35 Weeks, praise God!

At 35 weeks pregnant, I am feeling pretty good. Of course, it's relative to me and my own issues. It hurts to stand up and walk initially. After I warm up I feel better, but I like to sit after a bit. My hips still hurt-- sometimes I walk like a pirate with a wooden leg, haha!  I get out of breath easily (when Liam is up by my ribs, which he usually is!).

Let's talk about baby and baby's habits. Baby likes to hang out on the right side, with his toosh up towards me and his head down in my pelvis (not engaged yet). I often feel tiny little fingers pushing against my hip if I sit up too much, so I try to recline a lot. He is a very active little boy. I can watch my stomach swirl and sway all to one side based on what he's up to. Sometimes he bunches up so much that my stomach is no longer round, it is lopsided to wherever he is. It's usually on the right side, but a few times he's bunched up on the left. His feet go back and forth, from my right side to my left lower side where his head is (on the last ultrasound he was playing with a foot). I can see and feel his feet scrape along the left side of my belly when he's moving them back or forth. It kind of hurts in a pointy-thing-in-your-stomach way! Liam gets the hiccups about once a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. I may not feel it. At night he moves around a lot, particularly when I am going to sleep and then from 3-5. It doesn't keep me awake though, which is convenient. But I DO love it. I love to feel my little guy scoodging about in there, knowing he's okay and happy.

In the past week, it seems like he's developing reflexes. He will kick back when Matt taps my tummy. Once I was running my fingers down along my tummy, where his back is, and he would kick in response each time. I stopped to see if he was just kicking, but he didn't kick. Then I ran my fingers back down and yup! He kicked.

I sing the South African National Anthem to him every day so that when he's born he will recognize it. And I love him so very much! I tell him every single day, multiple times, how much I love him. I love my baby boy!

I've been having Braxton Hicks contractions since about 30 weeks that I could notice. But lately, just in this week, I am getting them more and more! Two days ago I really thought I was going into labor, I had four contractions in about an hour. But then they stopped. I think I'm not drinking enough fluids...