35 wks and in CHICAGO baby!!! and coconut time!

its funny to think we are so near you!!! Trying to sort our everything in our apartment, and your birth plan, yadda yadda....what we have left to buy....

Im just now waiting for you..Im bored already ha ha!!! Think its hard to switch off when have been rushing about like a mad thing, but I must as this is the LAST peace I will probably get in hum 18 yrs?!

The apartment is lovely, your crib is set up, your apatamil milk arrived form uk phew...

Our flight was bleurgh, had a man next to me sniffing and being very ill all flight, Id say about every 5 mins I disinfected my hands and used my anti virus nose spray every hr!!! Daddy and I were silly and took pics of me next to people sleeping in silly poses...Immigration took FOREVER....We finally got into bed about the equivalent of 4am uk time so pretty pooped today, Im sitting Im my dressing gown eating and watching trash tv and catching up on the news. Daddy has been working since 7 am, bless him...Hopefully he will stop at 4pm and we can go exploring, Think its due to snow later? So its 35 weeks, 11 March 2014 , the first of my predicted birthdays for you! whats going on in there then little bear?

Your baby doesn't have much room to maneuver now that she's over 18 inches long and tips the scales at 5 1/4 pounds . Because it's so snug in your womb, she isn't likely to be doing somersaults anymore, but the number of times she kicks should remain about the same. Her kidneys are fully developed now, and her liver can process some waste products. Most of her basic physical development is now complete — she'll spend the next few weeks putting on weight. Bella is about the size of a coconut ..put the lime in the coconut...bla bla.....

NB : From here on out, R will start seeing her practitioner every week. Sometime between now and 37 weeks, she'll do a vaginal and rectal culture to check for bacteria called Group B streptococci (GBS). (Don't worry — the swab is the size of a regular cotton swab, and it won't hurt at all.) GBS is usually harmless in adults, but if she does have it and pass it on to your baby during birth, it can cause serious complications, such as pneumonia, meningitis, or a blood infection. Because 10 to 30 percent of pregnant women have the bacteria and don't know it, it's vital to be screened. (The bacteria come and go on their own — that's why you weren't screened earlier in pregnancy.) If you're a GBS carrier, you'll get IV antibiotics during labor, which will greatly reduce your baby's risk of infection.