Week 36 Update

Week 36 brings lots of fun in the form of my pelvis expanding in ways I didn’t know it could. Yoga this week was a particular challenge.

Yesterday was my last day in the office - I’m now officially working from home until my leave starts on the 17th. I can’t overstate how excited I am not to be commuting for three months.

I had my first practice contraction last week (that I recognized anyway). It’s a good sign that my uterus is getting ready! When we went to see the midwife this week, she said that the Goose is still a little peanut and that she won’t be ready to come out for a while (though, technically, she is about the size of a crenshaw melon). We also got our birthing tub (a rental from our awesome birth class instructor). It’s got the names of all the babies who’ve been born in it, penned in Sharpie on the outside. Maybe we’ll get to add a name to it!

I experienced a particularly amusing episode of placenta brain this week. Someone mentioned the restaurant 13 Coins during a meeting, and I wanted to mention that I tried escargot there. But I couldn’t think of the word “escargot,” and I also couldn’t think of the word “snail.” So I turned to my coworker and said, “What are those things that are like slugs with shells?”