33 Weeks! A Pineapple?!

From Babycenter:

How your baby's growing:

This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple) and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

How your life's changing:

As your baby fills out even more of your belly, lots of things might start to change: Whereas before you were sashaying, you may find yourself waddling. Finding an easy position to sit in — let alone sleep — is becoming more of a challenge. And bumping into chairs and counters is par for the course.

You may be feeling some achiness and even numbness in your fingers, wrists, and hands. Like many other tissues in your body, those in your wrist can retain fluid, which can increase pressure in the carpal tunnel, a bony canal in your wrist. Nerves that run through this "tunnel" may end up pinched, creating numbness; tingling, shooting or burning pain; or a dull ache. Try wearing a splint to stabilize your wrist or propping your arm up with a pillow when you sleep. If your work requires repetitive hand movements (at a keyboard or on an assembly line, for instance), remember to stretch your hands when you take breaks — which should be frequently.

Many women are still feeling sexy at this stage — and their partners often agree. You may need to make some adjustments, but for most women, sex during pregnancy is fine right up until their water breaks or their labor starts.

From Alphamom:

Week 33

Your Baby:

• Weighs over four pounds and is 17 inches long.
• The skeleton is hardening, except for the skull, which will remain soft and flexible to allow it to fit through the birth canal, and also to grow and allow adequate space for your baby’s enormously brilliant brain.
• Kicks and movements are practically visible from space now, and you may look down and realize that your belly is no longer round, but pointed, as a knee or elbow stretches out for a few seconds before disappearing beneath the surface again.

You:

• Are big. Yes. And the whole world may suddenly seem like it’s got an opinion about when you’ll go into labor, and it TOTALLY DOESN’T CARE that you aren’t even full-term yet, it thinks you’ve dropped and popped and are going to give birth in like, two weeks. Tell it to shut the hell up with my blessings.
• May be waddling more than walking, and misjudging your circumference as you bump into counters and knock things over on tables.
• A lot of pregnant women start having strange dreams about those pronounced movements — legs and arms stretching out from under your clothes, or the perfect imprint of your baby’s face suddenly appearing next to your belly button. If these dreams creep you out, just remember that it’s your mind starting to wrap itself around the concept that there is, in fact, a actual baby in there rather than some hypothetical concept of a baby.

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Me: It's all just becoming a blur and running together and going by too fast. Occasional heartburn. Must get up and pee a few times a night, which usually includes a minor wrestling match with Peggy the Prego Pillow. But I always win.

In a week or so, it will be Thanksgiving (fried turkey...Mmmmm) and then the month of December will fly by and it will be Christmas. And then HE WILL BE HERE. ZOMG.

Had last Friday off, so I finally bit the bullet and ran around to tour daycare centers. Even had to give myself a little pep-talk in the parking lot before I went in the first one. Cause this is NOT what I had in mind, but hey, life and reality intervenes and.... Here We Are. I think the experience of daycare is a good one for a child, I mean I grew up in daycare and garnered many worthwhile experiences.... but it is also a whole new ballgame when you are handing over your 3 month old to a practical stranger to love and cherish through the hours of 7 -4. Sigh. ONE DAY my goals will be accomplished.

I think I'm leaning towards the daycare center at a church near the house; its the closest, cheapest, no waiting list and seemed the cleanest/newest/brightest out of the three I looked at. I think we will just have to start there and see how he does, and maybe try another one out later. The other church daycare I looked at was a close second.

We got SO MUCH DONE in the nursery last weekend.... it's all finally coming together. Just a few more things on the to-do list....