow spot below my right breast and just above my rib. My mother tells me it doesn't go away. Yay. Icing it sometimes helps but it can be pretty painful and annoying when I'm trying to sleep.
Peyton's kicks are becoming painful! She is head-down and right where she's supposed to be but she really likes to poke me on my right side with her foot (sometimes it's quite pronounced when I touch it) and she likes to wedge it there too. Another of her favorite tricks is sticking her butt out reeeeally far, creating this weird, hard lump on my belly. :)
