34.4 week progress

With just over 5 weeks until our due date, I am feeling surprisingly fantastic! Sleep has been hit and miss for the past 5 weeks, but as many moms have informed me, this is just mother nature getting me ready for many more sleepless nights. My back started to ache pretty severely over the last 2 weeks, but stretching and exercising seems to really help, and when all else fails my sweet husband never complains about giving me a massage! My heartburn is always present...yet I continue eating spicy food 24/7, so how can I really complain? :)
So what's new with Camryn? Well, we estimate her to weigh in at about 5 lbs. and be about 20 inches in length. All of her organs have fully developed, and her biggest task is gaining weight and continuing brain development. Her finger nails have probably reached the tips of her fingers by now, and soon she'll be getting manicures with mommy! As of last Friday, Camryn is considered 100% healthy enough to be delivered and the doctors wont stop her from coming if I go into labor, in fact she would likely not even need a stay in the neonatal nursery.
On Monday May 9th we are having our very last ultrasound to get a more exact weight and length, and to determine Camryn's position. She will gain an average of 1/2 - 1 lbs. per week in the last 4 weeks (a gain of 2-4 lbs.), so cross your fingers that she weighs no more than 6 lbs. on Monday, otherwise we'll have a very LARGE baby!! I would be thrilled with a 7-8 lb. baby, but 9-10 lbs. is a little scary!
Here are a few photos of my growing belly....and swelling everything else! More photos of a few final additions to Camryn's room coming soon, as well as some adorable pictures of our pups peering through the baby gate (which I'm sure Camryn will sit on the other side of taunting them, and getting many wet doggy kisses through)!