A Couple Pictures

Here are a couple pictures that go along with my last post.

Here's the poster that they attached to the tribute tree at last weekend's Heart Walk.

This picture is my belly pic from Thursday at right around 36 weeks. Unless I'm wishful thinking, I really do think he has dropped.

He's Dropped

I know I haven't blogged in a bit. We had a very busy May complete with 3 baby showers, 2 for us and 1 for Brad's cousin. They were all wonderful! We also did the Heart Walk again this year. They do a tribute tree every year and this year the tree was in honor of Claire. They had a little story about her and a quote from me. It was so nice and very emotional. I also had an emotional Mother's Day. We went to visit Claire and I was a wreck. I didn't imagine I would be like that, but it's hard thinking about what Mother's Day would have been like sharing it with our baby girl. I miss her.

I am now officially 36 weeks pregnant, and this guy has definitely dropped. I've had a few comments just today at work about him dropping and "I don't think you're going to make it 2 or 3 more weeks." What do they know, but these comments kind of freak me out, because it hasn't 100% sunk in yet that any time I will be going into labor and getting to bring a baby home from the hospital this time. I'm nervous, but I'm so ready to meet our little guy. 37 weeks would be ideal, but with his largeness, I think we'd be just fine if he came any time now. The nesting will be in full force this weekend! Hope everyone enjoys the holiday!

Score!

I had remembered hearing something a while back about breast pumps possibly being covered by insurance now. Since I knew I would need one and had shopped around and found that the one I wanted would be close to $300, I figured it couldn't help to call our insurance provider and ask about coverage before dropping that kind of cash. Sure enough, pumps are covered as "durable medical equipment". I had to get a prescription from my midwife and take it to a medical equipment store, but it's well worth the extra couple steps in order to get a free pump! I guess the point of this post is to make sure that any of you mom-to-be's out there call your insurance provider before going out and buying a pump on your own. You might be pleasantly surprised what they tell you.

Wow, I can't believe it's been 11 months. One more month would have been Claire's 1st birthday. I can't wait for Brady to be here, but I hope to God that he doesn't come on the 8th.