Pregnancy Update - Home Stretch!

I  keep meaning to post an update on how my pregnancy is going and keep wondering if the baby will arrive before I ever have a chance to do it. I'm now 39 weeks pregnant and still no baby, so here's an update of what has been going on since I passed 24 weeks.

 

I've been traveling a lot for both work and personal trips and in my second and third trimester I've been to Tahoe, San Francisco, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Vegas, DC, Maryland, Montreal, San Francisco, and Napa. I'm happy to say that during my no-travel-time-allowed period after 36 weeks I missed another trip to Vegas for work for a tradeshow and during my maternity leave will miss tradeshows in Dallas and Chicago. Although my elite frequent flyer status is in borderline jeopardy for the year because of this, I don't care. As soon as I return to work I'll have a trip to Boston and New Orleans before being done for the year. Yay!

 

 

March

In March my company had a sales meeting in Tahoe followed by a tradeshow in San Francisco. The sales meeting of course included two free afternoons to ski, and I was heartbroken to miss out on the festivities since skiing is off the list of safe sports for pregnant women. As someone who LOVES to ski and who hasn't gone skiing in about five years I was pretty bummed out, but filled the afternoons with reading, working, and a trip to the spa. Oh well, there's always next time. The show that followed in San Francisco was a nice free trip home and allowed me to see some friends and my dad, and I wish I had more occasions for work to get back to the city.

 

 

Beautiful View of SF From My Hotel

 

 

April

In April I was in Scottsdale and Vegas for tradeshows, went home to San Francisco for the weekend for a high tea baby shower hosted by my BFF Garley. The baby and I also participated in our third 5K together at the March of Dimes walk in San Diego.

 

 

Found My Cabbage Patch Kid in My Dad's Basement

Found My Very First Stuffed Animal Too! Wooly Lamb

High Tea Baby Shower at the Rotunda

May

May was a crazy busy month and marked the end of me flying for several months. David and I flew to DC to participate in Head to the Hill for a second year in a row and to advocate on Capital Hill for brain cancer funding and research with the National Brain Tumor Society.

 

 

Representing California & Arkansas

California Representative Selfie

Head to the Hill Advocates for Brain Cancer

 

 

While we were there we got to visit his family and go to a Nationals game. And ... lucky for David the game we went to had a bobblehead giveaway so our collection is growing. Growing a bit too much if you ask me ... ;o)

 

 

Go Walgreens! Err... Nationals!

 

 

This month also marked my third time as an adult going to see NKOTB (New Kids on the Block) in a concert that was opened by Nelly and TLC. (In case you're wondering the L in TLC "performed" via a backup track while T-Boz and Chili sang.) The concert was fun but was SO loud I am pretty sure that the baby and I have permanent hearing damage. Is that a sign of being old? Wondering why the music is so loud?

 

 NKOTB Time

 

 

David and I also headed back to the East Coast later in the month for his brother Ken's wedding. Straight from the wedding David flew home and I flew to Montreal for one of my last tradeshows before maternity leave.

 

Baby's First Wedding

 

 

In May the baby got to participate in his/her fourth 5K at the National Brain Tumor Foundation San Diego Brain Tumor walk. Go Team Unicorn!

 

 

Always Be A Unicorn

 

 

The month also ended with a baby shower hosted by Tara and Devika where the baby was showered with a lot of love and built up his/her collection of custom onsies.

 

 

 Custom Onesies For The Baby

 

 

June

June is the best month of the year since it's my birthday month! The month started off with a roadtrip from San Diego to Napa via LA and San Francisco for Jenny's wedding. Kris flew out to LA from Michigan and I picked him up from LA and we headed north via the coast stopping in Santa Barbara before getting to San Francisco where I got to have an early birthday-twin dinner with my dad.

 

Celebrating Another Birthday Together 

 

 

Celebrating With The Beautiful Bride

Having Fun With Kris

Go Gauchos! UCSB Alums

 

 

David's work also threw us a lamb themed baby shower complete with lamb decorations and a lamb rice crispy cake! In case you didn't know I can't stand cake but love rice crispies. And lambs. The only thing that could have made this cuter was having Hello Kitty riding the lamb. ;o) jk

 

 

Cutest Crispie Cake Ever!

 

 

Soon after getting back from Napa it was time to head off to my next tradeshow in ... where else? VEGAS! Always Vegas, ugh. Since I was too far along in the pregnancy to fly David took a few days off work and drove out with me. I was hoping to drag him to the Mariah Carey show or Michael Jackson One Cirque show while we were there but both were on break that weekend. What the heck?

 

The month of June ended with David proving yet again that he is the best husband in the world by accompanying me to the Hello Kitty Super Cute Fun Festival. Yes, it exists. It was actually kind of lame and totally over priced but hey, I got to meet Hello Kitty!

 

 

Hello Kitty Festival

 

 

This last trip to Vegas marked the end of any type of travel for me until October, and now that I was back home every weekend it was time to focus on preparing for the baby. David and I took a number of classes offered by UCSD on infant CPR, childbirth, breastfeeding, and infant care.

 

 

Infant CPR & First Aid

 

We also finished the nursery and bought the rest of the items we need to prepare for the arrival of our little one. We've been pretty much ready for the baby since week 37 when I hit full term, so I've been pretty antsy for the past two weeks waiting for the baby to come. I've had Braxton Hicks contractions on several occasions that got me excited but never led to anything.

 

 

World's Most Complex Tree Decal

Nursery Complete!

 

 

I've also been going in for twice weekly fetal monitoring non-stress tests and once weekly appointments with my OB so my life right now is consumed with baby related doctors appointments.

 

 

Hooked Up For Fetal Monitoring

 

Yesterday also marked my last day in the office, although if the baby doesn't come this weekend I still plan on working from home next week. As a control freak the idea of not being involved with decisions at work for three months kind of drives me crazy, but maybe when I haven't slept in a month and am surrounded by dirty baby clothes and diapers I just won't care as much. We'll see.

 

 

Still Working Out - Round and Proud

 

 

My due date is July 26th and my induction date is the very next day on the 27th so at this point we only have 9 more days max! And many less I hope. Keep your fingers crossed! We can't wait to meet our baby!