32 weeks and 8 months!! Finally an update!!

Sorry its been so long, just has been a long 2 weeks, as you can imagine!! So since I posted last, I found out that I did indeed fracture my hip. I am not allowed to bare weight on it for another 4 weeks so Lucas and I have decided for me to deliver here on Long Island- where my parents are here to take care of me & to help when Dakota is here! Lucas has been driving back and forth to visit for the weekends and will be here for Christmas which is such a relief!! As for Dakota, she is a little firecracker!! She is moving, jumping, tumbling, and much much more!!
I had my 32 week OB appointment today- My blood pressure and sugar and protein were perfect!! Babys heart rate is at 146 which is right on, and everything measured perfectly! They set me up for an appointment today for 2 weeks from now and then after that appointment I will see them every week- a sign that we are getting A LOT closer!!!! Yay!! Cant believe I am 8 months pregnant!! How time flies! :) So nothing more to update for now.. Just a little information about the baby & mommy and then some belly pics of course!!

Your Pregnancy: Week 32

Your baby weighs about 4 pounds and is about fifteen to seventeen inches tall. Photographs of babies in utero at this stage show their skin becoming less translucent and pinker, as layers of fat are deposited under the skin. Her skeleton is rapidly ossifying (turning from cartilage into solid bone), which means that kicks will become visible through your shirt as the trimester progresses. Well-placed kicks under your ribs can take your breath away!

Was that a contraction? Yup, but it's just for practice. Those strengthening Braxton Hicks contractions are just your body's way of prepping for the real deal. (If you feel more than four in an hour or have discharge, call the doc.) Farther north, your nipples are getting darker and (yes, it's possible) bigger -- all the better for baby to see (and latch onto) in a few short months.

Baby's now the size of a squash!

Ready or not, baby's getting ready to emerge. She's probably in the head-down position by now, with her bottom facing up. This is the comfiest way for her body to fit in your increasingly cramped womb and will make her eventual exit (only a few months away now!) much easier. (If she's still head-up, don't panic -- there's still time for a flip before birth.)