April 5, 2009 – 36 weeks pregnant

We had a dr appt on Thursday with our new doctor.  Because of a problem with our insurance, I was forced to switch doctors this late in the pregnancy.  We aren’t happy about it but cannot change it so that is that.  The appt took forever and they refused to let Branson into the appt which bothered me… hopefully we won’t have to go to many more appts.  Everything looked fine with the baby and the doctor was able to find the heartbeat immediately.  She did run extra tests because I am starting to experience mid to low back pain.  Hopefully everything will come back okay.  I am beginning to slow wayyyy down and get very tired by the early evening.  We went on our last mini vacation before baby to Big Bear this weekend and stayed at my grandparent’s cabin.  It was really nice to get away for a bit and relax.  I beat Josh in the card game Phase Ten!!!  I am packing the hospital bag today and we are “officially ready” for the baby to arrive.  I would prefer he wait a couple of weeks, but we’ll see what schedule he is on.  We actually had our first “false labor” early this morning.  It only lasted about an hour then went away.

We gave Branson the choice of sleeping in his pack n play or the big boy bed at the cabin and he chose the big bed.  He only got up once, right after I put him down and slept until 6:30 the next morning.  We bought him a mattress today so he is officially out of the crib.  He seems excited about it and we keep telling him that the baby will be in a crib not him.  I can’t believe he is so grown up already – when did that happen?!