End Stage Pregnancy

I think that sounds funny because in the medical world you usually use "end stage" for a disease. Ha! End stage pregnancy!

This is kind of what it looks likes:

And it can also look a little like this:

 

And every so often it looks like this:

 

Depends on your perspective, really. 

During this end stage pregnancy, I have pondered over the fact that a prerequsisite of being a popular Mormon Mommy/Fashion/Hipster Blogger is to have a skinny pregnancy. Hence, there are really only a small handful of them- but all the power to you ladies, keep bringing home the turkey bacon!

My pregnancy has been more of a puffy one. I feel like I am a kernel of popcorn that just burst. Pop! Meaning I am SO swollen and it is not a desired condition. At night I can't feel my hands and in the morning I can't bend my fingers. I dread hot showers when I used to revel in them. I thought maybe I would go swimming today even though I don't have a maternity swim suit. So last night I was trying on one that I thought would stretch alright and geeze was it funny. It fit over my belly, but then my girls were left hanging out. Quite a sight to see. So I moved on to another one that actually gave some coverage to all the vital parts and I asked Dan if I could swim in it. He briefly glanced over at me and said yes, but then this strange look took over his face and he slowly shook his head trying to let me down easy. I knew it though. We laughed and laughed because it truly was funny. If I was a braver soul maybe I would have taken some pictures- especially of the one with my tah-tah's hanging out ;). And I do not say such things to illicit pity or to be hard on myself, I just want to give the swollen ladies out there a voice. We need a voice, and darn it I'll be it! 

Actually I will be brave- here is what I looked like in my swim suits last night:

LOL!

So yep, 36.5 weeks pregnant. One swollen popcorn/marshmallow over here and also very excited to meet our sweet little boy. A boy! Such a strange thing in the Payne family, but I am sure we'll figure it out.