baby update

I'm nearing the end of this pregnancy and thought I'd update.

- Currently 37 weeks (Savannah was born at 36.5 weeks, Camden at 41)
- I have about 5 shirts and 4 pants that fit, so I've embraced the "minimalist" clothing lifestyle. Or I wear Chris' t-shirts around the house. I'm the biggest I've ever been...so there's that fun fact.
- I've stopped working as of this week since my stamina is pretty low and my job can by physical sometimes. I'll continue working weekends from home occasionally since I do that in a chair :)
- We've set up the baby stations and supplies around the house after getting everything out of the crawl space. The kids have adopted many of the items for their own "babies" in the meantime.
- My sisters-in-laws and I had a freezer meal marathon where we made 9 freezer meals for each of us to use over the winter which will be of great help!
- We've had trouble narrowing down our name choices but are 99% sure we've decided on one. We wanted one that was less common and that didn't sound like our other kids' names and the one we've chosen is in the 300's on the lists of most popular baby names so I think it will work. Plus I already labeled a few things around the house so we better stick with it!
-I've had some issues with my cardiac arrhythmia that always is worse in pregnancy, but has been the worst with this pregnancy. I've been to the ER three times (followed by labor and delivery for monitoring) just for this issue. I'm starting a new medication that will hopefully get me through the next two weeks until my induction on 1/31. I was concerned about the possible side effects on myself and baby, but at this point it seems necessary.

Here's a video of Savannah explaining babies. She watched it afterwards and said "I don't know why I said 'cook'. I meant to say 'play'."




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