"I STILL HAVE 2 WEEKS LEFT!"

That is exactly what I said to the ultrasound technician when I was 37 weeks and 5 days along!  (I am now 39 weeks along!)

I drove to Wichita on January 26th to see the specialist and have another ultrasound.  They measured her to be 8 lbs. 1 oz.  I about choked on my own saliva!

I knew that she had a growth spurt at the beginning of my 3rd trimester, but I thought it had tapered off.

My doctor asked me the typical questions and told me all the things that they had checked me for that day had looked good.  His words were, "And obviously the in-utero growth is going well!"

This picture is of me that afternoon.  Thank goodness for self-timers.

At my ultrasound last week, we didn't measure her growth again since it was only a bio-physical appointment.  (checking breathing, movement, amniotic fluid)  I asked a technician that is also a good friend of ours if there was a margin of error with those ultra sound measurements.

Tech: "Oh yes, there is about a 15 oz. margin of error!"

Me: "Okay, then she is more like 7 lbs!"

Tech: "Or 9 lbs!"

Whoa!!  Way to make me feel better!

In all honesty, I don't think she will be a ginormous baby.  Of course I feel uncomfortable and certainly constricted, I just can't really fathom a human being inside of me being that big.  Maybe it is because I haven't had a baby in a long time, I don't know.  At the very most, my prediction is that she will be in the low 8 lbs.

We will see soon enough.