Week 37: Full-term!

--Congratulations — your baby is full term! This means that if your baby arrives now, his lungs should be fully mature and ready to adjust to life outside the womb, even though your due date is still three weeks away.

--Your baby weighs 6 1/3 pounds and measures a bit over 19 inches, head to heel, like a stalk of Swiss chard.
--Many babies have a full head of hair at birth, with locks from 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches long. But don't be surprised if your baby's hair isn't the same color as yours. Dark-haired couples are sometimes thrown for a loop when their children come out as blonds or redheads, and fair-haired couples have been surprised by Elvis look-alikes. And then, of course, some babies sport only peach fuzz.

Thoughts from Mommy:
-- Sleeping is not getting any easier, although Gene and I did get ONE night of good sleep on Sunday night. Every time I got up to use the bathroom I was able to get back to sleep right away. Last night was ok, until I hit 4:30am and then I was up for a good hour, wide awake with little toes digging in my ribs!

--Last night marked a new "mini season" for us here in the Huston household. We'll call it the "plastic wrap" season. Friends of mine suggested that I put something over our mattress in case my water breaks during the night because the water can be so significant that it can ruin your mattress. Some friends mentioned laying garbage bags or plastic drop cloths down under the mattress pad. So, yesterday at dinner Gene asked what I did during the day. I mentioned that I washed the sheets, but I didn't elaborate and say that it was because I plastic wrapped our mattress with a $3.00 drop cloth. I actually forgot all about it until I was brushing my teeth before bed, and Gene came into the bathroom with the cutest sad face ever! I instantly knew that he had discovered the plastic under the sheets, which sent me into bursts of uncontrollable laughter. He started saying, "Why?! Why?!" I explained to him that I was trying to save us from having to spend hundreds of dollars on another mattress should my water break during the night. My friends said that I could try to just put the plastic on my side of the bed, but me being the extra anal person that I am tried to wrap the whole mattress to begin with to see if it really was uncomfortable for Gene (and just to see what reaction I would get out of him, which ended up being priceless).