Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for landing!

Here we are at 36 weeks, almost FULL TERM! At last week's doctor appointment, the baby was declared as being "in the landing position" - head down and ready to enter the world! Well maybe not quite "ready" to enter the world, but in the right position at least. This is very exciting! I can feel her squirming around from the top of my ribs all the way to below my belly button, so I know she's getting quite big in there. She is most definitely running out of space and sometimes feels as though she's trying to kick a hole through my side to escape.

Last weekend my sweet parents came over to deliver our *beautiful* nursery furniture and help us get the room set up. We found out today that our glider is now ready to pick up, so we'll have the nursery totally finished very soon! Here are some pictures of what we've accomplished so far:






No post would be complete without including the Baby Center weekly update:

Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of her first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.)