Vacationing at 34 weeks report - very belated!

Remember when I asked for advice about going to the beach for a week of vacation during my 35th week of pregnancy?  I thought I'd just report in on how it was for anyone else contemplating the same.

It was fabulous!!!  Of course, it was with eyes wide open that we committed the money to a rental on the beach.  The OB had said she didn't have a problem with it as long as there wasn't something going on by then for which they needed me to be kept home/monitored.  So, of course, it was still a risk.

But nothing like that happened.  We drove about 5.5 hours to the beach each way with at least 2-3 stops for potty breaks (we had the dog too so it wasn't just me).

I was a little worried that all I'd want to do was sit in the air-conditioned condo and look out at the beach, but we ended up going down to the beach every afternoon for at least 3-4 hours.  Bikinis were the best.  I did try out my maternity 2-piece, but found it too hot on my belly to sit around in (I swam in the pool a bit with it.)  I'm by no means a stick, but I had 2 bikinis from pre-pregnancy that worked fine.  One other no longer fit my boobs so I didn't wear that one, but the others were a different style/size and worked out just fine.

I was able to keep up my 3 mile walk every morning with the dog (while Mr.Right went for his 5-6 mile run) and every late afternoon around 5:30 as everyone else was clearing out from the beach we'd walk with the the dog off-leash (allowed on our beach anytime but we kept her on-leash during the afternoon when a lot of people were around) down the beach throwing the tennis ball and watching her dodge waves.

It was truly, truly an idyllic week.  And I'm so, so happy we went.

One day I did seem to have the blues (Thursday of our Sunday to Sunday rental) and I'm not sure why. Maybe I hadn't slept too well that night.  I was always famous in our family for being cranky on the last day of vacation --- because I didn't want to go home!  Thursday was a little early though and I got over it and enjoyed Friday and Saturday and even the driving-home day immensely.

I am so eternally grateful for such an easy pregnancy (after the initial weeks of course).  I'm so grateful to my body for being so well-equipped at 41 years old to handle this.  I've just today hit the 20 pound weight gain mark (ok, 25 if you count the 5 pounds I lost in the first month of pregnancy) and people continually tell me I don't look big enough to be less than 3 weeks from my due date.  Not that I was trying to look small, but still being able to walk 3 miles every morning has helped a lot I think and is such a wonderful opportunity to get out of the house (and get the dog exercised!)

Off to the weekly NST/AFI check today.  Last week babygirl had her hand in front of her face (probably sucking her thumb as we could only see the four fingers) so no pics.  Hopefully, she won't be sucking her thumb today and we'll get a 37w2d pic!

In the meantime, I leave you with this pic from our beach vacation: