Cash -- 36 weeks Appt 1

Cash Update :: wasn't there as long this time, thank goodness! Got on NST machine and, of course, Cash decided it was a good time to go to sleep! He had just been moving around a ton in the car on the way there, too, what a stinker! So I had to try eating my banana, drinking really cold water and, finally, rolling onto my side with the midwife holding the sensor worked. Every time he'd move, he'd kick the sensor off so it didn't record his heart rate while moving (which is one of the things they're looking for during this test) -- it was like he had a reverse magnet attached :-) During the time she was holding it, the midwife noticed a tightening in the top right section of my belly -- usually where his butt is stationed -- and said I was having a contraction. I was certain that they were happening, but they have always been more one-sided, which is not an indication of a true contraction (more Braxton-Hicks-ish). She said it was probably happening throughout the uterus, but since a lot of fluid is over my top left, it is deeper and I wouldn't be able to feel the tightening with my hand). They tend to happen most when I stand up from sitting or from bending to pick something up off the floor....either way, definitely need to breath through the uncomfortableness sometimes. His fluid was back down a little to 20.4cm, good stuff. She said if it gets too full, big babies tend to break the bag of waters -- don't need to worry about cleaning up that mess right now, I've got things to do before he comes still!!! Went to physical therapy afterwards (it had felt like someone took a baseball bat to the top of my pelvis in the back). She said there is a ligament going from your uterus to your sacrum and mine is fully stretched with a big kid pressing it to its max, so it's then pulling to cause muscle spasms. She did some soft tissue massage and some point-release stuff that took some of the tension off -- just going to have to deal with the rest -- for now, ice and heat rotation.
James keeps telling me to "show more Brother" :: I showed him the video of the NST test from the last post and he thought it was so cool. Made me make my belly button available to him so he could put his finger in it and "talk" to Brother while he kept asking for more of the video :-) He continues to love every baby we see -- loves to honk their noses though, gonna have to squish that tendency early -- but when asked what we should name the baby, his answer is still : "Sister!" haha, reminds me of the Johnny Cash song "Boy Named Sue." More to come later this week -- a final ultrasound for growth along with another NST! Hopefully I will get a chance to back track through the past few weeks and update the other things that have been happening in the Montalbano household!