Suddenly I feel like I'm running out of time!!!

I wrote a big post a few days ago and was waiting to get some photos for it ... but now the draft seems to have disappeared :(  Annoying.  And I have zero energy to repeat it all because I am just too TIRED.  Still not in a hurry for baby to be out ... But just tired.  To be honest my bump is still relatively compact considering I'm now 39 weeks.  I'm sleeping pretty well, apart from being woken by reflux sometimes.  I do seem to be getting a return of morning sickness which is weird, and my feet are sore but only swell if it's hot or I'm standing too long.  Generally speaking I've got very little to complain about considering how far along I am ... But I am tired.  I've probably been doing alittle more than I should be at this point so I imagine that's why.  Yesterday and today have been the first couple of days that I've actually put my feet up since I finished work.  I've just had that much stuff to catch up on around the house and with the girls ... it's just been busy.  

Last week I saw my osteopath for a session on my back to make sure everything's good before baby comes.  She seemed pretty happy with it and I have to say I haven't had much pain at all lately which is nice.  I also got the capsule installed in the car. Damn that thing takes up a lot more room than I thought it would!  We are seriously going to need to upgrade our car now with 3 kids in the back ... Especially when two need special seats.  Poor Charlie is squashed up between Jazzy's booster and the capsule now.  And even the front passenger seat is also squishy now as the seat has to sit a lot further forward than previously.  Anyway ... Bottom line is that we won't be doing too many family road trips anytime soon because there is no way we will all fit comfortably in there for any decent length of time.  The guy who installed the capsule also gave me a certificate of installation and told me to keep it in the glove box as the hospital may need to see it before they will let us take baby home.  I was kinda surprised by this.  Who knew professional installation was a requirement?  I know it's a good thing to do when it's first installed, but I didn't know the hospital would require proof!  Lucky we didn't decide to just install it ourselves ...

I had my 38 week midwife appt last week which went ok but apparently baby has a low resting heart rate that had them a bit worried so I ended up on a monitor for an hour just to make sure everything was fine with the little one.  Anyway ... They were happy with her in the end which was good and I got to relax for a bit, so it was kinda nice to just do nothing and focus on baby for a bit.  I don't have another appt until after 40 weeks, and I'm hoping if I do make it that far,that will be the last one.  As much as I'm happy to stay pregnant for a while yet, I don't want to end up needing an induction, nor do I want to be pushing out a big baby!  I've pretty much finished reading my birth skills book now and my hospital bag is packed.  Scout has stocked up on a few things to take for herself and has packed a bag for the girls to take to the grandparents.  My TENS machine arrived a couple of weeks ago and I still haven't tried it out yet but essentially I think I'm getting close to being as ready for this baby as I'm going to be.  I still wish I had a bit more time to get some other stuff done but really ... the sooner I get use to focusing on just what really 'needs' to be done the better.  Scout is having lots of dreams about me going into labour.  This morning she woke up exhausted from a dream in which I gave birth at home!  She keeps telling baby she has to stay in there till at least next week because she's got too much on with work this week lol.  

Apart from everything else, we've also been doing a bit of last minute work to our kitchen.  Not the best timing but it had to be done.  The lacquer on our wooden benches has been lifting and peeling off here and there for awhile now and has finally reached the stage of being seriously unhygienic.  We've been putting off fixing it but we really need a sealed bench with a baby in the house so we started stripping and sanding it last week and we're now in the process of staining and sealing it.  Another couple of coats and it should be done.  I'm looking forward to having a functional kitchen again!  

Scout's mum and sister also threw me a surprise baby shower about a week ago.  I really wasn't wanting to have one as I don't like being the centre of attention, but they wanted to do something.  Scout was in on it and I should have guessed something was up when she started putting make-up on just to go visit her mum.  Anyway, it was lovely and very low key thank goodness.  Just family and neighbours etc but very nice and we got very spoilt with gifts ;)

Anyway I will leave it at that as I really need to get this post saved properly this time.  I have more stuff I need to write about but it will have to go in another post.  Hopefully I've got time to write it before baby girl arrives!   I'll include pics from the baby shower then ;).